If you ask most ordinary people, they’d tell you the idea originated with the Star Trek transporter, but that’s far from the truth. So when did people start thinking about teleporting?

With the right combination of teleportation operations, it's possible to perform the full set of logical quantum gates. In ...

Present in almost every episode and film in the franchise, the transporter is the device used to teleport people and objects within the Star Trek universe, notably to and from Federation ships.

Q was a comedic character to be sure, and he always did something outlandish with his godlike powers — like teleporting "Star Trek" characters into the world of Robin Hood — but he was never a ...