re: Shrinking the Milky Way to NY to LA, Voyager 1 has only traveled 3.84 inches

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the energy required to break atomic and quantum bonds is too great to overcome

the computing power to store the information about the position and spin of every subatomic particle in a human body is incomprehensible.

the only way a teleporter could work would be to vaporized you, store your information, beam that information to another location and the reassemble you from organic and inorganic matter supplies.

you would essentially be a copy

this topic and others is discussed in a great book called the Physics of Star Trek.

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