Carlos F Velázquez

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Teleporting 1 qubit, if it actually did happen, is a very far cry from teleporting any living organism (it's called an organism because ALL the atoms composing the trillions of cells and biological components are ORGANIZED very precisely in a living body), with the almost infinite amount of total information that all the atoms that compose an organism carries. The bigger the body of a living thing is, the more information needs to be teleported to rearrange the atoms at the destination correctly.

Michael Crichton's novel made into a movie, TIMELINE (link in comments), covers this serious problem with teleportation.

Near-flawless quantum teleportation demonstrated in groundbreaking experiment
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Tim adds:

We've long known that teleportation at the quantum level was possible. As you say, it's a very, very far cry from teleporting people. We're not going to have a Star Trek-style transporter anytime soon, if ever (my money is on never).

BTW Science Fiction legend Larry Niven wrote a number of teleportation stories that dealt with the issue.He theorized that differences in velocity (like teleporting to a different latitude) would randomize as heat and there would have to be a mechanism to drain excess heat when going faster to slower and pumping heat into the system when going slower to faster. Dito when changing elevations. It often played a crucial role in many of his stories.

But the social impact of such easy travel was the real heart of those stories; people couldn't get away from each-other. Exes all lived next door because of the teleporters. New kinds of crimes happened; floating riots, for instance. There could be no alibi for murders. etc.

Every vagrant moved to Tahiti or some other nice place. Why not when all you had to do was go in a phone booth and dial a number?

Also you could use such a system for interstellar space travel. Send an unmanned starship then teleport through at it's destination. You could pump fuel into the ship via teleporter too.

But it's not going to happen, at least not for a long, long time.

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