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You see, gentlemen, what has always been the problem with teleporting over large distances is Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle,13 since the object teleported, that’s from tele, “I see”, and porte, “to go”, the whole meaning “I see it’s gone”, er, the object teleported, er, no matter how large, is reduced to a thaumic particle and is therefore the subject of an eventually fatal dichotomy: it can either know what it is or where it is going, but not both. Er, the tension this creates in the morphic field eventually causes it to disintegrate, leaving the subject as a randomly shaped object, er, ...more
Interesting Times (Discworld, #17)
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