Beam Me Up, Scotty: Scientists Theorize Star Trek-Like Teleportation

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What if your "consiousness" gets lost?....

"Sorry sir, we lost your thoughts on your trip to Mars, & half your face is missing. We'll reimburse you with another free teleportation though!"
 
Also, wouldn't this simply be like a 3d printer? the receiving device would have to CREATE molecules & structures & place them in the EXACT same spot as the object/person.

So the Chinese team "teleported" photons? you mean like fiber optics?...... -_-
 
Who wants to be killed so a new clone of them can live?
Your consciousness would cease to exist... another would be created elsewhere.

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1) Teleporter maps you "perfectly" and then kills you... disassembling your body
2) Teleporter creates a perfect clone somewhere else
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Um... no thanks.
 
[citation][nom]drosencraft[/nom]When you get to living beings, you are entering the metaphysical realm and questions about the existence of one's soul and consciousness.[/citation]
That comment is utterly disconnected from reality as science understands it... i.e. it is utter babbling looney-house nonsense.
 
"...the instant transport of across space..."

another great example of how the guy who was employed a while ago to proof read articles is doing a great job.

Oh wait....not. -.-
 
[citation][nom]edogawa[/nom]That's true, but that's nothing compared to making it easy to build space stations, instant teleportation of raw materials would dirty cheap, you could have these things build so fast.[/citation]

Ok, you don't get this at all. this is a way to send DATA. You cannot move energy or matter. You send a pattern that a machine on the other end uses to build a copy. so where are you going to find matter to break down in space? Hmm?

The scanners/printers/ways to break down and reassemble matter, ie replicators, would be far more useful. The only reason you'd EVER use their described "transporter" is for communication. You'd just store and reuse the patterns for everything unless you were "transporting" (cloning) something living
 
[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]It would be more realistic to shoot for the true-instant communication than to try to teleport a human...[/citation]

Yea, I think they will be working it up, starting with tiny things, with a goal to be moving cargo from earth to any place required.
Non-delay communication would be great to have too, especially now that we have these delays when talking to Mars, and it's relatively so close.
So in the future, there would be Quantum-Entangled space walkie-talkies on eBay for a fiver...
 
[citation][nom]edogawa[/nom]Mmm, that would make so many people in the transporation business lose their jobs.[/citation]

Like cars did to the the buggy whip industry? All it would do is create a demand for teleporter sales and repairmen. And, I would imagine, suppliers for all whatever you would have to fill it with in order to reprodue the item in question. I can't imagine that every type of molecule or atom required to rebuild stuff would be easily pulled out of the air. Or maybe I dont' understand the technology enough to grasp the rebuilding part.
 
[citation][nom]edogawa[/nom]That's true, but that's nothing compared to making it easy to build space stations, instant teleportation of raw materials would dirty cheap, you could have these things build so fast.[/citation]

You wouldn't need to teleport raw materials. The part of the machine that rebuilds the human would already be able to generate any type of atom/molecule from pure energy. Like the replicator in Star Trek.
 
We have been using Zener diodes for decades. They use the same principle. A electron or proton at one power level/orbit jumps to a new power level/ orbit without seemingly occupying any space in between.

I am fairly dubious of anything coming out of China. 88 miles huh? I wonder if Doc Brown was involved in those experiments.
 
[citation][nom]Cazalan[/nom]You wouldn't need to teleport raw materials. The part of the machine that rebuilds the human would already be able to generate any type of atom/molecule from pure energy. Like the replicator in Star Trek.[/citation]
And yet, their replicators needed to be "refueled" with biomass (recycled from the waste reclamation systems of course). One would think they'd just use the "pure energy" feature of the transporter... Then again, transporters were just a gimmick to not need expensive shuttle scenes every time they needed to leave the ship....
 
So, if you want to be teleported but you do not want to be killed and rebuilt we need something else. How about a way to capture, and enlarge wormholes? They connect space and time and would not require you to be killed. You would be REALLY teleported. You would have to figure out how to find and open up two wormholes in the exact place and time to which you want to go. I am sure there are a million other issues with this.

PS - found a video on this from Stephen Hawking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLUzJeto0Wo
 
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