Comment Re:There are 2 that needs to be invented... (Score 1) 439
The "transporter" would be fatal and only good for non-living objects.
Because the "me" that materialized at the remote location would be an exact replica, with all of my thoughts and memories at the time of the "transport", everyone I knew and even the new me would believe that a transport had actually happened, while in reality the original me was destroyed and an exact replica created. There isn't any way to transfer my consciousness instantly, only the characteristics of my subatomic particles.
Because the "me" that materialized at the remote location would be an exact replica, with all of my thoughts and memories at the time of the "transport", everyone I knew and even the new me would believe that a transport had actually happened, while in reality the original me was destroyed and an exact replica created. There isn't any way to transfer my consciousness instantly, only the characteristics of my subatomic particles.
