RE: Teleportation - the future is closer than we think.
NO, NO, NO - Quantum teleportation cannot move matter - and it never will. It doesn't even technically transport information - it merely transports the "Super-position state" of an entangled system.
SO - let's say that you have two chess pieces - one black and one white. You place them under two cups at random and mix them up so that you don't know which is which.
Now you place them at two opposite ends of the table. You still don't know which is black and which is white. Quantum Transportation lets you switch the contents of each cup - but ONLY if you DON'T LOOK. Once you look under one of the cups, you can't switch them anymore.
With this - you can't send information faster than light, and you sure as hell can't transport matter from one place to another. I'm not saying that wormholes are impossible here - but quantum teleportation has NOTHING to do with moving physical objects between locations.
That no one claimed) Nobody says that quantum teleportation transport matter from one place to another. "In quantum teleportation does not occur move an object from one place in space to another - as in teleportation in the usual sense of the word" - that's what I said)
So Heisenberg has to loose his uncertainty so the protons can be established as mass each time you want to teleport something. He is going to be busy... lol
I was about to comment this very same thing.
When we talk about quantum teleportation, you should not think in terms of the star trek transporter at all - it is a completely different and unrelated concept.
In reality, if you want star trek style transporters, well - the star trek writers had to write in a mysterious magical "heisenberg compensator" device for a reason.
We can't scan a whole object at the atomic level and then reconstruct it perfectly because we can't know where all the atoms are AND their velocity.
Even if we could do it though, there's obvious issues with a device that "transports" people by killing them and creating a copy elsewhere.