Alright, let's talk about teleportation. We've seen it in science fiction, Star Trek being one of the most notable examples, but what about our own reality? Is it possible to teleport me from the comfort of my bed to my kitchen fridge? Well. time to find out! #scicomm (1/20)

As always, if you want to read a more detailed version of this, check out my blog post: http://www.joalda.space/post/teleportation (2/20)

So teleportation is defined as the instantaneous transport of matter or energy from one point to another without necessarily traveling the distance in between. The earliest example of the idea was in an 1897 novel called "To Venus in Five Seconds" by Fred T. Jane. (3/20)

There are three types of teleportation that I talk to you all about. Let's first go with the more common one, which is just regular teleportation. As of now, perfect teleportation isn't possible because it violates the laws of physics, specifically something called the... (4/20)

...Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which prevents perfectly measuring information from a particle. The idea is that you step into some sort of transporter machine, which translates your body into some sort of data that consists of your DNA and whatnot. Then this data... (5/20)

... is transmitted to another transporter machine at another point and makes a copy of you based on that data. But the thing is, there is a theory within quantum mechanics called the no-cloning theorem that prevents two of you from just running around, meaning that the... (6/20)

...original you has to die. So this teleportation machine in basic terms is really just is in a sense a death machine. So there are some ethics that come into play here because this method of teleportation really just kills you and recreates a copy somewhere else. (7/20)

There wasa study that looked at how much time it would take to teleport a human, and they calculated how many bits a human is equal to and used a certain bandwidth value. They found that the time it took would be 350,000 times the age of our universe, so yeah. (8/20)

We now come to our next method of transportation, which is beaming. It is often used synonymously with teleportation, but it is technically different. Beaming doesn't involve making a copy of someone and is in the form of radiation. The way it would work is that... (9/20)

...you would step into a machine, it would physically deconstruct you into basic components, send you over through a beam, and then reconstruct you at the other machine. The problem with this method is that we don't have a way of breaking humans down into their atoms. (10/20)

There is also this issue of not really having an idea of what form of radiation we would use since electromagnetic radiation can't technically "transport" matter. So yeah, beaming seems even more impossible than regular transportation. But hold on, keep on hearing me out. (11/20)

So, there is a form of teleportation that actually exists and has been done numerous times before, and that is quantum teleportation. It is different in the sense that we're not necessarily transporting matter, but instead information, so its a means of communication. (12/20)

Before we can talk more about it, we first need to understand a concept called quantum entanglement. Imagine the observation of a particle at some point in space being able to instantaneously affect another particle at another point regardless of distance. That's it! (13/20)

The particles are entangled in that sense. This leads to how quantum teleportation occurs since the idea is that you teleport information about one particle to another and use quantum entanglement as the transporter of information. Let me this more through an example. (14/20)

Let’s say you have a particle named Bob that is in a specific state here in Chicago, and you would like to transfer this state onto another particle named Joe that is on Jupiter. What happens is that you take a third particle named Anne that is in an entanglement with... (15/20)

...Joe who is on Jupiter. You bring Anne over to Chicago, and you get Anne kind of entangled with Bob as well. Now, you indirectly look at the entanglement between Anne and Bob, and you gain information about their states, but not enough to determine the exact state of... (16/20)

...either of the particles. But, what happens now is that based on the indirect information you received by looking at the Anne-Bob entanglement, the math works out that in the end, the original state of Bob in Chicago will be transferred to and reflected by Joe who is... (17/20)

...on Jupiter, so Joe is now the new Bob.

Okay, let's take a breath.

The thing is that now since Joe is in the state that Bob was once in and is now no longer Joe but instead the new Bob, the old Bob is no longer “Bob”. Old Bob is now just a completely random state... (18/20)

... since, in order to completely transfer the information, we had to break down Bob completely.

So, old Bob = ???, and Joe = new Bob = basically just Bob. Slightly confusing, but I can promise you that the math works out. But that's how that all works! (19/20)

So that's how teleportation can work, and I hope that some of it made some sense! My question for you all now:

Would you ever try teleportation? (20/20)