Google X, Google’s secretive R&D laboratory, has confirmed that it was indeed working on a space elevator — but sadly had to put the project on the back burner until humanity creates a building material that’s strong enough. The same team at Google X has also investigated teleportation and hoverboards — but again, at least for now, the secret sauce that would unlock the development of these technologies has eluded the Google geniuses.
Teleportation is always as sci-fi dream, but recently scientists have been able to teleport nano-sized objects across significant distances. We’re nowhere near teleporting even the smallest object able to be see with the naked human eye, but a team of researchers calculated how long it’d take to teleport an entire human being. It’s very long.
The long-range teleportation barrier has already been broken multiple times, but the information being transported, such as a single quantum bit (qubit), has always been relatively small, and never between two macroscopic objects. This time around, a team of physicists have managed to transport information from macroscopic object to another for the first time, though over a short distance.