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  Teleportation   is the hypothetical transfer of  matter   or  energy   from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. It is a common subject in science fiction  litrature   and in other popular culture. Teleportation is often paired with  time travel , being that the travelling between the two points takes an unknown period of time, sometimes being immediate. There is no known physical mechanism that would allow for teleportation. Frequently appearing scientific paper and media articles with the term  teleportation  typically report on so-called "quantum teleportation", a scheme for information transfer which, due to the no-communication theorem, still would not allow faster-than-light communication. The use of the term  teleport  to describe the hypothetical  of material objects between one place and another without physically traversing the distance between them has been documented as early as 1878. American writer is credited with having co