Teleportation: Alternative Approach
Me and some friends were having a talk-cock session over dinner just today when the topic of how expensive fuel prices are becoming and how it's eating into the airline industry especially. Unlike cars it is virtually impossible to load hybrid engines into planes because they are simply not powerful enough.
Then the age-old idea of teleportation came into the conversation that if it would succeed, would undoubtedly solve the world's logistics problem once and for all. Teleportation is still impossible because the theory of deconstructing a person's molecular structure, sending it through the air and reconstructing it in perfect order is dangerous and illegal in so many ways.
But 50 years ago the idea of sending physical documents through cables and the air seemed like science fiction too. Then fax machines came along. It dawned to me that we've been looking at teleportation all wrong. What if we use faxes as the basis of developing teleportation technology?
Imagine the world full of teleportation stations sending and receiving people. But instead of deconstructing and reconstructing the DNA of a person, the sending station merely sends information of that person over the air. This information pack will include every little details of the person, most importantly his/her memories and everything that is in the brains.
The receiving end of the teleportation travel will prepare a generic body out from a storage freezer behind. This body will receive the relevant information and map out the DNA of the travelling person to form a copy of the said person himself. When the process is complete and all vital signs checked out, the sending end of the service will receive a go ahead to dispose of the 'original' body.
Yes this sounds completely outrageous and scary. But if you think about it, the important areas that make up a person are the physical appearance and the memories. With that, one can sufficiently deduce that all else is redundant. So if we are able to store and transport the data, and reconstruct a person based on these mapping information, we can safely say we have created a teleportation theory that works. So each time you teleport you create a doppelganger of yourself. But because there will always only be one of you, the doppelganger becomes you.
The moral of this story is to never under estimate talk-cock sessions. Because when we eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
