Do you think that we will we ever invent teleportation devices (like in Star Trek for example)?
It would change everything forever.
shareHow knows. But for sure I'd be moved if they did.
shareHow?
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i doubt it. capturing the state of a macro-organism would be a staggering task. and then shipped, error-free, across presumably great distances.
at most, there would be a duplicate made, and then you (the original) become, what, superfluous ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUXKUcsvhQc
We’ve come a long way in the last hundred years, who knows what the future may bring.
sharetrue. its an almost unimaginably difficult problem to contemplate implementing, though.
more trouble, in fact, than it is worth, imo.
as we mature as a species, again imo we start to encounter harder limits as to what may be accomplished. we were starting a few centuries ago almost from scratch scientifically, technologically. some miracles are easier than others :)
As long as we don't destroy ourselves - yes at some point in the future I think we will figure that out.
shareScientists have managed to teleport a photon. It's the first step:
https://futurism.com/scientists-just-teleported-a-photon-from-earth-to-orbit-for-the-first-time
Brilliant!
shareelectron 91E-32 kg
avg person 77 kg
number of atoms in avg person : 7E27
just the difference in mass (32 zeros) in going from the smallest normal particle to one of us.
the problem :
determine the means to accomplish all the following, at least -
capture the EXACT state of every one of the 7E27 atoms of the human body
capture the EXACT spatial relation of every one of the 7E27 atoms of the human body
transfer this information rapidly & perfectly across a distance which could not be travelled at all ,or conveniently
RENDER the information into atoms, SIMULTANEOUSLY, preserving their state & spatial arrangment -
holding, in other words somehow, the 7E27 atoms stable during the entirety of the rendering process
its not trivial... :)
I remember them having a problem with this in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
shareRemember what happened in Galaxy Quest when this got flubbed up? Not a pretty sight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW-NiGp1gys