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I was just on a road trip to New Jersey/New York to visit some family this weekend, and of course, any time you’re on a long drive at some point your thoughts naturally turn toward teleportation. Am I right? I mean, how awesome would it be to have a device that can instantly teleport you across the world? I think people would be a lot more willing to travel to far off places, that’s for sure. In some cases, the drive is half the fun, but the drive from St. Catharines to New York sure ain’t all that exciting.

Anyway, I just read today that scientists in Denmark have managed to teleport both light and actual matter across a distance of half a meter. In the experiment they sent a “macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms” within a split second. It’s still a far cry from being able to transport an actual human being, but I suppose it’s the first indication that teleportation may actually be possible. Of more immediate interest is the fact that this also opens up possibilities for quantum computing — a concept I don’t fully grasp, but one that will apparently blow the roof off of current computational limits. Well, as long as someone out there knows what they’re doing, I have a feeling the future’s going to be pretty damn interesting.

Source: CNN

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