Teleportation: will it ever be a possibility?

[DetlefK]

2. Even if it were theoretically possible, it wouldn't be technologically feasible:

Let' say, you want to teleport 1 kg of meat. Meat consists of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sodium, sulphur, chloride... If we take an average atomic weight of 12g per mol, that's about 80 mol of atoms.

1 mol is 6.022*10^23 atoms, so your piece of meat would consist of roughly 5*10^25 atoms.

And to rebuild that piece of meat after teleport you have to make sure that each atom lands at exactly the right coordinates.
* That's about 1.5*10^26 bytes of information. That's 15,000,000,000,000 TB of data.
* With an accuracy of at least 10^-11 m in space and 10^-12 s in time.
* In the right order, or else the atoms that are already there will chemically react with other atoms before the rest of the body arrives.

If you fail, you have reconstructed a piece of meat that's toxic or contains prions or contains cancer.





And that's just for the case if we can teleport atoms wholesale. If we have to transport electrons separately, it gets even worse.

And if we have to teleport nucleons separately, mishaps would lead to nuclear hijinks.