What kind of translation? Language translation? It's not that hard to find good English-Swedish or Swedish-English interpreters. Spatial translation? I think the idea is that Iran would become Sweden, rather than that Sweden would move to Iran. I am not sure if there would then be two Swedens, or if something else would occupy the geographic area now occupied by Sweden. I suppose one could argue that an essential part of being Sweden is to be located in Europe, and that therefore if Iran turns into Sweden it would have to be relocated to Europe....
Genetic translation? I really don't see how that applies. Bodily-ascent-to-Heaven-without-death translation? That does raise the interesting question of what happens to the people when a country of 81 million people suddenly turns into a country of 10 million. Do they vanish? Did they ever exist? Are they assumed bodily into some sort of existence outside this physical universe? What about conservation of mass-energy?
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Date: 2015-04-08 01:12 am (UTC)Genetic translation? I really don't see how that applies. Bodily-ascent-to-Heaven-without-death translation? That does raise the interesting question of what happens to the people when a country of 81 million people suddenly turns into a country of 10 million. Do they vanish? Did they ever exist? Are they assumed bodily into some sort of existence outside this physical universe? What about conservation of mass-energy?