Re: How William Shatner Changed the World

On Tue, 23 May 2006 09:15:29 GMT, "Schrodinger" <no@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Getting pretty good write ups in weekend papers, although everyone
knows that communicators in Star Trek are today's mobile phones and the
small video screens have also become a reality.

But anyone who thinks that food replicators that also produce tableware
(like when when Picard says "tea, Earl Grey, hot" you get the tea plus
cup and saucer and spoon too) and transporters coming true need to get
help...., and this is from an ex-Trekkie.

Watched this a few months ago. It's not actually that interesting but
Shatner is always amusing to watch.

As for food replicators, the scientific theory to be able to do this
is already there, nanotechnology to manipulate at molecular level is
already happening so theoretically such machines could be common place
at some point in the future.

Transportation of a single molecule has taken place too. Again, early
steps but if the scientific principle exists then who knows. Imagine a
couple hundred years ago and telling someone about TV, phone
cimmunication and the internet, transplant surgery, IVF and myriad
other things.
--
Mike Plowman
"Hey you, Horror Face. I'm a Printhead"

I seem to recall that they haven't transported a molecule, more a quark or
something of that order. IIRC it relied on quantum theory that every
particle is somehow connected/related to every other, and changing the state
of a particle in one place can trigger the other particle changing state at
exactly the same time.

I couldn't be bothered looking it up, but I think it also relied on space
being curved, as otherwise it would have gone against Einstein's theories.


You're right about it not being a molecule; it's an electron. Although
it's only linked to one other electron not every electron and it's
only really teleportation in an informational sense rather than what
you or I would associate the term with. One electron disappears and
another identical one appears somewhere else. It has nothing to do
with space being curved, although it still relies on classical (ie,
non quantum) physics in order to work.

Lee.
--
lee at w2designs dot co dot uk

If I have one flaw, it's that I'm a perfectoinist.

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