I was recently on my site, startrekwiki.wetpaint.com, and this question came up. I know a fair bit about the fictional Transporter, and the real attempts at it.
But, I have to throw this out there: Why, or why not? What would it take to grab some particles, stretch them into a line, then shoot them across a short distance. Of course, then there's always the problem with life being transported, but that's another issue.
2007-05-28 08:37:39 · 3 answers · asked by Webmaster_2.0 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
I can work in principle, since it *has* been done with individual atoms. There are several practical issues, though, such as coherence, information content, and energy requirements, that have no known solution. Engineering trivia, I'm sure :-)
2007-05-28 08:45:24 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are simply at least 2 centuries from a working model. We have only succeeded in teleporting pulses of light that contained no info.
I would like to note many scientist think teleporation is impossible. But we know they have been wrong before.
2007-05-29 22:30:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that it is just the technology we have now is not advanced enough to make a transporter. It would be cool if everyone had a functional one, however that would make people very lazy.
2007-05-28 15:47:15 · answer #3 · answered by burning_glory45 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋