• Question: If We Can Send Signals Through Air And Cables, Why Cant We Send Bigger Things? E.G. People

    Asked by xxheavymetalbadgerxx to Anouk, Chris, Judith, Leisha, Seyyed on 19 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Chris Kettle

      Chris Kettle answered on 19 Jun 2012:

      Thats a physics question – mainly due to the amount of complexity of big things and the energy required to move them.

      Imagine teleportation – to teleport a human you would have to convert them into a digital signal, then KILL them at the sending end before recreating them at the receiving end. And this would be done each time a living thing was teleported.

      For inaminate objects this isn’t a problem – its just the energy required to rebuild them,

    • Photo: Judith Sleeman

      Judith Sleeman answered on 20 Jun 2012:

      Physics AND philosophy: even if you could transport a person and put them (biologically) back together at the other end (using a whole different set of atoms, I expect) would they really still be the same person?

      Have you seen the film ‘The Fly’? I probably shouldn’t recommend the 1986 version with Jeff Golblum here as it’s an 18, but the 1958 original is one of my favourites!

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