2006-10-05 11:01:17 · 11 answers · asked by rvn 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Yes and it's been done via a process called quantum tunnelling. Although it will be a very Long time before we can do this on a large object.
This isn't the same as a Star Trek transporter that disintegrates you and make a copy at the other end.
2006-10-09 06:05:27 · answer #1 · answered by Mark G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It has no longer been finished because of the fact we don't understand the thank you to do it. The attitude to it that became envisaged by Gene Roddenberry in celebrity Trek became to transform the situation of the physique into potential, transmit it in a beam, and re-carry jointly it into remember someplace else. There are some huge problems with that - no longer least the extensive quantity of potential that is released in case you have been to coach a human physique into organic potential. then you definately've the Heisenberg uncertainty concept, meaning you won't be able to degree the positions of all of the debris in the physique, so how are you able to re-carry jointly them returned? It additionally poses a ethical capture 22 project, on the grounds which you rather could kill the guy and save a replica of them someplace else! we'd crack it sooner or later yet as quickly as we ever do I also have a feeling that the technologies will come from way out of left-container. consistent with probability something that on the instant we classify below the heading "paranormal"... by the way, did you recognize that the celebrity Trek transporter became invented because of the fact they could no longer locate the funds for the particular outcomes to make the saucer part of the business enterprise detach and land on earth, which became the unique purpose!
2016-12-26 10:42:11 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and it has been for a very long time, depending on your point of view. I transport matter every time I move from one spot to another. Air currents are constantly moving matter around, and so do water currents for that matter(different use of matter there).
2006-10-05 11:07:06 · answer #3 · answered by Pundit Bandit 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes - use a wheel barrow!
Sorry to trivialise your Q, but I assume you mean star trek style teleporting? No, not on the macroscopic level - there have been media misinterpretations of certain quantum experiment, but the 'beam me up' type transport would not work for loads of reasons, not least the uncertainty principle.
(The writers of Star trek were aware of this and incorporated devices called 'Heisenberg compensator's'. when asked how they worked, they replied 'very well, thank you!'
2006-10-05 11:11:47 · answer #4 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Kind of, so far scientists have managed to literally transport a photon of light, thats obviously a million miles from 'beam me up scotty' but its a start. To be honest i dont think it'll ever happen - time will tell.
2006-10-05 11:12:32 · answer #5 · answered by thecoldvoiceofreason 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
possibly possible but the amount of energy required to transport something as large as a human a reasonable distance would be the equivalent of the total energy output of a galaxy. not something you'd want to be doing regularly.
2006-10-06 07:32:22 · answer #6 · answered by Mike N 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i dont see how it could be, although i can only answer this in the context of current technology. instantaneous transportation of matter could be possible if there were a concentration of gravity strong enough to bend spacetime over on itself so that two point some distance away are then adjacent to one another in order that the slightest mvement of matter moves it to another point in spacetime.
2006-10-05 11:08:11 · answer #7 · answered by frankiethebear2002 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
reality is only a concept and doesn't matter
2006-10-05 11:08:51 · answer #8 · answered by mark b 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. All my efforts are being blocked by oil corporations, not to mention automobile manufacturers! (j/k don't me seriously!)
No doubt physicists are working on it.
2006-10-05 11:15:15 · answer #9 · answered by ___johnnymnemonic___ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It looks impossible, but who knows?
2006-10-05 11:16:50 · answer #10 · answered by cloud 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋