Not to poo poo on your theory because this is all fake anyways but to your point brains are weird and we make shit up all the time when we can’t or just don’t understand how something works.
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
I don’t subscribe to the Star Trek teleporters killing you. They turn you into energy on one side, shoot that energy across subspace to the other end, and recombine you back into matter.
Why do I believe this? Because of several episodes where transported crew members, including Barclay, describe the sensation and what they see as they stream through the energy/matter conversion field. If they can describe the feeling and visual stimuli from end to end, I don’t see how it’s 2 different entities. It’s the same one, converted from matter to energy and back again.
evidences@lemmy.world 8 months ago
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The problem is that transporters don’t actually exist, so there isn’t a “real” way in which they work. The show presented several different descriptions for how they worked, and the functionality had whatever feature the plot demanded.
So you get the ship’s doctor who avoids it because she thinks it’s basically as described in this cartoon, you get the copy of Riker from the time he Schrodinger escaped from that planet, you’ve got the autosaved DNA sequences that helped them reset after a virus was about to kill everyone, and you get teleported people perceiving their trip. All of that can coexist because it isn’t consistent. Star Trek has some excellent detail, and explores some interesting hard scifi topics, but it’s still just fiction.