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Is it possible to transport humans and things through air?

dixonselvan

I wonder how it would be if we can transport human beings or other things like luggage, goods and livestock through air. Something similar to teleport. Is it really possible to break atoms and combine them again at a different place? image

 

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  • This has always interested me, sadly this is something that is not currently possible.

    There seems to be 3 main concepts, BUT they are all currently not an option.

     

    1) Vaporize somebody into particles and stream these particles through space, these would be like a stream of smoke that would be guided to the target area, then rebuild. I guess this would not be able to pass through solid walls or doors, so you could not teleport into a closed room.

     

    2) Some sort of space timey-wimey black hole system using space folding, when you make two points in space touch as you leap through.

     

    3) People are scanned, broken into pieces, that data is transmitted to a receiver station that rebuilds you.

     

    A darker question to ask about this 3rd technique is that: if we work on the assumption that your molecules are taken to bits and registered, and that the data is sent then rebuilt at the other side based on the existing data, has that person died and then be re born, and if you find a way of scanning someone without disassembling them, you have found a method of photocopying a person.

     

    Both of these raise ethical issues and issues from everything from marriage law to can you claim your own life insurance payout.

     

    Spoooky

  • in reply to e14phil

    Interesting concepts image

     

    One other thing that comes to mind is that we would need to figure out the differences between a living pile of atoms and a non-living one. For example, what makes a living creature alive? The piles of atoms appear to be identical.

     

    In a smaller version, this sort of thing could be very handy for transplant surgery - wouldn't it be nice to be able to teleport in a new heart-valve, or teleport out a blood clot?

     

    Of course, the military would want to use it to teleport explosives into enemy camps. It opens up a wide array of similar sinister things.

  • in reply to ntewinkel

    Now we are getting into comic book territory :-).

     

    Watchmen:

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  • in reply to ntewinkel

    Also quantum mechanics indicates that we could never capture complete information about the sub-atomic particles anyway, without modifying them. Basically the Ant-Man theory : ) you don't want to go sub-atomic : )

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mMuLwNR0J8

     

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