Scientists Want to Teleport a Whole Human. A Quantum Breakthrough Could Make It Reality.

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• NuraShiny@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What a shit article “Hey we can do this to single photons and electrons! Whole humans are next!”

  No they are not. This articles is just a vehicle to talk about the same-ass philosophical issues that have been talked about for as long as teleportation via technology has been thought about.

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• cynar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Complete BS article.

  Quantum teleportation is very different from scifi teleportation.

  Quantum teleportation is a way to bypass the heisenburg uncertainty principal. You take a particle and entangle it (in a special way) with a carrier particle. You then send the carrier (generally a photon) to another particle of the same type as the first. When they interact, most of the properties of the first particle are transferred to the second.

  This is extremely useful for things like quantum computing, but has no real path to teleporting a human.

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    obligatory

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• llamatron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I teleported home one day, With Ron and Sid and Meg. Ron stole Meggy’s heart away And I got Sidney’s leg

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• Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bet they come out like doodlebob

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• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’d be easier to control wormholes and use those

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• LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Replicators first, please.

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• Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would absolutely volunteer for this, abso-friggin-lutely.

  If I die in the process, I’m not gonna know it, and new me ain’t gonna either. At least that’s how I see it.

  Now that trump won ill even volunteer to go first LOL.

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You should read The Jaunt to acquire the completely healthy and rational fear of teleportation

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    • mkhopper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That story gives me chills every time I think about the woman.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ha! Came here to tell OP it’s probably a longer trip than he thinks.

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• DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Even if they manage this, I’ll bet “you” die each time something 'effectively … destroy[s]" you down to a quantum level.

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  • Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m of the opinion that it doesn’t really matter. My consciousness ends every time I fall unconscious.

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    • Assian_Candor@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Knowledge and memories have to be physically encoded somewhere right? Surely it’s just chemistry

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  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That depends on the nature of what “you” ultimately turn out to be. I tend to suspect (though with only a suspicion to go on and not proof, I probably wouldn’t be volunteering) that what “you” ultimately are is the pattern of information stored in the structure of your brain, and thus, any sufficiently perfect copy of that information is the “same” person regardless of continuity of the body. Though creating a second copy before destroying the original would have the caveat that as soon as the second you exists, the different perspective and experience will lead them to diverge into two different people who both have equal claim to the original identity, so that I think to do this, you’d want to destroy the original slightly before, making the process more like resurrection in a new location.

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    • Onihikage@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I believe current understanding is that quantum shenanigans mean you can’t truly make a perfect quantum duplicate of something without destroying the original at the same time, so what you’re describing (destroying the original after making the copy) would only be possible for imperfect duplication - e.g. manufacturing a clone and syncing its memory with the original.

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    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We are easily thousands of years away from genuinely understanding this stuff. Right now we have absolutely no clue.

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  • Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There really should be a way around that part of things, maybe if the distance is short enough you could move particles instead of recreating them

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• ThePantser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s just one catch: every atom in your body would be fully disassembled to the quantum level, effectively leaving your original body totally destroyed.

  So just like Star Trek

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