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Dogs get their own Liederhosen.

Yep, gotta be a slow news day.

Spiffy! Two different teams of scientists were to teleport an atom by replicating it's quantum state. Answering the age old question, the original is destroyed in the process.

Dorking around in the elemental sub strata in such a manner has always been something i've had a tough time getting my head around, but i understand it fairly well. (i'm sure that statement is causing a cat somewhere to simultaneously exist and not-exist, so i'll leave it alone.) the interesting thing (to me at least is that the teleportation required a third atom to act as intermediate storage mechanism. In effect, you create two ions of a common state, entangle a third atom with one of the pair and the state is transmuted to the other. What this does, however, is leave the original source pair in an entangled new state. (That last bit is hard for me to grok, but then i'm a computer guy and undefined states to me are bad.)

Just don't look for this to be replacing airports anytime in the near future.

well, unless you're Particle Man.