Would that mean that you would be killed, but you would not die?

Or a fly could hop on into the teleporter with you.

An exact particle for particle clone will have all the same memories and in essence be a continuation of you, but not you. You'd be dead. It wouldn't be you.

I suppose so.

I guess a helpful anology would be to look at the fundamental level of the universe as a great big bookkeeping ledger. Elementary particles have this way of 'broadcasting' their information across the whole ledger, you could say that they in fact are that information. When for instance an electron pair gets pulled apart they remain in 'contact' no matter the distance between them. In such pairs one of them spins clockwise and the other counterclockwise. If you could capture one half of the pair and force its spin to reverse, the spin of its wayward twin would reverse at the same moment, no matter the distance between them, in order to keep this clockwise - counterclockwise thing going on.

So you could say that just like in a business ledger, if you add a number to one column, you have to substract it from another in order for the whole thing to keep making sense.

Thus, what happens in matter teleportation, which is the spanning of distance without any timelike component, is that there literally isn't enough time for the information to move about as it normally would.

To continue the anology, a number wouldn't gradually move up in a column as new numbers were added, it would suddenly shift an entire page. The way to make sense of that in bookkeeping would be to add a minus sign to one of the numbers because you can't have the two of them existing on different pages at the same time.

You would be you in all the ways that would matter and certainly in all the ways that are provable to man.

You'd be more you than you would be after a good nights sleep because after so many hours the molecular composition of your body will have changed. The living bits are no longer built up out of the exact same ones as when you went to sleep.

After a teleport however you'd be the you that was just somewhere else down to the level of the same electrons and protons, as far as the universe is concerned.

Entanglement. But how could we focus and relocate the entangled particles when they may be spread all over the place. We'd need a Heisenberg Compensator.

A Feynman radio would also be nice.

Before this happens I think there will have to be some kind of evolving in the overall intelligence and coordination of human beings. Just look at how people can barely drive their vehicles properly today, can you imagine if they were all piloting flying vehicles?

It has happened, just not the way he wants it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2398795/Chocks-away-Flying-CAR-makes-aviation-history-taking-public-flights.html

Yeah, I was about to say that it has already been done, more or less, but mass production for the public and rush-hour flight paths are a long way off I think...

I was thinking along the lines of automated anti-collision and safety systems, but I'm not opposed to people becoming smarter as well. That just seems less likely than computer-controlled flying cars.

Dat is a driving plane. http://cdn.visualnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/6-Flying-Cars-ConvairCar_Model_118.jpg is a flying car.

Well, they are actually cars but with wings. I have seen them before, not live of course but on the Science channel. You can drive it just like a car or fly it like a plane.

Must look more car-like. And have cup holders.

I bet it has cup holders.

The key to achieving hover vehicles: magnets. Have a superconductor at a low temperature wrapped around a magnet and placed inside a vehicle and over a road made of ferromagnetic material. Rigid levitation. Move the vehicle back and forth and such with small "rockets" built in. Land by deactivating or somehow reducing the power of the superconductor.

Unless I said that wrong, in which case someone can correct me. I think that's how that works. There must be a lot of gaps in that design, though.

I'm waiting for miniature tacos from Taco Bell, where just one fills you up. Ala Demolition Man.

Blah!! I am waiting for Taco Bell to just go away... Last time I ate at Taco "Hell" I got a chicken soft-taco. Now I don't what kind of processed, fake chicken that was suppose to be but OMG.. I took one bite and spat it out and never ate there again, it tasted like lemons.. kinda but not good lemons... I have never been able to explain it.

Their supposed beef to.... gross!!! Have you ever took a little bit of their beef and ate it by itself?... it's not beef, it just can't be.

LOL! I was thinking of this movie too! Wonder if it's on Netflix.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9U2ekOVL5Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tg3-93jKvc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQkDOs-EtdU

I think I would be happier with a Sleep Chamber from Chrono Trigger.

Or large fans. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/08/aeroflex-jedi-hover-bike/

The flying car is nothing compared to the http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/AntonovA40.jpg.

Using fans would be too dangerous, IMO. Magnets are much safer.

However, magnets would also be insanely expensive.

So are damages to government property and other people sustaining injuries.

But road repairs... Yeah, my logic is flawed.

Unless they found a super cheap magnetic alternative.

Of course that same type of logic can be applied to a hover bike/car, except with safe.

And yet we predominantly use it to argue with strangers and look at pictures of cats. This is proof that mankind is doomed to dystopia, rather than the gleaming utopias envisaged by early-middle 20th century scifi.

I might like it more if it actually worked; I remember there seemed to be an assumption in sci-fi that voice recognition would be easy and voice synthesis incredibly hard...

I knew this had to be brought up sometime.

Merely a shred of evidence amongst the vast pile of stupid remarks and decisions made by people over the last decade. I should stop talking, it's not like I'm better than any one of those fools.