On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Chilard D wrote:
The matter transportation process mentioned by Mr.Pringlespanion (or Ben
to his friends - who or what's a Pringlespanion?) sounds rather like the
teleportation method used by the IRA-style terrorists in that ST:TNG
episode "The High Ground" which I mentioned in my first E-mail last
week... to quote some old fogey in Dr.Who: "We've come full circle!"
Oops, I musta missed it. I'm good at that.
However, this means of transport, although allowing such amazing feats
as travelling through several km. of solid rock (I think the Enterprise
transporters had trouble with that, as a plot device), also apparently
did nasty things to the metabolism - basically, the terrorists made
themselves more ill every time they zapped themselves into populated
areas to blow up innocent people or whatever it is the IRA and its
parallels do of an evening. (Sorry - I retract that statement before I
start up yet another flame war!) So, it seems that, in order to not
kill ourselves and create copies, cause huge explosions of energy, or
transform ourselves into small puddles of smoking hydrocarbons, we have
to condemn ourselves to slow, painful, lingering death! (And have
Who says that ST:TNG is correct?
Dr.Crusher stare blankly at us in silent protest! Boy, did she ever
look daft...)
By the way, how exactly does changing the velocity or position of a
quark by an infinitesimal degree change the nature of matter? I thought
Why by an infinitesimal degree? If we don't know it, we don't know it.
Remember the probability waveforms I KEEP talking about. They contain
EVERY possibility for the position of the particle. Including an infinity
of really strange ones.
Match velocities and the position will be wrong (so matter gets screwed up
as the wrong quarks join) match position, and velocity is wrong. Many will
simply fly apart and again rejoin with the wrong particles.
Besides it's simply not as simple as not knowing both position and
velocity at the same time. That's just a model to get you started with the
strangeness of quantum theory. I think. (Certainly every time I say that
to a physicist, they scowl and say 'sort of...')So the whole argument is
flawed anyway. I was simply trying to shout him down at his level.
a proton was just two downs and an up (or the other way around, I
forget) - what matter (pun not intended) which position they're in, as
long as they're in roughly the right place? (I'm not taunting, I'm
asking for enlightenment - I genuinely want to know if this is yet
another stumbling block to my plans for world dom... er... never mind!)
'Everything I am about to tell you is lies, but they are entertaining
lies, and isn't that the greater truth? The answer is no.'
Leonard Nimoy, I believe.
Ben.
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