Teleportation

Lately I have found myself wishing more and more that teleportation would be possible, as dorm food gets worse and my bunk bed gets more uncomfortable, I long for a quick and easy method of transportation to the comforts of my home.

After stumbling upon an article from Discovery News, my dreams of appearing home in less than second from over 300 miles away vanished.

Teleporting is accomplished using a method of quantum physics called entaglement. I translated this explanation into a process similar to a copier machine. Information is scanned, copied, and reproduced, however the replica is never exactly the same. Physicists have already teleported light particles, called photons, and electrons over various distances, but these are single particles and are not comparable to teleporting a a human. Currently, scientists in Japan are working on teleporting energy, which will hopefully lead into larger things. The biggest risk  involved in teleporting is the destruction of the original image after scanning and copying the information. In other words, if the teleportation failed, a replica would not be produced, and the original would be destructed.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2ADyJD/news.discovery.com/space/teleporting-energy.html