Everyone seems to be figuring out my previous discussion threads, so,
while your brains are still in custard form, I'll hit you with
another...
The problems that everyone says would exist with Star Trek's matter
transporters are: firstly, how does one record all that information, and
secondly, how does one overcome Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, ie.
that you can't work out a particle's position and also its velocity at a
given moment!
The first is easy - do the 24th century equivalent of a ZIP file, ie.
say that there are so many particles of one sort in one area -
basically, on a slightly grander scale, how artists divide their
subjects into 3-D shapes to simplify it. That's an over-simplification,
but I think you see my idea.
The other is even easier - simply wait for each particle to reach a
certain position, and then gague its velocity there! That's the only
explanation I can think up to sort out this problem (apart from "work
out its velocity with one sensor and its position with another at the
same time", which is just wooly thinking). Surely it wouldn't matter
all that much, just as long as we get them in roughly the right places,
as physics would take care of the rest!
Incidentally, would matter transporters involve turning matter into
energy and transmitting it, or, as in the book Spock Must Die! (which at
least one person out there must have read), would it involve something
of which Dr.McCoy does *not* approve, which is creating a copy at the
target and effectively destroying the original? I'll let the physicists
take their time over this one (come on, the light sabre problem was
easy!).
Incidentally, Pringlespanion seems to have quoted a crackpot American
spiritualist thing which my mother recommended to me, named "The
Celestine Prophecy" - which, among other things, said that the reason
all those particles were where the physicists expected them to be is
because they respond to thought! I'm not allowed to say any more - if
you want to receive these insights, you have to read the book! Or
something. And yes, my mother isn't like the average old baggage who
just says "Ooh, are you eating well?" - it's her fault that, by parental
rebellion, I turned into such a shy geeky kind of guy!
I'll be back this evening to check up on events - you have all done
well! Except for whoever it was that got scared by my mention of the
Cat/Bread-and-butter anti-gravity drive, and killed those two cats that
everyone keeps mentioning (I haven't watched Big B regularly in ages,
and I don't read tabloid trash!).
D.Chilard
while your brains are still in custard form, I'll hit you with
another...
The problems that everyone says would exist with Star Trek's matter
transporters are: firstly, how does one record all that information, and
secondly, how does one overcome Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, ie.
that you can't work out a particle's position and also its velocity at a
given moment!
The first is easy - do the 24th century equivalent of a ZIP file, ie.
say that there are so many particles of one sort in one area -
basically, on a slightly grander scale, how artists divide their
subjects into 3-D shapes to simplify it. That's an over-simplification,
but I think you see my idea.
The other is even easier - simply wait for each particle to reach a
certain position, and then gague its velocity there! That's the only
explanation I can think up to sort out this problem (apart from "work
out its velocity with one sensor and its position with another at the
same time", which is just wooly thinking). Surely it wouldn't matter
all that much, just as long as we get them in roughly the right places,
as physics would take care of the rest!
Incidentally, would matter transporters involve turning matter into
energy and transmitting it, or, as in the book Spock Must Die! (which at
least one person out there must have read), would it involve something
of which Dr.McCoy does *not* approve, which is creating a copy at the
target and effectively destroying the original? I'll let the physicists
take their time over this one (come on, the light sabre problem was
easy!).
Incidentally, Pringlespanion seems to have quoted a crackpot American
spiritualist thing which my mother recommended to me, named "The
Celestine Prophecy" - which, among other things, said that the reason
all those particles were where the physicists expected them to be is
because they respond to thought! I'm not allowed to say any more - if
you want to receive these insights, you have to read the book! Or
something. And yes, my mother isn't like the average old baggage who
just says "Ooh, are you eating well?" - it's her fault that, by parental
rebellion, I turned into such a shy geeky kind of guy!
I'll be back this evening to check up on events - you have all done
well! Except for whoever it was that got scared by my mention of the
Cat/Bread-and-butter anti-gravity drive, and killed those two cats that
everyone keeps mentioning (I haven't watched Big B regularly in ages,
and I don't read tabloid trash!).
D.Chilard