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Re:Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow by logfromblammo on Monday April 15, 2019 @12:05PM (#19666322)
So...

Two entangled wormhole apertures function as Star Trek style transporter pads. Feed mass into one hole, scanning it as it goes in. Transmit the pattern to another aperture of the hole, using electromagnetic energy at the speed of light, and when that end ejects a mass, apply the pattern to it, so it resolves into an exact copy of what you put in.

The distance the mass travels may be shorter than the distance the energy travels, but it can't resolve exiting mass as that object until the information--that had to travel at the speed of light--arrives.

So you could potentially use a wormhole as a suicide machine that transports a copy of you, that thinks it actually is you, to a distant location no faster than the speed of light, in zero subjective time for the thing that will then think it's you.

Is that a reasonable interpretation?

Re:Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow by ben_w on Monday April 15, 2019 @12:13PM (#19666417)
I don’t think the suicide booth model of a teleporter fits a quantum teleporter model, only the 3D printer teleporter model. From a quantum point of view, all (e.g.) electrons are indistinguishable excitations in the same field, and it’s the pattern that makes you “you”. If you’ll forgive a bit of poetic licence, quantum teleportation seems more like Discworld magic, where you have to exchange two identical sized lumps of matter.
Re:Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow by pontifier on Monday April 15, 2019 @01:21PM (#19666976)
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/1

Edit:Lol, someone else also had this link as a reply to a similar thought.

Re:Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow by lloeki on Monday April 15, 2019 @12:16PM (#19666433)
This sounds like the science-fiction version of a cryogenic scam.