Do You Realize That If Beaming Were Invented There ...

[Powwaw]

Do you realize that if beaming were invented there'd be no need for anything else? You could simply teleport into the future. Of course theoretical physicists say that beaming is impossible because you have to teleport one molecule at a time.

[Bakari]

There is always a damn hitch, isn't there! Guess you won't be going on that "trip"?

[Ramond]

As with so many sci-fi "inventions," the teleportation of matter is not so much a question of technology as the desire to overcome the innumerable technical challenges that exist along the way. Bell Labs did a good body of theoretical work on it from 1949-2009, and found that the main problem was that to shred atoms into their energetic components was not the hardest challenge: the challenge was re-assembly. Remember if you will the laws of entropy: increasing disorder.  We're asking matter to re-assemble itself when it wants most of all to return to its earlier form of dissociated energy, low energy photons, and massless particles.

[Jourdaine]

As to Steve's "time travel" conjecture.  Note that nothing in physics prevents time travel.  The problem is one of ethics. Note that atheists and leftists are the most immoral of despots and will compulsively abuse anything given them with utter disregard for the consequences or who must pay the cost.  Allow me to quote HG Wells, "The Time Machine." "Mankind has no fit use for time travel.  In God's hands, time does infinite good.  In our foolish hands, it would do infinite evil."

[montgomery69]

So your brain could still be teleported then.