Teleportation

Teleportation or teletransportation is the theoretical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. It is a common subject in science fiction literature, film, video games, and television.

Since 1993, teleportation has become a hot topic in quantum mechanics, namely state, energy and particle teleportation.

The use of the term teleport to describe the hypothetical movement of material objects between one place and another without physically traversing the distance between them has been documented as early as 1878.

American writer Charles Fort is credited with having coined the word teleportation in 1931 to describe the strange disappearances and appearances of anomalies, which he suggested may be connected. As in the earlier usage, he joined the Greek prefix (meaning "distant") to the root of the Latin verb (meaning "to carry"). Fort's first formal use of the word occurred in the second chapter of his 1931 book Lo!:

Mostly in this book I shall specialize upon indications that there exists a transportory force that I shall call Teleportation. 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.

The earliest recorded story of a "matter transmitter" was Edward Page Mitchell's "The Man Without a Body" in 1877.

See also the movie The Fly (1958) and 1957 story of the same name.

In episode 20 of the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson children's programme, Fireball XL5, produced in 1962 before the advent of Star Trek and its 'transporter', the Nutopians have a "matter transporter" used to dematerialise and rematerialise people between the planet and an alien ship not unlike the later transporter of Star Trek fame.

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