Includes index.

Underneath the Danube -- Space travel -- The stuff called light. Light is a wave ; Light is particles -- Sheepdogs and Einstein's particles of light -- Einstein and his Nobel Prize -- A conflict -- How we became certain of uncertainty -- Quantum uncertainty : just our ignorance , or is it the way things are? The quantum excuse -- The quantum verdict against teleportation -- Quantum entanglement comes to the rescue. Entangled quantum dice ; The original teleportation protocol -- Alice and Bob in the quantum lab. Alice and Bob's experiment : the first steps -- The polarization of light : a lecture by Professor Quantinger. The polarization of individual quanta of light -- Alice and Bob discover twins. ...And invent hidden properties -- John's introduction of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen. The reality criterion ; Reality in Alice and Bob's experiment ; The locality assumption -- John's story on local hidden variables -- Alice and Bob's experiment gives confusing results -- John Bell's story -- Alice and Bob find out that things aren't as they think they are -- Faster than light and back into the past? -- Alice, Bob, and the speed of light limit -- Loopholes -- In the Tyrolean Mountains -- The quantum lottery -- Quantum lottery with two photons. Quantum lottery with entangled photons -- Quantum money : the end to all forgery. From classical bits to quantum bits -- A quantum truck can transport more than it can carry -- Atomic sources of entanglement of early experiments -- The super-source and closing the communication loophole -- Quantum teleportation at the River Danube -- The multiphoton surprise and, along the road, quantum teleportation -- Teleporting entanglement. A ghostly idea ; Connecting quantum computer ; Reality vs. information -- Further experiments -- Quantum information technology -- The future of quantum teleportation. Teleportation as a means of travel? -- Signals out of the sky above Tenerife -- Recent developments and some open questions -- What does it all mean?