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“Codex Futurius: Teleportation”
Just as the moving images on your television are not the actual photons entering the camera, teleportation involves recreating an exact copy of the original thing at another location; and it has already been done.
Codex Futurius: Teleportation – Discover Magazine
The good news is that a working teleportation device already exists. The bad news is that it won’t work for you if you happen to be bigger than a rubidium atom—but scientists are toiling away to fix that. As physicist Michio Kaku noted last year in DISCOVER, we could be teleporting things as big as a virus within a few decades, which means we would be ready teleport a person around the 23rd century, just in time for the predicted construction date of Captain Kirk’s Enterprise.
This method of teleportation utilizes well known, but strange, properties of quantum entanglement.
The key to transmitting the information pattern of solid matter, as opposed to an two-dimensional image made of photons, is a spooky phenomenon known as quantum entanglement. It turns out that particles can be in a number of different states, and big part of the weirdness of quantum mechanics is that these states are undefined until they are somehow measured. Imagine tossing a coin and catching it. In the quantum world, not until you peek at the coin does it decide to be heads up or tails up! Entanglement means taking two particles and treating them together in such a way that their states become mingled. The states of the particles are still undefined until measured, but now making a measurement of one particle’s state will instantly determine the state of both particles, not just one. This holds true, even if you took one of the entangled particles and moved it to the other side of the solar system before performing the measurement.
Truly a fascinating article, especially considering that the basic concept has been tested for a single atom. Since the average human body is composed of about 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, science is certainly in the pioneering days of such technology, but the journey has begun.
Taking a quote from Einstein, “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
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