SKIRMISHER

Every day, mad scientists around the world toil thanklessly to achieve a Star Trek-inspired dream: to beam up Scotty and everybody else, including the darned cats most bloggers love.

Professor Eugene Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University in Denmark have just brought that dream closer to reality: by successfully teleporting two different objects at a distance of half a meter using light and matter.

And half a meter is big deal; two years ago, the most scientists could do was teleport single atoms at a distance of half a millimeter. Now, Polzik is wetting his pants for making a tremendous leap.

…the achievement of Polzik’s team, in collaboration with the theorist Ignacio Cirac of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, marks an advancement in the field of quantum information and computers, which could transmit and process information in a way that was impossible before.

via CNN

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