Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Beam Me Up, Scotty

Teleportation is reality!

Well, it is if you happen to be a "macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms" and would like to be transported instantly across the vast expanse of half a meter. This, of course, is a vast improvement on prior efforts in which one single atom was teleported a distance of a fraction of a millimeter. I'm guess I'm going to have to ride my bike a lot more before this will be useful to me.

Scientists involved in this stuff claim that perfected teleportation will result in a completely new, and totally secure, way to transmit information on a far larger scale than is currently the norm. But teleportation is also one of those emerging science areas that has its own lingo that is nearly impenetrable to the outside world, which, frankly, is the entire world less a few propellerheads in Denmark. If you are into entanglement, quantum measurement and quantum feedback, then this is the field for you.

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