Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site duke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!duke!crm From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Fantastic Voyage fix Message-ID: <6126@duke.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 13:39:58 EDT Article-I.D.: duke.6126 Posted: Tue Aug 20 13:39:58 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 02:57:10 EDT References: <3323@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) Organization: Duke University Lines: 22 Summary: 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. -- Charlie Martin (...mcnc!duke!crm)