Beam me up, Scotty!
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Human Teleportation
We are years away from the development of a teleportation machine like the transporter room on Star Trek's Enterprise spaceship. The laws of physics may even make it impossible to create a transporter that enables a person to be sent instantaneously to another location, which would require travel at the speed of light.
For a person to be transported, a machine would have to be built that can pinpoint and analyze all of the 10'28 atoms that make up the human body. That's more than a trillion trillion atoms. This machine would then have to send this information to another location, where the person's body would be reconstructed with exact precision. Molecules couldn't be even a millimeter out of place, lest the person arrive with some severe neurological or physiological defect.
In the Star Trek episodes, and the spin-off series that followed it, teleportation was performed by a machine called a transporter. This was basically a platform that the characters stood on, while Scotty adjusted switches on the transporter room control boards. The transporter machine then locked onto each atom of each person on the platform, and used a transporter carrier wave to transmit those molecules to wherever the crew wanted to go. Viewers watching at home witnessed Captain Kirk and his crew dissolving into a shiny glitter before disappearing, rematerializing instantly on some distant planet.
If such a machine were possible, it's unlikely that the person being transported would actually be "transported." It would work more like a fax machine -- a duplicate of the person would be made at the receiving end, but with much greater precision than a fax machine. But what would happen to the original? One theory suggests that teleportation would combine genetic cloning with digitization.
In this biodigital cloning, tele-travelers would have to die, in a sense. Their original mind and body would no longer exist. Instead, their atomic structure would be recreated in another location, and digitization would recreate the travelers' memories, emotions, hopes and dreams. So the travelers would still exist, but they would do so in a new body, of the same atomic structure as the original body, programmed with the same information.
But like all technologies, scientists are sure to continue to improve upon the ideas of teleportation, to the point that we may one day be able to avoid such harsh methods. One day, one of your descendents could finish up a work day at a space office above some far away planet in a galaxy many light years from Earth, tell his or her wristwatch that it's time to beam home for dinner on planet X below and sit down at the dinner table as soon as the words leave his mouth.
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so so so... unlogical
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By the time u teleported yourself all your hair will come off...
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Originally posted by larrenV2.003:By the time u teleported yourself all your hair will come off... I guess so.
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Hair come off is another issue wat if suay suay teleported to girls toilet then be expected to have the hell out of your life..Originally posted by Mao x 2: I guess so. -
No lah... the suay part is, what if the machine gone crazy, then some part of the information is lost... you might find some parts of your body missing when you are teleported to your destination..Originally posted by larrenV2.003:Hair come off is another issue wat if suay suay teleported to girls toilet then be expected to have the hell out of your life.. 
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Juz like the one in the movie called Doom...Originally posted by Mao x 2:No lah... the suay part is, what if the machine gone crazy, then some part of the information is lost... you might find some parts of your body missing when you are teleported to your destination.. -
Haha.. don't know if you still remember there's a old movie called "The fly".
It's about this scientist who invented the teleport machine.
When he's trying do experiment on himself in the machine.. a housefly went in too, and both are teleported to another pod.
The scientist slowly mutated into a half man half fly monster after a period of time. -
the thing is by decomposing urself to digitized atoms, (ur already dead, since heart no longer pumping, etc), so even if the digitized atoms get transported to another place precisely and reconstructed precisely, there is no life. Except maybe just a mannequin.
well, unless you can do something like suspended animation, where your heart stops, blood flow stops etc....
anyway, also when you decompose digitally, ur heart still pumping and blood flowing, etc, so very hard for the computer to pinpoint the locations precisely also.
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but think again, this technology maybe very useful to teleport houses, cars, fridges, etc....
like you do an internet purchase of a fridge, then can teleport to ur house.
Or you need a car somewhere, then can teleport from ur house to ur location etc. -
wah next time wun b late for work or school liao
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Yeah..Originally posted by nightzip:the thing is by decomposing urself to digitized atoms, (ur already dead, since heart no longer pumping, etc), so even if the digitized atoms get transported to another place precisely and reconstructed precisely, there is no life. Except maybe just a mannequin.
well, unless you can do something like suspended animation, where your heart stops, blood flow stops etc....
anyway, also when you decompose digitally, ur heart still pumping and blood flowing, etc, so very hard for the computer to pinpoint the locations precisely also.
But don't you think that with this technology, you can actually recreate things as well?
for eg, You can alter your body structure...
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The fly 2 i watched also....Originally posted by Mao x 2:Haha.. don't know if you still remember there's a old movie called "The fly".
It's about this scientist who invented the teleport machine.
When he's trying do experiment on himself in the machine.. a housefly went in too, and both are teleported to another pod.
The scientist slowly mutated into a half man half fly monster after a period of time. -
Yeah... that's his son...Originally posted by larrenV2.003:The fly 2 i watched also....
At least he manage to change back into a normal human in the end..
too bad for the villan though....
I heard that they are remaking a new movie for it too.. I mean the part 1. -
The vilian cahnge to wat har?Originally posted by Mao x 2:Yeah... that's his son...
At least he manage to change back into a normal human in the end..
too bad for the villan though....
I heard that they are remaking a new movie for it too.. I mean the part 1.
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oh..the villain ah?Originally posted by larrenV2.003:The vilian cahnge to wat har?
The monster grab the villain into the machine and teleported.
The son turn back into his human form, and the villain turn into a useless freak lor.. -
That one very kelian ler in the end is like they feed him with some $hitty gluey feeds & all the scientists from above the glas panel look upon him as an experimental specimen.Originally posted by Mao x 2:oh..the villain ah?
The monster grab the villain into the machine and teleported.
The son turn back into his human form, and the villain turn into a useless freak lor.. -
Wah... not bad.. you still remember...!Originally posted by larrenV2.003:That one very kelian ler in the end is like they feed him with some $hitty gluey feeds & all the scientists from above the glas panel look upon him as an experimental specimen.
I can still remember got one poor guy died horribly.. got squashed by the lift.. -
I heard we can teleport ionic particles today.
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Yeah... they managed to teleport a laser beam that time if you have go to the link and have a look.Originally posted by LazerLordz:I heard we can teleport ionic particles today. -
Paiseh..i ddnt read ur article
anyway, i heard scientists managed to teleport a small object.. but need at least few decades more for it to be feasible for human use..cos now, didnt teleport as should be (some matter/components missing, disfigured, etc) -
the FLY part III
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I love teleporting. I can go anywhere anytime I like.
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Teleportation of an atom has already been successful thanks to two metal plates and the Kazimir effect.