Re: [sl4] A teleporter

From: Stuart Armstrong (dragondreaming@googlemail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 09 2009 - 03:01:56 MST


Hum... What about the energy required to break down your body and then
reassemble a copy (especially it inter-molecular bonds need to be
broken as well?)

2009/2/8 John K Clark <johnkclark@fastmail.fm>:
> The more I think about it the more I like the idea of a teleporter as
> described in the January 23 2009 issue of Science. You walk into the
> chamber and your body disintegrates into generic atoms of hydrogen
> oxygen carbon nitrogen and a few trace elements that could be collected
> in tanks for later use by other commuters. Such a closed cycle would be
> very ecological. Meanwhile the quantum state of every atom in your body
> is communicated over fiber optic lines to generic atoms in the holding
> tanks at your destination; and then wham bam thank you mam you walk out
> of the public teleporting chamber at your destination feeling fine
> without a hair out of place.
>
> John K Clark
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