{"id":17696,"date":"2015-09-22T12:46:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T19:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/shades-of-star-trek-quantum-teleportation-sets-distance-record"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:13:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:13:53","slug":"shades-of-star-trek-quantum-teleportation-sets-distance-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/shades-of-star-trek-quantum-teleportation-sets-distance-record","title":{"rendered":"Shades of \u2018Star Trek\u2019? Quantum Teleportation Sets Distance Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shades-of-star-trek-quantum-teleportation-sets-distance-record.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve gotta love Star Trek, but there is absolutely NO WAY I\u2019d ever set foot in a real teleportation device! (if one ever really got made, of course) Call me crazy, but I\u2019m kinda partial to keeping my molecular cohesion as intact as possible, which kinda rules out having it ripped apart and remade on the other side.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A record-breaking distance has been achieved in the bizarre world of quantum teleportation, scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists teleported photons (packets of light) across a spool of fiber optics 63 miles (102 kilometers) long, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/49028-farthest-quantum-teleportation.html\">four times farther than the previous record<\/a>. This research could one day lead to a \u201cquantum Internet\u201d that offers next-generation encryption, the scientists said.<\/p>\n<p>Teleporting an object from one point in the universe to another without it moving through the space in between may sound like science fiction pulled from an episode of \u201cStar Trek,\u201d but scientists have actually been experimenting with \u201cquantum teleportation\u201d since 1998. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/12910-twisted-physics-top-findings.html\">Twisted Physics: 7 Mind-Blowing Findings<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/shades-star-trek-quantum-teleportation-sets-distance-record-144741506.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve gotta love Star Trek, but there is absolutely NO WAY I\u2019d ever set foot in a real teleportation device! (if one ever really got made, of course) Call me crazy, but I\u2019m kinda partial to keeping my molecular cohesion as intact as possible, which kinda rules out having it ripped apart and remade on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,418,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-internet","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51414,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17696\/revisions\/51414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}