Quantum Teleportation and Communication

[Captain Falcon]

Quantum Teleportation and Communication
While it's not possible -- yet -- to "beam" an object around as in Star Trek, new records for zapping photons instantly from one place to another were set this year. Quantum teleportation has been done in the lab for some time, but the distances were on the order of a few yards. In 2012 the new record was 89 miles. In addition to teleporting, scientists built the first quantum Internet. It's only a beginning, but teleporting photons for miles would enable communications that can't be hacked or eavesdropped.

Interesting. Source: http://news.discovery.com/tech/2012-science-fiction-became-fact-121226.html#mkcpn=fbdsc17


Anybody care to comment?

 

[Deathcrow]

I have actually read a few articles on this. I like to keep up with things through Popsci.

When reading about the teleportation of a single particle it made me think of the movie "The Fly". It also makes me wonder if we will actually ever be able to successfully teleport many particles at one time. They would need to keep their structure and order for it to be done correctly.

It would be amazing to see some more progress in this in our lifetime.

 

[Tyler-]

That's actually pretty cool I guess