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Does the concept of teleportation violate the law of conservation of energy?

Since you'll be magically transported from point A to B without traveling, its impossible unless energy is put into the transporter and it will take enormous amounts of energy to transport a full grown human being from one place to another without traveling (moving). I just dont see how teleportation could ever work. Remember we are distinguishing sending data and humans through thin air (radio waves).

Public Comments

1. Radio waves do carry energy, and it would in theory be possible to have enough raidowaves such that they can carry the entire E=m*c^2 energy of a human being. Also, "thin air" is not a good term to use for radio waves. Radio waves do not care that the air even exists, they use the electric and magnetic fields to travel. For a 100 kg human, that would involve 9.0*10^19 Joules of energy to be converted to radio waves, which would correspond to 1.4*10^46 photons, if transmitted at 100 MegaHertz. Compare this to 10 Watt (typical brightness), monochromatic green light, which delivers 2.5*10^20 photons/second. So if the radio transmitter emitted photons at the same rate as this light, then it would take 1.7*10^19 years (about 300 million times the age of our Earth) to fully emit the radio photons of a human being. So it isn't impossible, it just would take way to long to fully emit a human being over radio emissions.