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localroger

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4. A more practical read on teleportation

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 12:46 PM

Oct 2021

...is not that the original is destroyed and a duplicate created, but that the object itself changes position instantly. This does not violate relativity, and is what everyone really thinks happens when an electron "tunnels" past the insulating barrier in a tunnel diode because of subatomic quantum effects. (The original destroyed / duplicate created is however the theory advanced for the Star Trek device. But the real reason that transporter works is that Gene Roddenberry didn't want to spend half of every episode with his characters on shuttle craft.)

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5 sci-fi concepts that are possible (in theory) [View all] milestogo Oct 2021 OP

Concept 6..Star Trek's Money Free Society with no war, no hunger, no famine, etc. on Earth.. Tikki Oct 2021 #1

Matter energy conversion qazplm135 Oct 2021 #3

I would not want to travel to the past SouthernLiberal Oct 2021 #2

A more practical read on teleportation localroger Oct 2021 #4