Weird science: building a better Tardis.

• Author: Walker, Jesse
• Position: Teleportation research? - Brief Article

In 2004 the U.S. Air Force released a report on the feasibility of teleportation--the procedure, familiar to students of Star Trek and Doctor Who, in which an object is dematerialized in one location and reappears in another. The study includes no new experiments or theoretical breakthroughs; its author, Eric W. Davis of the Las Vegas-based contractor Warp Drive Metrics, simply assembled all the material he could on the subject, covering topics from the quantum teleportation of particles, a phenomenon grounded in mainstream science, to what Davis calls "alternative teleportation concepts that challenge the present physics paradigm."

He also lists all the sequels and remakes of the 1958 film The Fly and touches on the career of the purportedly psychic showman Uri Geller. His 79-page paper cost the government $25,000, a fee that has earned Davis the envy of freelancers everywhere.

The average reader might suspect the Pentagon...