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I think we are still in the realm of a physics problem for teleportation lol

Fusion is an engineering problem. the sun does it. We’ve done it. We just suck at it.

Teleporting is not possible as far as we know …unless I missed something huge in science news

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It’s not all that different to a fax machine, the way it’s described in st.

You just need to be able to accurately scan and place atoms to achieve the ‘teleportation’ being discussed here.

Thinking about it even that is probably not possible, as you’d need to know both the position and momentum and state of every sub atomic particle in the body.

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It’s definitely not because the more you know about an electrons position, the less you know about it’s speed and vice versa.

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Heisenberg compensators are Star Trek’s answer to that. It’s physically impossible to do that in the real world, but in Star Trek they’ve figured it out

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I felt like they hinted in some episodes that there was some rule of nature they were exploiting to get it to work. Like imagine trying to tell someone in the 11th century that humans made machines that can fly, they imagine some mechanical thing flapping wings. They imagine it because they don’t know what air does when it passes over a fast moving surface. It isn’t like the transporter really stores your pattern down to every particle, there was something that they found that made it a lot easier problem to solve.

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Yeah someone mentioned the Heisenberg compensators to me in a different comment and I’m betting that’s what you are referring to.

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Does quantum entanglement count? Probably depends on your definition of “teleportation”, I’d assume.

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No, unfortunately. the closest we’ve come with that is proving that the universe isn’t locally real. Three physicists just won the nobel prize for proving it. Which is mind boggling in it’s own right

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