Timeline for Does any science-fiction handle the ethics of teleportation ("kill and clone")?
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| Feb 22, 2011 at 1:13 | comment | added | DampeS8N | @chaos: If what the transporter does what it is claimed to, it isn't technobabble. Particles in the same quantum state are indistinguishable from each other, they are the same particle. So a complete duplication of yourself on the quantum level would be you in all the same logical ways that the initial one was you. | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 16:49 | comment | added | chaos | It's also addressed in, if I recall correctly, First Contact, when Zefram Cochrane is horrified by the transporter, assuming it must be a kill-and-clone mechanism, and it's explained to him that that isn't the case because of quantum technobabble. | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 15:39 | history | answered | Timwi | CC BY-SA 2.5 |