For the first time, physicists from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have reportedly been able to teleport information between a pair of quantum bits that are about ten feet apart. The ability to do this pokes a hole in Einstein’s theory about entanglement or connection of particles that are light years apart, and how the state of a particle instantly affects the state of another particle.

For the first time with 100 percent accuracy, physicists from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have reportedly been able to teleport information between a pair of quantum bits that are about ten feet apart.

The ability to do this pokes a hole in Einstein’s disbelief in entanglement where particles remain connected with the state of one particle instantly affecting the state of another despite being light years apart.

There are several groups of scientists working on similar projects, and the Dutch researchers have been able to reliably teleport the information by trapping electrons in diamonds at extremely low temperatures, and observing their electron spins.

Ronald Hanson, a physicist who leads the group at Delft University of Technology is quoted as saying: “There is a big race going on between five or six groups to prove Einstein wrong. There is one very big fish.”

Now that they have been able to repeatedly teleport the information from ten feet away, the researchers want to see if they can send the information between even further distances.

This development might make it possible to have a faster generation of computer systems that also operate on completely secure communication networks.