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Probability of Teleportation

How Likely is it For Physics to Develop Teleporting??


Since before the release of the Star Trek movies where people teleport as transportation, people have wondered if and when a form of teleportation might be developed in modern times. Unfortunately, there are no real breakthroughs or a bright future for teleportation in the near future.. The US Air Force did a study on the progress and potential of teleportation of objects as it occurs in physics. They came up with several different possibilities:
1. Teleportation like SciFi, where things disembody and travel through space with futuristic technology (not continued to be studied).
2. Teleportation by psychic means: p-Teleportation.
3. Teleportation by engineering the vacuum/spacetime metric, where the spacetime vacuum or metric is altered to pass things through space. This is called vm-Teleportation.
4. Teleportation from quantum entanglement: where things are disembodied and transported in the quantum state of a system across space to another system, where they come together as a collective state of matter (like from protons, neutrons and electrons). This is q-Teleportation.
5. Teleportation exotic, which is where objects are transported through other dimensions or parallel universes. This is called e-Teleportation.

This study was published in 2004, and no real progress has been made. The most pursued forms of teleportation in modern day are vm-teleportation and q-teleportation.

Vm-Teleportation
This theory is largely based off of the existence and use of wormholes in space. A wormhole is a theoretical time - space passage that would cause a jump in space. These are predicted to exist theorized by general relativity. These were theorized by Albert Einstein in 1935.


Wormholes are actually very dangerous because they are unpredictable; they threaten sudden collapse, high radiation, and possible contact with toxic / unknown matter. 

At a university in Barcelona, researchers created a magnetic wormhole in a lab - proving that these are possible to exist. The space- time wormholes that are mentioned above to be used for teleportation are created by a manipulation of the gravitation field- which scientists cannot do yet. In Barcelona, they are manipulating electro-magnetic energy to create a magnetic field in another dimension as they say. So instead of connecting other universes, this wormhole connects two magnetic fields - but the same concepts and physics are needed in both instances. 
This experiment can be explained in video below:

Q-Teleportation
Quantum teleportation transfers the quantum state of one object to another, and erases the quantum state in the original. This is like sending information: the teleportation did not really happen but it appears as though it did. This also uses quantum entanglement. If two particles are bound or bonded together, they are dependent upon each other throughout time and space, and are described by a single wave function (a wave function is a mathematical description of the quantum state of a particle or multiple particles in quantum physics. It is a probability amplitude and a number of probabilities can be derived from it). So Q-Teleportation works because of these co-dependent particles : anything that is done to one of the particles anywhere in space will also happen to the second particle at any other separate place in space. This is a new way to transport information: like WiFi. 

Using quantum entanglement, the Chinese successfully teleported a particle from Earth to orbit in July 2017. They teleported a photon from the Gobi desert to a satellite 500 km from Earth. 


Diagram above of Teleportation:

This shows that the future in teleporting might lie in q-teleportation.... which teleports the state of an object in place of an actual object. The biggest problem in developing teleporting more photons now is entangled photons are absorbed down the fiberoptic channel after they travel about 150 km - so "trusted nodes" are being developed every 100 km where quantum signal is remeasured and sent again. 

Maybe teleporting isn't too far in the distant future.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40594387
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/10/13/would-the-laws-of-physics-ever-allow-teleportation-to-be-possible/#70d7e6719cda
https://www.space.com/511-air-force-takes-teleportation.html

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