Teleportation...???

[armageddon]

Guys , we have been living in an era of a busy life filled with marvellus technuical marvels......some of them are teleportation.....!!!!!

[computeruler]

i said the current reasearch or whatever said its possible

[Broni]

Well, some members here are already able to do it. They post a question, and they disappear....must be some explanation to it....

[Dusty]

Well, some members here are already able to do it. They post a question, and they disappear....must be some explanation to it....

And from some of the posts others deserve to be teleported.

LOL

[!~*:.Pink Floyd.:*~!]

Teleportation as in time?

[!~*:.Pink Floyd.:*~!]

personally if I could move my life on now I would just to see what happens after life

Not that im depressed im just curious

[Aegis]

Teleportation, David, as in place to place.

First popularized on the original "Star Trek" in the 1960's, it was a money saver -- the transporter effect (film dissolve) was less expensive than portraying a landing shuttle for every episode requiring a landing party mission.

I saw a t.v. show a while back which speculated on the information required to move a body.  The short version is that it was a matter of "only" several quadrillion or quintillion (I think) bits of information needed to encode the body into a data stream -- numbers certainly within the capacities of modern information systems.

[Bones92]

The problem isn't the data stream... its the breaking down and putting back together of the physical body.

Also, when you think about it, if they can teleport raw minerals, say petrol, from place to place, why not just break it down....

Then save the stream...

....Then rebuild it as many times as you want?

This is where cloning will come into effect - whats stopping them from saving *your* stream, and then making multiple copies of you??

Lol, what an interesting idea.

Bones

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Some good arguments here....but I think it is possible!

[Calum]

The item isn't actually moved, it is destroyed and the energy given off from that destruction would give the device information about it's structure, enabling it to put the item back together.
I wouldn't risk it myself even if it was possible, too many risks involved.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Yeah, I think i'll wait 'till the 24th century.

Found this:
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Transporter

Transporters are able to dematerialize, transmit and reassemble an object.

[Aegis]

Critics of the original Trek transporter pointed out that there was no receiving apparatus, and there was a psuedo-scientific answer given was something about convergence of harmonics.

One of the reasons I think it's possible is that my generation was taught about matter and energy as separate entities, but physicists are finding out that it's pretty much all energy, just in different manifestations.

[!~*:.Pink Floyd.:*~!]

I really never did like star trek

[BC_Programmer]

Why, if we could be transformed into a quadrillion bits, the first thing I'd want to be done is zipped up! Otherwise somebody might delete that huge file in my documents folder, MYLIFESTREAM.BIN". Boy, would that be a bummer!

I built a transporter once. Didn't turn out so good. I can't recall the specifics, but all my subjects were turned into small vultures. Of course all of my subjects were lawyers for some reason, so some might claim that they performed the same tasks as they did before, just with less zeal.

Critics of the original Trek transporter pointed out that there was no receiving apparatus, and there was a psuedo-scientific answer given was something about convergence of harmonics.

One of the reasons I think it's possible is that my generation was taught about matter and energy as separate entities, but physicists are finding out that it's pretty much all energy, just in different manifestations.

thus- E=mc^2, which is essentially saying Energy IS mass, as you said- but that isn't "recent" per se...

[Aegis]

No, Einstein's work isn't "recent," per se, but they didn't bother with the quantum mechanics when I was in school -- I mean, OK, you're only pretty much going to get the basic physics in elementary school, but outside of Einstein's equation, we learned about "matter" and "energy" -- no one ever winked and said they're both the same...