Zap 'n' go. (Science).It's not Star Trek  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. , but physicists in Denmark have
demonstrated a method that could lead to a primitive form of
instantaneous teleportation tel·e·por·ta·tion n. A hypothetical method of transportation in which matter or information is dematerialized, usually instantaneously, at one point and recreated at another. . In physics, teleportation means the creation of a replica of an object some distance away, which always destroys the original. Even if follow-up experiments succeed, all that will be teleported is a magnetic field from one bunch of atoms to another. Rather than human teleporters, that advance could be used for unbreakable encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. techniques and for building ultrafast quantum computers (computer) quantum computer - A type of computer which uses the ability of quantum systems, such as a collection of atoms, to be in many different states at once. In theory, such superpositions allow the computer to perform many different computations simultaneously. . It's still a long way from "Beam me up." |
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