Teleportation - transporting object through space

With all these traffic jam, expensive car price, surging of petrol prices, risk of car accidents... would it be good if we have another means of transportation? through the air?

It would be so easy & convenient. Your work starts at 9am... u just need to get up 30 mins earlier to get prepared, then u teleport urself directly into the office.. no parking required too. How it work is that the teleport machine at point A scans and capture your DNA, structures, etc. and tries to dis-engage all these components of your body into mini-micro-nano particles... then transmit it via air or maybe a medium like copper wire or fibre optics to teleport machine at point B. At point B, the machine will try to reconstruct your body from the particles using the captured data of DNA,structures,etc.

Theoritically, it should be able to achieve.... look at Philadelphia experiment. They somehow accidentally discovered teleportation.

read more abt teleportation

However, there are some risk in teleportation... Have anyone watched 'The Fly'?

It was a fictional movie in 1986 about this scientist who created a teleportation machine. He enters machine A (a fly somehow got into the machine chamber) and when he teleported himself to machine B.... the machine thinking only 1 person is involve.. tries to reconstruct all the particles or DNA into a single form, which combines the fly's DNA and human DNA together... and made him a monstaa

So guys, do you think it is possible.. or at least.. feasible? in terms of the risk mentioned.

This post has been edited by chezzball: Jun 20 2009, 04:02 PM

the movie 'The One' (starring Jet Lee explains more about the means of teleportation. it also requires a solid object to teleport particle by particle to the acuqired destination by means of using a machine.

It's always machines, machines and machines. i wish we could just teleport like Dr. Manhattan

Problem is what if my head gets reconstructed beside my ass after teleportation

Aahah, on the side note, scientist have succesful teleported AN atom through a small space. Not clear on the details though

argh.. I didn't watch that movie ! solid object ? what if that solid object particle got 'merged' into the human body? just like the philadelphia project where the navy ppl have their body 'merged' into the ship

an atom would easy i think.. since its just transmit particle over air... just like how fibre optics transmit light..

Er what they did was transport the atom without passing through the space. A real true teleportation. Though there is a quantum phenomenon known as quantum leap, where electrons "jumps" from one orbital to another without passing through space in between. Not clear on this though, anyone more knowledgeable can clarify?

I heard before quantum leap..

if electrons really can "jump" without any medium.... imagine making a nano-robot "jump" into the black hole, or the end of the universe, or into another universe... cool LOL

reminds me of "Jumper" movie

according to Einstein most famous formula.. E=mc^2

it seem like its possible, but not now..

mebbe teleport through space is no problem

how about teleport through time? i'd really like to try tat

i think teleport through time is the same as time machine... there's no way u gonna walk to the past rite? sure u gotta "jump" or "warp" to the past right? or the future

i remember reading this too. the managed to teleport an atom but only a small space. few cm only if i never recall wrongly

Remember Doom the movie? Teleport from a planet to planet and error occurs where the butt of a person being left behind lulz

for me, i dont think it is possible, if we need to teleport, which means we have to be breakdown to atomic size and then transfer us to the other teleport machine?

then dont you think during the process or breakdown and rebuilt will be quite painful?

what if part of our atom are lag behind or fly somewhere else?

There was a news sometime ago that they teleported light IINM, sort of like a laser beam light, try googling it.

if i am not mistaken, there are malaysia people who works at autralia who able to transport the molecule of light, still remember? So i feel it is possible

i agree with this. we break down into atomic size, and the rebuilding process, what will happen to us? can it rebuild perfectly according to the one before?

it might be possible to teleport atomic size matter, but how we exactly break down our cell and tissues from starting point and then reorganize at the destination?

if structural break down of human cell is possible, then deadly cancer can be cure for sure by break down part of the body, remove the cancer cell and reorganize it.

did i think too far?

Hey, good idea. Probably a good reason to get massive.. really massive budget to do research on this.

fusing dna nanotech with traversable wormholes might result in a discovery of a serendipity.

maybe that is why people tend to stay younger when travelling at a relatively fast pace.

I remember reading something to the effect that teleportation's biggest challenge is:

1. the complexity of breaking down and reforming an object

2. the speed at which such a process can be achieved

Point 1. is already hard enough, but even if that is managed, at what speeds can we disintegrate and reconstitute an object? If teleportation is going to take longer that physical travel, then it would be pointless wouldn't it?

imagine arriving at the destination without your soul, or at least with all your circuit power down.