There’s just one catch: every atom in your body would be fully disassembled to the quantum level, effectively leaving your original body totally destroyed.

  • cynar@lemmy.world
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    Complete BS article.

    Quantum teleportation is very different from scifi teleportation.

    Quantum teleportation is a way to bypass the heisenburg uncertainty principal. You take a particle and entangle it (in a special way) with a carrier particle. You then send the carrier (generally a photon) to another particle of the same type as the first. When they interact, most of the properties of the first particle are transferred to the second.

    This is extremely useful for things like quantum computing, but has no real path to teleporting a human.

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    I teleported home one day,

    With Ron and Sid and Meg.

    Ron stole Meggy’s heart away

    And I got Sidney’s leg

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        nope. just not possible with our current tech. im not aware of any tech that even lets you deposit an atom at a location on demand merely simulating ‘teleportation’

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            Because it was nowhere to be found after the teleport.

            No seriously, I remember that too, but I think it was a photon.

        • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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          There was talk about teleporting a photon, but it was a mathematically possible (but technologically impossible) theory. A whole human is a pipedream.

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    I would absolutely volunteer for this, abso-friggin-lutely.

    If I die in the process, I’m not gonna know it, and new me ain’t gonna either. At least that’s how I see it.

    Now that trump won ill even volunteer to go first LOL.

  • The Pantser@lemmy.world
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    There’s just one catch: every atom in your body would be fully disassembled to the quantum level, effectively leaving your original body totally destroyed.

    So just like Star Trek

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    10 hours ago

    Even if they manage this, I’ll bet “you” die each time something 'effectively … destroy[s]" you down to a quantum level.

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      That depends on the nature of what “you” ultimately turn out to be. I tend to suspect (though with only a suspicion to go on and not proof, I probably wouldn’t be volunteering) that what “you” ultimately are is the pattern of information stored in the structure of your brain, and thus, any sufficiently perfect copy of that information is the “same” person regardless of continuity of the body. Though creating a second copy before destroying the original would have the caveat that as soon as the second you exists, the different perspective and experience will lead them to diverge into two different people who both have equal claim to the original identity, so that I think to do this, you’d want to destroy the original slightly before, making the process more like resurrection in a new location.

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      9 hours ago

      There really should be a way around that part of things, maybe if the distance is short enough you could move particles instead of recreating them