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To: DOUG H who wrote (1654)	10/1/2001 9:45:50 PM
From: Walkingshadow	Respond to of 8752

Hi DH, Are you ready for this? Trillion-Atom Triumph Physicists take first step towards practical teleportation. << "This work should pave the way for a new generation of experiments to teleport states of matter," says Ignacio Cirac, a quantum physicist at Austria's University of Innsbruck. ...should allow the arrangement of one set of quantum particles to reproduce more or less instantly that of a similar collection of distant particles. In this way a message encoded in photons of light could be transmitted from one place to another without sending the photons across the intervening space. Entanglement also underpins attempts to perform high-speed quantum computing. It is a property without any analogue in the everyday world. >> nature.com HB tonight? T

To: DOUG H who wrote (1654)	10/3/2001 10:55:13 PM
From: Walkingshadow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8752

hEY dh, consider this: The answer to the eternal question: Is "it better to be a jock or a nerd?" Michael Jordan having "retired," with $40 million in endorsements, makes $178,100 a day, working or not. If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night. He makes $7,415/hour more than minimum wage. If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would have to do it at the rate of $2.00 every second. Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into a tax deferred account (401k), his contributions will hit the federal cap of $10,500 at 8:45am on January 1st. If you were given a penny for every 10 dollars he made, you'd be living comfortably at $65,000 a year. This year, he'll make over twice as much as all U.S. past presidents for all of their terms combined. Amazing isn't it? However... If Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 500 years, he'll still have less than our good friend Bill Gates has at this very moment. Salaaaaaam dunk. Game over. Nerd wins.