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• n  a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another

• Though the technology appears to straddle the line between science and science fiction, the era of quantum teleportation has arrived.
• Quantum teleportation, in short, is the transmission of characteristicsthat is, the quantum state of a particular photon, or particle of lightfrom one place to another.
• A TV network willingly giving up eight minutes of ads per hour? We thought we'd live to see teleportation first.

News & Articles

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• Watch Christmas Lights Recreate Star Trek's Beam Me Up Scotty Effect
  Even non-Star Trek fans have dreamed about teleporting away to space by just saying Beam Me Up, Scotty. And though it's unlikely to ever happen in our lifetimes (prove me wrong smart people!), the special effects maestro Shanks FX has cooked up a slick way to recreate the Star Trek teleportation effect with Christmas lights. Read more...        
  June 14, 2013 - Gizmodo
• Cocktail Time Travel by Domingo-Martin Barreres
  For this Forklift entry, we will be time traveling: first back to when the classic Aviation cocktail first took flight, then to the present for the launch of my NASA (New Age Space Aviation) cocktail, and finally to the future where you will have power of teleportation at your fingertips. PAST If you've been in an airport within the last few decades, you may find it hard to believe, but flying ...
  June 13, 2013 - Boston Herald

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Times of India
  The list, which included Sania Mirza and was sub-titled "revolutionising the future: from tennis to teleportation", pointed out that Obama was the only "out-and-out politician" it chose.
• Doug Liman in Sydney Morning Herald
  It's got philosophy, it's got physics,says director Doug Liman. "But you have to make a big leap of faith to start with about teleportation as a viable concept. Do that and everything that follows is scientific. I was a physics geek...