Oops. I’ve taken the film off a microwave pack of worms without waiting for it to cool with this Transmat lark. My good friend and correspondent Gouldy writes:

Another thing to bear in mind is the processing power needed to copy a person - you’d need to freeze them comletely to 0 kelvin so [...]

Kate, our resident Information Officer, fastidious to a tee, spotted that there is a novel of some description called ‘transmat’ and wondered how much I had pinched from it to make my last blog post. The answer is none. I suspect the term ‘transmat’ is quite old, as I got it from an [...]

The future. We have the technology to transfer matter by energy beams, though it seems a cruel parody of the star-trek transporter so optimistically fantasised in the middle of the 20th century.
Colloquially known as ‘faxing’, transmatter allows travel at the speed of light but for the most part is useful only for solid objects [...]