From CGI's Paralemptor:

A follow-up on looking glasses post on teleportation.

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Professor Michio Kaku of City University, New York, maintains the technology to teleport a living person to another part of the Earth or even space could be available within decades - or at least by the next century.

Prof Kaku, known as Mr Parallel Universe for his futuristic claims, which also include the possibility of real time travel and invisibility, has studied various sci-fi technologies deemed impossible and concluded some will eventually happen.

He said: "A lot of things you see on Star Trek will in fact be possible - like the teleporter.

"You know the expression beam me up Scotty, we used to laugh at it. We physicists used to laugh when someone talked about teleportation and invisabilty, something like that, but we don't laugh anymore we realised we were wrong on this one.

"Quantum teleportation already exists. In fact, we took a film crew and went to the University of Maryland and actually filmed an atom being teleported. It zapped across the room from one chamber to another.

"So at an atomic level we do it already. It's called quantum entanglement."

This is a process that allows connections (like an umbilical chord) to be formed between atoms and their information transmitted between others further away.

He said: "I think within a decade we will teleport the first molecule."

He said quantum physics was about the bizarre and impossible - objects disappearing and reappearing elsewhere and being in two places at the same time.

He added: "But electrons do this all the time - they are called transistors. Light does it - it is called a laser beam."

He said light has also already been teleported.

He added: "The BBC flew us out to Vienna in Austria. We teleported light across the Danube River 500metres."

He claims the next step will be to teleport photons to the Moon after 2020 when it is anticipated humans will again land on the lunar surface.

He believes in time, adapting this process to bigger objects - and then living things such as animals and even people - will be no more than a complicated scientific "engineering project".

This is "likely to be solved in time", he said.

More mainstream scientists remain unconvinced by his claims and suggest that the differences between a human and an atom, mean the small-scale success to date do not point towards a living being being deconstructed and reassembled elsewhere - whether alive or dead or even as they were before teleportation.

The problem being the whole basis of teleportation is translating something physical into data, sending it somewhere else, and then re-assembling it.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/602529/Human-teleportation-is-possible-and-your-great-GRANDCHILDREN-will-do-it-claims-scientist