I just heard about that a few months ago. The implications are spectacular and re-enforces my concept of “heaven”.
I imagine this world being like a video game and my consciousness being “inserted” into my human body, while “I” am actually outside this video game. So, I might be sitting right next to a guy in the “real world” playing the game, but his player is in New York, and mine is in Los Angeles. Yet if I bump his hand and knock it off his “game controller”, it instantly affects his player thousands of miles away - or on the other side of the galaxy.
That is a grossly oversimplified analogy, but I think you get my drift.
Eph 2:5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
Eph 2:6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Our Spirit is alive in Jesus at the right hand of the Father right now. God is Spirit so we are alive in Heaven known to God right now. We have a soul (or mind) which tells us that our body needs food and water, needs a blanket if you are cold, and whatever else is needed to support your flesh. Our sin natured body is dying and will die some day.
Our Spirit is already made alive in Heaven and we will receive a Resurrected body in order to be as Jesus is. The only thing left is saving our soul to become a 3 part being in Heaven. Your soul (or mind) must be put in subjection to the Holy Spirit living inside you. There is a war going on with your soul and the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit MUST win out.
Who you really are is the Spirit in Heaven with Jesus. He will give us a new container to hold your Spirit and soul while in Heaven. This was described in Matthew as a Mansion in the Fathers House. Our bodies are called a tent, tabernacle, temple, abode, ect. What we will get upon Rapture or death is a "mansion" compared to the tent we live in now. It won't get sick or die and can stand in front of God without burning up. We will walk through walls and travel through time and space in this new body.
If science could figure out how to transfer a spirit and soul and transfer it to another location, then they have mimic'd Nimrod's Tower and could get to Heaven without God. If we can transfer soul and spirit into a pig carcass, that would qualify as demons. Transferring a body from "A" to "B" probably can be done some day, but it won't be alive or have it's soul or spirit. It's just a clay vessel as Adam was in Genesis before God breathed into his nostrils.
IMO, we might be able to transfer atoms of flesh from A to B, but it will be dead flesh and certainly not contain who we really are as people. Go to a graveyard and dig up a body and then go 10 miles away and re-bury it. Bingo! You have just transported a body. Who it really is is somewhere else.
The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives in a Christian today. You hear NDE people speak about going towards the "Light" at breakneck speeds. The Holy Spirit that lives in a Christian will bring your soul to Heaven to receive a new body. There is only One Holy Spirit and men will never be able to copy what He can do. Transferring spirits can only be done by God and angels.
Well, what we are dealing with as concerns the God of the Bible is an omniscient omnipotent Being who alone even knows when every bee in Brazil will be flapping its wings, and when everyone will blink, and what all the effects will be from each and every action or inaction, both for today and in this life and for eternity, and yet enables and allows such and can and will make it all work out for good, for those who choose the Good, who love, believe and thus obey their Creator, in Christ. Thanks be to God.
And which in terms of just knowledge, is far far more than these calculations in regards to a transporter:
According to a teleportation physics study carried out by the Air Force Research Laboratory, assuming the ability to store all of the information for a single atom — its location in space, its linear and angular momentum, and its internal quantum state — with one kilobyte, it would require a minimum of 10 to the 28th power kilobytes to store the information for one person. Using current technology, it would take longer than the age of the universe to store that amount of information. They estimate that if improvement in computing technology maintains a factor of 10-100 over the next 200-300 years, we may be able to accomplish such a feat. Just in time for the 24th century.