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talk about running before youre even freakin conceived. we cant 'teleport' a single molecule
Can teleport anything? An atom, perhaps?
nope. just not possible with our current tech. im not aware of any tech that even lets you deposit an atom at a location on demand merely simulating 'teleportation'
There was talk about teleporting a photon, but it was a mathematically possible (but technologically impossible) theory. A whole human is a pipedream.
I seem to remember researchers teleporting an atom like a decade ago. But then I never heard about it again.
Because it was nowhere to be found after the teleport.
No seriously, I remember that too, but I think it was a photon.
OK but a photon isn't an atom.
The idea behind it is to do it at the subatomic level. And no, that's not how the quantum locking works. I have not read the article but it's likely by someone who doesn't know shit about shit.
A brief, limited form of information of sorts. That's all.
Complete BS article.
Quantum teleportation is very different from scifi teleportation.
Quantum teleportation is a way to bypass the heisenburg uncertainty principal. You take a particle and entangle it (in a special way) with a carrier particle. You then send the carrier (generally a photon) to another particle of the same type as the first. When they interact, most of the properties of the first particle are transferred to the second.
This is extremely useful for things like quantum computing, but has no real path to teleporting a human.
There’s just one catch: every atom in your body would be fully disassembled to the quantum level, effectively leaving your original body totally destroyed.
So just like Star Trek
I would absolutely volunteer for this, abso-friggin-lutely.
If I die in the process, I'm not gonna know it, and new me ain't gonna either. At least that's how I see it.
Now that trump won ill even volunteer to go first LOL.
You should read The Jaunt to acquire the completely healthy and rational fear of teleportation
Ha! Came here to tell OP it's probably a longer trip than he thinks.
That story gives me chills every time I think about the woman.
Replicators first, please.
Even if they manage this, I'll bet "you" die each time something 'effectively ... destroy[s]" you down to a quantum level.
I'm of the opinion that it doesn't really matter. My consciousness ends every time I fall unconscious.
Knowledge and memories have to be physically encoded somewhere right? Surely it's just chemistry
Yeah. Not only that, but if there is some sort of quantum state that represents the you that is you, beyond just your memories, but literally down to the spins of sub atomic particles that make you up, and you are able to transfer that state one way, making it appear exactly somewhere else (and presumably causing the state to cease to exist where it started), I'm happy to consider that full blown teleportation, no death whatsoever. You weren't deconstructed at point a and rebuilt at point b, you literally teleported.
True. It's also physics.
That depends on the nature of what "you" ultimately turn out to be. I tend to suspect (though with only a suspicion to go on and not proof, I probably wouldn't be volunteering) that what "you" ultimately are is the pattern of information stored in the structure of your brain, and thus, any sufficiently perfect copy of that information is the "same" person regardless of continuity of the body. Though creating a second copy before destroying the original would have the caveat that as soon as the second you exists, the different perspective and experience will lead them to diverge into two different people who both have equal claim to the original identity, so that I think to do this, you'd want to destroy the original slightly before, making the process more like resurrection in a new location.
I believe current understanding is that quantum shenanigans mean you can't truly make a perfect quantum duplicate of something without destroying the original at the same time, so what you're describing (destroying the original after making the copy) would only be possible for imperfect duplication - e.g. manufacturing a clone and syncing its memory with the original.
We are easily thousands of years away from genuinely understanding this stuff. Right now we have absolutely no clue.
There really should be a way around that part of things, maybe if the distance is short enough you could move particles instead of recreating them
I teleported home one day,
With Ron and Sid and Meg.
Ron stole Meggy's heart away
And I got Sidney's leg
What a shit article "Hey we can do this to single photons and electrons! Whole humans are next!"
No they are not. This articles is just a vehicle to talk about the same-ass philosophical issues that have been talked about for as long as teleportation via technology has been thought about.
Bet they come out like doodlebob
It'd be easier to control wormholes and use those