Teleportation = Impossible

[Ceist]

You kids and your silly teleportation problems, just use Xen.

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[Port]

Steps necessary for teleportation:

• Reading off the current atom configuration of the target - this is possible albeit very slow (would require the entire state to be captured at the same time), and IIRC requires so much radiation that the current method of doing it should never be used on people.
• Reliably transmitting that data serialized in some format to one place, guaranteeing it to be in order and not corrupt. Nope, the way the internet currently works disqualifies it immediately.
• Turning massive amounts of energy into physical atoms based on the received data - not only does this require tons of energy, you'd also need to do it all at the same time or create a 100% guaranateed cryosleep that completely stops anything from happening to the individual atoms - and stop in a way that isn't deadly.

[tails]

"Teleportation = Impossible"

which would be really cool--probably wouldn't be possible for at least 100 years.

Teleportation is pretty limited by the amount of data it would have to send,

If the bandwidth used to perform the transfer were around 30GHz, it would take 4.85×1015 years to complete. For comparison, the universe is theorized to be around 14 billion years old, which means teleporting a human from Earth to a spot in orbit directly above would take 350,000 times longer than the universe has existed.

[Tom Gunn]

But we already have Teleportation

I don't think the cell phone can get any smaller

[Mysteroo]

aka you'd be cloned and die.

This is basically what it would be as far as I know. There are ways that actual teleportation is possible, but I guess basically killing one person and recreating them seems more possible, lol

Also there's one issue that I've always wondered about. If teleportation is possible, even by recreating a person, how can you be sure that the teleported being would survive? Even if you get an entire person moved from one place to another, once he's reappeared how can you make sure that his body continues functioning?

I mean, it seems like one would have to take a sort of 3d picture of what the person looks like in one point in time, then move or recreate it in another location. Once that's done, how do you make sure that the blood keeps flowing in the direction it was moving before rather than just stay still in the position it was recreated in?

[BluetoothBoy]

Scientists should work on improving current modes of transportation, such as the maglev train, and then focus on new types when we have improved the current ones as much as possible. That way we don't all have to wait for cool new rides that will only (maybe) exist hundreds of years in the future. Also, they could progress more quickly with things like teleportation by experimenting with the translation of materials in more feasible fashions first, giving the scientists a greater "understanding" of Quantam physics.

[IkeTheGeneric]

we're working on it

We've done it

you're also assuming our current theories of physics and quantum physics are correct

It's not that it's correct or not, that's not the point at all; the point is that these theories in questions are our understanding of it.