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From: Platt%UPenn@UDel-Relay@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Star Trek transporter
Message-ID: <4330@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Aug-83 11:31:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 18 11:31:00 1983
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From:  Steve Platt <Platt%UPenn@UDel-Relay>

Somewhere in my distant past I remember reading stories which transported
not by disassembling and reassembling matter, but just by shifting the
probabilities of location of the constituent (sub-)atomic particles to
the "desired" location.  No copying, just a legitimate "move".  Focusing
the "realigned probabilites" can be done in any of the manners previously
mentioned; again, the matter is moved as a single chunk.  If the dice roll
off the table... well, we saw that in ST:TMP...

or...  Star Trek IV: Return of the Fly
 	with William Shatner, DeForest Kelly, Vincent Price,
	     the holograms of Leonard Nimoy, Alec Guiness, Frank Oz...

A side note: this mechanism is universal in the sense that it also creates
the tractor beam ("you want to be closer... you want to be closer"), force
field ("go away!"), etc.

-steve
platt.upenn@udel-relay