But there’s a difference. Don’t read on if you prefer your version of reality (it’s all just made up anyways… to a large extend, at least).
Transporters don’t technically “move” matter in the traditional sense. They dematerialize a person or object into an energy pattern, transmit that pattern to a destination, and then rematerialize it using stored molecular data.
Philosophically, this raises questions about continuity of consciousness. Some argue it’s more like copying and deleting than moving.
The Warp Drive on the other hand manipulates spacetime. It creates a subspace bubble around the ship, allowing it to travel faster than light by distorting the space ahead and behind it. This means that matter isn’t converted or transmitted. It stays intact and is carried through warped space.
So yes, both are “movement” technologies. One is teleportation via disassembly, and the other is locomotion via spacetime manipulation. But they are inherently different.
I will geek out for the rest of my day after this.
Why can’t we accept that the transporter “moves” matter, but warp travel does. I always saw it as similar things at the end of the day.
I get you. I want it to be that too.
But there’s a difference. Don’t read on if you prefer your version of reality (it’s all just made up anyways… to a large extend, at least).
Transporters don’t technically “move” matter in the traditional sense. They dematerialize a person or object into an energy pattern, transmit that pattern to a destination, and then rematerialize it using stored molecular data.
Philosophically, this raises questions about continuity of consciousness. Some argue it’s more like copying and deleting than moving.
The Warp Drive on the other hand manipulates spacetime. It creates a subspace bubble around the ship, allowing it to travel faster than light by distorting the space ahead and behind it. This means that matter isn’t converted or transmitted. It stays intact and is carried through warped space.
So yes, both are “movement” technologies. One is teleportation via disassembly, and the other is locomotion via spacetime manipulation. But they are inherently different.
I will geek out for the rest of my day after this.
Then yes, they’re mercifully killing the originals and replacing them with clones.
I wonder if there ever has been someone in the ST universe that didn’t want to be teleported due faith or ethics reasons.