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Date: Mon, 22-Aug-83 15:12:41 EDT
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TO: sf-lovers@rutgers
FROM: Alan L. Zeichick <G.MAINE=ZEICHICK@BERKELEY>
SUBJ: ST Transporter
DATE: August 16, 8:41 AM
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   One argument against being transported--possibility
of glitch.  Assume that the transporter scans and
records the position of all atoms, all energy levels,
even all quark positions (and quarks are involved,
according to "Spock Must Die").  It then transmits
this information someplace else.  What would be the
possibility of only one crackle of static in the
transmission?  Of one binary bit being lost?
  Considering the tremendous amount of information
being transmitted, the probability of a 'mutation'
must be tremendous.  No wonder "Bones" didn't like
to have his atoms strewn over the known universe...
   It is odd that in the first ST movie, when the
technological gains were evident everywhere, that
they had a fatal transporter accident.  In the 5-year
mission, even with inferior equipment and emergency
repairs, nobody was every hurt...

-alan-

Why make the ST world coherent?  'cause its fun!