Teleportation. Is this phenomenon scientifically possible?

The article tells about what teleportation is, is it possible. Its hypothetical ways of realization are considered, for which it would be useful.

What is teleportation?

According to the scientific definition, teleportation is a change in the coordinates of an object. In this case, the movement can not be justified and described from a mathematical point of view or a continuous time function.

But what is teleportation? This is the effect of instantaneous movement of an object or person to any distance at which it disappears from the starting point and appears in the final point.

From the very beginning of mastering the world of physics, as deepening into the mysteries of nature and matter, mankind dreamed of the incredible. Some things and phenomena have been realized in the course of years or centuries in the form of familiar things: telephones, radio communication, organ transplantation, laser weapons , etc. But some dreams of science fiction writers or popularizers of science have not yet been implemented. And one of them is teleportation. Is this phenomenon scientifically possible? Let's try to understand.

Does it exist?

Unfortunately most of the fiction lovers, scientists are not engaged in a purposeful search and the embodiment of some incredible idea. The same with teleportation. At the moment it does not exist, and so far it is not very clear at all how this can happen. There are several hypotheses, but so far, they can not be tested. But still we will analyze several of them to understand what teleportation is, whether this phenomenon is possible even in the distant future.

Kinds

The first is the so-called transport beam. With such teleportation, all molecules in the human body or object are scanned, their state is recorded, after which the original is destroyed, and in another place such a machine creates a complete copy based on the stored data.

People who are at least familiar with physics already understand the impossibility of such a method at this stage of human development. And in the future too. To begin with, the number of molecules in the human body can not be calculated, and even more so the recording of all their states, transmission and reproduction in fractions of a second. In addition, from the point of view of quantum mechanics it is impossible to create an exact copy of the derived quantum state. In addition, when the original is destroyed, consciousness is destroyed, which is indivisible with the physical body.

It is from this process that the teleportation most often referred to by the science fiction consists. Is this possible in our time? No.

Portal

Another type of instantaneous relocation is portals. A certain physical condition of a certain area of space, the location in which the object is transferred to another, known in advance. Most often this method is mentioned in computer games and fantasy.

Magic

Such a transfer of an object or person is not at all explained scientifically. Therefore, it can only be viewed as an attribute of unscientific fiction in various works of art.

Zero-T

This is another kind of teleportation, which can be more or less justified by science. Its meaning is to open a window to another special measurement with a certain device, the coordinates of which correspond with our world, but the distances are compressed millions of times, and having made another "puncture", a person appears in a completely different place. For example, in another city or galaxy.

Such a method was widely described in their books by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, on the same principle, their heroes made interstellar flights.

How to learn teleportation?

You can often hear such a question, especially on the Internet. The answer is no. Of course, if we consider this topic from the side of materialism, discarding all magic and other paranormal manifestations. You can even meet communities that claim to teach this process. Naturally, not for free.

If you continue the mystical theme, that is, a lot of historical records about the teleportation of a person or simply the disappearance from, for example, a prison cell. But all of them can not withstand criticism and can not bring forth weighty facts of this phenomenon.

Benefit

If mankind once develops such technologies, whether it be puncturing into other spaces or something like that, it will be difficult to overestimate their usefulness. After all, then a centuries-old dream of instantaneous movements will take place anywhere! Be it another country, a continent or a planet.

The last moment is especially topical, because even with the construction of the fastest and most reliable spacecrafts it will be very difficult to reach neighboring stars, even at the speed of light, the more it is necessary to remember the relativity of time. And instant movements in space greatly facilitate this occupation.

And while the question of whether there is a teleport, the answer, unfortunately, is negative. And most likely, if it is invented, it will have quite different fundamental properties.