Jay Olson and Timothy Ralph at the Department of Physics over at the University of Queensland in Australia recently published a paper entitled: "". In the roughly seven- to eight-page document filled with equations I will probably never understand, the two discuss and conclude on what appears to be the discovery of "teleportation in time" (aka. Time Travel).

So apparently the hot word of the day is: Entanglement. Now what exactly is it?

I'm still trying to grasp what this all means--in order to fully understand it, you'd have to have at least some kind of background in quantum physics (so apologies in advance if I'm off the mark on anything here)--but essentially it's about the idea of (otherwise known as what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance"--seriously, go Google it), where two or more objects existing in a system are have instantaneous, direct influence on each other regardless of distance.

The type of quantum entanglement that Jay Olson and Timothy Ralph are talking about in their paper discusses nonlocality not in terms of physical space (distance), but rather in terms of time, thus "timelike entanglement."

So in other words, rather than "normal" teleportation that we think of from location to location (a la ), we're talking about good 'ol Back to the Future-style time travel with Marty and the Doc. However, don't jump for joy or run around in paranoia just yet, as there are definitely limitations other than the fact the technology doesn't exist (...yet).