{"id":70870,"date":"2017-07-15T11:10:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T18:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/scientists-teleport-a-particle-hundreds-of-miles-but-what-does-that-mean"},"modified":"2017-07-15T11:10:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T18:10:44","slug":"scientists-teleport-a-particle-hundreds-of-miles-but-what-does-that-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/scientists-teleport-a-particle-hundreds-of-miles-but-what-does-that-mean","title":{"rendered":"Scientists \u2018Teleport\u2019 a Particle Hundreds of Miles\u2014But What Does That Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-teleport-a-particle-hundreds-of-miles-but-what-does-that-mean.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humanity is advancing rapidly towards a place where the news sounds an awful lot like science fiction. In fact, yesterday, Chinese scientists reported that they \u201cteleported\u201d a photon over hundreds of miles using a \u201cquantum satellite.\u201d But this isn\u2019t Star Trek. It\u2019s the real world.<\/p>\n<p>Which happens to mean it\u2019s a lot less exciting than Star Trek-style teleportation, unfortunately. But it\u2019s still really cool, I promise!<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-teleport-a-particle-hundreds-of-miles-but-w-1796818859?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Gizmodo_facebook\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-teleport-a-particle-hundreds-o...o_facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity is advancing rapidly towards a place where the news sounds an awful lot like science fiction. In fact, yesterday, Chinese scientists reported that they \u201cteleported\u201d a photon over hundreds of miles using a \u201cquantum satellite.\u201d But this isn\u2019t Star Trek. It\u2019s the real world. Which happens to mean it\u2019s a lot less exciting than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70870","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=70870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}