Discussion: the next steps towards teleportation

Just thought I'd share an article which made me happy - the continuing background progress into teleportation. According to a recent article, scientists have now managed to teleport information between photons over a distance of almost 10 miles, smashing the previous achievement of afew metres.

This quantum teleportation is not an experiment in say, moving one thing from here to somewhere over there. Instead it works by making the thing over there dependant on the thing here, so by manipulating the thing here you an alter the thing over there.

This makes it alittle more applicable to transporting information, rather than people. You know, eventually. But the scientists pointed out that the 10 miles they've just achieved nicely covers the distance between Earth and Space, leaving a whole 'world' of possibilities. Ahem.

For more info the whole article is here :)