minator wrote:
I've always wondered... if you enter a teleporter on Star Trek, do you die, and a mere physical copy of yourself takes your place?
I believe in Star trek the idea is that you are transmitted to another place and reassembled so no.
But only information can be transmitted at any great speed (ie the speed of light), so it would make more sense to destroy the object/person at the source while mapping the exactly location of each particle (Heisenberg compensators on full power!), and then build and identical copy at the destination based on that information.