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
