teleportation?

Question

will it ever be possible to teleport people? when do you think this will happen?

Answer 1

I do not. I did read a very interesting book about the physics of star trek written by a physics phd. Unfortunatly, I don't remember the title of the book, but I do remember some specific examples he brought forth to show that "beaming" would not be possible for a VERY long time.

The number one reason is the amount of information that would be needed. Consider that in beaming first the machine somehow reduces the matter of the human body into it's elementary particles. Then it sends this information which they call the "pattern" to another station and that sation rebuilds the body according the the information sent.
Now if you consider exactly how much information this is. You would need the x, y,z coordinate as well as the charge of every single subatomic particle in the body to rebuild it. That much information if stored on 3.5 floppy disks would be a stack that reached from the earth to the center of the galaxy. It is just a ridiculous amount of information needed.... then you would have to find a carrior to transfer this information at the speed of light to the reciever machine.
Even with computer technology growing at the rate it is we are still nowhere near being able to transfer that much information much less storing it.

Answer 2

This is the best answer I could come up with.

In 1993, the idea of teleportation moved out of the realm of science fiction and into the world of theoretical possibility. It was then that physicist Charles Bennett and a team of researchers at IBM confirmed that quantum teleportation was possible, but only if the original object being teleported was destroyed. This revelation, first announced by Bennett at an annual meeting of the American Physical Society in March 1993, was followed by a report on his findings in the March 29, 1993 issue of Physical Review Letters. Since that time, experiments using photons have proven that quantum teleportation is in fact possible.

Answer 3

I used to think no... but apparently some success has actually been achieved with point to point teleportation not too much unlike the stuff you see in Star Trek. Check out the Wikipedia link given with my post.
Of course there's giant barriers and lots of questions still before it could ever even work with living creatures, nonetheless with people.
I think it's interesting to ponder, but really have to believe it is a total impossibility we'll see it or our children... and might well forever remain impossible.
The linked article brings up a lot of things to think about and does a better job of summarizing recent developments than I ever could, so please enjoy it!

Answer 4

Unfortunately it cannot be done at that scale. There are 3E27 atoms that would require identification, localization with high accuracy in 3 axes, disintegration, and reconstitution at the other end. The amount of information required is just staggering, it would require everyone on this planet to have six million of computers with 1000 Gig hard disk EACH just to have the position of that many atoms with the required precision.
And the energy to beam that many atoms through thin air (or vacuum, whatever) is that of a very large thermonuclear bomb.

It is not because science fiction shows have something that it is necessarily possible.

Answer 5

Well... they're working on it. There was an article in the newspaper a while back that said they had teleported a photon, but there's a lot of difference between a photon and a human. We've got a while.

Answer 6

I teleported a Kangaroo yesterday. If he turns up at you place watch out he is stroppy. If you can coax my suit coat of him please send it back. (It's got my holiday pay in the pocket)

Answer 7

Not in your life time...Unless you watch Star Trek...

Answer 8

it will be if all this war stops, and if we all unite the knowledge of scientists and engineers in the world.

I wish they could, that way, I could travel easier!

Answer 9

Never.