Breakthrough Brings Star Trek Transporter Closer

japerr writes to mention The Independant is reporting that a new breakthrough may bring scientists one step closer to a Star Trek style transporter. " A team of physicists has teleported data over a distance of 89 miles from the Canary Island of La Palma to the neighbouring island of Tenerife, which is 10 times further than the previous attempt at teleportation through free space. The scientists did it by exploiting the "spooky" and virtually unfathomable field of quantum entanglement - when the state of matter rather than matter itself is sent from one place to another. Tiny packets or particles of light, photons, were used to teleport information between telescopes on the two islands. The photons did it by quantum entanglement and scientists hope it will form the basis of a way of sending encrypted data."

Comments

Re:One step closer to an ansible, maybe.

[TheTapani]

this is god speaking. stop looking for superluminal travel. it doesnt exist.

"ok"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZWF9kCIcGo

While we all know how much we should believe what we see on the internet -- once you see one of those irl it kinda changes your perspectives. There is far more evidence for them than for that God guy anyway.

//T

Nerds can be so stupid sometimes

[macslut]

Let's see, you invent a frackin' teleportation device, and then instead of using it to transport hot naked amazonian babes to you, you get all excited about being able to send encrypted data back and forth?