Is teleportation possible?

[overst33r]

If possible, is it related to time travel? I just cannot wrap my mind around a human or other object just disappearing and being stored as another form of energy and then reconstructed in another location without the use of satellites, phone lines, etc.

 

[everman]

Look up quantum entanglement.

 

[overst33r]

Originally posted by: everman
Look up quantum entanglement.

Will do.

I did find interesting info by CalTech Text

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: mariok2006
I just cannot wrap my mind around something physical just disappearing and being stored as another form of energy and then reconstructed in another location.

Fax machine?

 

[overst33r]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: mariok2006
I just cannot wrap my mind around something physical just disappearing and being stored as another form of energy and then reconstructed in another location.

Fax machine?

haha i should have said something animate and living; a human.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: mariok2006

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: mariok2006
I just cannot wrap my mind around something physical just disappearing and being stored as another form of energy and then reconstructed in another location.

Fax machine?

haha i should have said something animate and living; a human.

To be fair, a fax machine does not do what you described. It doesn't destroy and recreate the paper, it just send the data to print it on another paper. That's hardly teleportation.

 

[Lifted]

Not if you're religious, unless you also believe the soul is material and can be "transported".

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Lifted
Not if you're religous, unless you also belive the soul is material and can be "transported".

Flamebait

 

[Lifted]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo

Originally posted by: Lifted
Not if you're religous, unless you also belive the soul is material and can be "transported".

Flamebait

How so? Would a religious person belive that whatever machine a person built will send their soul along with their body? It probably depends on how religious you are and whatever the leading religious figure of your faith has to say on the matter.

 

[jupiter57]

Step away from the television.....

Let me guess: Home Schooled, right?
Star Trek is not considered acceptable as a science course.

 

[Injury]

Time travel is not possible.

Time is a concept created by humans... it's merely a measurement of the earth's position in relation to the sun at any moment.

So as soon as you can possibly figure out how previous forms of us merely loop our lives over and over day by day in the past without it being apparent you won't even put a slight fingerprint in the discovery of time travel.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: Lifted

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo

Originally posted by: Lifted
Not if you're religous, unless you also belive the soul is material and can be "transported".

Flamebait

How so? Would a religious person belive that whatever machine a person built will send their soul along with their body? It probably depends on how religious you are and whatever the leading religious figure of your faith has to say on the matter.

The man has a point.

 

[overst33r]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: mariok2006

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: mariok2006
I just cannot wrap my mind around something physical just disappearing and being stored as another form of energy and then reconstructed in another location.

Fax machine?

haha i should have said something animate and living; a human.

To be fair, a fax machine does not do what you described. It doesn't destroy and recreate the paper, it just send the data to print it on another paper. That's hardly teleportation.

I doubt teleportation destroys and recreates the object. Needless to say, that would be the destruction of energy, which is impossible. I would think there has to be some kind of transformation, hopefully after i read quantum entanglement I will understand a bit better.

 

[overst33r]

Originally posted by: Injury
Time travel is not possible.

Time is a concept created by humans... it's merely a measurement of the earth's position in relation to the sun at any moment.

So as soon as you can possibly figure out how previous forms of us merely loop our lives over and over day by day in the past without it being apparent you won't even put a slight fingerprint in the discovery of time travel.

I really hope i am more intelligent than Edison, I need to read up on Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

 

[2Xtreme21]

E=mc^2

There is a direct relationship between matter and energy.

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: jupiter57
Step away from the television.....

Let me guess: Home Schooled, right?
Star Trek is not considered acceptable as a science course.

Hmm, not familiar with all of the Quantum theory? Just because you are too dense to understand concepts that are out there does not mean everyone is.

Let us not forget people laughed when it was said computers would become as small as the ones that showed up on Star trek in the early days..

 

[Lifted]

Originally posted by: RichardE


Let us not forget people laughed when it was said computers would become as small as the ones that showed up on Star trek in the early days..

In all fairness, there is a difference between making something that already exists smaller/faster/more powerful/etc., and inveting something that doesn't exist (yet).

 

[Quasmo]

I thought they teleported light a few years ago.

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: Lifted

Originally posted by: RichardE


Let us not forget people laughed when it was said computers would become as small as the ones that showed up on Star trek in the early days..

In all fairness, there is a difference between making something that already exists smaller/faster/more powerful/etc., and inveting something that doesn't exist (yet).

Of course, but we have the concept for teleportation already. It is like saying back than ignorantly "computers will never be used for anything important since they are so bulky ect ect". Whereas concepts were already there to minimize them.

 

[0]

Originally posted by: Injury
Time travel is not possible.

Time is a concept created by humans... it's merely a measurement of the earth's position in relation to the sun at any moment.

So as soon as you can possibly figure out how previous forms of us merely loop our lives over and over day by day in the past without it being apparent you won't even put a slight fingerprint in the discovery of time travel.

If time is a concept created by humans, then explain the relativistic effects of slowing time as the speed of light is approached. Time is a physical entity, as tangible as matter and energy and is fundamental to the fabric of the universe. Hardly a created concept - unless you assume everything is.

 

[AndeeG]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
I thought they teleported light a few years ago.

I seem to remember that as well.

Maybe subatomic particles too? I'm not sure though

 

[Bateluer]

To be fair, an object isn't destroyed and recreated, its simply converted. At least, in Star Trek style transporters, which is what I think the OP had in mind.

 

[Lifted]

Originally posted by: RichardE

Of course, but we have the concept for teleportation already.

But it doesn't exist.

Apples and oranges my friend.

 

[ElFenix]

yes, it is. controlling it on the other hand...

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: 0

Originally posted by: Injury
Time travel is not possible.

Time is a concept created by humans... it's merely a measurement of the earth's position in relation to the sun at any moment.

So as soon as you can possibly figure out how previous forms of us merely loop our lives over and over day by day in the past without it being apparent you won't even put a slight fingerprint in the discovery of time travel.

If time is a concept created by humans, then explain the relativistic effects of slowing time as the speed of light is approached. Time is a physical entity, as tangible as matter and energy and is fundamental to the fabric of the universe. Hardly a created concept - unless you assume everything is.

Exactly. I can't physically picture what time IS, but I know it's a real, tangible thing. It's been proven.

However, time cannot go backwards. Events, places, things, and situations are not directly tied to and move with time. You cannot visit the past. I believe there are other dimensions beyond the 3 (4) we are familiar with, and those dimensions might even exist around us with things in them we just can't view, but I don't believe other copies of US are living in those dimensions in different portions of our own lives. That just doesn't make any sense at all. Unless you believe that every time a junction in life occurs, every possibility happens at once and splits into two separate instances, but that's pretty far-fetched.

You can visit the future, but only by traveling near the speed of light yourself, so that the world passes you by in minutes, and then there's no way to get back. But who would want to do that?

Teleportation may be possible via quantum entanglement of every atom of your body, but the chances that we could ever devise a way to control that precisely and to reconstruct everything at the destination without ANY noticeable effects on the body's organs and brain are very VERY unlikely.