> Now, an interesting side effect of the quantum version is that the first measurement of the original system is necessarily destructive. As such, it's not like

> Now, an interesting side effect of the quantum version is that the first measurement of the original system is necessarily destructive. As such, it's not like you'll end up with two copies of the same thing (which is what would happen in the classical version) so there's no discussion necessary around the distinction between teleportation and cloning. Is it possible to have three entangled systems? It seems that would allow sending the state information from one to the other two, thus destroying the original but leaving two "copies". Apologies if the answer to this is obvious, I'm a total layman when it comes to this stuff.