Matter Transport

"Beam me up, Scotty!" It's one of the most famous lines in the "Star Trek" franchise and refers to the futuristic matter transportation device or "transporter" on every ship [blank] the galaxy. The transporter dematerializes entire humans (and other objects) and sends their constituent particles [blank] another destination where they are perfectly reassembled. The best thing to come to personal point-to-point transportation [blank] the elevator, this technology seemed to have been adopted by every civilization in the show. Will it ever be possible to develop such technology? Recent technology has made [blank] possible to transport, or "beam" if you will, small pools of particles or photons from one location to another. This quantum mechanics phenomenon is known as "quantum transport." The process does have future applications in many electronics such as advanced communication technologies. Applying the same technique to something as large and complex [blank] a living human being is a very different matter.