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We live in a time when travel has become cheaper ever before. Long flights between thousands of destinations, high-speed rail, cars, taxis and travel solutions like Uber for everyone.
A hundred years ago it would take too much time to go somewhere far from home. Today we can fly, and it takes just 5 hours with options from economy to luxury and with Elon Musk bringing rocket power to the future travel times could soon become even shorter.
So how quick and convenient can travel really become ? What if you were able to pack your bags for the holidays, grab the beach towel and sunglasses, and a split-second later arrive at your destination ?
- Teleportation is the process of relocating a physical object from one place to another, without touching it in anyway, or using any mechanical device directly. The most likely way for this to happen would be by the physical body being disappearing before being reconstructed and reappearing in a different place all in an instant.
It sounds too good to be true. Surely there would be some disadvantage to this imaginative reality?
- However, if this transporting technology existed in the world, then a fly would be the least of our issues. According to Discovery Magazine, we share our bodies harmoniously with 90 trillion or so microbes. so the transported result would be a very strange looking multi being.
So there are pluses and minuses to teleportation, and this is all very fun to imagine.
Quantum refers to the smallest scales of energy levels of atoms and subatomic particles, and quantum teleportation is a process by which information about the state of these tiny particles can be transmitted from one location to another. This quantum information transfer has been successfully carried out between earth and a satellite in space. Applying these same rules to large objects is not at all straightforward, and even if science does manage to do it.
It will more likely be our grandchildren's children of far who are around to experience teleportation.
- When teleportation does ultimately happen, it’s sure to change a lot about the way we live our day to day lives. (Are you agree ? Let me know in the comment section.)
- How would you use a teleportation device, if you had one at home? Let me know in the comment section!
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