• Question: Will spontaious matter transportation be possible?(a teleporter)

    Asked by velociraptor to Scott on 9 Mar 2016.
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      Scott Lawrie answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Hey Raptor (love the name!)
      Gosh it would be cool to go in a teleporter. They’re very VERY complicated things, though. Did you know that we’ve actually already got machines that can transport one or two atoms from place to place without moving through the space in between?!

      The problem is that you have billions and trillions of atoms in your body, so getting them to break apart, travel through space and re-assemble themselves in exactly the same position in your body is EXTREMELY difficult :mrgreen:

      You may also be interested to know that Quantum Mechanics says every atom in our body is a tiny tiny bit… EVERYWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE AT THE SAME TIME! So in that sense you are constantly teleporting (a very small amount) 😀

      So it’s not impossible to teleport, just highly unlikely!

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