Beam the cat up
Packets of light that resemble Schrödinger’s hypothetical cat — existing in two states at once, both “alive” and “dead”— have been successfully teleported from one place to another. This movement of a quantum state, accomplished by a team of researchers in Japan and Australia, could be useful for sending quantum information quickly and securely.
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