Would Teleportation Be Possible?

While human teleportation currently exists only in science fiction, teleportation is possible now in the subatomic world of quantum mechanics -- albeit not in the way typically depicted on TV. In the quantum world, teleportation involves the transportation of information, rather than the transportation of matter.

Why can't we teleport yet?

In reality, we can't pass particles of matter through most materials because they interact too strongly with the atoms inside. That gets to the key problem with any kind of teleportation: The matter making up our bodies obeys rules that aren't conducive to speeding across open space and through barriers.

Is anyone trying to invent teleportation?

Impossible? In 1993 an international group of six scientists, showed that perfect teleportation is possible in principle, or at least not against the laws of physics. More recently scientists both in the US and China have been trying.