Isn't a teletransporter sort of the opposite of a time machine?

If matter is equal to energy or maybe matter is made of energy, why couldn't you convert matter to energy and send it like email to where ever you wanted to convert it back to matter? Wouldn't it then be the same matter? I really think that is the way Scottie does it? Doesn't the person (matter) fade away on the transporter and then fade in at the selected place?

If transportation has gone from horse and buggy to space ships and jet planes in little more than a century, and communication has gone from pony express to email, then couldn't Scottie's transporter logically become reality a century from now?

Are all of these sentences interrogative?
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