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Is The Flash Faster than Nightcrawler? (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)

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Teleportation is Real-But You Won't be Beaming Anywhere Soon

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It ain't the stuff of Star Trek, but quantum physics can make it possible to do things that mystified even Einstein

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Sick of those frenzied morning school drop-offs? Longing for a morning commute free of highway road rage and public transit bum stink?

Well, lucky for you, science is working on an answer, and it might just be as simple as scanning your body down to the subatomic level, annihilating all your favorite parts at point A and then sending all the scanned data to point B, where a computer builds you back up from nothing in a fraction of a second.

Sure, it kind of amounts to chunking your kid in a subatomic wood chipper every morning, but just think of all the time you'll save!

It's called teleportation, and you probably know it best from the likes of " Star Trek" and "The Fly." If realized for humans, this amazing technology would make it possible to travel vast distances without physically crossing the space between. Global transportation will become instantaneous, and interplanetary travel will literally become one small step for man.

Doubtful? Consider for a moment that teleportation hasn't been strictly sci-fi since 1993. That year, the concept moved from the realm of impossible fancy to theoretical reality. Physicist Charles Bennett and a team of IBM researchers confirmed that quantum teleportation was possible, but only if the original object being teleported was destroyed. Why? The act of scanning disrupts the original such that the copy becomes the only surviving original.

This revelation, first announced by Bennett at an annual meeting of the American Physical Society in March 1993, was followed by a report on his findings in the March 29, 1993, issue of Physical Review Letters. Since that time, experiments using photons have proven that quantum teleportation is, in fact, possible.

The work continues today, as researchers combine elements of telecommunications, transportation and quantum physics in astounding ways.

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Sick of those frenzied morning school drop-offs? Longing for a morning commute free of highway road rage and public transit bum stink?

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Craig Venter’s ‘biological teleportation’ device

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Craig Venter’s ‘biological teleportation’ device

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Craig Venter has built a prototype of a " Digital Biological Converter" (DBC) that would allow what he calls "biological teleportation": receiving DNA sequences over the Internet to synthesize proteins, viruses and even living cells, The Guardian reports.

It could, for example, fill a prescription for insulin, provide flu vaccine during a pandemic or even produce phage viruses targeted to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

It could help future Martian colonists by giving them access to the vaccines, antibiotics or personalized drugs they needed. And should DNA-based life ever be found there, a digital version could be transmitted back to Earth, where scientists could recreate the extraterrestrial organism using their own life-printing box.

The current prototype, supported by DARPA, is intended to be miniaturized and sold by Synthetic Genomics for use in hospitals, workplaces and homes.

The current prototype can produce only DNA, not proteins or living cells, but even that could be enough to make the device practical. His researchers believe their current prototype is already capable of producing DNA precisely enough that it could be used as a vaccine.
Printing DNA and living cells
Venter also sees a DNA-printing version of his device helping with more regular medical care. It could print out the DNA that encodes the hormone insulin so important to diabetics he says. Adding that DNA to a protein synthesis kit, a tool that is commonplace in research labs around the world, would produce the finished treatment for injection. Venter also has the antibiotics crisis in his sights.

Looking further ahead, Venter intends DBCs to print living cells, using an automated and improved version of the process behind his 2010 breakthrough synthetic cell. Work on that is currently underway, with the focus on creating what he calls the " universal recipient cell," a kind of biological blank slate able to receive any synthetic genome and come to life.

Venter's scientists are also working on a machine called the "digitized life sending unit" that would robotically sequence a genome from a sample and generate a digital DNA file that is then sent to a DBC to recreate the original life in a new location.

Venter's new book, Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life, looks at the future Venter is aiming to create through his scientific endeavors in synthetic biology.

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Craig Venter's 'biological teleportation' device " Kurzweil

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Craig Venter has built a prototype of a " Digital Biological Converter" (DBC) that would allow what he calls "biological teleportation": receiving DNA sequences over the Internet to synthesize proteins, viruses and even living cells, The Guardian reports.

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Why Star Trek Transporters Are Sci-Fi’s Most Impressive Technology! (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)

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Why Star Trek Transporters Are Sci-Fi’s Most Impressive Technology! (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)

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Why Star Trek Transporters Are Sci-Fi’s Most Impressive Technology! (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)

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One of Star Trek's signature technologies is the transporter, but if you look deeper into how they would actually work, they are the greatest piece of sci-fi technology. Kyle beams down some science on this week's Because Science!

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🎥 JUMPER (2008) | Movie Trailer | Full HD | 1080p

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X2 (1/5) Movie CLIP - White House Breach (2003) HD

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Will we ever be able to teleport? - Sajan Saini

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Will we ever be able to teleport? - Sajan Saini

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Will we ever be able to teleport? - Sajan Saini

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Quantum Teleportation Is Real, Here's How It Works

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Quantum Teleportation Is Real, Here's How It Works

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Quantum Teleportation Is Real, Here's How It Works

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Brian Greene - Is Teleportation Possible?

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Brian Greene - Is Teleportation Possible?

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Brian Greene - Is Teleportation Possible?

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Scientists Found A Way To Make Teleportation Work

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Scientists Found A Way To Make Teleportation Work

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Scientists Found A Way To Make Teleportation Work