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Everyone that knows science will tell you that teleportation is impossible, for the reasons that you just said.

But you can copy non-living objects from one place to another. It will look like it teleported, but of course it doesn't really teleport.

I think the person would need to be in some kind of machine for it to work. And even then it's risky. I just don't see it reassembling all your molecules in perfect order. It would all need to be somewhat instantanious in my mind. Because it can't just spit up your molecules and expect them to get into their perfect DNA arrangement.

Everyone knows that teleportation is obviously fiction. There is no machine that can disassemble a human into molecules, move them, and then rebuild them in another location. None of those steps are possible actually. Also, nobody is able to create a machine able to do that and their is probably no energy source good enough to power this machine.

who knows. maybe in 400 year. it's out of reach for what we can do in our lifetime.

Teleportation is possible but not in the manner we would think. In fact we have achieved teleportation of single atoms.

We do this through a method known as quantum entanglement. In essence the atom temporarily exists in two places at once.

Step 1: A pair of entangled ions are created: B and C
Step 2: The state to be teleported is created in ion A
Step 3: One ion from the pair - in this case B - is entangled with A and both are measured
Step 4: The result of the measurement is sent to ion C and the tranformation implemented
Step 5: The state of C is now the same as that prepared for A

I think that if we could perfect the process of entanglement with electrons we could use it as a means of real time communication regardless of distance. This would be useful in things like space exploration where there is be a delay in communication. Further out we move the worse this delay becomes.

I agree that teleportation would be suicide, I would never do it.

Transporting the dislocated atoms to the new location is definitely not going to work. How about recording all the information about the object we need to teleport by breaking down the object, then simply transporting the information to the new location where an exact copy of the object is built?

I agree that teleportation would be suicide, I would never do it.

How about recording all the information about the object we need to teleport by breaking down the object, then simply transporting the information to the new location where an exact copy of the object is built?

It's also resurrection if you think about it. In a way your simultaneously being constructed and killed at the same time.

This would still be killing the original and creating a exact duplicate. Something you don't seem to be too keen on.

Well, for your environment nothing changes; your friends would still perceive the new guy the same way as the old, but the new and the old are two different clones.

I know, but it could be an easy way to teleport things, like food and tools for example. Granted both terminal stations have enough 'raw materials' to build the object with the information; which, I just realized, is a bit stupid; what is the sense of teleporting then, if we can build things out of raw materials and exchange information as easily as phone calls?

Perhaps a (slightly) more realistic idea that would accomplish the same sort of thing would be some type of holographic projection, again akin to the Star Trek holodeck, or perhaps the holobands in Caprica. Your "image" would be projected in the location you want to go, and you would experience virtual reality of the area you've been projected to. Complete with physical sensation, of course, not just the picture. Of course, I'm not sure how you would do that either, but I think at least significant advancements are being made in 3D projection and the termination of beams of light using electromagnetic fields.

Interesting idea. Though it would need an amovible hologram device at the location you want to project your hologram to.
The projector in the location could even ensure that your hologram also has a physical impact on the location; touchable holography is already possible, though it needs the technical apparatus for that.

Oh, very cool. I didn't know they were doing that yet. That I see it, it seems obvious. xD

And yes, it would probably take a lot of large-scale projectors to make it happen. So maybe it wouldn't give you the full experience of teleportation, but you could attend a meeting or visit a friend or something if they had access to the equipment. You'd just have holo-rooms equipped with them or something.

@ hahiha

do you maybe got some more info about that holography.
i would like to know the technical side of it.

I found a pdf document, a paper of one page about the device in the youtube vid. It might answer the most pressing questions. Of course I don't know what is the actual state of the technology, you will have to google for that.