Sci-Fi Story: "the Laws of Nature Prohibit This"
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pwdisswordfishy
about 2 months ago
> By “Nature” I mean the journal, and by “the laws” I mean their internal bylaws. If we wanted to publish our research in “Nature”, we had to have guardrails preventing us from leaving the original in place — a mess of arcane bureaucratic rules allowed teleportation but not duplication of live animals.
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