Teleporting

matt_london | 13:55 Wed 01st Feb 2006 | Science

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<PRE>Will we ever be able to Teleport from one place to another?</PRE>

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bob_builder

nope

jake-the-peg

Hmm

So if I were able to instantly recreate you at an atomic level on the otherside of the planet would you be OK with me obliterating the "redundant" you I started with?

bob_builder

ummmmm..............nope to that also

OBonio

Yes, just watch out for flies in the transport chamber!

Loosehead

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle says that nothing can be measured accurately. You can know location or speed but not both. In order to teleport ala star trek the precise location and speed of all sub atomic particles in the body must be measured then somehow converted to data, the body desintegrated and then re built at the new location. So the HUP prevents it!

jimmer

yes loosehead, but what if you stood really still.

jim

fo3nix

it may be possible, yes.

but current quantum theory says no (as loosehead says), but there is no guarantee that this theory is really correct or not. right now it's very popular, but it may not be correct (many physicists think not).

bob_builder

That'll be a 'nope' then, as originally stated.

xrayspecs

Can't you just take the bus?

newtron

Apparently, according to our present models, no. But the cool thing about science is that you never know when a new model will be developed that works better than previous models. We definitely don't know everything there is to know about matter. So my answer is maybe.