Post by vkkf1977 on Oct 12, 2007 10:15:58 GMT 8
edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/10/human.teleportation/index.html
But if you can't understand a hoot of it:
With each human being made up of trillions upon trillions of atoms -- 10 to the power of 28 to be precise -- the technology to perform a sufficiently accurate scan to produce even the most basic approximation of a living person does not exist, and probably never will.
"What might be possible in theory is, from a technological point of view, blatantly impossible," he says.
"If you consider all the atoms in a person, and the fact that in the scan you would have to locate all those atoms to within a nanometer of each other, and then have some machine capable of translating that information into DNA, water, fat, protein etc. -- it's just silly to think about."
In short, teleportation is a big no go!
But if you can't understand a hoot of it:
With each human being made up of trillions upon trillions of atoms -- 10 to the power of 28 to be precise -- the technology to perform a sufficiently accurate scan to produce even the most basic approximation of a living person does not exist, and probably never will.
"What might be possible in theory is, from a technological point of view, blatantly impossible," he says.
"If you consider all the atoms in a person, and the fact that in the scan you would have to locate all those atoms to within a nanometer of each other, and then have some machine capable of translating that information into DNA, water, fat, protein etc. -- it's just silly to think about."
In short, teleportation is a big no go!
