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In the original Star Trek series, it took mere seconds for Scotty to beam Captain Kirk back aboard the Enterprise. But a new paper by physics students at the University of Leicester in England shows that if human teleportation were possible in real life, beaming someone from point A to point B would take, um, a bit longer.
As in hundreds of thousands times longer than the universe has been in existence.
Our universe has been around for 13.8 billion years. But the seriously tongue-in-cheek paper shows that at a beaming speed of 30 gigahertz, transmitting all the data within a single human would take 4,850,000,000,000,000 (4.85 quadrillion) years. The human dataset includes not only the person's genetic code but also all the memories and knowledge stored in his/her brain. While DNA would take up about 10 billion bits, the brain's information would bring the data total up to 2.6 x 1042 (26 followed by 41 zeroes) in bits
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