• Question: By the year 2030 what is the biggest object you are hoping to teleport using quantum teleportation and would it be alive?

    Asked by owen14 to David, Dave, Jack on 24 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by rajathjackson.
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      David Freeborn answered on 24 Jun 2013:


      Realistically, I’d be amazed if we could “teleport” anything larger than a molecule. Even that would be a big achievement: quantum effects get much, much more difficult as soon as objects become even slightly large.

      Best case scenario: maybe a Buckyball (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene) or a tiny piece of DNA. Even that would be pretty unlikely though!

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