Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with Atoms

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Scientists Demonstrate Teleportation with Atoms

LONDON (Reuters) - It is not quite the "Beam me up Scotty" teleportation of Star Trek, but teams of scientists said Wednesday they had made properties jump from one atom to another without using any physical link.

Physicists in the United States and Austria for the first time have teleported "quantum states" between separate atoms.

The breakthrough may not yet make it possible for people to disappear and reappear somewhere else, like actors in a science fiction television show. But it could help lead to "quantum computing" technology that would make superfast computers.

Quantum states include physical properties such as energy, motion and magnetic field.

"We've done it for the first time with massive particles, with atoms," Rainer Blatt, of the University of Innsbruck in Austria, told Reuters in a telephone interview.

Two years ago scientists at the Australian National University announced they had teleported a laser beam of light from one spot to another in a split second.

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[Redneck4sure]

Very interesting but in the foreseeable future I am still going to have to buy gasoline. <_>

[DudeAsInCool]

Very cool. From what I understand, physicists also say that time travel is feasible from a scientific viewpoint...

[Umma]

time travel is possible....course it is..... just hard to stay alive while participating..

the very thought gives me mind boggle....