Too much science fiction, people. True, it would be necessary for there to be a machine on the other end in order for a person to be transformed from energy back into matter, but, as I mentioned, there would be some signal degredation (deflection in the case of fiberoptics, crosstalk in the case of wires), which would result in a tiny bit of information being lost. Although it may seem unimportant, that little piece of information could be a part of DNA, which would result in the person being, or becoming, mutated, or just simply dying. The loss of just a few chemicals from a neuron could mean that a person wouldn't know or remember anything at all, and possibly couldn't learn. The loss of a few cells could mean an unrepairable internal hemmorage, resulting in death by blood loss.

It's hardly all that Star Trek makes it out to be.

That would be super cool if you get teleported to another place in the world or another time like the dinosaur ages

I don't think it would be that cool, Richard. Assuming it was even possible to materialize in another time without there being a recieving device on the other end, how would one return to the present? And, of course, there's all that paradox stuff that think tanks come up with to give people headaches...

I'd think that the discovery of time travel actually being possible should be the first step as far as the concept of time travel thereof is concerned, but that's just my own biassed opinion. I'm probably wrong.

this remindes me of the thing in the Willy WOnka's Chocalate factory where the kid gets shrinked. But I guess it is totaly possible and i hears they did that with single atoms and they are now working on transporting like whole group of atoms. THe main problem they are having now is bringing then back together in the same order and this will not be anytime soo that people can be transported. Because humans are living and they are verycomplex creatures i dont think a single machine can do that anytime in the century.

Sure, anything could be physically shrunk if the amount of empty space is decreased, but the amount of mass could not be changes, and as such, no matter how large or small it was, it would always weigh the same.

Theoritically every science fiction stories seem possible. But what you study in theory is different from applying the same practically. Theory is based on calculations and ofcourse assumptions. In practical life we cannot assume anything.

this is intresting lol!

Teleportation sounds simple and all but you take the molecues apart and put them back together... its like ok this just got a whole lot more confusing because we need to keep evey part intact from 1 side to the other and make sure the person/thing still looks the same, acts the same, and thinks the same and they also must have the same memories and mind and that stuff...

To the harddrive dude... lots of 80 gig hd ha y 80 by the time we can probably get a machine that can do this and its ready for the large scale we will have the terabyte hds or more... atm we almost have the terabyte for normal civilian use lol... i think theres a few on the market but thy anrt cheap... most people buy the 200 250 and the 500 gig hds right now... but most systems come standard with about 40-80 gig hds...

Half life 2 is a good game lol the teleportation system they use is very complex tho to bad its made up lol... but as you saw that "head humper" messed it all up and the system almost crashed...

Also look at the otherside of this with the normal people who hate science... they will say that this is unmoral and unethical... (i say phuck them lol but tahts me... i cna go on a rant on this but this is not the topic for it...)

and also we would have to put in a security system because you dont want someone thats not supposed to be teleporting into you house doing so... so a hell of long code that prevents someone from entering you house w/o a key... thats a whole other ball game becuase you dnt want someone hacking the system to be able to breakinto another persons house without them really being able to know taht it happend...

I want this to become reality lol but wont happen for a while there are too many variables to solve first the ethics... (phucking people...), Security, the actualy matter transportation (how it works and stuff and making sure they get there in the same peice...)

this is however better than flying cars lol because less cluter about your house... tell you the truth i happen to like the sky... but flying cars seem more realistic then transportation machines... due to the many variables eveywhere...

personally i don't think this scan and copy/paste method is going to be of much use to a certain individual because of that smth that is called soul in our terms but we do't really know what it is and without that a duplicated person would be just another being, perhaps assigned a new soul and it's experiences won't be yours so it's of no use for yourself.
But there are some things that would benefit the world if it becomes real, like fabricating things easier ( a prototype is duplicated over and over replacing all those robots working and assembly lines in factories and reducing a factory to a transporter scale -on other planets this would make miracles as there is no need to build factories served by robots etc).
So humans and animals are very difficult to handle but at a certain level of hardware evolution and safety of the scaning would be possible. Perhaps cloning plants/animals/humans on other planets to be populated would be one purpose of the technology.
I think that teleportation (as being u that travel) of humans is possible indeed not by manipulating molecules and atoms of a certain structure but by finding ways of breaking space and creating worm-hole-like portals which seem more believable to me (it's mainly about energy power i guess).
Anyway the perspective of being able to clone objects and even store data on all kind of complicated stuff and replicating it somewhere else is fascinating. And could be of some use in cloning organs....

This is a very interesting topic. I've always thought that with the way our technology is advancing there are only two avenues that will be pursued first, transportation and communication. It must have been a great lecture but his theory of breaking molecular structure to enable teleportation is still questionable, right? A faster means of transportation is almost inevitable but teleportation? It would be cool though.

I saw the movie hollow man and I thought it was unreal for a person to be invisible. It's a different topic but..