Телепортация

David Darling is a British astronomer with an interest in the universe, gravity, the search for extraterrestrial civilizations, interstellar travel and related topics. He is the author of several extremely popular books on the above topics, and his personal popular science Web site is one of the most visited resources on the Internet on the mysteries of the structure of the universe and the origin of life and intelligence in it. In this book, he discusses the very mysterious phenomenon of teleportation, which is widely known from science fiction literature as a way of instantaneous movement in space. The first chapters of the book describe the history of the emergence of the very concept of instantaneous movements: starting with ancient myths, legends, rumors. Then real facts from the history of the study of teleportation from a scientific point of view are given - from the first attempts to study quantum phenomena to modern experiments with real, and not fantastic, teleportation of atoms of matter. It discusses very important related issues of quantum teleportation, namely the history and current state of quantum cryptography and quantum computing. The book contains historical digressions and amusing memoirs of scientists who have made the most significant contribution to the study of teleportation.