io9: What was the most challenging aspect of making a film that involved teleportation?
Liman: We did everything for real.
Yeah, I'd imagine reconstituting the physical laws of the universe would be pretty challenging. And while staying on budget? Hell, he's Einstein and Thalberg rolled into one!
We've already talked about the reality of teleporting in our hallowed pages, but ScienCentral somehow managed to corner teleportation movie Jumper director Doug Liman and star Hayden Christensen at MIT to ask them what they really know about the scientific conceit of their latest flick. Check it:
In the film "Jumper," Hayden Christensen plays a superhero who can transport himself by wishing it so. The "I Dream of Jeannie"-like technique sounds a lot easier than Doc Brown's method of rigging up a time traveling DeLorean.
But how close is the film's teleporting to reality?
The New York Times reports on a recent panel of MIT physicists who broke down the science of teleporting. MIT's Edward Farhi said physicists have managed to teleport the quantum information of a photon for about one and a half miles, “a little less exotic than what you see in the movie.”
