I love how this is completely misunderstanding teleportation. It's not that you are traveling from one place to another in a line it's that you vanish from here and appear there in an instant. Because you aren't actually traveling the distance you don't need to escape gravity it's just that you don't exist.,(reply>), You are right, but what tom scott means is that you can escape gravity without escaping gravity; you can get a heavy object to a high altitude without using energy.