TELEPORTHTIOH 69
To build a useful quantum computer we would need to have hundreds to millions of atoms vibrating in unison, an achievement far
beyond our capabilities today. Teleporting Captain Kirk would be astronomically difficult. We would have to create a quantum entanglement with a twin of Captain Kirk. Even with nanotechnology and
advanced computers, it is difficult to see how this could be accomplished.
So teleportation exists at the atomic level, and we may eventually
teleport complex and even organic molecules within a few decades.
But the teleportation of a macroscopic object will have to wait for several decades to centuries beyond that, or longer, if indeed it is even
possible. Therefore teleporting complex molecules, perhaps even a
virus or a living cell, qualifies as a Class I impossibility, one that
should be possible within this century. But teleporting a human being,
although it is allowed by the laws of physics, may take many centuries
beyond that, assuming it is possible at all. Hence I would qualify that
kind of teleportation as a Class II impossibility.