Scientists teleport data
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Science just got weird in the Netherlands.
A paper in yesterdays' new the Science journal detailed the first ever observed teleportation of information. The information we send today, whether, emails or phone calls, travels through waves and cables. But scientists proved that the information on an electron's spin state can be transferred without physically moving the electron across at least 10 feet.
Researchers' next step will be to experiment with distances hundreds of times as long and to figure out if there is, indeed, a speed faster than that of waves and light. The discovery could change how we communicate and make our current information systems even faster.
It's not the first time that scientists experimented with transferring data using quantum bits, but it's the first time that the experiments have been consistently accurate, according to the New York Times.
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