Teleportation: SF or Fact

I like how the OP didn’t read the articles he posted.

Damn foreigners! Stay outta mah country!

The whole 800 MB thing would just be one strand of DNA. No cell, no organs, no bones, no memories.

The tech wouldn’t be that good yet.

No clothes, no life, no preservation of age, scars, tattoos…
Good starting point for cloning yourself so you have a replacement leader for your evil empire when you pass on, but that’s about it. :3

A Human Being, consciousness and all, would probably require over a Yottabyte.

I’m here

Now I’m here.

Teleportation!

OMG, for 4 minutes you were nowhere!!! :o
AAHHH, WHERE AM I!?!?!

Let them develop it for a few centuries before you expect anything cinematic. Light-speed hybrid cars are within closer reach.

in fact we would first have to be able to store people on digital media and restore them in living form which is practically impossible

I’ve worked out the details of actual teleportation - - not just information transfer. And it isn’t instantaneous. (By the way, it involves exceeding the “speed of light” to escape into the fourth dimension.)

What are the details? :smiley:

technically in that post, you’re somewhere in an sql database run by phpbb on an apache server accessed through a shitload of routers also referred to as the internet

Space is bent, curved along a dimension that we cannot interpret. Any velocity under the speed of light is pressed into our three-dimensional space. Exceeding this velocity, as an escape velocity along the event horizon, allows us to enter the fourth dimension and circumvent material in our three dimensions, but it must decelerate somehow to return to normal space.

Its return into normal space will be quite traumatic, probably not survivable, and also much further into our future, but it will have disappeared and reappeared elsewhere, with its journey having circumvented all observable matter.

I maintain that exceeding the speed of light does not, as popular believe claims, send one back in time.

I thought it was common knowledge that teleportation had been achieved with small particles in the lab years ago.

You don’t half talk a load of shit. The funniest bit was when you asserted that popular belief was that exceeding the speed of light sends you back in time.

Using long words and convoluted grammar does not make you look intelligent. It makes you look like an idiot.

I believe saying nothing in the course of four sentences would do a better job of that.

OK then. Explain how, when time IS the fourth dimension, exceeding the speed of light is supposed to send you into a completely different but identically named fourth dimension? If you’re talking about something like wormholes, which do not involve superluminal speeds but the bending of spacetime (ooh, those pesky four dimensions again) you’re still not going to a new dimension or anything.

Alright I think I see the problem, you’re interpreting it as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space while I was speaking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_space… fancy-speak for “i’m not counting time as a dimension of space[time]”

The fourth dimension is something we cannot interpret. Our three-dimensional world has depth in it, the same way coins on a table have a thickness, but sliding them around they do not overlap.

Imagine now a curved table, to which the coins are drawn. The coins are drawn so intensely, in fact, that the coin must move at a speed we know as the speed of light in order for centripetal force to bring it above the surface of this table. Being flat-lying coins, they have no other means of gaining altitude in this extraneous dimension. The real humour is that once the coin surpasses this critical speed, it has an escape-velocity, so some method must slow it down in order for it to fall back to the table.

The last line of your Euclidian space article rather sums things up (my emphasis):

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