Success! Since the press and everything has gone out, Dr. Passivant said it was okay to talk about it in my journal. As you have undoubtedly heard, we've teleported a human being successfully from our 2nd floor lab into a lab situated in the basement. We're obviously very excited now that we've been able to teleport a human and other large living organisms.

As those of you who have been following my online journal know, I've been on the human teleportation team here at ERL for the last 5 years since I got out of Berkeley with my doctorate in entanglement physics. I was mostly working on the problem of reliably maintaining an extra-dimensional circuit to allow for the teleportation process to occur.

This wasn't so hard with single celled organisms or even simple mammals like guinea pigs or mice, but as we scaled up we started seeing some distinct problems in maintaining the stability of the link for larger masses. We had some fairly disgusting, and sad, problems with partially teleported organisms, where say 50% or 70% of a mass had been teleported. We finally were able to stabilize the link in a way that wasn't 100% intellectually satisfying, but it definitely works reliably. (They've asked me not to reveal the exact methods, sorry readers!)

We've partially solved the power delivery problem too. After all, we're talking about a significant amount of energy that has to be instantly available for the process. We conquered the capacitance problem but power creation is still an issue. It really hampered us until we got a fusion plant authorized for our sole use. This problem is not trivial, as the availability of enough energy to teleport large masses, and the power required stabilizing the conduit is paramount to the use of the system in anything but a lab setting.

Anyhow, our next attempt will be a cross country test between San Francisco and Manhattan sometime in the next year. This means I'm back on particle entanglement duty, which can be a pain. For those of you who missed my earlier entry, entanglement pairs are the mechanism by which the teleportation system operates.

We borrowed some old NASA techniques for encapsulating thermal nuclear power sources to create the holding vessels for the entangled particles. We then added some control circuitry and a power source for maintaining the entangled state in this very sturdy container. This power source should last at least a millennium, which is good because those little buggers are an enormous pain to entangle, separate and encase. The finished product weighs about a pound and are shaped like a cylinder. When I started at ERL, I was given the job of creating entangled pairs for the different teams to experiment on and with, which is by far some of the most tedious work there is at the lab, even though a part of me recognizes the artistry involved in it. And now I've got to create another half-dozen pairs to facilitate further tests here and at our sister facility in San Francisco. Fun.

The way we've designed the teleportation mechanism is pretty interesting. The way it works is we slot these cylinders into the side of the teleportation mechanism and then use them to create the connection between two mechanisms. Without the matched cylinders, the teleportation mechanisms are pretty useless, although Dr. Passivant has some ideas on this too.

Anyhow, I gotta get back to it, if I don't keep an eye on the entanglement process and it starts going astray I could be wasting days of work.

- Posted by Ed at 11:55pm
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