The point in question is whether the matter/energy is directly transported and used to reconstitute someone, or if the information for reconstitution is transmitted and local matter used to reconstitute the thing being transported. A “ship of theseus”-esque query
Matter is energy. You’d turn energy into matter.
But that doesn’t account for the transporter clones. You can’t make two men out of the matter/energy of one
The problem is we’re taking about something that’s physically impossible in our universe. So at some point it breaks down…
That’s why they have a magical device called a Heisenberg compensator. To remove quantum effects from the universe…which is obviously impossible.
The point in question is whether the matter/energy is directly transported and used to reconstitute someone, or if the information for reconstitution is transmitted and local matter used to reconstitute the thing being transported. A “ship of theseus”-esque query