Interstellar teleporter

An interstellar teleporter is a hypothetical technology appearing in science fiction, typically in hard sci-fi, which moves people and/or other objects over interstellar distances instanteously.

Examples

• the Door in Lloyd Biggle Jr. 's short story The Rule of the Door .
• Ramsbotham Jump in Robert A. Heinlein's novel Tunnel in the Sky.
• Runcible on Neal Asher's novel Gridlinked
• Springer technology in John Barnes' series of novels:
  • A Million Open Doors
  • Earth Made of Glass
  • Merchant of Souls
• Wargate in Bruce Balfour 's The Forge of Mars .
• The Stargate featured in the movie Stargate and the followup series Stargate SG-1.
• An intergalactic teleprter made a brief apperance in the John Carpenter horror movie They Live.

See also

• teleportation

External link

• BBC article on teleportation breakthrough