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People have been fascinated with the idea of teleportation since the Star Trek days
and it’s easy to see why.
Just imagine being able to zap your way out of an awkward conversation, a bad day at work
or school, or even a life-or-death situation.
Wouldn’t it be great?
With all the technological advancements and scientific understanding we’ve gained recently,
it got me thinking.
What if we could teleport?
The word teleportation implies that an object will disappear from one place and that exact
object will then show up in a new place.
But that isn’t actually how scientists think teleportation will work.
Instead, it involves analyzing the position, momentum, and spin of an object’s particles,
then sending that information on radio waves to another destination, and recreating the
object in another form.
For teleportation to work like this, the original object, whether it’s a person or a car or
a stack of cash, is unavoidably destroyed after its quantum state is analyzed.
Which, understandably, puts some people off.
Say we teleported a person, you, for example.
The new you wouldn’t just randomly appear out of thin air in a new location.
Through a process called quantum entanglement, the information is sent and imprinted onto
the exact same chemical elements you’re made of.
Those materials are then programmed and arranged exactly the way you are.
It’s kinda like 3-D printing.
You wouldn’t be able to teleport yourself anywhere.
It’d need to be a spot already equipped with all those elements.
There are a lot of other roadblocks too.
We’d also need some kind of super-powered machine with a lot of energy to analyze every
single particle in the human body’s estimated 37 trillion cells.
Then every particle, every gene needs to be expressed the exact same way to create an
exact copy.
But since the teleported you would technically be a new person, would it have your memories?
Would it have your personality?
Or would it be a whole separate human?
We just don’t know.
Plus, teleporting all this data would take a very long time.
Based on current technology, some estimates suggest this process would take 350,000 times
longer than the entire universe has been around, so don’t hold your breath.
But there are some people who believe in just 1,000 years we’ll have the technology to
do this almost instantaneously!
Info from photons and electrons has been teleported short distances since the nineties, but now,
we can teleport their data 1,400 kilometers, which is pretty impressive progress for just
a couple decades.
Granted, this was still only data from two particles and we’re still a long way off
from teleporting an entire human being, but it’s a start!
If or when this tech is created, we’d need some serious regulations to make sure people
aren’t teleporting themselves into bank vaults, out of prisons, or into people’s
homes.
Just like with AI, it’s important to set boundaries to ensure people are using technological
advancements for good.
I certainly don’t want some teleporting robot showing up in my living room at 3am.
No thank you.
How cool would it be to have a little machine that you could carry around to instantaneously
scan your body and send your data wherever you wanted to go?!
Where’s the first place you’d teleport yourself to?
Let us know in the comments.
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