Have you heard of the Banach-Tarski paradox? It states that if you have a solid object, you can take it apart into five pieces, rotate and move the pieces, and put them back together to get two copies of the original object. Of course, this might be theoretically possible, but nobody has ever done it. In the 1800s a reclusive scientist named Bernhard Riemann claimed to have done it in his lab, and said as much in a publication. However, his laboratory burned down before he could ever show off his results. It's clearly impossible, but Riemann died before he could ever replicate the experiment. Of course, what if you could take apart a person, rotate them and put them back together to get two people? It's clearly nonsense, but imagine if...
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