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It seems there's some hard physical limits with regard to taking matter and moving it somewhere via propulsion. However, I wonder if we could get to a point whe
by asdff 2y ago
It seems there's some hard physical limits with regard to taking matter and moving it somewhere via propulsion. However, I wonder if we could get to a point where rather than spending energy to move something someplace, we consider the energy to reform a given structure identically somewhere else. I assume at some distance there is a tipping point where you now save energy building that structure in situ vs the energy spent to move a structure elsewhere. And there are probably environments where it is cheaper still to create this structure vs others. I'm not sure how to establish a distant build site without actually reaching it in some way though, but maybe such a thing is resolved in time.
- refulgentis 2y agoThe problem I have with teleportation is that it seems we're closer to being reference types than value types, so I'm not sure a rebuilding in situ would work for the cases we care about. For static objects, I'm not sure how you'd get past the constraint that at some point you want mass somewhere else, and it needs to be moved.
- thrance 2y agoYou could totally (at least in theory) make a super-precise MRI scan of your brain at nanometer scale, send this data to wherever you want to go as a coherent beam of light (laser) and have the guy on the other hand rebuild your brain atom by atom. To the brain that would awake on the other side, the trip would have been instantaneous. Wether it's still you or someone else, ask philosophers.