Thursday, February 26, 2009

Beam Me Up

Jessie Atkin posted a blog on Digital Landing! Read about the latest advances in teleportation.

Star Trek hits theaters on May 8, but teleportation has beat this reincarnation into the real world (sort of).

A team at the University of Maryland has teleported information one meter from one atom to another. What information and how they did this is beyond my understanding (since I have little, actually no background in quantum mechanics). But I know enough to be excited by the possibilities.

It’s been said that the information didn’t move, it disappeared from one atom and then appeared at the other. Sounds good enough to me (even if it’s only atoms, and even if it’s only one meter) It’s gonna be awhile before anyone can get “beamed up” but a start is a start.

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