• Question: how do we teleport

    Asked by anon-267552 on 17 Nov 2020.
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      Gwenhivir Wyatt-Moon answered on 17 Nov 2020:

      If your are talking about teleporting humans, with the science we know this is not possible. The transfer of matter (in this case a human) violates the laws of physics that we currently know. It would be amazing if it were possible though!

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      Jesse Dykes answered on 17 Nov 2020:

      As far as we understand, you’d have to take every atom in the human body, move it somewhere else, and then put them back together again. It would take a huge amount of energy, and usually removing many atoms from people makes them dead. Apparently we’ve been able to teleport electrons and photons, but there’s a long, long, long way to go until we get anything useful

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      Daisy Shearer answered on 18 Nov 2020:

      We haven’t been able to teleport yet (and are unlikely to be able to for a long long time) but earlier this year a group of scientists published a paper claiming to have teleported information between electrons which is a big step in quantum technology. This science alert article about the study has more info: https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-have-teleported-information-between-particles-of-matter-for-the-first-time

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