Poll: Teleportation and other impossible things.

[willsham45]

I heard reports of an apple partly being teliported across a room, when it was ait it was said to be tasteless, also the original did not disappear so I am unsure it was a copy or just bits of the apple moved and not the rest.

So in essence the basic principles are here now they just need refining and improving to include more participial and types etc

 

[viranimus]

See,thats why people cite the atoms as precedent. Today we transport 1 atom, tomorrow, 2, next week 5, a year from now a cell, 10 years from now an inanimate object, 30 years from now animals, 50 years from now humans. It can be done and we are just starting to unlock the potential to do so now. So it is essentially an inevitability.

I think its more likely to happen before inter system space travel (unless of course teleportation essentially becomes the method of transportation for interstellar travel.

 

[Twilight_guy]

People thought it was impossible for a man to fly. They thought it was impossible for a man to go past the speed of sound. They once thought that personal computers (at least within their lifetimes) were a pipe dream. People tend to think lots of things are impossible and come up with rules to prove them as such... then evidence comes along and new rules are created and impossible things happen. I believe that the world is more complex then what our little notions of possibility can encapsulate.

 

[chadachada123]

I think that it's impossible, but I'm voting for possible because I think that it is, in all practicality, possible. Just not "technically" possible.

The teleporting person is just a clone created from the data of the destroyed original.

Edit* Just to clarify, I'm talking about teleportation of living matter.

 

[Davey Woo]

I don't think it will ever be possible to properly teleport a living thing (as in literally move it from one place to another, instantly) but I think we may get to a point where we'll be able to make a copy of a person in a new location (User steps into port A, port A copies the user and sends it to port B, port B replicates the data and produces a clone)

In fact, I will invent this machine, and I will call the process TELECLONING!

Doesn't that sound awesome?

 

[WalkableBuffalo]

I believe it's possible, but I am sceptical that it would work out well for human beings or any living thing. If such a thing would involve the disassembly and then reassembly of atoms then I think it would be very bad for most things. But I don't know how these things work :-/

 

[SD-Fiend]

if it is possible since this is real life it will probably have some huge problem with it that limits it's usability liken it can only be used for short distances or can only be used on inanimate objects or will cause holes in space time that will kill us all or something.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Nothing is impossible for SCIENCE.

 

[Smeggs]

Sure, why not?

Break down a person into subatomic particles, send those through the air to another point.

It's the rebuilding part I don't think would be very well accomplished. I could see a person being teleported, but I see them most likely reaching their destination as a puddle of slime and organs and misplaced bones.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I for one think that it is impossible and will never happen but some people seem to think otherwise, if you are one of these people, elaborate as to why.

I just felt like starting some argument/doomed discussion.

EDIT: ok, let me rephrase it, im talking about something larger then an atom or two, im talking a large scale tele-portation. not necessarily a human but bigger things.

1,000 years ago a machine that could communicate across the world in less than a second was impossible. Getting a plane to fly was once impossible. Getting into space was impossible. Impossible is nothing more than a way to say "we haven't figured out how yet".

Sure, why not?

Break down a person into subatomic particles, send those through the air to another point.

It's the rebuilding part I don't think would be very well accomplished. I could see a person being teleported, but I see them most likely reaching their destination as a puddle of slime and organs and misplaced bones.

And well, I was gonna say pretty much that exact thing, but he beat me to it. I'm sure someone's ass will get moved to the front of their body at some point before we perfect teleportation.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Atomizing something and then rebuilding it properly X distance away? I don't think so... well, not with anything very large or complex. With small, simple things without many atoms, yes.

 

[crop52]

EDIT: ok, let me rephrase it, im talking about something larger then an atom or two, im talking a large scale tele-portation. not necessarily a human but bigger things.

Can't scientist just make a bigger teleportation machine?

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

Yeah, it's already been done. It's just a matter of time before we can start teleporting more and more stuff. ^_^

However, as has already been brought up, our current method is just sending a copy of the original. If you mean teleporting as in, sending something instantaneously between 2 points (I mean not just sending data for how to create a copy at the other end, but actually sending the original between 2 points), then I'm not so sure.

 

[mrdude2010]

Theoretically, the ability to transmit information at faster than the speed of light is possible, but whether that will result in true "teleportation" or merely an exact copy of existing cells remains to be seen.