From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jun 17 2002 - 09:21:09 MDT
All the news programs tonight in Australia were replete with clips from
*Star Trek* and fat actors muttering `Beam me up', and grave reporters
saying `no longer *mere science fiction*', and other stupidity. Physicists
at the Australian National University, led by Dr Ping Koy Lam, have
destroyed a coded laser pulse and reconstructed it via entanglement a meter
away. I don't know why this is supposed to be more exciting that equivalent
work done some years ago by IBM and elsewhere, except maybe that it's
happened in (Ta! Ra! Oh frabjous bloody day!) in little Oz.
Here's a newspaper account:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/06/17/1023864402551.html
Dr Lam sensibly notes: "At the moment we don't know how to teleport a
single atom."
Damien Broderick
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