Time travel, teleportation, and the cloak of invisibility will become a reality by 2080-2100. So say British scientists from Imperial College London, specializing in engineering, medicine and business, the University of Glasgow and the non-profit organization EngineeringUK. It is reported by the British The Telegraph.
Researchers are confident that today's children will be able to realize the dream of the Soviet Shurik, to feel like Doctor Who, Harry Potter or Spock from Star Trek. It will be possible to travel through the centuries in 2100, and teleportation will become commonplace around 2080, according to scientists from Glasgow.
“There are absolutely no fundamental laws confirming that teleportation is impossible. Given the current advances in technology, by my calculations, we will be able to see teleportation, such as we see in films, somewhere around 2080. It will be very difficult to teleport a person, atom by atom, and this is certainly the task of physicists. However, it is possible that new discoveries in chemistry and molecular biology will allow us to achieve this faster,”says Mary Jacqueline Romero, Ph. D. from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow.
Colin Stewart, author of The Big Questions in Science, believes that time travel will be possible by the year 2100. “If you move through space at a speed of 10 percent of the speed of light, then six months in space will be equal to six months and one day on Earth. Thus, you are one day ahead! If you move at that speed for 10 years, you can be three weeks in the future,”says Stewart.
First of all, expect the Invisibility Cloak. Professor of the Department of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London, Chris Phillips believes that trying on one of the Deathly Hallows from "Harry Potter" will be possible in 10-20 years.
“One way to create an 'invisible cloak' is to use adaptive camouflage tools, which involve bringing the background of an object or person to the foreground, which creates an optical illusion of invisibility,” says the scientist.
