The Future: Teleportation
Recent advances in teleportation science got us all excited about the prospect of being able to ping ourselves here, there and everywhere across the globe and even into space. Leila Sattary takes a look at how long we'll have to wait.
Ever since the wheel was invented over 5,000 years ago, the human race has been devising new ways to travel.
All vehicles throughout history, from the bicycle to Concorde, have reduced the time it takes to get from A to B. But all current modes of transport have an intrinsic failing. They move us through physical space, whether that is stuck in traffic on the M4 or shooting into space in a rocket.
Now imagine how the world would change if human teleportation became a reality. You could get to the shops without a car, abroad without a plane, to the International Space Station without a spacecraft, and all in the blink of an eye. The human race - masters of space and time! Now that really does sound like a line out of a sci-fi film.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves; scientists are at the stage of transporting a small number of particles rather than human test subjects. However, teleportation is moving from theory to experiment.
So how does teleportation work?
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