Whether we stand at the front of the supermarket queue or stand at the very frontier of Quantum Physics today, atoms, electrons, protons and photons are in a world that we can now invoke and employ to make us move around. Whilst queueing, just pick up a leaflet which says that breaking free from science fiction stories, teleportation today is actually like using an exceptionally sohistocated fax machine. Some of the equipment already exists but not in Curries yet.

To send you physically from one place to another, at the speed of light, every sub-atomic particle of you has to be separated out, and measured. In a sense, before you can be teleported, you have to be, well how to say this, destroyed!

Information like weight, temperature and so on also has to be transmitted and read at the other end, without losing even the smallest bit in order to be reconstruct you accurately.

Straight forward when you know how so it sounds almost too simple to transport you one particle at a time at the speed of light.

Yet there is a snag to this wonderful advancement for travelling great distances, even at the speed of light, for we calculate it will take 10²⁸ seconds to teleport you from Edinburgh to Barbados - calculator out - that's 1.5 times longer than the Universe is expected to last!

We say this to save you time before rushing home and looking for bargin teleportation trips on the internet. They aren't good value yet - just please do read the small print.

We simply want you to know that we have the expertise to tell a good story accurately and with a sense of entertainment to get you over the (maybe) indigestable bits. We also know how to make the nation laugh - but not necessarily at science endeavour.

As they say down the pub, the comedy of science or the science of comedy have never been better bedfellows than at Visible ink.