Dutch researchers are now one step closer to Star Trek-style teleportation

Star Trek-style ”beaming up” of people through space could become a reality sometime in the far future, the leader of a landmark teleportation experiment has said. Nothing in the laws of physics prevents the teleportation of large objects, including humans, Professor Ronald Hanson pointed out. In contrast, it is physically impossible for anything to travel faster than light. ”What we are teleporting is the state of a particle,” Prof Hanson, from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, said.  ”If you believe we are nothing more than a collection of atoms strung together in a particular way, then in principle it should be possible to teleport ourselves from one place to another. ”In practice it’s extremely unlikely, but to say it can never work is very dangerous. ”I would not rule it out because there’s no fundamental law of physics preventing it. ‘If it ever does happen it will be far in the future.” Prof Hanson’s team showed for the first time that it was possible to teleport information encoded into sub-atomic particles between two points three metres apart with 100% reliability.