Teleportation

Introduction: Making the absurd possible lies at the very pinnacle of scientific progress and its this absurdity which gives our civilization the potential for progress. We initially thought we cannot flap our arms and fly, we cant hold our breath for hours underwater and we cannot see in the dark. Even though these feats once considered impossible to an ordinary human being, these have been conquered with great inventions. Teleportation is one such technology which once considered a myth has now strived through great development. Teleportation: The word teleportation was coined in 1931 by American writer Charles Fort to describe the strange disappearances and appearances of anomalies, which he suggested may be connected. He joined the Greek tele meaning "distant" to the Latin portare meaning "to carry". Teleportation is a process by which a object can be transmitted exactly (in principle) from one location to another, without the object being transmitted through the intervening space. Simply said teleportation is the capacity to instantly move objects from one place to another. we have journeyed through the world of Newtonian physics as objects move because they push and pull on each other. If an object wants to go somewhere, a force has to be exerted in order to move the object to the desired location. There is another theory called Quantum Theory. In Quantum Theory, particles like electrons can exhibit wave like behaviour as described by Erwin Schrdingers famous wave equation. It tells that electrons can be described as waves of probability which tell only the chance of finding a particular electron at any place and any time. This probability pertaining to electrons is known as the uncertainty principle which states that you cannot know both the exact velocity and the position of an electron at the same time. Therefore, in the strange world of the Quantum, it makes perfect sense for an electron to be at more than once place at a time and objects are described as the sum of all their possible states since there is no way to know for sure where its electrons are located. This might seem counter-intuitive since the physical world is full of objects that dont spontaneously disappear and reappear such as our bodies. The human body however, contains trillions upon trillions of electrons and all the quantum events taking place inside our body even out over time giving it the appearance of being solid. Interestingly, if we were to calculate the probability of our body disappearing and reappearing in the next room, we find that we would have to wait longer than the lifetime of the universe to witness such a quantum event. This type of event is impossible under Newtonian physics yet is possible in Quantum theory, the probability for it taking place is unimaginably small. How Teleportation works : Suppose Alice has a qubit in some arbitrary quantum state. A qubit is the basic unit of quantum information. Assume that this quantum state is not known to Alice and she would like to send this state to Bob. Alice has the following options:

1. She can attempt to physically transport the qubit to Bob. 2. She can broadcast this (quantum) information, and Bob can obtain the information via some suitable receiver. 3. She can perhaps measure the unknown qubit in her possession. The results of this measurement would be communicated to Bob, who then prepares a qubit in his possession accordingly, to obtain the desired state. (This hypothetical process is called classical teleportation.) Option 1 is highly undesirable because quantum states are fragile and any perturbation in route would corrupt the state. Option 2 is forbidden by the no-broadcast theorem,which that states it is impossible to create two copies of a state given a single copy of the state. Option 3 (classical teleportation) has also been formally shown to be impossible.But this is the only possible way.

Quantum teleportation is weird in the sense that an object doesnt magically appear from one place to the other, rather its information is the one being teleported. To illustrate this, We use the example of three atoms A, B and C. Suppose we want to transfer the information from atom A to C; also suppose that B and C are coherent. If atom A comes into contact with atom B and becomes coherent, then As information is passed to B but since atom B was already entangled with C, then As information ultimately ends up in atom C. Strangely enough, if an object were to be teleported, it technically has to die before its information gets transferred to elsewhere creating the exact same object with the same information. It may sound weird but scientists have already been successful in teleporting particles in this manner. One of the most astounding achievements being the entanglement of a light beam with a gas of cesium atoms and teleporting this gas for about a half yard. Benefits of Teleportation: Obviously, teleportation would have some awesome benefits as a form of transportation. There would always be plenty of time for that second cup of coffee in the morning, since commuting time to work would be reduced to imperceptibly small fraction of a second. For lunch, one could eat a salad made from vegetables harvested on another continent an hour before. We could convert airports into solar farms, as we wouldnt have any need for jetliners anymore. One might spend less time Web surfing, since in the time it would take to gaze at someone elses vacation photos, he could actually just beam himself to the Goa Beach and dip toes in the water.

Disadvantages of teleportation: If any sort of teleportation ever comes about, there's going to have to be some huge energy change issues with which to contend. Even on a single planet, at the most extreme, consider what happens if a person is teleported from the equator, where the earth is revolving around 900 miles an hour, to Antarctica, where the earth is revolving at a much, much lower speed. Since Momentum is conserved one would either slam into the chamber walls at 900 mph or the system converts that energy into something else -- and usually that something else is heat. How much heat does a 100 kilo human traveling at 900 mph can contain. Also for every level in Teleportation, One may transfer upto 10 energy into a dimension. Once enough energy has been teleported into the Dimension, no longer anything can be teleported into that dimension. If there is a disadvantage of "must travel through dimension", there may be loss of ability to Teleport until the hunger for energy returns. Energy is counted by maximum energy of the being that is teleported. So, if someone with a Teleportation of 3 were to teleport someone with an Energy of 12 into the dimension, they would be able to teleport up to 18 more levels before the hunger is sated. Beings trapped within the Dimension lose 1 'maximum energy' per day. This 'maximum energy' is returned at 1 per hour once only they escape the dimension.if the being transported is trapped for a long time the quantum would lose all energy and disappear thus leading to the destruction of the being. Conclusion: There are both benefits and hazards due to a technology. But teleportation would be such a technology which would give a maximum benefit.At current situation teleportation is still a myth. But we have seen that as time goes on and technology becomes more and more advanced, according to moores law. Science is able to blur the line between the impossible and the possible, turning science fiction into science fact. Teleportation is just the tip of this magnificent iceberg and other even more exciting technologies might be hidden beneath the waves. Rightfully so, our future as a species may lie in the absurdity of such technologies.