Would teleportation technology mean you could make anything?
A possible way to do teleportation is to scan, disassemble, then assembling the atoms of a object in the same order as the scanned object.
Would that mean we could just duplicate the thing by assembling it over and over, without rescanning? I am thinking you could just print endless food or just print anything that’s been scanned before. 🤷
Would teleportation technology mean you could make anything?
@Blue_Jay This was always the thing that didn't make sense to me in Star Trek. If you can record and reassemble someone's structure, then it raises even more possibilities beyond the mass-production idea you mention.
For example, why ever let a crew member die? Just print a new copy from their last transport experience.
And what happens if instead of disassembling the original person and making a new copy, you keep the original person as well as the copy? Does the soul then reside in only one of them? Or perhaps none of them?
Maybe in effect the Star Trek transporters just kill people and make biological machines that look and behave like them. Even more disturbingly, how would you ever know?
Would teleportation technology mean you could make anything?
@aebrockwell Those are some great points! I like the idea of the scanned data being a backup life.
As long as the scanned data can be stored and is stable, It could be an alternative to cryopreservation. You just get scanned and reassembled 50 years later.