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Quantum Teleportation Is a Killing Machine Besides Transportation
The psychological perspective on teleportation.
I am not sure how many physicists are Star Trek fans, or how many Star Trek fans are physicists. But I suspect many of you have encountered the idea of teleportation, even if you have never watched an episode of Star Trek.
The concept seems straightforward. An object dematerialises at one location and materialises intact at its destination, without having to travel the distance in between. No spacecraft, no journey through space, and apparently no waiting. We step onto a platform, disappear, and emerge somewhere else.
At least, that is how we imagine it. But have you ever wondered what actually happens to the object during the process?
Does the transporter send the original matter, bit by bit, to the other end, even if the destination is only 40,000 kilometres away? Or does it dismantle the original object, transmit the information needed to reconstruct it, and then arrange other atoms into an identical structure at the destination?
If the original is destroyed and a perfect reconstruction takes its place, are we talking about transportation, or something that looks suspiciously like a killing machine?
