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IN 2005 cosmologist and astrophysicist Eric Davis completed a paper for the United States Air Force arguing that teleportation was an achievable technology and a legitimate science. "Specifically the purpose of his study was to collect information describing the teleportation of material objects, providing a description of teleportation as it occurs in physics, its theoretical and experimental status, and a projection of potential applications" (Witcher).

Davis compiled five futuristic viable modes of teleportation:

• "Quantum teleportation is a technique that shifts the characteristics, but not the location of sub-atomic particles at great distances" (Witcher);
• "Wormholes, a highly theoretical possibility whereby the intense gravitational field near black holes could rip open entrances to distant locales" (Vergano);
• Parallel Universe travel in parallel dimensions;
• Science-fiction-based Star Trek transporter beams, which he dismisses;
• Psychic Teleportation, the most reasonable starting point: Chinese researchers have demonstrated test subjects teleporting fruit flies and grasshoppers with their minds alone (Witcher); Famed and defamed psychic Uri Geller supposedly teleported a sealed crystal compound out of existence.

Dangers of human teleportation loom large. The "original you would be destroyed, and a new you would emerge elsewhere. It will take a brave person to try that one the first time. No one knows if the essence of you would be preserved" (Knapp).

The point of Davis' research was to bring together all the existing research on teleportation so that other researchers might use it as a springboard. When the Chinese boast success, the U.S. Air Force and American research institutes at Stanford and Princeton are not far behind with their classified consciousness research.

The power of consciousness to merge with and move matter, once the subject of extraterrestrial-themed movies and experiencer reports, is moving into the realm of possibility with military, aerospace applications.