Posts Tagged ‘teleportation’

Beam me up!

Posted: 24 August 2007 in Uncategorized
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I love reading an innocuously titled science piece and then coming across an absolute gem like this:

“Australian and French scientists have made another breakthrough in the technology that will drive next generation computers and teleportation.”

Teleportation?

Quantum teleportation as it turns out.  Which is much different from the conventional teleportation featured in The Fly or the transporter from Star Trek.  Quantum teleportation deals with transmitting the state information of a qubit from one location to another, which I don’t even pretend to understand.  So was this just sensationalism on the part of the University of Queensland?  Or do I just get my hopes up when I see sci-fi brought to life?

 University of Queensland Press Release