Don’t Tell Bones: Are We One Step Closer to “Beaming Up?”

(Before It's News)

It’s a crazy way to travel, spreading a man’s molecules all over the Universe…

While we’re still a very long way off from instantly transporting from ship to planet à la Star Trek, scientists are still relentlessly working on the type of quantum technologies that could one day make this sci-fi staple a possibility. Just recently, researchers at the University of Cambridge in the UK have reported ways to simplify the instantaneous transmission of quantum information using less “entanglement,” thereby making the process more efficient — as well as less error-prone.

(Because nobody wants a transporter mishap.)
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Post tags: entanglement, Physics, quantum, Star Trek, teleportation, transporter, University of Cambridge

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