Re: How to achieve inner-body travel

:: This doesn't really make any sense.

: James Landau <savegraduation@xxxxxxxxx>
: Since I don't exactly understand why it's impossible,

He didn't say it was impossible. He said it didn't make sense. It
doesn't make sense to use the term "lepton" for something which has the
effects you describe. And further, the effects yhou describe are
ill-defined. As pointed out elsethread, the notion of a fundamental
particle "growing" isn't meaningful without lots of of background about
what the "size" of a fundamental particle means, in any sense that
relates to the macroscopic world.

Or put another way, it seems very *very* VERY unlikely that
any physicist would call an entity that causes the effects described
(presuming they were described a bit more meaningfully) a "lepton".
There might, I suppose, conceivably be some lepton-like qualities that
led to such a naming convention, but you haven't described any.

Plus, of course, the next lepton "shouldn't"d (in some sense) be named "nu",
given conjectures about the relationships of the first three lepton glyphs.
But that's small potatoes give the larger problems of meaninglessness
and/or senselessness of the basic notion.

All in all, if you want technobabble excuses for miniaturization processes
like those in "Fantasic Voyage", I'd recommend reading Asimov's book
adaptations. You'd be better off updating some blither about atoms being
a projection of some higher level interaction, and finding some effect
which fiddles with the size mapping of this projection. And definitely
without calling it a "lepton"; it'd be more meaningful to consider it
like some manipulation of spacetime than of particles.

Or put it this way. Problems come from supposing particles "get
smaller". You really want things inside the miniaturized object to work
as normal. So better to suppose that what's going on is that the
*interface* or *relationship* between the region of space inside the
miniaturized object and the outside has been altered in some
technobabblish way. That way, you don't have to deal with things like
how miniaturized atoms still manage to have EM, gravity, and other
interactions among themselves that let chemistry and biology and
electronics and suchlike things exist inside
macroscopic-yet-miniaturized objects.


Wayne Throop throopw@xxxxxxxxx http://sheol.org/throopw
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