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Scientists Want to Teleport a Whole Human. A Quantum Breakthrough Could Make It Reality.
(www.popularmechanics.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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Can teleport anything? An atom, perhaps?
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'
There was talk about teleporting a photon, but it was a mathematically possible (but technologically impossible) theory. A whole human is a pipedream.
I seem to remember researchers teleporting an atom like a decade ago. But then I never heard about it again.
Because it was nowhere to be found after the teleport.
No seriously, I remember that too, but I think it was a photon.
OK but a photon isn't an atom.
The idea behind it is to do it at the subatomic level. And no, that's not how the quantum locking works. I have not read the article but it's likely by someone who doesn't know shit about shit.
A brief, limited form of information of sorts. That's all.