Daily Archives: May 19, 2012
Beam Them Up, Scotty: Chinese Physicists Reportedly Break Teleportation Record
Harry Potter and Star Trek fans, rejoice! Teleportation is real. Using powerful lasers and optics to manipulate photons, or units of light, researchers in China set a record for teleporting a photon more than 10 miles (16 km), TIME reported in 2010. Now a different team of physicists at the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai says it has…

