Teleportation

Teleportation, or teletransportation, is the process of moving objects from one place to another more or less instantaneously, without using conventional transportation.

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With present techniques, this is conceivable only with elementary particles, or theoretically, by encoding information about an object, transmitting the information to another place, such as on a radio signal, and creating a copy of the original object in the new location. Teleportation has also been proposed to explain various anomalous phenomena, or has been used in science fiction.

Related Topics:
Elementary particle - Radio - Anomalous phenomena - Science fiction

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The word "teleportation" was coined in the early 1900's by writer Charles Fort to describe the strange disappearances and appearances of anomalies, which he suggested may be connected. Fort first used the word in the second chapter of his 1931 work, Lo! "Mostly in this book I shall specialize upon indications that there exists a transportory force that I shall call Teleportation." Though, with his typical half-serious jokiness, Fort added, "I shall be accused of having assembled lies, yarns, hoaxes, and superstitions. To some degree I think so, myself. To some degree, I do not. I offer the data." (Fort, 553) http://www.resologist.net/lo102.htm

Related Topics:
Charles Fort - Hoax - Superstition - Data

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Similar is apport, an earlier word used to describe what today might be called teleportation; and bilocation, when someone is said to occupy two places simultaneously. The word "teletransportation" was first employed by Derek Parfit as part of a thought exercise on identity.

Related Topics:
Apport - Bilocation - Derek Parfit - Identity

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