It’s interesting to note three other related terms here: teleportation, allohistories, and eugenics. Some people have asked: why would you need to travel at high speed if you can teleport in time and space? Of course, can is a relative term here. Probably most of you would like to be able to teleport at will. You’d be no different than any other human being on the planet. Saves time and money. In fact, I have a couple of characters in my new scifi book who can do that. And remember Henry from The Time Traveler’s Wife? His genetic anomaly (chrono-impairment) made him ‘travel’ in time by the means of teleportation. And he didn’t need a machine to do that.
There have been speculations that teleportation is basically being destroyed in one place to be built anew in another. Shudders anyone? Basically, if you try to teleport a whole system of elements, they may end up rearranging into something else. Like when someone Apparates in Harry Potter and they get splintered if they’re not good enough or if they do it Side-Alongwise. So there you have it, Harry Potter is not fantasy, it’s scifi. It has to be. (Just kidding.)
