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Wednesday, October 10, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/09/science/physical/09QUAN.html From One Quantum State to Another, It's Shades of 'Star Trek' By KENNETH CHANG It's not "Star Trek," but physicists in Denmark have demonstrated a step that could lead to a primitive form of instantaneous teleportation. Even if follow-up experiments succeed, all that will be teleported is a magnetic field from one bunch of atoms to another. But that advance could eventually be used for encryption techniques that are fundamentally impossible to break and for building computers that employ quantum mechanical principles to dash through their calculations....
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