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Whenever anyone asks me what my superpower of choice would be, I always tell them: teleportation. Think of all the time we waste moving from Point A to Point B, when it would be so much easier just to be there in the blink of an eye. Is that too much to ask?
Well, apparently so, although physicists have made tremendous progress in teleporting clouds of photons, atoms and ions, and it's likely they will soon be able to teleport more complex objects like molecules and even viruses -- adding a whole new wrinkle to the fears of a global pandemic. And now a Japanese scientist has proposed an even more exotic notion: teleporting energy!Teleport_h_tn
Teleportation as we currently understand the process works via the quantum phenomenon called entanglement. When two particles become entangled, if you make a measurement of one, this has an immediate impact on the other, even if they are separated by by vast distances. Back in the early 1990s, IBM physicists figured out that you didn't have to teleport actual particles, because at the quantum level they are pretty identical; it's the information they carry that's important. So you just have to send the information contained within a particle, which will be automatically transferred to the entangled partner in the new location.
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