Am watching a video on Teleportation and just came up with a question and don’t know how to ask on google.
So Teleportation isn’t what is commonly thought in Scify. Original state dies or gets destroyed where it teleported from. If teleportation machine malfunctions the human will be dead for good.
Because of that, a question popped into my head and bear with me pls, I dunno how to word it correctly: how much storage does Human body, or all the atoms in us, or all everything in us needs to be stored, later to be “assembled”/teleported to another place?
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It depends.
Say the average human contains 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms. For some people it’s more than that, for some it’s less (a baby versus an adult, for example), but that’s a decent working figure.
Over half of those are oxygen. Carbon is next, followed by hydrogen. Since oxygen usually has 16 nucleons, carbon 12, hydrogen 1, let’s just take 12 as a working figure.
An atom with 12 nucleons is going to have 36 elementary particles in the nucleus, and another 12 in the electron cloud. So say 48 per atom.
So far, we’ve got 480,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 things we need to identify and give a location for. And that location needs to be DARN ACCURATE. But it’s not enough to just know the location; you need also the spin, what direction they’re moving in, and how fast. Say twenty kilobytes of data for each one. So you’re somewhere around 9.6 * 10^21 terabytes. BALLPARK, that’s about 1,000,000,000 times more data than can currently be stored by every electronic device on earth.
Now, that’s based on a LOT of assumptions, which I tried to state; how much data you need to encode each particles correctly, how much storage earth has, etc. But it’s also not the whole story. For example, you can save a lot of that by simply making assumptions and simplifications. Does it really matter, for example, if the exact nature of each and every water atom in my body gets encoded? Or can there be a “compression” techniques that just says “here’s all the stuff that’s not water; oh, and put water in all the gaps”? Maybe. I’m about 15% fat; putting aside the (awesome) idea that I could just teleport and end up with less of it, the algorithms could just says “yeah, here’s the flabby parts; fill ’em with fat, doesn’t really matter how accurate it is to the original”. I don’t super care if the contents of my stomach or bladder get teleported. That kind of thing.
“Original state dies or gets destroyed where it teleported from. If teleportation machine malfunctions the human will be dead for good.” -> Bones has been saying this since TOS.
I don’t think it’s something you can measure in data. It’s something you’d have to measure in energy.
Human DNA constitutes about 1 and 1/2 GB of information but that information is only the quantification of chemistry.
So when you’re thinking about how much information human DNA represents, you’re really thinking about how much data storage of quantified information that represents human biology would it take?.
But that’s not a reflection of the actuality of biology. It’s just a list of the biology that would be necessary to recreate human DNA.
You would still need to recreate all of that biology and biochemistry in exactly the same way to function exactly the same as it did before, but that still would just be a clone.