Friday, September 9

               Scientists at the I.B.M Thomas J. Watson Research Center took particles of light, destroyed them and then restructured them over a mile away.  Researchers are still at work in trying to do the same with an entire atom.  

This quantum teleportation reminds one of “Star Trek’s” transporter that beamed people from the starship to planets, etc.  

Humans having trillions and trillions of atoms, it is very unlikely we will ever be able to teleport.  But maybe not impossible since it had previously been thought that one could not precisely measure the location and velocity of a particle at the same time (Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle), which is what the scientists at I.B.M. did accomplish.