beam me up scotty

[chsh]

It may and it may not. Teleporting a human being may be one way to find out if we have anything more substantial than the physical body, and may answer a number of philosophical questions.

I also don't think it would hurt or that you'd lose memories, because memories are, as best we know, stored chemically in the brain, therefore if those same chemicals reappeared in the correct order elsewhere, the same memory would exist. Quite a lot is unknown about the human brain, so we'll have to see if teleporting dogs, cats, lab rats, etc. (animals that are capable of memory) are able to keep their memories in tact.. Then again, such a feat is likely a few years away.

[[WebCarnage]]

This just came to mind. Isn't this a bit like a wormhole in space? ... Which, theoretically is supposed to accomplish the same thing. And also...what happens if during the teleportation process, the "machine" is turned off right after you have been disassembled. Will you be lost forever? Dead? Can you return? ... will half of your body be in one place,..and the other half, another?

Sheesh...sounds icky.

[GreekGoddess]

Okay, even to say if we're more than just physiological makeup, our bodies don't just function on that alone. If you remove a vital organ, or even a piece of a vital organ, even though it's quick, will that organ stop functioning? Which leads to system failure and ultimately death? A human is too intricate to take apart as say a block of wood, where you're not going to damage cells, vessels, systems, tissues, and organs. If a tiny bubble of air is to enter your aortic chamber, it's a life and death sitation depending on the size of the bubble. How can taking your body apart and putting it back together be any different?

I thought about it a little bit, and I could see how it could be painless, and the rate that it takes place, I would assume for a second you'd probably feel a tingling to nothing while the transfer took place. If your nerves aren't connected to anything, they can't create pain. But how does the body just merge back together with all the intricacy?

Ahhhh...So many questions. Interesting topic. =)

[chsh]

The reason it would work would be because theoretically this takes place at the atomic level, which is far smaller than the cellular level. Chemical bonds and etc, will remain in tact at the atomic level during this kind of teleportation. Kinda cool though.

[hurt-conveyor]

Originally posted here by [WebCarnage]
Because, imo, it's quite hard to beleive a living thing being beamed somewhere

100 years ago it would have been hard to believe that you could have such a thing as a video camera that could zoom in, and record anything in real time.

[th3>kLuTz]

just a quick question. What about a person's spirit, soul, whatever you wish to call it. This involves a fourth dimension that science cant touch. I would think that the body might be there, but it would just be a hollow shell. Cause, can life exist for humans if their spirits are missing? Just thought i'd throw a monkey wrench in the works

[th3>kLuTz]

just a quick question. What about a person's spirit, soul, whatever you wish to call it. This involves a fourth dimension that science cant touch. I would think that the body might be there, but it would just be a hollow shell. Cause, can life exist for humans if their spirits are missing? Just thought i'd throw a monkey wrench in the works