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With the genetics figured out, and Nicolas taking care of the solar panel production with Perenelle and the workers, Harry moved onto another subject that had started to bother him soon after he had met Carson for first time. Magi transportations, namely Apparation, Portkey travel and Floo-network. How did they work?

Apparation possibly worked like some form of teleportation, which had been theorised but never achieved power during the Alterran times. Portkey and Floo-network on other hand were a bit harder to explain. Even after Harry had bought several books on the subject, the answers weren't really enlightening. The texts of the magi, even at their best, were flawed and misleading because their science was faulty and so were their beliefs -- even if they thought they were right, they really weren't. Eventually Harry figured that trying the transportation methods was the only way to completely understand them.

He ended up almost banging his head against a table in horrible frustration after that experiment when he realised what the two methods possibly were and how they worked. Though Harry couldn't study apparition just yet, he now knew that Floo-travel was a method similar to matter transporters while Portkey travel was something else entirely -- something even the Alterrans had never achieved. And magi performed these things without technology -- or even knowing exactly what they were doing. Their power over energies of the universe was amazing and second only to their astonishing ignorance.

Technomagus, Chapter 4