That would be so cool.
2006-12-08 09:41:04 · 10 answers · asked by Buster 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
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2006-12-08 09:44:24 · answer #1 · answered by soccer45694 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. as far as I know.
Several years ago I read an article about this. Essentially, scientists tried to figure out if it would ever be possible. Long story short (and I understand and recall correctly), it can never be done because the molecules would be destroyed in the process to the point where there would be irreversible damage.
I believe the article was written around 1994 and may have been in Science Digest.
If I understand correctly, the biggest problem would be the part that involves the re-turning-up part of the beaming process, although I can see how the first part of it could present problems as well (but I'm not a physicist, so maybe I'm wrong about that part).
2006-12-08 17:54:30 · answer #2 · answered by WhiteLilac1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it would be cool, but it is extremely unlikely it will ever occur. An average human being is made of 3E27 atoms (that is 3 octillion in the US system; or 3000 quadrillion in the other system).
Assuming you have a way to report the position of each atom relative to the others, with an accuracy of within 30 picometre in 3 axis (10E-12; this means you would need 3 12 digits numbers for each atom) the amount of information required to be transmitted would be about 3E28 bytes. That means as much information as in 20 million computers with 250 G hard disks per EACH person on this planet.
And that is only the information, the energy to disintegrate and reintegrate someone is also staggering.
2006-12-08 18:01:15 · answer #3 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I too saw the article about particles being "beamed" a short distance. It also said that the original particle was destroyed. If the technology were successfully applied to a mass of particles such as a person, the original person would be completely destroyed before being "remade" some distance away. Doesn't sound appealing. There are significant problems with teleporting anything complicated. I doubt it will ever be done. If it is done, it won't be in our life-times.
2006-12-08 18:01:55 · answer #4 · answered by Jack 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Until recently, scientists had been able to transport only light or single atoms over short distances (millimeters). However, it was reported in October 2006 in the weekly science magazine "Nature" that Professor Eugene Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University in Denmark have made a breakthrough in the field. Their experiment involved the transportation of information from a weak light beam to a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms, located half a meter away. The technique involved the use of quantum entanglement, quantum measurement and quantum feedback.
2006-12-08 17:48:47 · answer #5 · answered by DiphallusTyranus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be nice to have such technology, however, the problem exsists that we could never possibly know where EVERY single molecule in the human body is at one time.
I hope they come out with food replicators...it would end world hunger, and the ever growing waste issue.
2006-12-08 17:50:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What? You mean when I was beamed up to that alien spacecraft that did experiments on me and forced me to bread with their kind, was not a real beam up?
2006-12-08 17:48:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Physicists can already do it with subatomic particles. I wouldn't want to be the person to go first, though.
2006-12-08 17:48:17 · answer #8 · answered by Mara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm. Better ask Scotty that one.
Oh, wait...nevermond.
2006-12-08 17:48:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we do, I'd like to get off this rock! :)
2006-12-08 17:46:54 · answer #10 · answered by limeyfan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋