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submitted 8 months ago by _number8_@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

we need teleportation frankly

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[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

You just made me curious and we're not alone in wondering

To have a scanner that can record the position of every atom in the body to an accuracy of the order of the size of a hydrogen atom would require position accuracy of about 10-10 meters. To get that accuracy over a distance of order 1 meter, this would require 30 decimal digits, which would be about 100 binary digits per atom. However, there would be a lot of redundancy in this data, so let’s be optimistic and assume you could compress this down to 1 bit per atom, so we still need approximately 1027 bits of data to just specify the positions of all the atoms in a human body. According to Wikipedia (Exabyte), the approximate data storage capacity of all the computers and storage devices in the world today is roughly 1 zettabyte = 1021 bytes = 1022 bits. Therefore, the data for the scan of one human would require at least 10,000 times the total storage of all the data stored on Earth right now.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/05/is-teleportation-possible.html

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I was getting incredibly confused because the copy/paste didn't copy the superscript for the exponents. I was like, "there's definitely more than 1027 atoms in the body.. wait, how are there supposedly only 1021 bytes of storage in the whole world? Oooh.."

[-] berg@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Ah, that would take a while to send 😁

[-] Xariphon@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

Now I'm wondering how long it would realistically take for that to become a not-insane demand. I know data storage multiplies pretty rapidly, but not that rapidly, so are we talking decades or centuries?

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Apparently we can already do it, a gram of dna can store 215 petabytes and we can encode to dna at 18Mbps.

Gonna be a long upload.

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