Thursday, May 7, 2009

Reality check for ‘Star Trek’ tech - Innovation- msnbc.com

 

Teleportation: a work in progress

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Teleportation:
a work in progress

"Beam me up, Scotty!" Oh, how easy travel would be if the technology existed to disintegrate our bodies in one place and nearly instantaneously make them reappear at our destination. Unfortunately, that kind of teleportation remains firmly fixed in the realm of “Star Trek” fiction. However, scientists are meeting with some success as they try to teleport messages encoded in beams of light across table-length distances, such as this experiment from 2002. More recent advances include teleporting information from one trapped atom to another.

Reality check for ‘Star Trek’ tech - Innovation- msnbc.com

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