Quantum teleportation in the news

[arabianights]

just read this:
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/12/09/quantum-teleportation-reaches-farthest-distance-yet/

I'm curious: how does a pair of entangled particle possibly exist no matter how farther they're apart? does this mean they're connected through hyper-space or something like that?

 

[Nugatory]

That Fox News story is somewhat misleading. In particular, this part:

Physicists can't instantly transport matter, but they can instantly transport information through quantum teleportation. This works thanks to a bizarre quantum mechanics property called entanglement.

is just plain wrong. There is no faster-than-light information transfer going on.

The spooky distance-independence of entanglement is very strange, but it does not imply any sort of causal connection. All that I can say is that if I have measured one member of the entangled pair, I know what the result of a measurement on the other member of the pair would be. Maybe that other measurement was made long before I made my measurement, maybe it will never happen... All I know is that if the other observer and I get together after the fact and compare notes we will see a relationship between his results and mine.