The Transporter: Are We There yet?

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The transporter is perhaps the most iconic of all Star Trek technologies. How is it possible that a person or thing can be in one place and then be in another, without ever having been anywhere in between? Believe it or not, teleportation isn’t just a science fiction concept, it has been done in real life—the record is 143 miles. However, current teleportation successes have sent quantum information or light or perhaps a single atom; it is going to take significant work to make transporting a person possible. Before science can scatter our atoms across the galaxy, several issues will need to be overcome. The problem of patterning every atom or subatomic particle in an object will need to overcome certain physics constraints, namely the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Patterning will also require much more computing power than we can currently muster. Fortunately, quantum computing and new observation techniques are making inroads into both of these problems. Finally, the issues of energy will need to be overcome; energy input to destroy or build matter at the origin and destination, and the energy released by manipulating subatomic particles and atoms via fusion or fission reactions when rematerializing a transported object. Believe it or not, progress is being made in those areas as well.

Keywords

Black Hole Large Hadron Collider Pair Production Subatomic Particle Quantum Teleportation 
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