Since 1997, researchers have been able to quantum teleport photons with a major record being set by researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai. In 2010, that team successfully teleported a photon over 16km. Now that same team has released new findings, in which they claim to have teleported photons nearly 100km, or over 60 miles.

Now, quantum teleportation isn’t quite the same thing as the teleportation in Star Trek. When researchers teleport a photon, they aren’t teleporting the actual photon, but rather the information contained in it through quantum entanglement. In essence, the second photon at the end of the teleport becomes the first one – or at least, it becomes an identical qubit of information. So the information is exchanged without actually travelling through the intervening distance.

(If that sounds bizarre and frightening, you’re in good company. Albert Einstein understatedly called the process of quantum entanglement “spooky action at a distance.”)

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/11/chinese-researchers-quantum-teleport-photons-over-60-miles/

So its like scrambling it then moving it to a diffrent area and reassembling it?

More like what Teslas machine does in The Prestige. Creates an identical copy but leaves the original intact. Of course the stage it's in now would be more like ones and zeros. Simply change the state of something to differentiate the one and zero and gather data from it. Pretty cool stuff.

I thought It was more like two particles that are entangled and separated by a distance. When one changes, the other one also changes at the exact same time. Somehow information is being exchanged instantly (or teleported) through quantum entaglement.