Will a matter teleport device, like the ones seen in star trek, ever be invented?
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Saw a documentary some time ago where they had managed to 'teleport' energy a couple of feet, so I guess it is may be a possibility at some stage.
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An invention: Cellborg ( http://www.livescience.com/technology/051027_cellborg_sensor.html ) massive potential to become useful in our lifetimes\n\nA discovery: new blackhole ( http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050509_blackhole_birth.html ) very little potential to become useful in our lifetimes, but oh so cool\n\nOffbeat: monkeys have accents ( http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051129/od_afp/japananimalsoffbeat ) it has to do with monkeys and I personally find study language fascinating
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Yes, there's still research going on. And yes, the theory still holds that if we could find a wormhole and create enough anti-matter to widen and stabilise it, and then find a way of surving the journey, time travel might be possible.\n\nBottom line, everything that's a theory today will either be proved or disproved somewhere down the line. Some things, like wormhole time travel and single-lifetime interstellar travel are the scientific equivalent of steeplechases - races with big old obstacles in the way. They might seem impossible at the start, but once you start running, you either have to figure out how to leap over the obstacles or fall down at them. But human beings are good at steeplechasing - look at the challenges we overcame between 1899 and 1970 - we couldn't fly when the century began. By the time we were seventy years in, not only had we fought two world wars in the air, we'd successfully landed on the moon. Who knows what we'll achieve by 2070...
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100 years might be a bit quick, but I think this may happen faster than one might think at first.\n\nRay Kurzweil is a well-known predictor of technology trends and suggests that the technology to 'move' a person from their brain to an electronic replica will happen in the not-so-distant future. Once this is possible, the technology needed for interstellar flights will be greatly simplified because any approach to transport a human (as they currently live, in a biological body) would consume incredible resources just to provide an environment in which they could survive.
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yes one day we will have the technology of creating and maintaining wormholes. they have already proven this in the lab. it is called the casimer affect.\n\ntwo charged metal plates close to eachother create a negative energy. having to set of these plates connects the space between them via a wormhole.\n\nthe problem is the scale of the plates required to allow a spacecraft to go through is massive. but perhaps one day they will figure out a way to use natural existing exotic materials or objects in space to do this.
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Yes you are correct about the unknown Indian bit!! I haven't heard about either him or the experiment, and I haven't found any one else that has, but I think my 'teleportation' gear is playing up a bit, I'll get it re-tuned and try again later!! I thought teleportation was a means of transferring physical matter almost instantly? Not brain waves!!\nAre you sure your brain waves haven't been transfered??
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I'd say yes...but then I don't know how to explain it.\n\nThe ability to explain, and therefore duplicate, is based on what we know and the tools we have for exploration.  What I think you're getting at is,  "...is it possible for something to be inexplicable even though we know everything there is to know and have all the tools we need to explore it?"  In other words, might there be phenomena in our frame of being that are simply beyond mankind's grasp to comprehend even with all the knowledge and tools mankind can muster?\n\nWho knows?  It certainly seems that way now; but a thousand years from now, if mankind survives that long, who knows where scientific inquiry will have taken us?  It wasn't that long ago when sending pictures through the air was strictly science fiction; now we have the SciFi channel on TV.\n\nI once read somewhere that someone has said, "If mankind can think of it, it will do it."  There are a lot of things mankind has thought of, but cannot do...up to this point.  Teleportation, for example...but wait, teleportation, using a phenomenon called quantum entanglement, has been done...just recently.  OK, dark matter, no one has seen dark matter...ooops, some Stanford brains just did...only a few weeks ago. [See sources.]\n\nYou get the point...perhaps that someone is right after all...if mankind can think of it, it will (ultimately) do it.
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there is a design for a "starship" that IS theoretically feasible.\n\nit is known as the "Bussard RamJet" and you might look it up in the wikipedia.com ( it is also mentioned in Carl Sagan's "Cosmos".)\n\nthis ship can theoretically travel at 10 % the speed of light ( i.e 18,600 mi/sec .)  it is technically possible to build it NOW if the motivation ( and funds) existed.  \n\nif you traveled on this ship, "relativistic effects" would slow your aging in comparison with the earth.  In other words, when you return, hundreds of years may have elapsed in relation to only a few of your own.  because of this, any trip must be considered "one way" in the social sense.  \n\nto answer your question,  the technology is here but no one is trying becuase the time paradox is too real.  besides, we wouldnt know where to go anyway.  ( it would be hit or miss ).  the landing part is quite simple.... the hard part is getting there !
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In June 2002 the Ph.D. project of Dr. Warwick Bowen led by Dr. Ping Koy Lam, Prof. Hans Bachor and Dr. Timothy Ralph of the Australian National University achieved (quantum) teleportation of a laser beam. [2]\n\nIt was a successful quantum teleportation experiment involving the use of 'entangled' photons. A target photon was successfully 'scanned', its properties 'copied' onto a transition photon, and finally the photon was recreated at another location of arbitrary distance, proving in essence the theorems proposed by Einstein to explain his 'strange action at a distance'.\n\nScientists teleported atoms in 2004. [3]
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They should of course.\n\nThe Starship Enterprise (according to its technical manual which I read as a teenager) has 'inertial dampers' and 'Heisenberg compensators' that compensate for the acceleration in the same way that they produce the artificial gravity on the ship.\n\nWhen the creators of Star Trek were asked how these work they replied "Very well, thank you."\n\nAccording to the manual these have a 'characteristic lag' which is why the actors get tossed about a bit when the ship colides with something or takes a hit from a weapon.
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There is a little research and some guy even wrote a book claiming that teleportation is feasible.  But don't buy your home teleportation machine yet.  As yet the only thing that has been transported is a few laser beams.
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We have already produced a workable system to travel through space economically. Its called an ion drive. It takes some time to get going but once it starts it keeps accelerating because there is little or no mass in space to stop it. Using the Earths gravity to help slingshot us into space would reduce this time...once we have reached a decent velocity ion drive could then take over.An ion drive was recently used in a small craft to take pictures of a large asteroid in our solar system. It worked just as it was theorized.
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It has allready been done. Particles have been 'transported' from one local to another. It happen ed when I wrote and answered this question, \n\ninformation was teleported, as were some atomic and sub atomic elements. \nRecent developments\n\nUntil recently, scientists had been able to transport only light or single atoms over short distances (millimeters). However, it was reported in October 2006 that Professor Eugene Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University in Denmark have made a breakthrough in the field.[3] Their experiment involved the transportation of information from one macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms to another, located half a meter away. The technique involved the use of quantum entanglement, quantum measurement and quantum feedback. Little information is available, however, which throws suspicion over what would otherwise be a great accomplishment.\n\n[edit] Davis report\n\nIn 2001, the United States Air Force commissioned Eric W. Davis, Ph.D., FBIS, to do a scientific study of teleportation.[4] The Davis report has been very controversial due to its recommendation of further studies of p-Teleportation:\n\n    A research program improving on and expanding, or implementing novel variations of, the Chinese and Uri Geller-type experiments should be conducted in order to generate p-Teleportation phenomenon in the lab.[4]\n\nThe report (page 2) classified teleportation concepts into five sections:[4]\n\nsf-Teleportation \n    "the disembodied transport of persons or inanimate objects across space by advanced (futuristic) technological means." The report does not further define sf-Teleportation, and has no further comment on it than to dismiss it from the scope of the report. This type of teleportation could use a physical connection between the two locations, such as a wire. Using existing technology, such as the Internet, or telephone lines, could be the means for this type of teleport. However, this means it would be extremely slow, since a typical living animal is approximately equal to 600YB (yottabytes). Compression could be utilized, but would have to be effective in keeping all data intact.\n\np-Teleportation \n    "the conveyance of persons or inanimate objects by psychic means."\n\nvm-Teleportation \n    "the conveyance of persons or inanimate objects across space by altering the properties of the spacetime vacuum, or by altering the spacetime metric (geometry)." This category includes the use of wormholes for transport, and the modification of the speed of light.\n\nq-Teleportation \n    "the disembodied transport of the quantum state of a system and its correlations across space to another system, where system refers to any single or collective particles of matter or energy such as baryons (protons, neutrons, etc.), leptons (electrons, etc.), photons, atoms, ions, etc." The report explicitly includes in this category a process essentially the same as that envisioned by the fictional transporters of Star Trek. It also includes quantum teleportation by means of quantum entanglement.\n\ne-Teleportation \n    "the conveyance of persons or inanimate objects by transport through extra space dimensions or parallel universes."\n\nThe report did not investigate sf-Teleportation other than to define it. The report recommended further study in all other types of teleportation (pages 28-29, 47-49, 54, 62).\n\n[edit] Teleportation scenarios\n\nThe use of teleportation as a means of transport for humans still has considerable unresolved technical and philosophical issues, such as exactly how to record the human body sufficiently accurately and also be able to reconstruct it, and whether destroying a human in one place and recreating a copy elsewhere would provide a sufficient experience of continuity of existence. Believers in the supernatural, such as religious people, might wonder if the soul is
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I'm definitely waiting for 'Warp speed', the Transporter and the Phaser...yes, in time we'll have these things.\n\nOne example is our Stealth bomber which is similar to a cloaked Romulan Warship.
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Stargate?  I own all those shows on DVD, so let's first define the technology that these "Stargates" are supposed to be using...\n\nThese things are supposed to be constructed out of a super conductor that allows energy to be accelerated up to and beyond the speed of light - Whereby a Gavity-less wormhole is errected between two points...\nThis is supported by Fringe (shaky) theory...\n\nHowever as stated by others, this type of "Worm Hole" would not pass solid objects since the connection between these two points about effectively be a line with only one dimension.  As such it would only pass sub-atomic particles...\n\nNow in later seasons of "Stargate", they have included the idea that the "Stargate" is also a super-computer of sorts and the event horizon of the gate is actually a dematerialization plane...  Or, to keep with the parallels...  The "stargate" works much like the "Transporter" in "Star Trek", as it dematerialism matter and sends it as an energy stream to be rematerialized at another point...\nThis is also very fringe science, but that's what the best science fiction is based off of...\n\nSo these "Stargates" create Targeted Hyper Accelerated Energy Worm-holes through which a transporter beam is sent carrying the energy of the matter that was dematerialized as a carrier wave for the data needed to rebuild the matter on the other side...\n\nYes...  In the fringes of very questionable scientific theory, this could work...\n\nNo...  We are no where close to developing the begin of a technological line that could ever even evolve into something like this...\n\nAs such...  It's good fiction, despite the mistakes made in various episodes...  But it's only ever going to be fiction, or at least for the next several thousand years of technolgical advancement...  But then, that's who the gate builders were supposed to be - Isn't it.  8-)
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I really don't think it will go that far, living oon the internet, there would be security risks. You would be more likely to find some kind of programme that would simulate it but i don't know, the idea of being data stored on a harddrive being transfered through out the world doesn't sound to great. your TRON like utopia is far from completion. \n\nThe whole concept of using glasses, and other equipment is doesn't grab me. I would prefer if virtual reality started moving more towards Star Treks' Holodeck type virtual reality, but it might be a bit difficult to reproduce the look and feel of, say an apple or physical human beings, in such an enviroment. There most likely would be some kind of suit you would need to wear, that would send signals to your brain so that you thought you were holding an apple.\n\n\nI think it's best we get on with our lives and let the scientists worry about how far they can go. When the time is right we will have earned millions so we can retire and live our VR dreams.
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No.  It is scientifically impossible.  To move an object you must apply an unbalenced force.  What force is telekinesis?