Who Invented the Transporter?

Fictional history
According to dialogue in the Star Trek: Enterprise ("ENT") episode "Daedalus", the transporter was invented in the early 22nd century by Dr. Emory Erickson, who also became the first human to be successfully transported.

Is the Star Trek transporter possible?

It's impossible to know both the position and momentum of even one particle at the same time, much less multiple particles at once. Without that information, you have no way of knowing the quantum state of a particle, so it seems that a transporter would be impossible. ... That's where quantum teleportation comes in.

Can the transporter clone people?

A transporter duplicate resulted when a transporter accident created two copies of the same person or object. ... Kirk were duplicated in 2266 after a strange ore from the planet Alfa 177 altered the transporter's function. Though physically identical, each copy lacked certain personality traits of the original.

Maya Lin-Takahashi

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