TELEPORTATION

KUNAL KISHOREROLL NO. 14085

TELEPORTATION IS THE MODE OF INSTANTANEOUS TRANSPORTATION IN WHICH A MATTER IS DEMATERIALISED AT ONE PLACE AND RECREATED AT

ANOTHER.

• Teleportation is always as sci-fi dream, but recently scientists have been able to teleport nano-sized objects across significant distances.• We’re still nowhere near teleporting even the smallest,

visible-to-the-naked-eye objects, but that didn’t stop a team of researchers from calculating how long it’d take to teleport an entire human being. It’s very, very long.• In order to teleport a human, every piece of data that

human holds would need to be broken down and transferrable — and the data that makes up humans are the DNA pairs that form genomes in every cell

• In the year 1993 the concept of teleportation moved from the realm of impossible fancy to theoretical reality. Physicist Charles Bennett and a team of IBM researchers confirmed that quantum teleportation was possible, but only if the original object being teleported was destroyed. Why? The act of scanning disrupts the original such that the copy becomes the only surviving original.

• Since that time, experiments using photons have proven that quantum teleportation is, in fact, possible.

• The work continues today, as researchers combine elements of telecommunications, transportation and quantum physics in astounding ways.

• Well … maybe. Teleportation technology has progressed rapidly since 1993, and it is now being tested in the lab. But as the crew of the Enterprise repeatedly discovered, human teleportation is hard to do right and easy to do wrong. There may be better, simpler ways to attain that type of superpower. 

• Teleportation is a key enabling technology for quantum computing because it allows you to extract the information the computer produces without disturbing the rest of the system.

• And once you can build a quantum computer, the possibilities keep going.