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From: jamesp@orstcs.UUCP (jamesp)
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Subject: Re: It's back on Channel 11, NY
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 03:42:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 03:42:00 1985
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/***** 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)
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``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).

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 Not all those who wander are lost."	(In real life: James Perkins)