Guinness Book of Teleportation

I bet you didn’t even know there was a World Teleportation Record.  Let alone that it’s just been broken.

A group of European scientists have just teleported photons 142 kilometers, between the Canary Islands of Tenerife and La Palma.  This breaks a Chinese record of 100 km set just a few weeks ago.

This demonstration of quantum teleportation, aside from showing just how bizarre modern physics has become, is a big step toward setting up entanglement-assisted communications satellites, which would provide a highly-secure form of communication.  (And maybe ansibles, way the hell down the road.)

Note that the race is between Europeans and Chinese.  The United States, apparently, is happy to continue to send its vital messages within the current insecure, hacker-ridden, spam-clogged communications arteries we have now.