On 15 February 2014 11:27, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I was merely using teleportation as an example to illustrate that
> "possible" is a relative concept depending on the accessiblity relation.
>  What does "possible in principle" mean?  Does it only mean "not self
> contradictory"?  Does it mean consistent with our best understanding of
> physics?  Lawrence Krauss discusses the possibility in his book "The
> Physics of Star Trek".  He estimates that it would take more energy than
> available in the Milky Way just to obtain the information to teleport a
> human being.  Of course putting that much mass/energy in the vicinity of
> the human being would create a black hole.
>

...and that's WITH Heisenberg compensators!

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