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The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Sunday, June 30:
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The biggest news of the millennium _ OK, potentially _ happened the other day. Maybe you missed it. A lot of newspapers didn't bother to mention it. But there it was: the first, crude beam-up. We're talking beam-up as in Star Trek's famous transporter.
The story somewhat breathlessly revealed that scientists in Australia had successfully "teleported" a laser beam encoded with data, breaking it up and reconstructing an exact replica a yard away.
No, we don't really understand it either.
And of course, the scientists were quick to explain that their machine doesn't transport people. That nifty trick remains a bit beyond our capabilities, according to Lawrence Krauss, a professor of physics and astronomy at Case Western Reserve University, ...