What is Teleportation?

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Teleportation

Current Technologies are ‘as good as it gets’ – fact or fiction

Teleportation

DEFINITION

Teleportation - ‘A hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another’ http://dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/bulk+transport

DEVELOPMENT OF TELEPORTATION

In the Golden Age of 20th century, science fiction writers thought of the concept of teleportation to assist the plots to their stories. Teleportation has featured in many Sci-Fi books (Rouge Moon), films (Jumper) and televisions shows (The Twilight Zone).

A very popular television show, Star Trek, made the teleportation concept came very well recognized. The reason why Star Trek sparked the teleportation concept was because of a piece of technology in the show that is known as the “transporter” device. The “transporter” device is used to teleport people and materials at the speed of light to different star ships, planets or wherever they need to be sent.

It works by placing the object on the transporter pad, the object is separated into all of its separate atoms and scanned onto a computer where it is shot through another beam and reassembled in the destination.

Workers and scientists are still working today on making teleportation a reality; there have been successful experiments where scientists have teleported material from one place to another. In 1998, an experiment was performed by physicists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), assisted by two European groups. The experiment was successful as it teleported a photon – a particle of energy that carries light.

Since then there have been other experiments conducted and a lot more research about teleportation. One of the ...

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...ly shipped overseas. This would prevent many disasters with oil leaks with shipping and things like that.

Scientists and researchers will still continue researching ways to make teleportation possible and find practical uses of teleportation. Teleportation may be the only way to see certain parts of the universe that would take millenniums to reach by space shuttle.

CONCLUSION

Teleportation is pretty much against the law if humans were to use it, as it would be an act of murder and creation. It wouldn’t be worth investing all of the money into teleportation, because there are a lot more cons than pros with the concept. The human race would be a lot safer without it. People would rather use up twenty-four hours of their life to fly overseas, rather than make a replica of themselves and risk their life just to get to the destination quicker.

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