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fushigidane2001
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PostSat Oct 11, 2003 5:16 am    How the TRANSPORTER work?

Please explian

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EnsignParis
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PostSat Oct 11, 2003 8:35 am    

Transporters won't work, but the way the work in Star Trek, is that they break all of your molecules and atoms down into (either individual pieces, or energy...I believe energy) and reconstruct you at your arrival point.

Transporters won't work for one very simple reason. We can never be certain of an atoms exact position, therefore we cannot get an exact lock on an atom and put it right where it needs to be.

This is a post by me from this topic: http://www.startrekvoyager.com/viewtopic.php?t=13768
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It is impossible to create a large scale teleportation device, because of the 'uncertainty factor'

We can never be absolutely certain where an atom is going to be at any given time, therefore we cannot get an absolute lock on an atom, and put it exactly where we need it to be.

Ok, even if we found a way to get beyond this, do you know how advanced a computer would have to be to do this?

Do you have any idea how many atoms and molecules are inside a human being?

I'm sure you have heard of the term 'mole' before, and if you haven't, it is a measure used to count atoms or molecules. It is always the same amount 6.022045 x 10^23 atom(or molecules)/mole. Do you want to know how much a mole of lead weighs? About 207 grams. That's about half of a pound.

You do realize how heavy lead is, right? 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 particles of lead only weighs half of a pound. Most of the atoms/molecules in a human don't have nearly the same density as lead, but for the benefit of the doubt, let's just assume that they do. You would need to mulitply that number by 400 (assuming the average body weight is 200 pounds). 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 x FOUR HUNDRED. We would need a computer that would be able to memorize EXACTLY where each and every one of those particles were to reconstruct a human.

And we are talking about transporting humans here, imagine trying to transport something like a shuttle...something that weighs several tons. That would require exponentially more resources than to transport a human.

Yeah, I don't see transporter technology happening any time soon.


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Kyle Reese
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PostSat Oct 11, 2003 12:36 pm    

I seriously don't think we'll make any transporters, at least not in this or probably next millenium unless we can find another way besides having a super computer that could do that.

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Lt.BirdGod
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PostSat Oct 11, 2003 9:16 pm    

Actually, we have already.

We were able to transport one molecule across the country. I believe the country was canada, but don't hold me to that. It's somewhere in one of these posts.


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PrankishSmart
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PostSun Oct 12, 2003 12:26 am    

^That experiment was conducted in Denmark I believe.

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EnsignParis
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PostSun Oct 12, 2003 10:15 am    

Lt.BirdGod wrote:
Actually, we have already.

We were able to transport one molecule across the country. I believe the country was canada, but don't hold me to that. It's somewhere in one of these posts.

Well, I did hear we can predict where a particle can be with 99% accuracy, so doing one molecule isn't all that big of a deal. But imagine transporting trillions upon trillions of particles, 1% of those particles are going to end up somewhere else. Not fun.


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Lt.BirdGod
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PostThu Oct 16, 2003 7:26 pm    

Heh. Just coming out of it,
"Hey! Where's my big toe!!???!"


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Dax Orien
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PostFri Oct 17, 2003 7:52 am    

Lt.BirdGod wrote:
Heh. Just coming out of it,
"Hey! Where's my big toe!!???!"


I don't think that'd be the piece missing.....



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PostThu Oct 23, 2003 8:52 am    

why what u think will be missing some thing only the men have?

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EnsignParis
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PostThu Oct 23, 2003 1:25 pm    

It was just a joke.

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