Imagine if one day, you could transport from your kitchen to a theme park on the other side of the world in just a matter of seconds. Or that you could get home from school in the blink of an eye. For a long time, teleportation has been a dream of fantasy and science-fiction writers – but is it a vision only for films and TV shows, or could it be possible one day for humans to teleport?
Travel without moving
Teleporting is the act of transporting a person or object from one place to another, without actually travelling through the space between those two points. In the TV show Star Trek, when members of the crew on board the starship Enterprise want to travel somewhere, they can be “beamed” to a different location in moments. This style of teleportation works by recording the information of every molecule in someone’s body, transmitting the information, and then reassembling all of the molecules at a different location. Meanwhile, in the magical Marvel universe, the powerful sorcerer Doctor Strange can create
Taking the shortcut
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