"Beam me up Scotty"....Teleportation breakthrough

Is the concept of "teleportation" possible?

Until now, teleportation has been limited to "transporting" single atoms over very short distances -- fractions of a millimeter. However the National Research Foundation Center for Quantum Optics, a research lab under the aegis of the Niels Bohr Institute and the University of Copenhagen has reported a breakthrough.

The National Research Foundation Center for Quantum Optics has reported that a breakthrough in their teleportation research. Using light as a "carrier", Using a process called "quantum entanglement", For the first time, researchers have transported information and matter.

Though this is a far cry from the familiar teleportation process that we are familiar with from the television show "Star Trek" and other science fiction scenarios, this is one step towards acheiving the transferrence of energy and matter from one location to another almost instantaneously.


link to news story / CNN

[edit on 10/5/2006 by benevolent tyrant]

Yeah I just read a different article about the same experiment. Scfi.com article

Great find by the way