Quantum Manipulation

>>8795217
And what kind of benefits would be attainable if we could do it?

>>8795217
>>8795250
You could see the fall of man, or the next step in evolution. Pretty much the equivalent of what happened with Einstein and the era surrounding him.

Imagine being able to first teleport a flower pot with a live plant. Society at first thinks it will be used for good, then they find out that there are extreme dangers. How will this effect the technology ethically? Will it be taboo to make something like that commercial - could it be the next step in transportation of goods? Then 5 years later nuclear weapons can be teleported at any moment. Then a couple years after that they find out how to teleport large areas. Then you can have entire populations die in seconds just by teleporting them into space, then teleporting the land mass back into place - like it almost never happened.

The real issue here is - how do we map and it memorize it in a machine form. How do we use it to benefit man? Can a single common man in his garage make a WMD? These are the real questions.

>>8795348
If WMD is a wave motion detector, than surely all of the pieces used to create the technology should be available to the public, if you can make all of the individual parts in your garage, then surely an exceptional enough individual would be capable of making it in their garage.

Quantum manipulation could already benefit man with a more efficient means of transportation, and possibly even structural atomic manipulation.

But as for how you would go about making it in a machine form, do we have technology that reaches atomic scale or are we still stuck at nano-levels?

>>8795382
From what I understand we have already artificially created elements in the lab. The biggest issue is creating it at a large scale - especially so that we can actually see it with the naked eye. When you figure out how to do that you manage to become the next Einstein. The Nuclear age will fall behind the new 'Quantum era'

We have some interesting tech that does reach atomic scales, we have even created races with atomic cars. This makes me suspect that the problem with trying to make it large scale is that you have to manipulate each atom in a very precise way. Technology will then take us to the age of trying to find out how to copy things found in nature. Then along comes something as simple as a flashlight based model - it only manages to teleport an item the size of the end of a paperclip - but that is all that is needed to start another era.

Figure out how to make that large scale and you will have more money and power than any human being before you and probably after (unless humans manage not to wipe themselves out).

>>8795406
By flashlight based I mean of that size. Apologies for not being more specific there.

>>8795217
define quantum manipulation OP

are we talking major advances in quantum chemistry, condensed matter physics, quantum optics?

>>8795217
We do manipulate at the quantum level. Pet,spectroscopy,diffraction, electron microscopes and soon, quantum computers

>>8795412
Those are very basic tools though. Those are just focusing on specific circumstances that they were needed. This is about creating a product.

>>8795412
and dont forget the quantum whores

>>8795409
At first it was more about manipulating the quantum structure of things to change an object into another object on more macro levels, but at this point, anything concerning quantum branches of study will do.