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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
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Subject: Re: Fantastic Voyage fix
Message-ID: <6126@duke.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 13:39:58 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 20 13:39:58 1985
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References: <3323@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
Organization: Duke University
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In article <3323@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> kdale@minet-vhn-em.arpa writes:
>From: Keith Dale 
>
>Steven Litvintchouk  wrote:
>>The problem with "Fantastic Voyage" is that they could never figure
>>out a consistent relationship between the principle of
>>miniaturization and the conservation of mass.
>
>How about this as an attempt at an explanation?
The book explanation was that the ``field'' altered the relationship of
the people (ship, rubber suits etc) to the space in which they were 
embedded, so that they appeared to be smaller, with less mass etc.
(It's the old rotate-them-through-hyperspace trick, 99!)

That seems whole lot easier to buy than this ``convert them to energy
so they're smaller'' idea.


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			Charlie Martin
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