Teleportation is supposed to be the transfer of matter from one point to another, more or less instantaneously, either by alchemy, paranormal means or through technological means. Teleportation has been widely utilized in works of science fiction. There is no evidence that such a phenomenon exists.
Apport is an earlier word used to describe much the same thing; bilocation is where an individual or object is supposed to be, or appears to be, locat...
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Teleportation is supposed to be the transfer of matter from one point to another, more or less instantaneously, either by alchemy, paranormal means or through technological means. Teleportation has been widely utilized in works of science fiction. There is no evidence that such a phenomenon exists.
Apport is an earlier word used to describe much the same thing; bilocation is where an individual or object is supposed to be, or appears to be, located in two distinct places at the same instant in time. The word "teletransportation" (which simply expands Charles Fort's abbreviated term) was first employed by Derek Parfit as part of a thought exercise on identity.
The word was coined in 1931 by American writer Charles Fort to describe the strange disappearances and appearances of anomalies, which he suggested may be connected. He joined the Greek prefix tele- (meaning "distant") to the Latin verb portare (meaning "to carry"). Fort's first formal use of the word was in the second chapter of...
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