Okay, now I am new to this thread and only read it (the whole thing, including the 'argument') because it looked interesting. Now I am no scientist but from what I see they both have good points. It seems to me like its just making a copy of somethings 'properties' or 'data' somewhere else not actually phyiscally moving the object like the stereotypical person would think when they hear the word teleport. It seems to me like it is like what 5614 said(at least I think it was 5614), it is like sending a fax. When you send a fax the data on the original paper is only being copied yet it is being sent halfway around the world. The copy that is sent halfway around the world is still NOT the acutal original itself. So to me (a stereotypical person) it is not actually teleporting anything at all. The object to be teleported is not actually physically moved, it is copied. I think of it as burning a CD. You can take the original songs off of an original CD and put their properties temporarily on your computer, to later be put somewhere onto another blank CD. The result is two CDs, identical in Data and properties but actually two different physical things with one being the original and the other just a clone.So far from what I have read nothing has actually been really 'teleported', just copied and sent to somewhere else. It is going to be a long time before they can successfully teleport one thing, the whole thing, it's properties AND its physical self and state from one location to another.
Remember that while my thread is still far from actually being correct to a stereotypical person that is what my view is of teleportation. Remember that I am not even in high school yet so have mercy. Help me, don't destroy me. Thanks.