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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Not infinite. Converts organized matter into other organized matter. You could put a person in one side and pop a cheeseburger out the other but once the mass of the person is gone you aren't getting anymore cheeseburgers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Infinite loop detected: conservation of mass applies to cycles too as long as nuclear reactions don’t get involved.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah and it depends on era too. There's the whole protein resequencer thing in one and similar technology as a teleporter but all the same sorta thing. Ie. Matter converted to energy and back to matter.