Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Will Human Teleportation Ever Be Possible?

Lately it seems like the research world has launched into a full-throttle game of “what superpower would you choose?” For those who desire invisibility, engineers are developing exotic materials that can bend an object’s light completely out of view. For would-be telepaths, neurobiologists are working on ways to read one person’s brain wave patterns and transmit them into another person’s head. more

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  1. AnonymousJune 18, 2014 at 5:19 AM

    The word "impossible" is a joke. Flying was impossible. Space travel, impossible. Computers in the palm of our hand, impossible. It's all a matter of time.

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    1. AnonymousJune 18, 2014 at 5:25 AM

      If you teleport someone, who is on the other end? Is it you or someone who looks like you, with same memories and everything else, but is not you? Just because you have copied the information, memories, etc, does that make that other person the original, or just a copy with someone else looking through their eyes? Maybe object transportation maybe possible in the future, but even if we one day get the technology, Human Teleportation, to me, brings to many ethical questions with should it be done. Plus Science fiction and science are different, in science fiction, you are able to ignore physics, science and the difficult questions and just make it happen. For example ""Timmy used the single letter A, in an infinite number of combinations, with no more than just a single letter A, never repeating the same combination and then said them all in one second".

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  2. KentJune 18, 2014 at 5:19 AM

    So ready. Beyond ready. Teleport me to the finish line I'm so ready.

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  3. MartyJune 18, 2014 at 5:20 AM

    No, . . this isn't something that even science would tell you will ever be possible. To completely take apart your molecular structure and transport it all, in tact, and reassemble it, in tact, somewhere else is nothing more than Gene Roddenberry's imagination. It's called Science "FICTION" for a reason!

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  4. JillJune 18, 2014 at 5:21 AM

    Trek-type teleportation is indeed impossible -- in addition to the fact that it essentially means dying and being re-created in another location. It would create a doppelganger, but the original you would be dead. The ideas mentioned later in the article, however, are within the realm of possibility -- for instance, connecting one's brain to an android or re-creating terrestrial species from their DNA. It would, in those cases, be more like Avatar or Jurassic Park than Star Trek.

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