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<blockquote data-quote="freyar" data-source="post: 6660482" data-attributes="member: 40227"><p>Yeah, the hugeness of the number of subatomic particles that make us up is an incredible practical problem. But you have it basically right; you need to create the two "entangled coffins" and ship one to the destination ahead of time. Then you get into a third device that entangles you with the coffin that stayed behind --- of course, it would have to be done in a very precise way that so far we only know how to do for something like a single set of electrons. So you end up with you at the destination and two buckets of weirdly entangled goop at the starting point. So really, what you are doing is entangling B & C, sending C somewhere else, and then entangling A & B, which forces C into the state of A. At least that's how it works for electrons and photons and the like. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>People have wrestled with this issue when it comes to entanglement for a long time (going back to Einstein, in fact). The way to think about it is that there's a fair bit of indeterminateness in how a quantum system will interact with the environment (another quantum system). That means that, to transmit a message using entanglement, you also have to send information by normal means, which is limited to light speed. How to apply this to something human-sized is quite a hard question (and similar questions are an active area of research in physics), but presumably there would have to be a lot of information sent by normal means in order to reassemble you properly at the end of the teleportation process. Still, travel at close to light speed would be pretty useful. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="freyar, post: 6660482, member: 40227"] Yeah, the hugeness of the number of subatomic particles that make us up is an incredible practical problem. But you have it basically right; you need to create the two "entangled coffins" and ship one to the destination ahead of time. Then you get into a third device that entangles you with the coffin that stayed behind --- of course, it would have to be done in a very precise way that so far we only know how to do for something like a single set of electrons. So you end up with you at the destination and two buckets of weirdly entangled goop at the starting point. So really, what you are doing is entangling B & C, sending C somewhere else, and then entangling A & B, which forces C into the state of A. At least that's how it works for electrons and photons and the like. People have wrestled with this issue when it comes to entanglement for a long time (going back to Einstein, in fact). The way to think about it is that there's a fair bit of indeterminateness in how a quantum system will interact with the environment (another quantum system). That means that, to transmit a message using entanglement, you also have to send information by normal means, which is limited to light speed. How to apply this to something human-sized is quite a hard question (and similar questions are an active area of research in physics), but presumably there would have to be a lot of information sent by normal means in order to reassemble you properly at the end of the teleportation process. Still, travel at close to light speed would be pretty useful. :p [/QUOTE]
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