Teleportation

Teleportation (from Greek τῆλε tele " far" and Latin portare " carry, bring " ) refers to the transport of a person or an object, thereby physically crosses general of matter from one place to another without the latter the intervening space.

In 2004, the USAF a study of teleportation through.

Origin and definition of the term

The term teleportation was coined by American author and journalist Charles Hoy Fort. He used it for the first time in 1931 in his collection of inexplicable events, entitled Lo! ( German " See there!" ) to describe a mysterious force for transporting objects. In particular, poltergeist phenomena, such as the sudden appearance and disappearance of objects, but also other unexplained phenomena have been brought from Fort and subsequently by others in connection with such a force. In esoteric, occult or fantasy contexts, the process therefore relates mostly on paranormal abilities without the help of technical aids. An example of this are the data used as a transport portals fireplaces or portkey in the Harry Potter novel series.

In particular, in the science fiction literature teleportation but is often depicted as a technical process, which has no relation to the supernatural. Instead reference is made to a hypothetical technique which performs the transport process. A synonymously used term for this is Matter Transmission (English for matter transfer). Occasionally, both names are used interchangeably in the science fiction, however.

The term quantum teleportation for a first time in 1997 by physical experiment run, are transmitted in the quantum states over an instantaneous change of state together entangled quantum objects, leans conceptually to the popular concept of teleportation. Although the so called process has nothing to do with teleportation of matter, science fiction authors occasionally make it back to give the impression of a scientific background.

Use in the science fiction

Prior to the introduction of the concept of teleportation by Fort, there were descriptions of matter transfers in the fantastic literature of the nineteenth century. First time, a kind of matter transport in 1855 from Sydney Whiting was portrayed in his novel Helionde, in which the protagonist dreams that he should be dissolved into vapor and transported to a sun. The first more technical description can be found in the 1877 published in the New York Sun 's short story The Man without a Body by Edward Page Mitchell. In this story, a technique is described, converted by matter into energy, will be sent to a receiver and converted back.

As a result, the concept of transporting things or beings by means of unloading and subsequent rematerialization established as part of the repertoire of science fiction literature, when it also because of its limited usefulness as a tool that aim to take the action not the spread of other concepts such as the faster than light space travel reached. On the screen it was first taken up in 1958 by Kurt Neumann in his on a short story by George Langelaan based horror film The Fly.

A boom time of the concept, however, only with the beginning of the science fiction series on television. In particular, the series Star Trek in the 1960s, in which the transporter there or beam -called concept was originally introduced for reasons of cost, to deal in the production of complex sequences landing on other planets can, provided a boost in popularity. The routine use of the device and its various malfunctions were a major plot element of the series, the series inspired by the phrase " Beam me up, Scotty" dictum of everyday culture.

In addition to such technical plausibility matter transmitters in the science fiction and the original, based on the power of thought concept of teleportation is used. Examples of such representations are the novels Where Ever You May Be ( 1953) by James Gunn, Blind Voices (1966 ) by Tom Reamy, The Witches of Karres (1978 ) by James H. Schmitz and A Coming of Age (1984 ) by Timothy tooth.