Star Trek Science. Well the communicator morphed into cellphones. And patient monitors over the hospital bed today. First Up: The Transporter. Does it transport your personal atoms or does it transport the information and assemble the atoms scavenged from the landing area? And don't you love the black box, Heisenberg Compensator. Don't be transported without one. Any Science topic of Star Trek or what do you think of the transporter. Moi Needed An To Isolate Insulin.
That episode where Barclay was afraid of the transporter ("Realm of Fear") revealed that one remains conscious in the matter stream through the entire process. Hence, the transporter doesn't kill you and reassemble a duplicate.
I'm waiting for the medical tricorder. I don't see how a transporter can ever work. You do know that the transporter was invented by Gene Rodenberry to make the trip back and forth from the planets easier for the special effects folks.
I thought it was because they didn't have enough funds for a shuttle at the time being a very budget constrained production.
Pad-to-pad transportation disintegrates matter on one end (using an unspecified process), stores it, and replicates a precise copy on the other end using previously stored matter (presumably making use of particle beams or magnetic fields to move the matter from storage to its position within the object being replicated). Which means everyone in the Star Trek universe who has been transported has been disintegrated to death and then replicated as an alive copy an instant later. They're all copies. Commander Riker's 'transporter twin' is proof of this dynamic. It begs the question- when someone dies, why not simply replicate them as the copy last recorded within the transporter buffer? Scotty once kept himself 'alive' as a datafile within a starships transporter buffer for years, which is in no way different from replicating a new copy of the recently deceased. Pad-to-site, site-to-pad and site-to-site transport could only work if particle beams are being utilized (since there is no where for the matter to be stored at one end) or if matter can be manipulated at or near the speed of light with magnetic fields, as the particles are literally being moved from the area of disintegration to the area of reintegration instantaneously. How those particle beams or NTL particles are projected through other matter (such as transportation to or from underground) without drastically/explosively damaging or heating said matter is not explained... Wormhole style teleportation would have been far less troublesome to try and explain, but as such things as 'transporter buffers' and 'Hysenburg compensators' would not be necessary for true 'wormhole' style teleportation, we can be certain that's not what they're suggesting they use.
How do they transport something into the nothingness of "space"? No handy material, atoms around to reassemble what is carried in the information of the beam. So they must transport the atoms too and not just the information. Q.E.D.
That's what I mean when I said they're either using particle beams or NTL speed magnetic fields to instantaneously move the atoms from origin or storage to destination. Having thought about it a bit more, it has to be high speed magnetic manipulation, as there would be no other way to stop a projected atom when it gets to its intended location. The only other way to move the atoms would be through wormholes, and creating trillions of wormholes for each transported object makes the least amount of sense... why not simply transport the entire object fully assembled through one wormhole?
Pretty much part of what I said. He invented it because he couldn't afford the special effects for a shuttle.
even if they managed to get the concept into a working invention, no way i'm using it, our scientist cant even get gps navigation to work properly, you'd end up materialized inside solid rock or molten vulcano or worse yet inside pelosi's arse... i'll take the bus, thank you...
In order to produce an exact copy, the original has to be destroyed. I imagine it logically follows that this would apply to transporter buffers. You just need to bias the quantum-mechanical state of each particle so that it is ~100% likely to appear at the destination in precisely the right spot. No problem! Note that it is statistically possible for a particle in our proximity to suddenly appear anywhere in the universe. Hence, Improbability Drive! We once wasted an entire period in Quantum Mechanics discussing the Heisenberg Compensator. We were exploring the logic of the function of such a device. I remember thinking how strange it was to be seriously discussing such a device.
Im not familiar with that. Is that an actual law of physics? Arguing from a purely canonical perspective within the Star Trek Universe, how is Riker's 'transporter twin' explained? Is this accomplished by reconfoobling the energymotron? IIRC the 'Science (or Physics) of Star Trek' is a full semester course at some institutions. Presumably it concerns theoretical physics and their potential application to future technologies. Probably not as much of a waste as the course title would imply. But I havn't taken it...
It's not a law of physics but it is logically derived from the laws of physics. So if you transport, you have to be destroyed and an exact copy created. Theoretically, an exact copy would include everything about you, including your consciousness. But since we don't really understand consciousness, no one can really say if "you" would continue or not. They were hit by a pulse of energy during the transport. This provided the energy to create a duplicate. As for real physics, pfffft. Magic? I have no idea how to make a transporter copy machine. I imagine someone with expertise in information theory might be able to consider if such a thing makes any sense at all. Precisely! Imagine a device that can do things not possible. Make it so.
Sounds to me like this logic is based on the assumption that we have a 'soul' (or w/e you might call it) and there's no way to duplicate such a subjective ...thing. Given that Star Trek is fairly 'atheist' as they claim in an early episode of TNG that the existence of God was 'disproven' (and I say 'fairly' as both 'Q' and the wormhole aliens that the Bajorans worship exhibit particularly god-like abilities) I don't think its prudent to apply this logic to the Star Trek Universe, unless, of course, we're to presume that the proof of god's lack of existence wasn't as provable as they thought, or that such a spiritual dynamic as a soul could have 'evolved' alongside the physical world (both of which I think would be contrary to the 'spirit' floabt of Star Trek).
No, we just don't know what constitutes consciousness. So we can't speak to how it might be affected. If you want to ASSUME that YOU will still exist after transporting, and not just a copy of you, be my guest. The funny thing is that as it stands, if we did have a transporter, and the copy was in fact a new consciousness with identical memories and function, but not the original, we would have no way to know. YOU would be dead and no one would even know you're gone.
Okay, what about "warping space"? How could it be done? Warp Drive. Ideas. And what happens with more advanced Transwarp systems Star Trek Voyager stole from Borg? It gave out after getting them 15 years closer to Earth.
A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel — a concept popularized in television's Star Trek — may not be as unrealistic as once thought, scientists say. https://www.space.com/17628-warp-drive-possible-interstellar-spaceflight.html
@Cosmo What can anyone imaginably do to warp space? Create gravity like a black hole and somehow mold the warm into the desired formation? I don't know anything other than gravity that warps space. ? ? ?
Negative mass particles. They dont actually exist, not that we know of, at least. But if we can discover or create them, we would be able to create a warp field that would enable relative ftl travel very similar to that described in Star Trek. "In the classic physics equation for force (F = ma), all three variables are positive. However, if you make mass a negative number, the resulting force is negative as well. Thus, pushing an object with negative mass causes it to accelerate toward you. ... The Alcubierre warp drive makes use of negative mass." Wormholes are another possibility. If there exist other dimensions that have different natural laws than our own, transfering to a dimension where distances are shorter or less energy is required to move and then transferring back to our dimension could be a method of very efficient travel.
I prefer the manipulation of gravitons. Everyone knows there is no such thing as "negative mass". Graviton mediated Warp Drive only requires figuring out the gravity wave / particle conundrum. Just have to apply it to creating a "field". We know gravity warps space. Si? What else could warp space? I will study up on negative mass theory.
Learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive This one is too heavy for Moi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_mass Doesn't sound like the same stuff https://phys.org/news/2017-04-physicists-negative-mass.html Anyone want to attempt to connect the pieces? Maybe i just need more coffee. Then more Then more . . .
It requires at least a graduate degree in physics to understand any of this. And that would only be a rudimentary understanding. If you want to really know what you're talking about, you'd have to be a post doc. And then you still may not know what you're talking about! People often confuse philosophy with physics. If it isn't an equation, it's philosophy. And philosophical explanations are generally too limited to be accurate. Concepts like this exist in the mathematical plane. We then attempt to put them into philosophical terms that we can understand.
