Teleportation IS Possible - Scientists Discuss The Movie "Jumper"

Believe it or not, teleportation is actually possible! However, it doesn’t involve physically moving an object (or in the movie, a person) from one place to another. It really involves transferring extremely detailed information about the teleportee, down to the quantum state of each of it’s atoms, to another location where it can be recreated. Foxnews.com describes the basic process:

“Teleporting, say, an electron would first involve “entangling” a pair of electrons.

Voilà — quantum teleportation.”

Obviously, teleporting an electron is not the same as teleporting a person. Because of the huge number of sub-atomic particles the make up the human body, the above method may not ever be practical. Maybe that’s why the technology used in “Jumper” and other science fiction series like Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis involves establishing a “wormhole”, which is a sort of a tunnel between two places in space-time. Currently, we don’t know how to do that either though, so you’ll just have to travel the old-fashioned way for now.