Australian Physicists Develop Teleportation Scheme for Atoms

Although the idea of teleporting individuals from one place to another in order to sidestep the headache of rush hour traffic has been around for quite some time, a team of Australian physicists are busy making it work, on a smaller scale, of course. The team has developed a so-called simple way to transport atoms, which involves bringing the atoms to almost absolute zero, beaming them with two lasers, and using fibre optics to transport them to any other place at the speed of light where they enter a second condensate and reconstruct