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Just as I was reading about
the Hotel and travel industry a random thought popped up in my mind, “what if
teleportation becomes a reality” .Fans of the old TV series will be aware of
people and things being teleported from the Enterprise to various locations and
vice versa instantly. If this becomes a reality then it would be the death
knell of the Hotel and Travel industry. Many things written by science fiction
authors such as HG Wells, Jules Verne, Mary Shelly and few others during the 19th
& 20th century have become a reality for scientists have been
inspired by reading these authors to replicate the same in the current era and
few examples of such discoveries are Organ transplant, Television, Mobile
phones, Rockets, Moon Landing.
Teleportation is an ability to travel vast distances within a blink of an eye
has captured the vivid imagination of humans for ages and is being seriously
studied and pursued by scientists. Making this an reality will be a great feat
indeed and can be achieved through means that are beyond our current
understanding of science.
Though the process of
teleportation has not been discovered till date there have been recorded
bizarre instances of people be teleported in history of which most of us would
not know, but if you Google search teleportation quite a lot of cases of
teleportation over a period of time are listed . I am reproducing two of the
accounts of human teleportation from Beyond Science portal that has
fuelled the imagination of humans that the means to teleport is a reality in
the distant future.
1. The story of Gil Perez dates back to
the 16th century when he was serving as a Spanish soldier and palace guard of
the Governor’s Palace in Manila. He was just a regular soldier until the
morning of October 24, 1593, when something strange happened. Tired due to lack
of sleep and the warm weather, Perez decided to take a short nap and leaned
against the palace wall. When he opened his eyes, he was stunned to find
himself in an unknown location. When it was explained to him that he was in
Mexico City, he refused to believe that it was true, knowing it was impossible
for him to be in Mexico City on the evening of October 24th when he had
received his orders in Manila on the morning of October 23rd. Perez was
questioned extensively by the Holy Tribunal of the Inquisition, and he told
authorities that he had travelled from Manila to Mexico “in less time than it
takes a cock to crow.” He revealed that he knew he was no longer in Manila and
that the night before, he also knew for a fact that governor-general of the
Philippines had been assassinated. However, the members of the Spanish
Inquisition did not believe his story and had him imprisoned for desertion. For
two months, Perez was locked up in a jail in Mexico City until a Manila
merchant ship arrived from the Philippines. The crew shared the news about the
Governor’s assassination, just as Perez had described it a couple of months
earlier. Even stranger, one of the passengers on the ship recognized Perez and
swore that he had seen the soldier in the Philippines marching at the palace
garrison on October 23rd. And so, the Holy Tribunal of the Inquisition in
Mexico had no other choice but to accept Perez’s story, release him from jail,
and send him back to the Philippines.
2. A well-known and controversial case of
human teleportation supposedly took place in 1968, when a Dr. Geraldo Vidal and
his wife, Raffo de Vidal, allegedly teleported a large distance along with
their entire car. In May 1968, the couple was reportedly driving their vehicle
along a remote, rural road in Chascomus, a province of Buenos Aires in
Argentina, when they were suddenly enveloped by a thick fog. The Vidals
allegedly failed to make it to their destination on time, and family members
and authorities went on to search for the couple in the road they had taken but
no trace of them was found. 48 hours later, Geraldo Vidal called the family to
inform them that he and his wife were safe but for some reason unknown to them,
they were in Mexico City, which was 6,400 km away from where they were driving
in Argentina. Geraldo Vidal would later claim that they had no recollection of
what occurred in the last 48 hours that they had disappeared without a trace.
All they knew was that they encountered a strange, heavy fog before everything
turned black. When they came to, they found themselves parked along an unfamiliar
road and felt pain in their necks. When they alighted from the car, the vehicle
looked like it had been burned, as if it was badly damaged by a blowtorch.
I was born during later part
of 1950’s and I have seen so many changes in last 60 years that we humans never
even imagined that it could happen like for instance Moon landing, Televisions,
Mobile phones, Computers, electronic mail that put end to letter writing, Internet,
Social media networks, Organ replacements, Laser and its applications, Tape
recorders, CD players, Video tape players and lot more. Some of them have
become irrelevant and have vanished during the current times as more and more
newer ideas are being pursed and discovered. So I do believe one day, but m not
during my life time Teleportation will be a reality.
I would surely appreciate
your thoughts and views on this post.
