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Asked by alisondilaurentis to Angus, Christian, Hannah, Laura, Simon on 17 Jun 2013.
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Angus Ferraro answered on 17 Jun 2013:
This isn’t an area I know a lot about, but I believe teleportation works for single particles. I don’t think there is a way (at the moment) to tranport the absolutely humungous number of atoms in a human body and rearrange them in exactly the same way. Which is a shame, because that would solve a lot of our problems!
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Christian Maerz answered on 17 Jun 2013:
Although I am familiar with this awesome Star Trek concept, right now I don’t know how teleportation could ever happen. I imagine getting all your atoms back together in the right order will be the most tricky part. Then again, technology advances at an incredible speed, so it might be possible at some point in the future.
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Simon Holyoake answered on 18 Jun 2013:
one of the biggest obstacles to the teleportation of entire organisms is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle….
this states that you can know the precise location of a particle, OR the precise velocity, but not both at the same time! so as you would need both pieces of information to successfully teleport the trillions of particles which make up the human body, and arrange them just as they were before teleportation…
it is an obstacle we may never overcome, which as Angus says is a shame!!
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Hannah Bentham answered on 18 Jun 2013:
Teleporting would require us to put all of our particles back in the right order without damaging any of them. If it is possible, I think we are far from being able to do it.
It would be cool though. Beam me up Scotty!
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