Knowing that many people in our community are into science and discussions about time travel, teleportation and similar topics keep popping up from time to time in the Neowin forums, I"m sure this good news should have a place on Neowin. :)
Scientists in Canberra have successfully teleported a laser beam for the first time in Australia.
Teleportation is usually found in science fiction programs like Star Trek, but a team of researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) has carried out a successful teleportation experiment in a gravitational wave lab.
Team leader Dr Ping Koy Lam says it involved creating a laser beam, its disembodiment and the recreation of the original beam in a different location.
Dr Lam says the experiment involved laser light which is made up of photons which are quite different from any solid material.
"At the moment physicists are still puzzling over how to actually do it with a solid material, so we have to start with an atom," he said.
The discovery has applications for the development of quantum computers and telecommunications.