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From: Lubkin@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU
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Subject: transporters
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 17:24:49 EDT
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From: "Lubkin David"@LLL-MFE.ARPA


The unofficial official explanation for how the Enterprise's transporters
work is that they convert matter to energy, zap the energy somewhere, and
then convert the energy back to matter, *not* by scanning your body for
information content, blasting you, and then making a new one at the other
end, as Blish unfortunately explained in _Spock Must Diet_.
    
Given this, is it still the same you after beaming down?