One small step for teleportation

Those of you debating the ethics of testing this on humans probably don't grasp just how powerful such a technology would be. I'm not saying there are no ethic considerations, or that I don't care about them, but you can bet anything a lot of people won't care after seeing the applications, and that somewhere in the world a convict, an orphan or a hobo will have the privilege of becoming the first human to be teleported.

Oh, and as a physics student I find this to be pretty cool. But entaglement is still freaky. "Spooky action at a distance" indeed.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Shonos

Something about you only being able to either 1) Know where an atom is or 2) Know what it's doing. You can't do both.

That would be Heisenberg's uncertainty principle applied to position and momentum. Essentially, the more certain you are of a particle's position, the less you are of its speed, and vice versa.

I doubt this has much effect on the kind of teleportation described here.

There's nowhere I can't reach.