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Physicist Frank Heile, explains to Quora why teleportation
ain't happenin'
...the data for the scan of one human
would require at least 10,000 times the total storage of all the data
stored on Earth right now.
The total traffic on the entire World Wide Web/Internet was about 27,000 petabytes per month in 2011 (see Internet traffic).
At that rate, it would take more than 3 million years to transmit the
bits needed to specify the positions of all the atoms in the body (see 10^28 bits/(27,000 petabytes/month)).
Even if you can store and transmit this data and then store it again
at the destination, you still have the problem of scanning the original
body and constructing the final body. The scanning of the body will
probably have to be destructive since you need to essentially take the
body apart to get to the inner atoms of the body. So you had better be
able to do the scanning in a very short period of time or the person
will die during the scanning operation and you will end up reconstructing a dead person at the destination. Finally, you cannot take a long time to construct the body at the destination since the early parts you construct will die
while you are finishing the construction of the later parts. It is safe
to say that this method of teleportation is for all practical purposes
impossible.
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