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Re: [Phys-l] Star Trek

Larry Smith wrote:
I did
mention an SF story where teleportation was achieved by replicating the
original individual, and destroying the original.
This is a plot device in the movie "The Prestige" where Tesla invents a
machine for a magician.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/

Larry
It was an uncomfortable moment of this story to understand that the unwanted alter ego was dispatched in a water column, like unwanted kittens of the not so distant past.

Brian W