Alright I think I'm going to write a brief taxonomy of teleportation models. A few off the top of my head: Crowbar, Comb and Switch
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3-switch teleportation: source arrives at target, target volume "disappears", matter from a MYSTERIOUS THIRD PLACE arrives at source
Shout out to wormhole "teleportation", otherwise known as "just walking through an odd door" (c.f. Stargate)
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Shout out to simply assembling a copy of the source at the target using nanobots, which I hereby dub: "printing"
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Oh and of course this classichttps://twitter.com/hexapodium/status/742846768765906944 …
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what's up with the scare quotes? the wormhole carries (portare) you to a remote (tele-) place, possibly one unreachable without it
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