[u]This is how teleportation would hypothetically work.[/u]
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1. Every aspect of a persons body is analyzed.
2. It is put into data.
3. That data is transported.
4. The person is reconstructed in another place using the data.
[u]This is why teleportation is practically impossible.[/u]
1. Analyzing every single aspect of a person's data produces such an enormous amount of data, that no modern computer can handle it. No computer for the next 100 years will probably be able to handle it.
2. Although the materials needed for reconstructing a person (electrons, protons, and neutrons) are always present, we will probably never have the technology to manipulate them with such precision.
[u]The big dilemma.[/u]
As you notice, teleportation produces two people. Both of these people are you, down to the last detail. In order to compensate for the usage of surrounding air (or whatever material is used) to create the person in the other location, the original person needs to be broken up into the used material, or in other words, zappy-gun'd. In the process of teleportation, you die, and nobody is able to tell.
Just wanted to share that with you guys.
they have been able to teletport a grain of salt in finland .001 inches, living things I doubt we will get it that far
This is why we leave such things to the Sci-fi writers.
If there's no law of physics against it...
In this version of it, there's no law of physics against it, it's just pretty damn hard.
What we need is a really large Beowulf cluster... then we could do it.
[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;17026200]they have been able to teletport a grain of salt in finland .001 inches, living things I doubt we will get it that far[/QUOTE]
No they haven't. They haven't even teleported molecules yet.
I hate this method, because the original "You" is deleted and a clone of you is created. Teleportation will most likely never exist due to such a thing IMO.
Yeah, as I said, you die in the process. That's the dilemma.
data only represents info. you can analyze a body, sure. now the computer knows you've got a dick. it can't do anything with that.
data can't de/reconstruct anything, including molecular structures.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;17026341]No they haven't. They haven't even teleported molecules yet.[/QUOTE]
my bad it has been a while sense I read the article
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/17/us/scientists-teleport-not-kirk-but-an-atom.html[/url]
[QUOTE=Jessesmith1;17026419]data only represents info. you can analyze a body, sure. now the computer knows you've got a dick. it can't do anything with that.
data can't de/reconstruct anything, including molecular structures.[/QUOTE]
There needs to be a machine that can use that data to do the reconstruction. A teleportation station.
If this would work, we could also clone.
I don't see where teleportation is going to be used.
Think with portals.
[QUOTE=johanz;17026539]If this would work, we could also clone.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, if we ever do teleportation, cloning would come first.
We would probably never teleport people, because of the dilemma.
Teleportation is impossible without cloning.
[QUOTE=Billiam;17026258]If there's no law of physics against it...[/QUOTE]
yeah, damn physicists, every time someone thinks of something cool and awesome they just make up a stupid law that says it's impossible
I've learned to hate the concept of teleportation. Pretty much every form I can think of comes down to two things:
1) A person is duplicated and the original deleted. Obvious questions as to whether or not it's the same person, arguments over the soul's existence, etc.
2) A person is torn to their individual molecules and re-assembled at the other end. But what if two atoms were misplaced? Even a minute change in brain chemistry can fuck everything up. (Plus the whole soul thing but at the very least here all the molecules came from the same person).
The best solution I can think of is...well, portals. A "fold" in space that brings two far-away places close together-- that way no person is being torn apart, only the fabric of space.
I was thinking more about something like pipes in which space is compressed, making you fit in a small tube. Then we'd just need some kind of gravity along these pipes to accelerate us.
That wouldn't be exactly teleportation and can not be used anywhere but it will probably be the nearest we can get.
[QUOTE=Minorkos;17026647][IMG]http://www.emovietalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/the_prestige.jpg[/IMG]
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That was a good movie.
[QUOTE=Itszutak;17026649]1) A person is duplicated and the original deleted. Obvious questions as to whether or not it's the same person, arguments over the soul's existence, etc.[/QUOTE]
Sure it's the same person. They're indistinguishable duplicates of each other, but they both have separate consciousnesses. A teleported person would be physically the exact same as the original. Nothing would change except for the person who originally teleported.
Teleportation will never happen because no one wants to die.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;17026708]Sure it's the same person. They're indistinguishable duplicates of each other, but they both have separate consciousnesses. A teleported person would be physically the exact same as the original. Nothing would change except for the person who originally teleported.
Teleportation will never happen because no one wants to die.[/QUOTE]
But I want everybody else to teleport. What now.
Why even [i]consider[/i] this method?
Everytime you teleport you're just killed off. Dead. What's the point of teleporting then.
Cargo would be the most reasonable usage for teleportation.
[QUOTE=Reflectent;17026746]Why even [i]consider[/i] this method?
Everytime you teleport you're just killed off. Dead. What's the point of teleporting then.[/QUOTE]
You don't die, you are just created at the exact moment you die.
[QUOTE=Beafman;17026853]You don't die, you are just created at the exact moment you die.[/QUOTE]
Yes, but it's still YOU dieing while essentially a 'clone' takes your place.
Which is why teleportation scares the shit outta me.
[QUOTE=Derp_Alt;17026666]I was thinking more about something like pipes in which space is compressed, making you fit in a small tube. Then we'd just need some kind of gravity along these pipes to accelerate us.
That wouldn't be exactly teleportation and can not be used anywhere but it will probably be the nearest we can get.[/QUOTE]
What, like these?
[img]http://filesmelt.com/downloader/futurama.jpg[/img]
Nobody knows you die, too. It could lead to some lulz.
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