Beam me up Scotty

[Deviant]

Scientists in Aussie have lransported a modulated light beam 1 metre away in a lab. It's true, they recon they broke the light beam up into individual photons or what ever and reconstructed seconds later in a different place, Star Trek type transportation.

They recon this could be the best encryption yet, as the light beam can't be intercepted, but instead they reconstruct it in a new place from their original location. That's what I get out of it anyway.

I think what it really means is faster pizza delivery!!

Read more:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2049000/2049048.stm

[Binky Stunt Cat]

Scotty beam up my pizza??

[Wibber]

wow, thats a big step up from a single electron

[SilverPriest]

wooo, that photo looks like something out of a "Back to the future" movie.
:D
Sadly its got a long way to go before instant Pizza delivery :(

[varkk]

I'm not hanging out for a teleporter to deliver my pizza, but a replicator to make one to my exact specifications.

Also I heard of another lab doing this several years ago. But it is good to see their results verified

[Deviant]

Pizza Hut Help Service:"I'm sorry sir, when we beamed your pizza, it went without anchovies"

Customer:"Then what is this sh*t that's infront of me now?"

Sh*t being the key word.

[DiscoStu]

Yeah - I saw that mentioned on BBC this morning.

Pretty damn amazing that they are gettin repeatable results already