Scientists Want to Teleport a Whole Human. A Quantum Breakthrough Could Make It Reality.
Scientists Want to Teleport a Whole Human. A Quantum Breakthrough Could Make It Reality.
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.
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.
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.
You should read The Jaunt to acquire the completely healthy and rational fear of teleportation
Ha! Came here to tell OP it's probably a longer trip than he thinks.
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
Replicators first, please.
I teleported home one day,
With Ron and Sid and Meg.
Ron stole Meggy's heart away
And I got Sidney's leg
Even if they manage this, I'll bet "you" die each time something 'effectively ... destroy[s]" you down to a quantum level.
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.
I believe current understanding is that quantum shenanigans mean you can't truly make a perfect quantum duplicate of something without destroying the original at the same time, so what you're describing (destroying the original after making the copy) would only be possible for imperfect duplication - e.g. manufacturing a clone and syncing its memory with the original.
We are easily thousands of years away from genuinely understanding this stuff. Right now we have absolutely no clue.
What a shit article "Hey we can do this to single photons and electrons! Whole humans are next!"
No they are not. This articles is just a vehicle to talk about the same-ass philosophical issues that have been talked about for as long as teleportation via technology has been thought about.
Bet they come out like doodlebob
It'd be easier to control wormholes and use those
talk about running before youre even freakin conceived. we cant 'teleport' a single molecule
Can teleport anything? An atom, perhaps?
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'
A brief, limited form of information of sorts. That's all.