Hannah Fry on R4 at the moment discussing quantum/philosophy and whether every time they use the transporter beam in Star Trek they're effectively destroying the original and recreating a duplicate rather than moving the original from one space to another. That's awful! So every time they get in the teleporter they're all *murdered* and only copies of the originals exist!? Scotty is a prolific killer.
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@TheBreadmonkey
I've always imagined this is the case. There have been instances in the story where people have been trapped in the pattern buffer and rematerialised later. So theoretically you should be able to store a person's pattern as a way of backing them up in case they die, so they can be brought back later. 😲
My favourite bit of tech though are the Heisenberg Compensators, because obviously teleportation is impossible. 🤣
@TheBreadmonkey although most of the cells in your body only live a for a finite time so you could argue that your body is continuously killing and recreating itself and that you are not the same person you were 10 years ago. https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/what-cells-in-the-human-body-live-the-longest
@TheBreadmonkey isn’t that basically the plot of The Prestige; the shenanigans when you *dont* destroy the original?
You'd like this book, which I remember excitedly buying when it was first released.
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