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Star Trek-like teleportation for humans is a possibility one physics professor considers feasible in the distant future, The Telegraph reports, but the technology may be used for something else in the near future: Transporting information. Professor Ronald Hanson from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands says that nothing in the laws of physics prevents teleportation of large objects, including humans. “What we are teleporting is the state of a particle,” Hanson said. “If you believe we are nothing more than a collection of atoms strung together in a particular way, then in principle it should be possible to teleport ourselves from one place to another. In practice it’s extremely unlikely, but to say it can never work is very