What's left to do before we have 'Star Trek' like teleportation?

Question

I'm no physicist, obviously. But I'm curious nonetheless.

Not impossible. I read a science journal where an experiment showed a single atom can be teleported to another location. Theories are in place but the tech isn't here...

Answer 1

A year or so ago, I read a book called "The Physics of Star Trek." The author was himself a physicist teaching at a university.

The teleporter was one of the main topics. He listed all the major hurdles to a teleporter. One of the more interesting was the fact that to do the job, you would need to have some way to analyze all the positions of every atom in your body. Never mind trying to figure out how you would beam that body somewhere, the difficult problem is how do you gather all of the information on what carbon atom is joined up to what oxygen atom, and how much heat is tied up in them and all of that. He estimated that in order to record the information on all the tiny parts of a body you would need a stack of hard drives about a light year high. No joke. There are so many variables as to what electron is doing what in your body that you are talking about trillions of gigabytes of data.

That said, follow the link below to a story about how physicists have teleported photons of light.

Answer 2

make the impossible possible

and if we could please realize that the way it would work is - 1 convert the matter into energy
2 beam the energy 3 change the existing matter on the other end into new matter ( physical laws broken at each step ) ( to do this you would also have the technology to change anything into something else - much more valuable than transportation ) ( also you would have the ability to scan anything down to the atomic level including energy patterns as vague as thoughts and memory ) BUT if it screwed up then the thing being transported would be lost and one other thing that it would make possible is to duplicate someone exactly down to their current thoughts ( now that's cloning )

Answer 3

Study EPR particles.