The Niels Bohr Institute in Danmark succeeded in 'kwantum-teleporting' data from point A to point B. Now, don't ask me the details, but as I understand it, it goes a lil' something like this:
Appearantly there are elements in nature that form a pair, and when they are divided, they continue to react as if they were together. So you split one, expose it to something & the other element of the pair will react in the same way as the first one should, eventhough it has really nothing to do with the first reaction. It's kinda like making a remote copy, except the original kinda disappears.
However, do note that scientists still don't understand how or why this happens, just that they know it happens when manipulated in this way.
This reaction could revolutionise networking and data transfer in the future, as it is assumed to be not only 100% secure (no way to tap the info, except at node 1 & node 2), but is also capable of transmitting extremely complex superposition states (0, 1, 2,...) at the same time, where with normal networking, only 0 and 1 are able to be transmitted at a time. (this is not entirely true, but more or less correct)
Anyhow, an article was published in Nature and it was mentioned in my newspaper, but I cant seem to find a decent newsbit on the net about it, so here is the official link, but it's kinda technical: http://www.nbi.ku.dk/page129736.htm & http://www.nbi.ku.dk/page62044.htm
Appearantly there are elements in nature that form a pair, and when they are divided, they continue to react as if they were together. So you split one, expose it to something & the other element of the pair will react in the same way as the first one should, eventhough it has really nothing to do with the first reaction. It's kinda like making a remote copy, except the original kinda disappears.
However, do note that scientists still don't understand how or why this happens, just that they know it happens when manipulated in this way.
This reaction could revolutionise networking and data transfer in the future, as it is assumed to be not only 100% secure (no way to tap the info, except at node 1 & node 2), but is also capable of transmitting extremely complex superposition states (0, 1, 2,...) at the same time, where with normal networking, only 0 and 1 are able to be transmitted at a time. (this is not entirely true, but more or less correct)
Anyhow, an article was published in Nature and it was mentioned in my newspaper, but I cant seem to find a decent newsbit on the net about it, so here is the official link, but it's kinda technical: http://www.nbi.ku.dk/page129736.htm & http://www.nbi.ku.dk/page62044.htm
