Re:Telportation? (Score 1)

This doesn't fit what IMHO is the usual definition of teleportation (i.e. near-instantaneous transport of material objects) This is just using electric current to push an atom thru a tube. Even if (big if) you could do it with large objects (i.e. whole humans), the acceleration (and also the deceleration) would squish you into a jelly or buttery substance (apologies to PBJ eaters). One really has to deconstitute the object at the start end, and send the info about the matter (metamatter??), not necessarily the matter itself, to the other end. Then you still have the problem of reconstituting said object at the other end, no mean trick. Read Niven, he has a good long article on teleportation in All the Myriad Ways (its a book, basically lots of bits of paper stuc together and no hyperlinks).