Neil deGrasse Tyson talks to Marques Brownlee about teleportation

[SOUND] You can reconstruct the same shape in a different place, but remembering where each molecule is inside that shape. So et's go to a star Trek style teleportation. So it disassembles your molecules turns into a beam of energy. Reassembles it on the other side. Alright, so is that still you? I have to say no, it is a copy of you. And basically you just divided yourself into two basically cloning. Now how do we turn that into you? What we need to do is not simply copy the molecules You have to copy the neuro synaptic memories that you carry in your brains molecules, right? So it disappears here shows up over there. It is there instantly so that all your particles will disappear simultaneously and then show up in another place. I don't know how to Teleport memories that exists in the static molecules of your brain. [MUSIC]