Hi everybody.


I have always been intrigued by the concept of teleportation and with
the recent advances in quantum teleportation at the University of
Innsbruck, the results are encouraging. However, it should be noted
that this form of teleportation doesn't allow physicists to teleport
the photon itself--only its properties to another, remote photon.
Here is the site:

http://www.aip.org/physnews/graphics/html/teleport.htm

I'm an aspiring science fiction writer and what I want to do in my
story is achieve teleportation by actually teleporting the people
themselves, not their properties. So, I began thinking about how I
was going to do that. I thought about creating a teleporter that
works by converting matter into energy and reconverting the energy
back into matter and being able to pass through walls and ceilings,
sort of like radio signals.


Speaking of matter and energy, in 1998 researchers at Stanford
University's Linear Accelerator Center successfully converted energy
into matter. This feat was accomplished by using lasers and
incredibly strong electromagnetic fields to change ordinary light
into matter. The results of this experiment may allow for the
development of variety of technological gadgets. One such development
could be matter/energy transporters or food replicators that are
commonly seen in some of our favorite science fiction programs.

For more information, check out the following site:

http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/conted/on...10/210_2_2.html


The thing that concerns me about this concept has some philosophical
issues to address. For instance, if the mass of a person is converted
into energy in an uncontrolled way (eg, collision with a very large
amount of antimatter, destroying every proton, neutron and electron
in your body) then the information that is encoded on the gamma rays
(usually) released will be lost.


In a controlled conversion, you could in principle convert the entire
body to energy one particle at a time, and then read off the whole
state and transmit it. But there are two problems with this:


1) A tremendous amount of data needs to be sent. In the book entitled,
"The Physics of Star Trek" author Lawerence Krauss calculates the
approximate amount, about 10,000 light-years to the center of the
galaxy!

2) The amount of time this takes.


However, current thought in neuroscience is that the
"personailty/consciousness" is not at all QM, and thus there is no
need to break someone down to a subatomic level and read their
Quantum State. Instead, it is simply enough to know there chemical
structure - and copy it at that resolution. This means there are no
"no cloning" problems, much less data to handle, and no need to
destroy the original (given sufficient technology to do the
scanning). This would allow you to create "clones" - you could send
copies of yourself "over the radio", while you stay safe at home.
(Greg Egan's Diaspora talks about this at an AI level - the AI
programs clone themselves and send themselves all over the place)


Now if you turn each person into energy, you get a cloud of gamma rays
expanding outwards. There is nothing that would make them
spontaneously reform the person - even if you reflected them
backwards, they would not neccessarily create the original particles.
It is much more likely that teleportation would involve sending the
information that can be gleaned from the gamma rays, and then having
the information used by a base station to construct the person, more
mechanically.


In my view, when your body is destroy, you die. End of story. What
comes out of the teleporter is an exact copy, with all your memories
etc, and no knowledge that it isn't you, but it isn't. No one would
ever notice the problem, so it only affects you when it happens.
Unless, if you believe in souls, there are "conservation of souls"
problems to deal with - does the same sould follow the body around?

While in an energy state, there is no consciousness, no heart to beat.
Hence, once matter has converted into energy, the person who first
underwent the procedure has cease to exist and once the energy is
reconverted back into matter, that individual will be replaced by a
replica who will literally be born into existence.

What does everybody else thinks?

Whitestar



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In my view, when your body is destroy, you die. End of story. What
comes out of the teleporter is an exact copy, with all your memories
etc, and no knowledge that it isn't you, but it isn't. No one would
ever notice the problem, so it only affects you when it happens.
Unless, if you believe in souls, there are "conservation of souls"
problems to deal with - does the same sould follow the body around?

While in an energy state, there is no consciousness, no heart to beat.
Hence, once matter has converted into energy, the person who first
underwent the procedure has cease to exist and once the energy is
reconverted back into matter, that individual will be replaced by a
replica who will literally be born into existence.

What does everybody else thinks?

Whitestar

In my view, when your body is destroy, you die. End of story. What
comes out of the teleporter is an exact copy, with all your memories
etc, and no knowledge that it isn't you, but it isn't. No one would
ever notice the problem, so it only affects you when it happens.
Unless, if you believe in souls, there are "conservation of souls"
problems to deal with - does the same sould follow the body around?

While in an energy state, there is no consciousness, no heart to beat.
Hence, once matter has converted into energy, the person who first
underwent the procedure has cease to exist and once the energy is
reconverted back into matter, that individual will be replaced by a
replica who will literally be born into existence.

What does everybody else thinks?

Hi everybody.


I have always been intrigued by the concept of teleportation and with
the recent advances in quantum teleportation at the University of
Innsbruck, the results are encouraging.

The thing that concerns me about this concept has some philosophical
issues to address. For instance, if the mass of a person is converted
into energy in an uncontrolled way (eg, collision with a very large
amount of antimatter, destroying every proton, neutron and electron
in your body) then the information that is encoded on the gamma rays
(usually) released will be lost.

I have a theory: one day we will be able to download hardware from the
Internet.

Hi everybody.


I have always been intrigued by the concept of teleportation and with
the recent advances in quantum teleportation at the University of
Innsbruck, the results are encouraging. However, it should be noted
that this form of teleportation doesn't allow physicists to teleport
the photon itself--only its properties to another, remote photon.
Here is the site:

http://www.aip.org/physnews/graphics/html/teleport.htm

I'm an aspiring science fiction writer and what I want to do in my
story is achieve teleportation by actually teleporting the people
themselves, not their properties. So, I began thinking about how I
was going to do that. I thought about creating a teleporter that
works by converting matter into energy and reconverting the energy
back into matter and being able to pass through walls and ceilings,
sort of like radio signals.


Speaking of matter and energy, in 1998 researchers at Stanford
University's Linear Accelerator Center successfully converted energy
into matter. This feat was accomplished by using lasers and
incredibly strong electromagnetic fields to change ordinary light
into matter. The results of this experiment may allow for the
development of variety of technological gadgets. One such development
could be matter/energy transporters or food replicators that are
commonly seen in some of our favorite science fiction programs.

For more information, check out the following site:

http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/conted/on...10/210_2_2.html


The thing that concerns me about this concept has some philosophical
issues to address. For instance, if the mass of a person is converted
into energy in an uncontrolled way (eg, collision with a very large
amount of antimatter, destroying every proton, neutron and electron
in your body) then the information that is encoded on the gamma rays
(usually) released will be lost.


In a controlled conversion, you could in principle convert the entire
body to energy one particle at a time, and then read off the whole
state and transmit it. But there are two problems with this:


1) A tremendous amount of data needs to be sent. In the book entitled,
"The Physics of Star Trek" author Lawerence Krauss calculates the
approximate amount, about 10,000 light-years to the center of the
galaxy!

2) The amount of time this takes.


However, current thought in neuroscience is that the
"personailty/consciousness" is not at all QM, and thus there is no
need to break someone down to a subatomic level and read their
Quantum State. Instead, it is simply enough to know there chemical
structure - and copy it at that resolution. This means there are no
"no cloning" problems, much less data to handle, and no need to
destroy the original (given sufficient technology to do the
scanning). This would allow you to create "clones" - you could send
copies of yourself "over the radio", while you stay safe at home.
(Greg Egan's Diaspora talks about this at an AI level - the AI
programs clone themselves and send themselves all over the place)


Now if you turn each person into energy, you get a cloud of gamma rays
expanding outwards. There is nothing that would make them
spontaneously reform the person - even if you reflected them
backwards, they would not neccessarily create the original particles.
It is much more likely that teleportation would involve sending the
information that can be gleaned from the gamma rays, and then having
the information used by a base station to construct the person, more
mechanically.


In my view, when your body is destroy, you die. End of story. What
comes out of the teleporter is an exact copy, with all your memories
etc, and no knowledge that it isn't you, but it isn't. No one would
ever notice the problem, so it only affects you when it happens.
Unless, if you believe in souls, there are "conservation of souls"
problems to deal with - does the same sould follow the body around?

While in an energy state, there is no consciousness, no heart to beat.
Hence, once matter has converted into energy, the person who first
underwent the procedure has cease to exist and once the energy is
reconverted back into matter, that individual will be replaced by a
replica who will literally be born into existence.

What does everybody else thinks?

Whitestar



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I'm an aspiring science fiction writer and what I want to do in my
story is achieve teleportation by actually teleporting the people
themselves, not their properties. So, I began thinking about how I
was going to do that. I thought about creating a teleporter that
works by converting matter into energy and reconverting the energy
back into matter and being able to pass through walls and ceilings,
sort of like radio signals.

Speaking of matter and energy, in 1998 researchers at Stanford
University's Linear Accelerator Center successfully converted energy
into matter.

This feat was accomplished by using lasers and
incredibly strong electromagnetic fields to change ordinary light
into matter.

The results of this experiment may allow for the
development of variety of technological gadgets.

One such development
could be matter/energy transporters or food replicators that are
commonly seen in some of our favorite science fiction programs.

Now if you turn each person into energy, you get a cloud of gamma rays
expanding outwards.

What does everybody else thinks?