Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hp-pcd!orstcs!jamesp From: jamesp@orstcs.UUCP (jamesp) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: It's back on Channel 11, NY Message-ID: <8500014@orstcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 03:42:00 EST Article-I.D.: orstcs.8500014 Posted: Thu Oct 24 03:42:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 01:07:50 EST References: <515@petfe.UUCP> Organization: Oregon State University - Corvallis, OR Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #R:petfe:-51500:orstcs:8500014:000:886 Nf-From: orstcs!jamesp Oct 23 19:42:00 1985 /***** orstcs:net.startrek / tilt!kyrimis / 6:44 pm Oct 18, 1985*/ they were using lasers, when did phasers come to being? what does "phaser" stand for?) Kriton (princeton!tilt!kyrimis) /* ---------- */ ``Phaser'' comes from the idea of PHASing EneRgy -- these weapons supposedly emit large quantities of energy that interfere with normal energy patterns (if you've had physics, you'll know that all matter is made of "wave-packets", which phasers interfere with in the standard wave mechanics sort-of-way)... This explanation came from ``The Making of Star Trek'' (The physicist has struck again) (actually, I'm in Computer Science, I really am not completely sure of what I'm saying). <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> "All that is gold does not glitter; jamesp Not all those who wander are lost." (In real life: James Perkins)