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I'm with McCoy here (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* by [M] to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
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Sorry about that ridiculous watermark.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

But if that's how it works, how can we account for the duplication scenarios? The matter for the duplicate would have to come from somewhere. I think it's more likely to be that the information for construction is trasmitted, especially with how often they use the concept of the tranportation buffer. But they dont ever specify I dont think so it's all speculation

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Matter is energy. You'd turn energy into matter.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But that doesn't account for the transporter clones. You can't make two men out of the matter/energy of one

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The problem is we're taking about something that's physically impossible in our universe. So at some point it breaks down..

    That's why they have a magical device called a Heisenberg compensator. To remove quantum effects from the universe...which is obviously impossible.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The point in question is whether the matter/energy is directly transported and used to reconstitute someone, or if the information for reconstitution is transmitted and local matter used to reconstitute the thing being transported. A "ship of theseus"-esque query

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