>>27693454Teleporters will never exist in the way we want them to, unfortunately. Maxwell's Demon ensures that even if we have a supercomputer that can read every atom of a person and we encode that as data and send it to another computer for the person to be recreated (this is also not an instantaneous process, but bear with me), the inevitable entropy gain has to be given to something. Since you obviously don't want to give entropy to the person, or the person's data, it would by necessity be given to the computer, thus leading to inefficiencies. Meaning after some number of teleports (more like copy-pastes that take a long time and expensive materials) the machine itself would soon become unable to accurately reproduce a person. This is also not counting the entropy gain of the printing computer, which would gain entropy simply from the act of reading the encoded data.
Michael Chrichton's Timeline has a pretty good example of this. They use Chaos Theory and the Multiverse Theory, the quantum sea of information, yada yada to send people into near-identical pasts as part of a high-end touristy thing. Want to watch a speech by lincoln? Watch the first nuke go off? Well, entropy fucks some dude over in the intro. The inefficiencies in the machine eventually led to a desync with the recreate, and when his body is recreated in the present, all of his body is shifted like 1mm along a plane through him, and his arteries are misaligned and he dies of internal bleeding. Shits brutal.
