Scientists are pushing to create a space-based quantum communications network that could enable impossible-to-monitor transmissions.
In doing so, they might make it possible for someone named Scotty to really teleport some information into space.
It would be enough "to spook" Albert Einstein, said Thomas Jennewein of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, one of the top researchers in the field.
The encryption research could have immediate practical implications. The process would make use of entangled photons, what Einstein--who resisted the consequences of quantum theory until his death --called "spooky action at a distance."
"If we can use correlations between entangled photons to establish a quantum key, it could be used for secure communications," said Jennewein.
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