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What information or advances to we lack in science to create a functional transporter?

What are the 5 most important components that we lack in creating a transporter that can break down and regenerate carbon molecules from one location to another with the destruction of the object.

Public Comments

1. After 6,000 years of human civilization, we're halfway there: we're able to disassemble something to its molecular level. This is known as an atomic bomb. We need now only work on the re-assembly.
2. The conversion of energy to mass is something we haven't been able to figure out yet. m = E/c^2
3. 1. The ability to scan the location of each and every atom and the state of each atom's electrons. 2. The ability to store the information of the scan. For a human it would take something like a trillion gigabytes of storage. 3. The bandwidth to transmit that info. Even at T-3 speeds it would take a year. 4. Having a supply of the correct atoms on the other end. 5. The means to assemble those atoms in the exact same order and state as the original.
4. First if you plan on teleporting something over any seriouse distance it would have to be proken down to the most basic form of information (or anything) which is energy, or light. Light can only travel so fast and theoretically once something is accelerated to the speed of light it becomes light and connot be transformed back because it has lost all of the information which made it whatever it is. This is all theory because we've never sent something the full speed of light. That and we dont have a device like in star treck where they can shape carbon molicules into anything we want. It will be a long time before we can do either of these things. I would suggest that we will be able to find a way to mess with space/time via magnets or some other way to actually create a wormhole or some other anomaly through which one thing can fold the fabric of space in half and walk through it therefore not having to make the trip in the first place.