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Will we ever be able to teleport? - Sajan Saini

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Is teleportation possible? Could a baseball transform into something like a radio wave, travel through buildings, bounce around corners, and change back into a baseball? Oddly enough, thanks to quantum mechanics, the answer might actually be yes... sort of! Sajan Saini explains.

In a quantum teleport, it's the quantum state that gives an electron its unique identity; this identity is transferred from an electron located at an initial location in space to another electron located at the final location. If it were possible today for a human being—whose body is made up of an enormous collection of atomic particles—to teleport, would the being who stepped out of a so-called teleporter at the final location still be the same person?

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Meet The Creators

  • Educator Sajan Saini
  • Director Ricky Earl, Tom Jordan
  • Animator Ricky Earl, Henry Chung, Noel Yenki Wong, James Hing
  • Storyboard Artist Ricky Earl
  • Composer Tom Jordan
  • Sound Designer Tom Jordan
  • Collaborator Scott Aaronson
  • Associate Producer Jessica Ruby
  • Content Producer Gerta Xhelo
  • Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
  • Narrator Addison Anderson

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