Sorry about that ridiculous watermark.
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But if that's how it works, how can we account for the duplication scenarios? The matter for the duplicate would have to come from somewhere. I think it's more likely to be that the information for construction is trasmitted, especially with how often they use the concept of the tranportation buffer. But they dont ever specify I dont think so it's all speculation
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