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It's the same one.
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- Have you turned magician?
- In a way.
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For a split second, an infinitesimal part
of a second, this was disintegrated.
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For one little moment it no longer existed.
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Only atoms travelling through space
at the speed of light.
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Then a moment later integrated again
into the shape of an ashtray.
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Oh, you're joking!
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Doesn't sound possible, does it?
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- But it is true.
- It is impossible.
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- You're playing some joke on me.
- Take television. What happens?
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A stream of electrons-sound and picture
impulses-are transmitted through the air.
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The TV camera is the disintegrator.
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Your set unscrambles or integrates
the electrons back into pictures and sound.
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Yes, but this is different.
:31:48
- Why?
- Well, because it's impossible.
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Fifty years ago,
if my father were told he could sit in Montreal
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and watch a World Series in New York
as it happened, he'd say it was impossible.
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- This is the same principle exactly.
- But it's not the same.
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- This is solid.
- No, it's not. To your touch maybe it is.
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But in reality it's billions of atoms,
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which we believe are only
a series of electrical impulses.
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You actually did this? It's no trick?
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No. I can transport matter-anything -
at the speed of light, perfectly.
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Of course this is only a crude beginning.
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But I've stumbled on
the most important discovery
:32:34
since man sawed off the end of a tree trunk
and found the wheel.
:32:39
The disintegrator-integrator
will change life as we know it.
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Think what it means. Anything, even humans,
will go through one of these devices.
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No need for cars or railways or airplanes,
even spaceships.
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We'll set up matter-receiving stations
throughout the world, and later the universe.
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There'll never be famine.
:32:57
Surpluses can be sent instantaneously
at almost no cost, anywhere.