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  • People have been fascinated with the idea of teleportation since the Star Trek days

  • and it's easy to see why.

  • Just imagine being able to zap your way out of an awkward conversation, a bad day at work

  • or school, or even a life-or-death situation.

  • Wouldn't it be great?

  • With all the technological advancements and scientific understanding we've gained recently,

  • it got me thinking.

  • What if we could teleport?

  • The word teleportation implies that an object will disappear from one place and that exact

  • object will then show up in a new place.

  • But that isn't actually how scientists think teleportation will work.

  • Instead, it involves analyzing the position, momentum, and spin of an object's particles,

  • then sending that information on radio waves to another destination, and recreating the

  • object in another form.

  • For teleportation to work like this, the original object, whether it's a person or a car or

  • a stack of cash, is unavoidably destroyed after its quantum state is analyzed.

  • Which, understandably, puts some people off.

  • Say we teleported a person, you, for example.

  • The new you wouldn't just randomly appear out of thin air in a new location.

  • Through a process called quantum entanglement, the information is sent and imprinted onto

  • the exact same chemical elements you're made of.

  • Those materials are then programmed and arranged exactly the way you are.

  • It's kinda like 3-D printing.

  • You wouldn't be able to teleport yourself anywhere.

  • It'd need to be a spot already equipped with all those elements.

  • There are a lot of other roadblocks too.

  • We'd also need some kind of super-powered machine with a lot of energy to analyze every

  • single particle in the human body's estimated 37 trillion cells.

  • Then every particle, every gene needs to be expressed the exact same way to create an

  • exact copy.

  • But since the teleported you would technically be a new person, would it have your memories?

  • Would it have your personality?

  • Or would it be a whole separate human?

  • We just don't know.

  • Plus, teleporting all this data would take a very long time.

  • Based on current technology, some estimates suggest this process would take 350,000 times

  • longer than the entire universe has been around, so don't hold your breath.

  • But there are some people who believe in just 1,000 years we'll have the technology to

  • do this almost instantaneously!

  • Info from photons and electrons has been teleported short distances since the nineties, but now,

  • we can teleport their data 1,400 kilometers, which is pretty impressive progress for just

  • a couple decades.

  • Granted, this was still only data from two particles and we're still a long way off

  • from teleporting an entire human being, but it's a start!

  • If or when this tech is created, we'd need some serious regulations to make sure people

  • aren't teleporting themselves into bank vaults, out of prisons, or into people's

  • homes.

  • Just like with AI, it's important to set boundaries to ensure people are using technological

  • advancements for good.

  • I certainly don't want some teleporting robot showing up in my living room at 3am.

  • No thank you.

  • How cool would it be to have a little machine that you could carry around to instantaneously

  • scan your body and send your data wherever you wanted to go?!

  • Where's the first place you'd teleport yourself to?

  • Let us know in the comments.

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  • Don't forget to keep on thinking.

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