Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!aplvax!eric From: eric@aplvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: The Transporter; why it can"t do that Message-ID: <205@aplvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 30-Jul-83 20:53:49 EDT Article-I.D.: aplvax.205 Posted: Sat Jul 30 20:53:49 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Aug-83 09:59:17 EDT References: sri-arpa.3558 Lines: 14 Thought I would throw my $0.02 in. Ignoring the animated series, it is fairly simple to argue that the transporter can not "store" the information used for transportation. Simply put, no one said it is a digital process. It could very well be an analog device. Consider the vast amount of computing it takes to do a fourier transform, and then remember that it can be done easily with optics in an analog manner. Being even more extreme, all of us can change ice to water and then back to ice, without having to save information about the crystaline structure of ice. Perhaps we are to used to thinking in terms of digital processes, and ignore the fact that the universe is not usually a place of only 1's and 0's. Eric Bergan ...!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!eric