• mkwt@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    According to the non canon Star Trek Technical Manual, the transporter physically disassembles your particles, moves them to the destination location, and reassembles them with quark level accuracy. So-called “Heisenberg compensators” are a key technology to allow this to occur.

    The on screen canon is at least somewhat consistent with this, but maybe not entirely.