Scientists Report Finding Reliable Way to Teleport Data

[lester1/2jr]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/science/scientists-report-finding-reliable-way-to-teleport-data.html?smid=tw-nytimes

Scientists in the Netherlands have moved a step closer to overriding one of Albert Einstein's most famous objections to the implications of quantum mechanics, which he described as "spooky action at a distance."

In a paper published on Thursday in the journal Science, physicists at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology reported that they were able to reliably teleport information between two quantum bits separated by three meters, or about 10 feet.

Quantum teleportation is not the "Star Trek"-style movement of people or things; rather, it involves transferring so-called quantum information — in this case what is known as the spin state of an electron — from one place to another without moving the physical matter to which the information is attached.

Classical bits, the basic units of information in computing, can have only one of two values — either 0 or 1. But quantum bits, or qubits, can simultaneously describe many values. They hold out both the possibility of a new generation of faster computing systems and the ability to create completely secure communication networks.

[Jack]

Sounds cool.  I wonder how they'd get my quantum bits entangled with theirs though?

[lester1/2jr]

I don't even understand the article I posted. I guess, I was hoping someone would say something so I could be like " oh yeah"

[Flangepart]

I don't even understand the article I posted. I guess, I was hoping someone would say something so I could be like " oh yeah"

I was thinking 'Put Brent Spiner on a Delta flight to Newark New Jersey to smack Chris Christi.'

[Trevor]

I wish they could find a way to teleport my undies outta here.

[Flangepart]

" Transport at maximum dispersal, Mr. Spock."