You were once an intelligent, youngish wannabe scientist working for some of the top brains in the country. You were heralded for your capabilities and actively head-hunted. But that all changed recently.
You managed to obtain a research contract in clandestine organisation. The pay was not so great, but the experience was amazing. You were working in a state-of-the-art quantum-relativity fabrication laboratory, helping to create a cutting-edge teleporter capable of transmitting not just massless particles such as photons, but massive particles like as protons and whole atomic nuclei.
The results were wildly successful - completely beyond expectation. Soon, the research group's attention turned to larger and larger targets. Molecules at first, but then simple acids, followed rapidly by proteins a few months later. All of them were teleported from one teleporter pad to another with apparent ease, albeit with increasing power consumption requirements.
And then came the suggestion. It was a quite natural progression really, considering the obvious profit that should flow from it: could the teleporter pad also transmit humans across the room to another pad?
Convinced that the teleporter worked, you hardly hesitated to volunteer. In hind-sight, ethical approval should have been sought. An experiment on a lab mouse should have been done first. Something went seriously wrong...
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