In science fiction (like Star Trek), teleportation is commonplace. But how much time and effort will it take to send the data needed to teleport a person? University of Leicester Physics students James Nelms, Declan Roberts, Suzanne Thomas, and David Starkey decided to answer this difficult question.
A group of students found that the energy required to teleport one person depends on the bandwidth - which automatically means less time but more energy consumption.
Teleportation in the TV series "Star Trek"
In their work, students explored the possibility of teleporting a person on the surface of the Earth into space into orbit. Before teleportation begins, each person must be presented in the form of data that can be transmitted. At a basic level, the transmitted data will be represented by the DNA pairs that make up the genome (which contains the body's hereditary information) in each cell.
All of the information in each human cell is estimated to take about 10 ^ 10 bits, and each cell will contain enough information to produce any other type of body cell.
Restoring a person's thinking is not an easy task. The complete traveller's brain information should be approximately 2.6 x 10 ^ 42 bits. Having calculated the basic data of a person, the students were able to calculate both the time and the power required to teleport a person from Earth to a selected point in space.
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It turned out that the time it takes to fully teleport a person from Earth into space is a huge problem. Even with a bandwidth of 29.5-30 GHz, it will take 4.85 x 10 ^ 15 years. The universe is only 14 billion years old (14 x 10 ^ 9), so teleporting one person will take 350,000 times longer than our universe exists. Perhaps it will be faster to walk on foot.
Unfortunately, fast and energy efficient teleportation is currently unavailable, and will remain so for a very long time.