Will teleportation ever happen?

[tec699]

Imagine if someone invented teleportation? No more cars! No more trucks. Items would be teleported from the factory right to your house. Imagine this scenario...

You look at the Dell web page and you see a nice 21" LCD monitor for sale. You purchase the item but instead of waiting a couple days for UPS to deliver it, the warehouse worker puts it on a teleportation device and within seconds, you have the item! The consumer would have a teleportation item set up in his house for purchasing items online.

Now imagine if this were used as an everyday thing? You want to buy food? bam... ACME would teleport the groceries right to your house. Clothes? bam... The GAP would be able to send the items to you within seconds!

The military could teleport their troops around the world without relying on ships for transportation! Amazing!!

Of course, this device would put many many people out of work!!

 

[tami]

what if i wanted to try on those pair of pants from GAP before i bought?

 

[BriGy86]

so we go from worrying about hackers getting into our computers to worrying about actual people getting into our house?

 

[Taggart]

What method are you suggesting? Opening a door in the space-time continuum and moving objects through it? Or breaking objects down to atoms and transmitting the pattern to another location (like Star Trek)?

I think the energy and technology required are so advanced that it will be thousands of years before we could do this.

 

[tec699]

Originally posted by: BriGy86
so we go from worrying about hackers getting into our computers to worrying about actual people getting into our house?

Well the system would only be set up for non-living items. Clothes, food, etc. Pets and other living items would have to be bought the traditional way.

 

[tec699]

Originally posted by: Taggart
What method are you suggesting? Opening a door in the space-time continuum and moving objects through it? Or breaking objects down to atoms and transmitting the pattern to another location (like Star Trek)?

I think the energy and technology required are so advanced that it will be thousands of years before we could do this.

I'm talking about opening a door in the space-time continuum and moving objects through it.

 

[Goosemaster]

Trying to hide sh!t from the repo man would be a bitch

 

[meltdown75]

Yeah.

Hook me up with a replicator first, or a holodeck.

 

[SnipeMasterJ13]

Originally posted by: tec699
Imagine if someone invented teleportation? No more cars! No more trucks. Items would be teleported from the factory right to your house. Imagine this scenario...

You look at the Dell web page and you see a nice 21" LCD monitor for sale. You purchase the item but instead of waiting a couple days for UPS to deliver it, the warehouse worker puts it on a teleportation device and within seconds, you have the item! The consumer would have a teleportation item set up in his house for purchasing items online.

Now imagine if this were used as an everyday thing? You want to buy food? bam... ACME would teleport the groceries right to your house. Clothes? bam... The GAP would be able to send the items to you within seconds!

The military could teleport their troops around the world without relying on ships for transportation! Amazing!!

Of course, this device would put many many people out of work!!

Then how does that work? What about the troops?

 

[tec699]

Originally posted by: BriGy86
so we go from worrying about hackers getting into our computers to worrying about actual people getting into our house?

Only the military would be able to move people through a special teleportation device that would be made specifically for the government. The average citizen would have a very basic device.

 

[ravana]

Originally posted by: tec699

Originally posted by: Taggart
What method are you suggesting? Opening a door in the space-time continuum and moving objects through it? Or breaking objects down to atoms and transmitting the pattern to another location (like Star Trek)?

I think the energy and technology required are so advanced that it will be thousands of years before we could do this.

I'm talking about opening a door in the space-time continuum and moving objects through it.

Like the guy frin CDW guy wanted to?

 

[Fritzo]

I think it will, at least for inantimate objects. They're already doing it with particles.

 

[tec699]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I think it will, at least for inantimate objects. They're already doing it with particles.

What's the success rate? Will we actuall see an actual object teleportated in our lifetime?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

"ever" is a very long time, but there is no known theoretically sound way to do what you suggest.

 

[Legendary]

If one considers the obscene amount of energy required to both deconstruct and construct molecules, I'm going to say that something with energy along the lines of cold fusion would have to emerge first.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: tec699

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I think it will, at least for inantimate objects. They're already doing it with particles.

What's the success rate? Will we an actual object teleportated in our lifetime?

News from last year

 

[tec699]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: tec699

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I think it will, at least for inantimate objects. They're already doing it with particles.

What's the success rate? Will we an actual object teleportated in our lifetime?

News from last year

wow. :Q

 

[Eli]

I doubt it... Not in our lifetimes at least...

Can you imagine all the advances in other areas that would need to take place?

We've gotta get around our little energy problem first!

 

[mcvickj]

I'm all for it. Just as long as I'm not the first person to try it. I have a lot of things on my "I would love to visit..." list. Probably will never visit them all unless I win the lotto.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: tec699

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I think it will, at least for inantimate objects. They're already doing it with particles.

What's the success rate? Will we an actual object teleportated in our lifetime?

News from last year

The biggest hurdle to teleportation is the massive amount of energy that would be required (e=mc^2) and a photon has no mass <edit: which effectively changes the equation to e=0c^2=0>

 

[Eli]

Quantum teleportation relies on an aspect of physics known as "entanglement", whereby the properties of two particles can be tied together even when they are far apart. Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance". Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance".

Hahahahaha... that's great.

 

[Gravity]

I know this is OT but it was discussed with more technical jargon/theory in highly technical a while back. I'm too lazy to search though.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: tec699

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: tec699

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I think it will, at least for inantimate objects. They're already doing it with particles.

What's the success rate? Will we an actual object teleportated in our lifetime?

News from last year

wow. :Q

If you read the article, you see this isn't teleportion in the sense most people think of. It is the transference of quantum state properties between photons. Mass was NOT moved from one location to another. While in principle properties could be sent between electrons, nothing would change physical location.

If you accept that changing states is tantamount to teleportation since every electron is like every other (the reason for which is beyond my grasp) you still have to deal with doing so with entities of larger size with multiple particles which have complex entagled states. I don't see it.

 

[DrPizza]

I've got news for you. They're already doing teleportation (with particles)

But, I assume you mean with larger scale items that we experience in our day to day lives. In that case, it's not gonna happen.

 

[jabamayne]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
I've got news for you. They're already doing teleportation (with particles)

But, I assume you mean with larger scale items that we experience in our day to day lives. In that case, it's not gonna happen.

Yes, you are very right...

They are teleporting laser beams to be specific..

At the moment physicists are still puzzling over how to actually do it with a solid material...

Though, I do think that one day, probably not in our generation or century, we will be able to teleport large scale items, possibly even humans..

The physics is there, believe me... Only problem is, we just can't comprehend it all...

I dont like it when people are ignorant and say its all "mumbo-jumbo" and don't believe in the possibilities that physics presents us...

The ignorant people who always discredit things like this don't know squat about physics itself, nor do they have capability or desire to comprehend physics on the quantum level...

Open a book and learn something before you discredit it...if that's too hard for you to do, then I suggest turning on your television and watching the Discovery Channel or PBS...