Theoretically, can it be possible to teleport a human being?

Question

First of all, I want this to be theoretical. I know we are perhaps centuries from this sort of technology.

But could it be possible? And how would the sciene behind it work? I'm talking about the sort of thing where you step into a Jetsons-like tube, press a button, and vanish. You then materialize elsewhere.

Answer 1

No. It is not possible. You can find the theoretical arguments in any suitably advanced text book on quantum mechanics. One can not replicate the state of a quantum system perfectly. The current experiments on quantum teleportation are no exception to that rule, they are a heck of a complicated way NOT to achieve what people ordinarily call teleportation. So in the end those are just a misnomer.

As far as classic chemical REPLICATION is concerned, I would assume that will be perfectly possible.

But, now tell me, what are we supposed to do with the original after we have replicated you? After all... you will still be standing in that tube, not even knowing what, if anything, had happened. So we have one guy standing like an idiot in one tube and another guy standing like the same idiot in another tube far, far away. They are both alive, both are feeling the same love for the same girlfriend or wife, both have a will to live. Are we going to kill the first guy? He will strongly object to that, trust me, once he sees the firing squad in front of him. The girl friend or wife, if she had agreed to follow the guy to the replication tube will probably be rather bummed out to see him being killed in front of here eyes, just so that the copy can step out of the "teleportation" terminal.

And if we don't kill either you or the copy, who is going to take the knife to the heart and is going to leave the girlfriend, so the other can live? And if you do, won't you hate yourself, the copy and the process?

What do you think? Is that worth it? After all, all you save are twenty hours of poor video programming on a plane with this kind of nonsense. But in order to save yourself that inconvenience, you will have to die twice (one on the way to your vacation spot and once on the way back).

Sounds cool. Not.

:-)

Answer 2

on the 2d, technological know-how isn't near to certainly one of those feat, yet with the fee of progression witnessed over the final one hundred years (we did not even understand approximately atoms extremely), who could desire to ever rule it out - to attain this is stupid, we won't be able to see the destiny (on the 2d!)

Answer 3

Depends on the theory, of course. Quick answer: No

Answer 4

of course....I've seen it on TV loads of times


it's commonplace