▲ 733 ▼ I'm with McCoy here (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago* by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world [M] to c/tenforward@lemmy.world 258 comments fedilink hide all child comments Sorry about that ridiculous watermark.
[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children) Matter is energy. You'd turn energy into matter. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TIMMAY@lemmy.world 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TIMMAY@lemmy.world 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 permalink fedilink source parent
