Teleportation

Crazy? Maybe. Insanely great science? Absolutely.

Imagine a scene aboard the star ship Enterprise and suddenly a distress call is received. Captain Kirk in his usual savvy exclaims-“beam me up, Scotty.”
He then disappears into thin air. In the next frame he is standing on a distant planet.

We are all left with one thought-“AWESOME!”

Imagine never being late for anything- school, meeting, dates etc.
No more- angry girlfriend, boss or teacher. No more of the morning rushes or any traffic.

From the Himalayas to the moon no place would feel too far or unreachable. 

Life will be easy. Reach anywhere, any time- just set up a teleporter and we are done.
Movies have shown us this dream of interspatial travel. But how far-fetched is it?

In words of Sheldon Cooper from the big bang theory(sitcom):

“Personally, I would never use a transporter because the original Sheldon would have to be disintegrated in order to create a new Sheldon.”

Well scientists believe so too. It could work like a fax machine scan, transmit and print but adding a third dimension to it.
On a spiritual scale teleportation is like the cycle of life- death, transfer of the soul and then life.
It would quite interesting actually- dying and then being alive at the next moment.

But the busy scientist is working on something what is called quantum teleportation.

How is this "quantum teleportation" actually achieved?

The process relies upon something called "Quantum Entanglement," a fiendishly counter-intuitive phenomenon that Einstein described as "spukhafte Fernwirkung" or "spooky action at a distance." Basically it involves two separate particles behaving as if they were essentially one and the same, even though they are separated by a great distance. Changes to one particle will be mirrored in the other. Using this phenomenon, physicists have been able to transfer -- or in effect teleport -- the properties of one particle to another, in the case of atoms over a distance of about half a meter, in the case of photons over tens of kilometers.

But with us humans it may seem a bit far-fetched. With each human being made up of trillions upon trillions of atoms -- 10 to the power of 28 to be precise - an accurate scan and then replicating each atom in its own spin and quantum state may seem too much to handle.
Then again the pyramids were built by humans no less. Maybe we may too someday be sipping coffee on a planet called ch76419 and using the catch phrase-“Beam up.”