In the magazine section of the Sunday paper this week was an article (well,
actually just a little inset table) about "So, you wanna be a superhero?
Now you can." For example, Superman has x-ray vision and we now really
have Elex-ray; Wonder Woman uses steel bracelets to defect bullets and we
have kevlar, Popeye eats spinach for strength and Mark McGwire eats
androstenedione, etc.
The one that baffles me is about the Nightcrawler (of the X-Men) who can do
teleportation. "Today's technology: Scientists in Austria moved a photon
by converting the light packet into energy and then reconverting it across
the lab." What kind of energy are we talking about here? What kind of
conversion?