Everything indicates that for a long time this trip will remain only in fiction. Scientists even imagine how to teleport people – it is really difficult to carry out the experiment. By the way, the hypothesis conceived by the physicists has nothing to do with what happened in the Star Trek series. Remember? Captain Kirk would be under a beam of light, disappear from the ship Enterprise and materialize on another planet. This idea was scientifically discarded ten years ago, when the American physicist Charles Bennett demonstrated that teleportation is possible, but with one condition: what arrives at the destination is not the passenger, but a photocopy of the subject. Your body, your memories, emotions and everything else would be in the copy, just materialized in different atoms. What travels through space is information about the behavior of the particles that make up each atom of the human body, numbers that would be “imprinted” on other atoms when building an identical copy.
But, as these particles that form atoms are complex and delicate, the only way to correctly transport all your data without suffering interference from equipment is to make the particles communicate instantly, even without having any physical connection. Weird, isn’t it? But entanglement, the name of this surreal condition, is the key to teleportation. “It allows assembling particles with identical properties even if one is far from the other”, says Charles Bennett, creator of this theory of teleportation. Just to give an example: in a teleportation between São Paulo and Pluto, if a particle were altered here, the other would instantly change on the distant planet. The most amazing thing is that this crazy idea has already worked in practice.
In the late 1990s, English physicist Samuel Braunstein, from the University of York, in England, used entanglement to teleport a laser beam in a laboratory. “But the luminous elements are much simpler than an atom. To teleport a person, the amount of information would be trillions of times greater. It remains to be seen when we will deal with this precisely,” says Braunstein.
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2. As scanning cannot capture 100% of atomic characteristics, teleportation would require a second technique, entanglement, which uses “matter cakes” with atoms treated in the laboratory, capable of communicating with each other over a great distance. In this curious condition, it is as if the most subtle information passed instantly from an atom here on Earth to another entangled one that is on Pluto, for example.
3. Today, there are already machines that scan and intertwine photons and laser beams, but none manages to do that with an atom, much less an entire individual. But if human teleportation became possible, scientists would use equipment with the same principle to weave a bunch of atoms together. Half of them would be in a “matter cake” at the teleportation departure station and the rest would be at the arrival station.
4. When the person entered the departure cabin, he would be scanned and intertwined with the “matter cake” of existing atoms in the place — which in turn would already be entangled with the “matter cake” of the arrival point. The scene would be surreal: the subject’s atoms would disintegrate and the original individual would become a formless, lifeless mass at the departure station.
5. The fact that the two “bundles of matter” (at the point of departure and at the point of arrival) are intertwined would not be enough to reconstruct the person at the final destination, as the intertwining data alone does not say anything about the subject’s characteristics. It would be necessary to go through another step, which would be the transmission of the information captured in the initial scan. This data would be sent to the arrival point by radio waves.
6. The scanned information would help to translate the weaving data at the arrival booth. There, each of the atoms in the “matter cake” of fate could be molded to form an exact copy of the subject. The problem is that we would need to do this with all the atoms in the human body. The total is huge: no less than the number 1 followed by 29 zeros!
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