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do you believe there will one day be matter transporters like on Star Trek?

Do you believe humans will eventually have matter transporters like on Star Trek, if so what uses would they have becides being a glorified elevator?

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1. Faxing flesh is just a few decades away. But first there needs to be a development in fusion.
2. i hope so...and maybe when they rematerialize someone they could correct any problems they might have in lieu of surgery, like fix a heart defect or a slightly shorter leg
3. anything is possible until it is proven impossible.
4. Yup why not we have create plane, Super Sonic Jet , Rocket and many more. 2000 years ago people thought it's impossible to fly.
5. Yes. I think they'll be the best way to travel in short distances in the fastest amount of time.
6. Hey I suggest you change your avatar and teleport it outta here. I hate the site of blood. there is too many people with typos writing and in the physical world. Well they say in the Bible we will be transported in a twinkling of an eye. Yes teleportation is possible. Have you heard of the Philadelphia Experiment. Which is based on teleportation. Take a peek on the internet. One cool device would be to use a matter teleportation device and teleport away various diseases out of your body and viruses out and bacteria and the like rather than having operations.
7. lets see
8. um.... nope, next question.....??? Ok people get a grip, inventing the jet or the progression of technology doesnt in anyway point to a transporter.. is this a real question?
9. Scientists have already transported particles of matter in such a transference. Cool, huh?
10. As I understand the problem, the uncertainty principle prevents the atoms from being put back together in the same way they would have been taken apart. In Star Trek they theorize an ‘uncertainty compensator’ which is just a BS way of saying, ‘We know this is impossible, so just suspend your disbelief and enjoy the show.’
11. Unfortunately no. The way they describe matter transporter in Star Trek, it is supposed to be something that convert matter into energy and sends that energy with information on how to reconstruct the object to another place. Now, using the E=mc^2 equation, compute how much energy this represents. An average weight person would be converted in about 1300 megaton of energy (for the record, the largest nuclear bomb ever tested was only 50 megaton). Further, there are about 3E27 (that is 3 followed by 27 zeroes) atoms in a person, and you have to reconstruct all this exactly. Even if you could do a quadrillion per second (that is one billion billion) that your take almost 100 years. Each of those atoms position relative to one another would have to be saved and restored. And great precision would be needed. So multiply the 3E27 atoms by the numbers that are needed to position it adequately, and you would need about as much information as there are atoms in 10000 Earth. Where would you store that much data? And you'd have to have a receiver at the other end; reconstructing out in thin air is another interesting challenge.
12. I dont know about star trek. But there will come a day when matter is going to be faxed around. How do you send image over internet? Image is scanned and sent as 0s and 1s. At the other end they are reassembled and a different printer is suitably instructed by a computer to reproduce the image. Likewise , why can't matter be analysed to the composition and sent? At the other end a powerful computer should be able to instruct a suitable 'printer' to reconstruct the matter to it's original shape & composition. After all , matter is just made up of elements!
13. Great question There are proton acceleration experiments (in Switzerland if memory serves) occuring that are able to do something that could be considered to be a proto transporter at an atomic level. 15 years time, there will be something that will be actually be able to something like transportation in this method, but not organic life until the DNA research gets significantly cleverer...the computers needed to do this will need to evolve spectacularly also... However, it will happen...