Teleportation = MUERTE

[prog]

This very readable paper at IBM explains the findings of a group of scientists who once met to discuss teleportation. They decided that, in principle, the universe will allow you to teleport objects (even if humanity's present engineering knowledge doesn't). However, it won't work unless you destroy the original, because of the peculiarities of quantum entanglement. I find this interesting not because I like the idea (I actually don't), but because I figured the Star Trek model wasn't worth anything beyond plot convenience. Go figure.

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[rserocki.livejournal.com]

This reminds me strongly of a short story I never read, but my brother Steve told me about many years ago. Someone crash lands on a desolate planet. There is no real way to get off the planet and rejoin her loved ones, short of using an emergency kit, so she uses it. This kit destroys her "I am crash landed" self and at the same time, creates a copy of her back on earth. I don't know the name of the story or the author.