Science

Teleportation Teleportation, or teletransportation, is the alleged process of moving objects from one place to another more or less instantaneously, without using conventional transportation. With present techniques, teleportation is conceivable only with elementary particles, or theoretically, by encoding information about an object, transmitting the information to another place, such as by radio or electric signal, and creating a copy of the original object in the new location. Will Teleportation Ever Be Possible? Teleportation is a mix of the words “telecommunication” and “transportation.” The idea is to translate a physical thing into data, stream it to somewhere else, and then re-assemble it. It sounds unbelievable, but physicists at the California Institute of Technology accomplished their first teleported object back in 1998. In comparison to Star Trek, the accomplishment might seem limited; the physicists teleported a single photon a little over ...