Can science explain why when I was 5, I fell asleep in the car then ended up in my bed?

Will we be able to teleport? Answer: Yesn't

4:53 "And remember, never say never. In a little over a century mankind has advanced from an uncertain new understanding of a behavior of electrons at the atomic scale to reliably teleporting them across a room." The things scientists can do when they don't have to lose time explaining the earth isn't flat.

Immagine going into a teleport and dieing by dissolvesion, and somewhere else is created a identical copy of you with the same memorys. And you'll never know you already died

Will we ever be able to teleport? The answer is *uncertain*

When scientists call something spooky you know its the real deal

Can’t wait until I spawn on the other side missing an arm due to packet loss.

"upload file to Google drive" "login in other device with same account" "take the file in other device" *teleportation*

As long as my mom cooks scrambled eggs and toast every morning, I think it's possible.

I...don’t know if this counts as teleporting. Sounds more like creating a copy and destroying the original.

Everything seemed impossible at one point until we figured out how to do it.

Don’t ever go through a teleporter, they just vaporize you and 3D print a copy of you on the other side

This better get invented soon, I'm tired of walking...

How to teleport: 1.kill enderman 2.throw the ender pearl 3.the end

This can actually be true. Teleportation can actually be a dream come true if we have a device that can reanimate the molecules from common objects and biological objects to another position

I like the emphasizement of the the word "fragile" when referring to quantum mechanics and of a quantum state. That's exactly what it always feels like whenever I'm studying and trying to conceptualize said mechanics in my head (as an amateur of course). Thx for the summary!

Teleportation is either 1. The rearrangement of atoms to a different place 2. Quantum Tunneling 3. Doppelgänger/Clone of yourself with multiples memories, knowledge that converges to one single person the brain

Travel by teleport: 1: Person enters the teleport machine; 2: ...eternal nothingness... 3: *The End.*

I don't know if we can but I really enjoyed and loved the animation and narration. Thank you for making it simple and clear.

Quantum entanglement happens instantly . It doesn’t “travel” .. and you wouldn’t “transport” something. You destroy it and recreate it.

We don't need baseball in Bangalore, we need a cricket ball

We already have a teleportation device. It's called a fax machine.

Spooky really describes how an electron can respond to changes at any distance instantaneously. Humanity's venture with science is really mindblowing.. I can't contemplate how smart our science community has been to put together piece by piece all the understanding we have now absolutely from scratch.

A few days ago I started to think if someone managed to build a teleportation device and surprisingly this video is accurate with what my mind thinking how it should work

Oh TED-Ed, answering all the questions that keep us up at night. :) EDIT: Ah, my most liked comment ever. Thanks, guys.

Will we ever be able to teleport ? Ted-Ed : Well yes, but actually no.

This is probably my favorite animation style Ted-Ed has used

This is amazing, glad to be alive during these first experiments with quantum entangelment, really makes me appreciate advances in science. Humanity will curiously study the enginering possibilities with this information transfer methods, as stated in the video perhaps first real use cases will be with computer sciences.

Will we ever stop going through comments while watching the video?

So teleportation is kinda like sending a fax?

pog another 500 years should do it, this is so great can't wait to try it out for probably my life savings

How to teleport: Step 1: Tell the teleportation machine you have green eyes Step 2: Ask to teleport

We just need to learn instant transmission from the Yardrats

"Only time (and space) will tell" - I LOVE IT

In my opinion trying to invent a teleportation machine is better than improving rockets.

That's explains why when my friend and I "entangled," it was really hard for us to forget each other, since the night of "engtanglement" we had some sort of connection that can't be broken by distance. Now he's my fiance. :)

I'm all for the idea of teleportation, but someone answer this scenario for me, If I teleport myself to Germany from the U.S.A at will, and my previous self is destroyed in the process, will the '*me*' teleported to Germany still be '*me*' originally from the U.S.A? Or will it be a copy of myself, without the original.

I didn't understand most of it. i was mostly imagining "Woah, it's like their making a clone and killing the original."

The first explanation I've heard in an educational source that describes HOW the uncertainty principle works. That graphic? Excellent. Paradigm changing in my mind (hopefully). But even just saying "the photon deflects the electron in an unpredictable way" is not something I've heard before!

Your molecules, talking to your psyche: "Aight, I'ma head out."

Star Trek was ahead of it's time

great animation

"Spooky Action At A Distance" could be the name of an obscure band.

The idea of teleportation popped up to my mind the time I encountered a fax machine. The thing is the fax machine has its duplication problem. One document (the original one) is left from the sender's end, and the new document which is normally printed in a a thermal paper at that time.

"will we ever Teleport?" quantum mechanics: *PERHAPS*

This is not teleportation... this is more like cloning in a sense.

ive always loved the new quantum and quite literal baseball radio

Teleportation as most people view it,. Whether or not it's a textbook definition is the ability to take someone or something and transport that exact same thing elsewhere. Most people when they think about the possibility of teleportation in the sci-fi movie don't think about that being a situation where an original is copied and then destroyed

Your animations make it super easier to understand. Very effective way

Wait if we can teleport Electrons i think we could make a Electric car with No battery and it Will get the Power from teleported Electrons

Some of my questions : 1. Will your soul teleport too? 2. Can dark energy be used for teleportation as it has very similar properties of it 3. Will teleportation help society grow or destroy? 4. Can teleportation be faster than speed of light as teleportation has an instant speed? 5. Will the original particles or the the copy of them can be destroyed in the proccess? This video tells similar things to teleportation but with these changes this does not counts as teleportation . Teleportation is known for the transportation of the original matter at another place with no changes done to any single piece of cells and particles this is the most common example used as teleportation. This video shows that original matter will be destroyed and its exact replica will be crrated at another place which is not the type of teleportation people imagine and it can be very harmful to people who go through this process which is basically dieing and only your mind's memories reach not the matter. Hope we find a better way of teleportation and please answer my questions.

This is the first video that I understood about "quantum mechanics".

I'm sure it's possible. I bet the people 2000 years ago didn't see computers or spaceships coming.

sounds the video should be titled "can we teleport a copy of yourself?"

1:46 ok you cleared this doubt but what about vise versa how measuring exact momentum gives uncertainty in position or vise versa ? I wanna also see this example ??

Teleportation Study Experiment. (working model) Take a very very thin, perfectly round hollow metal (copper, steel, etc) ball and put it on a flat glass table at least 5'x5' in once location of the table surface and call that (location A) then strike the ball with an object or with sound and measure its frequency vibration with sound or other devices, then put the ball in another place of the glass table and call that (location B) and measure the vibrational frequency of that ball in that location, then put the ball back in location A and infuse, bombard the ball with the location B frequency vibration, either sonically or electromagnetically, etc... The ball will either disappear and reappear on location B or it will move from location A to B physically and this depends on how precise the instruments used are measuring and infusing the new frequencies. Please save and share this experiment with as many people as possible. This experiment is how we will learn to map the vibrational frequencies equations of any location in our universe. (This is not a joke)

As a technical aside to the video, it's important to note that the uncertainty principle is not a result of the measuring apparatus, but rather a result of its wave nature

So can we save earth from frieza ?

Why not measure the space around the molecules contained inside a reflective structure instead of the molecules themselves?

theres also other options like folding space though if we do learn how to create a wormhole it will probably require very specialized equipment to keep it from collapsing while passing through and said equipment and the power supply would probably be too big for a human to carry

The animation is top notch. Love TED-ED videos👍🏼

Great job ted. Explained an infinitely complex concept through the clever use of innovative graphics!

That blew up my mind...and now i m gonna sleep for an hour or two

Always has been about information. Teleportation to me never meant the original article getting "beamed" places. I think of it as sending all info on the item to the receiving area and that apparatus reassembling a raw lump of matter into the form of what was transmitted. Aside from that, if you could transmit mass-less info through a wormhole it could be reassembled on the other side into a recreation of the original data. Wormholes crush but only if you have mass. But if you could transmit human data, let's just say you had enough energy, and reconstitute that info, would it have a soul? Every time after the first teleportation on Star Trek aren't those characters recreations of the original? You're not sending all their particles, you're reassembling other matter into them. Does their soul go with them? Do souls exist or are they even relevant?

Yay I could teleport back to my friendzone!

*TED! You've motivated me to start KZfaq and I'm only at 2,916 but I'm loving making videos a ton. Thank you!*

*Teleportation will solve our Coronavirus traveling & troubling crisis issues!*

Please keep in mind that the only reason they had teleporters was because it wasn't in the budget to have the ship land every show so the producers mixed glitter with water and created the transporter effect. Otherwise it would be an impossibility. That said, in Michael Crichton's book Timeline, teleporting back in time was akin to sending a fax but the body when reproduced didn't form the same as it went in and the more times you teleported the more damage it did to the body.

Universe: everything is in a neat order. Universe: all rules of reality from physics, biology, mathematics is build from quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics: *NOTHING iS IN ORDER*

Explained so clearly, thank you!

It's annoying that we'll all be dead by the time any of this is sorted out in a practical sense

It could be like fast travel in games, you need to touch it before teleporting to it, but you can take it as far as you want after you touch it and teleport to it anywhere in the universe

Whoa! 1:08 So we're basically going to get information on baseballs in Bangalore! 😁

I learned how to teleport when I was a kid, I would sleep on a couch and woke up in my bed..

The reason for the uncertainty principle is not a photon hitting the particle. The wave function of a particle can either have a well defined momentum where its wavelength (distance between two peaks) is defined or a well defined position where the function is peaking at a certain position.

Rip me apart and reassemble me elsewhere? I think not, I will travel there myself.

What you are doing by this is teleporting its quantum state, but this is not what everyone would call teleportation since the matter, the particle itself is not teleported. Even though all electrons (for example) are identical, they are still not the same one, so what you are doing is destroying a original object to obtain the information needed to recreate it with identical particles somewhere else, but is not the same original object. Actually whrnr destroying it you are not really getting all of its information, just getting like a folder with all that info but you can't open it, but you can send it and use it to then recreate the original object; that is what quantum entanglement allows you to do (also in a fast way), use information you don't actually have

I love the animation style!

It’s literally the transporter from Star Trek! I love that we are watching a video of about how that could be possible.

"Only time and space would tell." huh? good one 😆

Ok so right now we can telport single electrons. What I don't understand is how we can do that because they're fundamental particles. The example of baseball in the video was re-built with the information using atoms. So what would the teleported electron be re-built by? Also another question It said in order to transfer the information of the object it needs to be destroyed. But wouldn't that contradict the fact that matter can't be destroyed? Or does information count as a type of energy?

You are Right I got ball in Bangalore!!!

There's also a philosophical part about teleporting humans or animals. Like yes, they have all the exact same aspects, but is it really the same consiousness that went in? Could have the orignal person died and a duplicate was created in their place? This is why I will never try teleporting myself if it ever becomes an option, no matter how tempting it might be.

When video is small we get motivated to challenge this!

its like measure a baseball send it information over radio waves the reciever will recieve the measure and you know all

A teleporter just snatched my hankerchief

This is what Goku learnt to do. Burma definitely learnt about quantum entanglement, and managed to put in in his pineapple head... wow

Just think ordering a pizza in San Francisco and Eating it in Bangalore... Just amazing it sounds

The answer is: Well yes, but no.

Uncertainty gives me hope. I might study this in the future.

The idea of transporting a mass and make it reappear somewhere else is more fictional, its how you'd expect teleportation to happen but if we were ever to teleport, it'd more in the form of a machine, one that can transport things at a very high speed

I have a question, When the two objects are entangled and separatied, if you take one to a long distance and alter it, does the other instantly know what alterations occur to the altered particle?

You really outdid yourself with the animation

I don't know much about Physics and this is just kinda like a crazy idea but if someone can read this please think about it : Everthing acts as both particles and waves. Since there is time dilation, why don't we think about time in a little bit stranger way... I've been wondering what is past, present and future and if we actually experience time dilation then we actually go to the future or another present ? So a theory of mine is we are all waves existing at different time at another concept of dimension like an electron existing in different states at the same time. And thus, every presents co-exist and there is no past, present and future and we're technically time travelling every second now, and every presents is on a loop that only us in that moment can feel...

Great video. To nitpick a little bit though, in the description given about the uncertainty principle at 1:30, the video is actually talking about quantum back-action and not exactly the uncertainty principle. The uncertainty principle has more to do with the nature of reality itself than it has to do with measurements. For example, an electron that is localized, but hasn't been measured still has a large uncertainty in its momentum.

not at all my soul just chilling in an empty room after I teleport myself thinking its a good idea

Will we ever be able to teleport? Janet Van Dyne: Yes

Have scientist ever considered that instead of quantum particles 'teleporting', the world as we know it might exist on a 4-dimensional substrate and the particles are just traveling through a dimension we can't track them through?

Yeah through worm holes placed on both sides!

Scientist: of course not, you silly!!! Also scientist: [Teleports away]