According to Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, teleportation was used as means of quickening up the pace of the storyline by getting the actors from one place to another and conserving resources (money). He left the task of explaining its basis in science to the writers,  although academics have already identified the challenges.

Scientists use the hydrogen atom as the simplest model. At its center, is the proton with one circulating electron. In two dimensions, the electron’s path is described as a circle with a central point. In three dimensions the path is far more irregular. Plotting its course from where it had traveled at any given measured instant reveals the form of an asymmetrical cloud. Perhaps the force of magnetism exerted on the electron’s path isn’t equal at all time or maybe there are smaller, much tinier elements that also effects the electron’s course.

In order to teleport a person from one place to another, the location of every electron of every atom and all the other unseen particles would have to be charted, then rematerialized without interrupting their velocity, to another place.

If this could be done, it would reaffirm one of the fundamental laws of science: matter can neither be created nor destroyed; whatever exists now is what existed millions of years ago, just in different form. This balance would have to be maintained. So, in order to teleport someone, they would have to be dematerialized (killed) and the atoms rematerialized in another place and hopefully the person would be brought back to life. But how would all this relate to the soul? where would it go when the body is between the state of dis-assembly and reconstruction?

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