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Teleportation is the act of quickly transporting any object to another location with little physical movement on the part of the person being teleported or the vehicle he/she occupies.Teleportation is a brilliant concept often Incorporated into sci-fi media such as StarTrek or Halo, and while as of now it is considered completely impossible there are several theoretical ideas on how it could work. So for this week we will be taking a step away from video games and looking at the technology and workings behind teleportation. What I am about to go into is complex and complicated and while there are other type of teleportation if I got into those this would be a thesis.
Molecular reconstructive teleportation:
Molecular reconstructive teleportation (or MR teleportation because that's a mouthful and it takes too long to type) is the act of scanning and obliterating ones molecular structure then transferring the information of their brain waves and physical structure to another location where the object can be reconstructed. To understand how this would work in action we need to find out 3 factors. 1: Scanning and storage, 2: transportation of information, 3: reconstruction. Scanning a body and brain (as well as brain activity) on a molecular level is not something that is possible in the modern day. Our current machines are simply not precise enough to understand the molecular bonds and structure of each individual cell and organ in the body. Thus I am going to take some liberties and push this scenario into the far flung future. essentially we would need a chamber at 0 degrees kelvin (to stop the atoms from moving) to register X, Y and Z coordinates of every atom and molecular bond with a cloud of nanites (or nano machines) that could then quickly find molecular bonds, atoms and their X,Y, Z coordinates within the chamber of teleportation. This would mean (considering that we had 1 billion nanites) they would have to move to, then scan and destroy 7,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in a hopeful 0.008 seconds (the time it takes to register the fastest form of pain). One way to help with this would be to scan these atoms in groups.The would then need to store the information of the molecular bonds and atoms either in a cloud file. In terms of storing the data we would have to create a program within a machine that could register 3 things, 1 the X,Y, Z of the atom one an extremely precise plane with measuring increments of about 0.1 nano meters. Then it would have to register the atoms as a variable between 1 and 118 (the number of atoms on the periodic table of elements and yes I understand that some of those atoms can't be found within the human body, we're just covering all bases here.) and register every bond as a variable between 1 and 4 (for the 4 types of bonds: covalent, hydrogen, ionic and polar) and the amount of bonds that an atom can have (4) then register what its bonded to. Each one of these different sources takes up 1 byte. considering that each atom uses between 10 and 23 bytes. (1 for the type of byte 3 for the X, Y, Z and 0-4 for the amount of bonds which have 4 possible types) meaning that the cloud has to transfer a maximum of 161,000,000,000,000 petabytes (which is the largest consistent measurement of bytes) for comparison the molecular size of a human is 12124569 times the size of the internet in 2018.
Secondly this needs to be transferred. Obviously the size of this file is ridiculous and obviously far to large to transfer now a days. The fastest computer we have can processes 1.4 terabytes/second meaning it would take 3,646,626,078.13 years which is enough time for our solar system to undergo heat death. However using Moore's law we can understand that our technology will increase exponentially. So given say... 1000 years we would be processing about 10000 petabytes per second. This means that it would take 5101 years... obviously transportation by internet connection is not the way to go. instead we could pack the storage device onto a vehicle such as a rocket or plane and fly it to that location. The participant would consider it a form of teleportation as his time would not have changed and technically he would not have moved. Either that or there is some break through in the way of storing and transporting information.
Finally he/she/ze/it needs to be reconstructed. The machine is flown to the location, and attached to the chamber. In order to make sure that none of the atoms move during reconstruction the chamber has to be kept at absolute zero or 0 kelvin. After that the computer would register the different variables given to it by the deconstruction bot and would go around manipulating the protons, neurons and electrons until a human body was formed then the body would have to have an electric shock run through it like a defibrillator to get the brain and heart working again. And boom your done! You have successfully teleported some one like they do in Star Trek!
Obviously there are some problems with this. The amount of energy to reduce a chamber to absolute zero, the speed at which information is transferred, and the speed of the nanomachines. But probably the most concerning of these problems is the ethical one. You are tearing someone apart to reconstruct them in a different location. You are killing them essentially. And when they come back are they really who they were before? If you rebuild a boat out of the same types of planks and in the exact same way with the exact same scrapes and holes is it really the same boat? Before pursuing any sort of experiment or invention consider the ethical factor, who does this affect? what would happen to the world if I created this?