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Anyone one know physics or Quantum physics?

Here is the thing. There was a man who was working on building a transporter (like in Star Trek). He actually trasnported half a leaf two feet apart. It was not complete nor intact completely but it was transported. Now, I know it is difficult to transport a human due to the complexity of the human genome and the improbablity of accurately scanning an atom. However, the new theory is to "copy" the subject and transplant it in another area and then erasing the original. Now, how is this transportation? It makes no sense. Killing the original and cloning it to another location is not transportation. How in the world does this work? There has to be a way that can break down the the human form and then re-animate it to another location. I find it irritating that they call copying the original and then printing it while killing the original is transportation. Anyone else agree, disagree? I have taking physics for 4 years, and I am appauled by this theory.

Public Comments

1. Mankind is neither capable of destroying or creating mass, so deleting an object then recreating it is not possible. I offer two theories: Small particles are capable of make quantum leaps, or small jumps, and can "jump" through impenetrable walls, and some say this can also be done with larger particles. The smaller the particle the greater the possibility (I once had a professor who had his students calculate the possibility that a car would jump through the walls of the garage during the night and end up in his garden in the morning). This can definately be construed as teleportation, but no matter is destroyed in the prossess. The other possibility is to create matter and anti-matter simultaneously, ie. the anti-matter leaf would destroy the original leaf, and the matter leaf would be your new leaf. If you can get the matter and anti-matter to be created two feet apart, you have your transporter. I have to agree with you though - as far as living creatures are concerned this theory does make my stomach turn a little.
2. [quote]There was a man who was working on building a transporter (like in Star Trek). He actually transported half a leaf two feet apart.[quote] impossible. yet. The best thing scientist can teleport as of now is the state of a particle onto another. They transfer information instantly using entanglement. The particle at the other end becomes exactly like the original one and the original one is now in a different state. It's called teleportation and not "information transfer" because of its instantaneous nature.