TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

It did conserve his mass. Twice. At the same time.

And IIRC, some weird shit in the atmosphere during transport was the source of any extra energy needed to have created the new matter.

Conservation of mass-energy only really applies if you rely on the old 21st century idea that the universe's fundamentals consist of time, space, matter, and energy.

Anyone who's had a secondary school education knows that that's an outmoded view of the universe. They didn't realise that subspace existed, in much the same way that they did not realise that surviving records show that 21st century humans did not know the Earth was round until Cochrane took to orbit in the late 2000s, and proved it.

The real question is why didn't she recreate the accident to double Tuvix before splitting one of them back into Tuvok and Neelix?

i always figured that the transporter was ultimately just a scanner and the beaming in process is the same as being replicated, but the replication has to be done while the scanner is running because there's simply too much data to actually store long-term unless you're willing to use the whole ship/station/whatever as a buffer, like that one DS9 episode. and i guess the scan requires a level of detail it can only get from the source destructively which is why it isn't a clone unless the beam gets reflected? or something? this is one of those things that makes less sense the more you try and figure it, and suddenly a literal matter stream somehow seems more feasible

maybe ships have Einstein Compensators or some shit allowing 1:1 matter energy conversion but it only works on transporters so you can't make a perpetual energy machine? i need to lie down

The transporter has a failsafe to replace missing atoms or molecules that didn't make the trip by pulling from reserves. It got a lock, attempted transport, then got an error saying 7x10^27 atoms didn't make it and replaced them, leaving the original Riker on the planet and constructing an entirely new Riker on the Potemkin's transporter pad. Thomas is the original, Will is the clone.

It took the mass from the replicator. Fewer tacos were served that day.

Pfft. Uh, hello reversed polarity?!

It's the same way replicator technology works. They're reassembling matter that's been stored for that purpose. Two Rikers just means less matter is left in the storage buffer.

Can you imagine how much energy is stored in a transporter buffer?

I mean, they're flying around in a big engine that bends the fabric of space, so maybe it's not such a big deal a few hundred years in the future. I guess it's like comparing a furnace and bellows with a nuclear reactor.

The same way you killed Tuvix.

Oh boy now I'm vaklempt

Ahem: a second transporter beam locked on to his signal. Since the transporter uses that beam to convert physical matter into an energy pattern there were in essence 2 matter converted energy patterns. The energy came from the transporter.

Wasn’t there an energy fluctuation, so more energy could be entered into the system.

But also, Banach Tarski. On the subatomic level, maybe these types of shenanigans could manifest.

Edit: it turns out that copying a person requires a lot of energy, more than a heavy storm would have over years.

They cached 1 oz of 💩 from each of the previous 3000 transports.

Because of Quantum