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I'm Brian green professor of physics and
mathematics at Columbia University and
co-founder of the World Science Festival
teleportation is one of the weird ideas
and there is a version of it that
physicists now routinely make use of
nobody is teleporting people from place
to place but we can teleport individual
particles we can take a particle at one
location and in some sense create an
absolute identical version of it exactly
the same properties exactly the same
quantum state if you let me be a little
technical and that means in essence
you've gone from a particle that was
here to one over here and in fact the
process itself destroys the particle
over here so the only version of this
particle that exists when this process
is over is the one that's been created
at this location and people do this
there's very very smart physicist Anton
Zeilinger he routinely teleports
particles from tenerife to lipoma
it's an amazing thing that you can
actually do this the big question of
course is will you ever teleport big
things like people and the procedures
that are used for individual particles
simply do not scale you cannot simply
scale them up to do more and more
particles I don't think but who knows
five hundred a thousand years from now
maybe we'll have something on the table
that we can try out if it happens in our
lifetime I can tell you one thing for
certain I will not be the first person
who goes into that device