Laser Beam Teleported

Michael Wardle writes "ABC Australia reports that a team of scientists from the Australian National University have successfully teleported a laser beam. It seems that teleportation of solid bodies is still a way off, but at least we're a little closer to Slashdot's favorite super power." Another Australian newspaper has a more detailed story.

Comments

Ummm..

[G-funk]

Hasn't this already been done?

What's so new about it this time?

Although teleportation of light beams could be very very interesting for telecommunication purposes.

Re:Teleportation, or recreating?

[G-funk]

What's the difference though, if the second is exactly the same?

If you hand me a coin, and i turn my back then hand you another one indistinguishable from the original at any level, is it the same coin? How can you be sure?

Laser Beams Identical?

[KanSer]

In the more "in-depth" article they say "- disassembling objects in one place while a perfect replica is created elsewhere -". - If they are doing this with a laser beam, how the hell do they know they've done it? Are they not just shooting a laser beam into a wall and then making another one somewhere else? This stinks of two idiots with a camera and a laser pointer. - I'm gonna go out side and teleport some vitamin-d into my system while my friends teleport a football back and forth. It should be great fun. -

Re:Teleportation, or recreating?

[G-funk]

So you need to do a destructive read. That doesn't mean that a software bug won't cause multiple reproductions of that read state.

I like it. I could make a backup copy of say, Natalie Portman, have my way with her (with hot grits of course), and then replace her with the backup :)

I did this ages ago.

[codework]

I turned off the light in the bedroom and turned on the hallway light..