ascendedmind wrote at
21 Jun 2011 10:43 AM GMT: Apparently it works because they say it works & were supposed to believe it w/o any supporting facts. It's where theory is now considered scientific.
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Rayzorblades wrote: If you could use probability manipulation to cause all the particles of your body to tunnel the exact same direction and distance simultaneously, it'd be fine. Just an instant FTL blip from point A to point B. And yeah you'd be identical because it wouldn't be the "Star Trek" disintegrator-reintegrator facsimile version, it'd be YOU just blipping out and in.
That implies that nothing will get in the way during transport. The blipping in and out only happens objectively to an outside observer. I am almost certain that subjectively a great deal of time passes subjectively (like in the movie with Jodie Foster).
Rayzorblades wrote: Granted that is a HUGE "if", and as to your first question, no I'd probably never do it unless it was EFFING PERFECT or as close to perfect as could be. <span class="postbody">
There's the point of contention. What is "as perfect as possible" and who defines what that is? You already know there is a margin of error built in. Are you going to be the teleportnik that triggers the error? Who exactly did the testing to determine that
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