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| Feb 9, 2015 at 5:28 | comment | added | user4894 | @Okopp Yes, you couldn't measure down to the atomic level without changing it. And you can't measure both position and momentum to arbitrary precision. That's also Heisenberg. But even in classical physics, all measurement is approximate. Teleportation needs to measure the exact position of trillions of atoms. It seems very unlikely even with advanced technology. | |
| Feb 9, 2015 at 5:12 | comment | added | Okopp | Interesting refutation. Would that also be like the Heisenberg Uncertainty principal where measuring an atom will alter it in some way? Thus, the original would have the altered atoms while the clone would have the unaltered atoms. | |
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| Feb 9, 2015 at 3:53 | history | answered | user4894 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |