Ever heard of quantum teleportation?
That involves the faster than light transfer of quantum information from entangled particles.
Star Trek Next Gen. ignored the sexual ethics of stable societies not at an end stage where sexually inconvenient persons cannot be liquidated so the individual can copulate with any, every, thing or person. Next Gens did it with everyone. Some enlightenment.
I did and didn’t at the same time.
Yes, but doesn’t that involve “simply” (a massive understatement if there ever was one) having an atom already at the receiving site assume the same quantum state as the target atom at the transmitting site? That is, a transfer of information, not physical matter.
The article is very informative concerning the amount of information that would need to be processed and the amount of energy and time needed to transfer between transmission and reception sites. What is unmentioned in the discussion thus far is the virtual transporter terminal that would also be required at the receiving site to process all the arriving energy and information back into the object (hopefully alive). I liken it to reassembling an intact nuclear bomb from the energy of its explosion.
Of course, this alive/dead question could go away if the transported object was a simulacrum, a machine/limited AI representation of the human, having an information tie back to the transmission site (VR goggles any one?). This would open up a lot of options for safe interaction with hostile environments and/or inhabitants.