Posted 20 December 2010 - 10:40 PM
A little more in-depth explanation of the experiment can be found here,
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6011/1604.short
although you have to regester free to read it, but it's still not a through explanation of the engineering methods of teleportation. From my previous understanding, what is teleported is information of the quantum state(s) of the object using entanglement. I don't quite understand how this new experiment relates to this.
Another method is to gather all the quantum information of a person's brain, upload this information into a quantum computer, and send this information to another quantum computer on Mars, say, download it into an alive dummy human body, and when that body wakes up after this process it would have that person's mind. Then it could do what it needs to do on Mars, the process is reversed erasing the information from the dummy's mind, and that information downloaded back into the original person's brain, and that original person would have all the memories of the experiences of the dummy on Mars.
This way, all that would be needed is to place dummys and automated quantum computers on Mars, and we wouldn't have to wast time and energy physically traveling back and forth.