is star trek's teleportation is becoming a reality?

Question

"spock! beam me up"

Answer 1

Actually, the answer is "yes", tho in the earliest stages. Photon teleportation is old news. Complete atoms have been teleported, and supposedly last year, the quantum state of an information system consisting of many atoms has been teleported, tho not yet fully verified. In addition, there are other viable approaches to forms of teleportation, probably the next most promising involving intense gravitational fields, as from wormholes or black holes. The fact is, there exist no limitation of physics to prevent at least several forms of teleportation - it is basically just an engineering problem, massive though it may be. Check out wikipedia's article on the subject.

Answer 2

There has been some progress, but unfortunately, not much. Teleportation does exist, and it has been used to teleport a single subatomic particle from one place to another. That's the good news; here comes the bad: science has yet to find a way to teleport multiple particles substances, and scientists are uncertain if they can ever do it. The problem, you see, is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which states that you can not predict both what a particle is doing and where it's at at the same time, which would cause a catastrophic collapse when trying to rebuild anything that exist with more than one particle.

Until the Uncertainty Principle is circumvented, true teleportation can not happen.

I hope that helps.

Answer 3

To teleport a human being you would have to record the position and state of every atom, electron, in the human body, to store that information would take a stack of dvd disks that would reach from here to half way to the galaxies core. Then you would have to assemble the person from the stored information from raw material at the other end with absolutly no errors. Then to avoid having two of the same people in the universe you would have to kill and disintergrate the original human. If you got something wrong in the copy and then killed the original what would you have. A copy with no memory, or cancer, or crazy, or their head on backwards.

The reality is, the writers of Star Trek "invented" the teleporter in the pilot and early episodes because it was cheaper than building a set for a shuttle, which they did in later episodes.

Answer 4

I believe we are a few hundred if not thousands of years away from creating that technology, but I don't believe we would ever be able to produce it successfully. Without even putting any theological reasoning behind it; if we were to take apart every atom in our body, wouldn't that be instant death? Even if we transported the same atoms, or relayed the information to the place to be transported exactly what the atoms are and where they go, would we be the same person? Probably not, so to answer your question, the technology will never be a reality.

Answer 5

At one time, I said no way, but I have seen so many advances in the last 10 years, now I say, well,,,maybe.
Trouble is, as all the other posters have stated time and again, we are so far from anything like that, it is hundreds of years away, if it even becomes possible.
We just are not techically able yet to do it now or in the forseeable future.

Answer 6

Currently scientists can only teleport the quantum state of a single photon. They have a long way to go.

Answer 7

You watch too much TV. Teleportation isn't even on the drawing board yet, as far as hard science goes.

Answer 8

Let me answer your question with a question, please.

Once the "teleporter" has created a copy of you at your destination, who gets to destroy the original, e.g. you? Hmmmmm?

Answer 9

No, or not yet. We're still investigating entanglement of single particles.

Answer 10

Has been for a while. I use it all the time and I save a ton of gas.