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I read a James Blish "Star Trek" novel many years ago (1970s I think) called "Spock Must Die!"

Blish posited a very, very long-distance transporter breakthrough using tachyons to allow basically "FTL" teleportation that could project the "passenger" a very long way (not just the 16,000 km or whatever the limit was in the old ST series).

The hitch: The tachyons in your body "entangled" with tachyons at the other end, and it was really a sort of "clone" of you that showed up at the other end.

Don't remember all the implications--I was only about 12 or so when I read it--but it sounds like a similar concept, probably based on the same Einsteinian physics.

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The hitch: The tachyons in your body "entangled" with tachyons at the other end, and it was really a sort of "clone" of you that showed up at the other end.

I've often wondered how anyone on Star Trek knows that they're not just getting killed and cloned every time they step into a regular transporter.