Quantum Teleportation

QUANTUM TELEPORTATION

This idea was originally theoried three centuries ago and has been part and parcel of science-fiction staples ever since. Essentially, an object is broken down into its base quantum-level particles which are then scanned via computers and 'beamed' to an alternate computer and location where the particles are reassembled into their original coherent state.

This has proven great in theory, and theory also suggests that with enough energy, computer assistance is unnecessary and that matter should be instantaneously transferrable to any other point in the cosmos. Unfortunately, reality has proven more uncooperative than holos and immersive stories.

Though billions of credits have been spent on research in the past half-century, no real progress has been made. The greatest success took place at the Alomos Research Cooperative facility. At the ARC, Tonya Allyson and Klondike Stevens successfully teleported two ounces of bio-matter a total of two centimeters. Unfortunately, when it reappeared, the bio-matter was no longer in the same form; the mass was random bits of various elements and compounds, no longer identifiable as 'bio-matter'. In addition, the power requirements of the experiment overloaded the ARC's power grid and forced the shutdown of several other projects. Quantum teleportation researches were ecstatic, believing that this proved they were on the right track.

Twenty years after the Allyson/Stevens 'breakthrough', no one has reported further progress though everyone has incentive to do so, either for individual renown or as a chip in the constant tug-of-war for power between the World League of Nations government and its individual member states.