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Scientists Want to Teleport a Whole Human. A Quantum Breakthrough Could Make It Reality. (www.popularmechanics.com)
submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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There’s just one catch: every atom in your body would be fully disassembled to the quantum level, effectively leaving your original body totally destroyed.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Complete BS article.

Quantum teleportation is very different from scifi teleportation.

Quantum teleportation is a way to bypass the heisenburg uncertainty principal. You take a particle and entangle it (in a special way) with a carrier particle. You then send the carrier (generally a photon) to another particle of the same type as the first. When they interact, most of the properties of the first particle are transferred to the second.

This is extremely useful for things like quantum computing, but has no real path to teleporting a human.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I teleported home one day,

With Ron and Sid and Meg.

Ron stole Meggy's heart away

And I got Sidney's leg

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Bet they come out like doodlebob

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

It'd be easier to control wormholes and use those

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Replicators first, please.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I would absolutely volunteer for this, abso-friggin-lutely.

If I die in the process, I'm not gonna know it, and new me ain't gonna either. At least that's how I see it.

Now that trump won ill even volunteer to go first LOL.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

You should read The Jaunt to acquire the completely healthy and rational fear of teleportation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

That story gives me chills every time I think about the woman.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

Ha! Came here to tell OP it's probably a longer trip than he thinks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Even if they manage this, I'll bet "you" die each time something 'effectively ... destroy[s]" you down to a quantum level.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm of the opinion that it doesn't really matter. My consciousness ends every time I fall unconscious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Knowledge and memories have to be physically encoded somewhere right? Surely it's just chemistry

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

True. It's also physics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

That depends on the nature of what "you" ultimately turn out to be. I tend to suspect (though with only a suspicion to go on and not proof, I probably wouldn't be volunteering) that what "you" ultimately are is the pattern of information stored in the structure of your brain, and thus, any sufficiently perfect copy of that information is the "same" person regardless of continuity of the body. Though creating a second copy before destroying the original would have the caveat that as soon as the second you exists, the different perspective and experience will lead them to diverge into two different people who both have equal claim to the original identity, so that I think to do this, you'd want to destroy the original slightly before, making the process more like resurrection in a new location.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

There really should be a way around that part of things, maybe if the distance is short enough you could move particles instead of recreating them

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

There’s just one catch: every atom in your body would be fully disassembled to the quantum level, effectively leaving your original body totally destroyed.

So just like Star Trek

[–] [email protected] 26 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

talk about running before youre even freakin conceived. we cant 'teleport' a single molecule

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Can teleport anything? An atom, perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

A brief, limited form of information of sorts. That's all.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

nope. just not possible with our current tech. im not aware of any tech that even lets you deposit an atom at a location on demand merely simulating 'teleportation'

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

There was talk about teleporting a photon, but it was a mathematically possible (but technologically impossible) theory. A whole human is a pipedream.