Many years ago, wireless telegraph (the discovery of which is attributed to Marconi) allowed the transmission of short messages across long distances.
For the purpose of this discussion, let’s translate this by saying: If I had a thought that I needed to deliver to you, and you lived far away, then with Marconi’s invention, I could do that without having to physically meet you!
Now, fast forward all the years that have passed since.
Today, a fax allows a page to be scanned and reproduced anywhere in the world.
As I speak, a complete, 50+ page ‘Economist’ magazine is flying through the air waves into my iPad and will be ready to be read by me in a couple of minutes.
Similarly, we, as consumers, can easily ‘transmit’ photos, videos and voice messages to anyone we want, anywhere all in the world.
We don’t think much of it, because it’s just so simple and obvious.
For a moment, think of what happens when you record your kid’s first birthday on video and then upload it on youtube for the family to watch:
Massive amounts of images that have captured real humans, events and activities get ‘coded’ into bits and bytes and then get transmitted across so many miles to screens that ‘decode’ this data and enable the viewers on those screens to enjoy the same scene that you recorded.
My question is, how far away is that ‘coding’ and ‘decoding’ from being applied to humans?
The moot problem, rather challenge is, that we humans are living creatures, whereas videos are not. So how can human atoms be ‘coded’ and then ‘decoded’ while still keeping them alive?
To expand the question, even if a person were not alive, how easy is it to transmit a dead human body from one place to another?
In fiction, we have seen this image a million times:
But only a few humans have achieved to do this (and that again is a fact that is not scientifically and categorically recorded, but reported as hearsay):
Swami Pranabananda Giri, an advanced disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya is described in the Autobiography of a Yogi as the “Saint with two bodies”.
My point is this:
– Given the massive, massive progress we have made from transmitting a few words to now terabytes of data around the world, isn’t it obvious that there will soon be a breakthrough to transport man himself?
– Also, considering the very recent discovery of the Higgs Boson particle (aptly called the ‘God Particle’) that almost solves for ‘what is matter’, will we crack the ability to ‘un-assemble’ and then ‘assemble’ human atoms and then do what we want with them?
What do you think?
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