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Thursday, March 6, 2008

What is teleportation?


What is teleportation?

Ever since the wheel was invented 6, 000 years ago, people have been inventing new ways to travel faster from one point to another. The chariot, bicycle, automobile and airplane were all life-changing inventions in their time. Yet, each of these forms of transportation share the same flaw- they require us to cross a physical distance, taking time.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could go from one place to another without having to use any kind of transport? Scientists are working right now on such a technique called “teleportation”, which combines the properties of telecommunications and transportation.

Teleportation involves dematerializing an object at one point, and sending the details of that object’s precise atomic configuration to another location, where it will be reconstructed. So, a teleportation machine would work rather like a fax machine – instead of the person traveling through time and space himself, a perfect duplicate of him would be made at the other end! We could be transported to any location instantly, without actually crossing a physical distance

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