Teleportation is finally reality?

I'm not sure if I totally grasped this concept, but according to this episode of Tech Nation, physicists can now teleport a photon from one location to the other. It's slower than the speed of light, and limited to a small number of atoms. Based on this research, they will develop ways to teleport more and more atoms, and eventually be able to teleport molecular systems, such as DNA! Can someone simplify an explanation of the mechanics of this? Here's what I gather:

• There is a particle or atom at location A
• It's in sync with another particle at another location B through quantum communication
• Particle at location A is destroyed
• Particle at location B becomes particle that was at location A


So if Rob Lowe was in sync with some particles on the moon, and we destroyed Rob Lowe here, he would form from the particles on the moon. But then the Rob Lowe on earth is now dead, and the Rob Lowe on the moon contains all the same memories and brain processes that the one on earth had, so who is Rob Lowe? Scientists should perform this experiment and destory the Rob Lowe here, see what happens. Here is a more detailed explanation of quantum teleportation, but I recommend listening to Michio Kaku (author of Physics of the Impossible) speak about the nature of real science reaching feats that were once only science fiction.

Podcast show at Tech Nation

Fri, May 9, 2008  Permanent link