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From: ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Transporter time; Re: Transporters
Message-ID: <129@ucdavis.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 15:15:48 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 15:15:48 1985
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> Such is unnecessary, a transporter need only be fast in human terms.
> It need not even be fast in electronic terms.  Even if it took as long 
> as 100ns this would not be noticeable if it put you back the same way
> as you started (up to quantum uncertainty).  Today we have electronics
> with switching speeds in the 10ns range and by ST time there ought to
> be hardware with ps switching times (the slow hardware that is) and
> lots of parallelism.  However the TV and Movies show a process taking
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> seconds to occur!  This means that the people's state must be suspended
> while this is happening.  If so then there is no problem with the
> person noticing the process of disasembly.
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> (I sure hope this horse I've been kicking is dead!)
> -David Sher
> 
> 
  This can't be so, because in several episodes, the people have be active
  during the transporter process.  An example that comes to mind is the
  episode "That Which Survives" where Kirk et al watch some woman explode 
  every cell of the poor transporter attendant's body.  Also, Kirk or McCoy
  have complained about a "rough beam up", so they must have been aware
  of what was going on.

  However, to support David Sher's "suspended" theory, we have STIIWOK in
  which Kirk and Saavik are in the middle of a conversation while beaming
  up.  (Returning from the Genisis Planet) I doubt that the were talking
  to each other while converted to enery, or whatever.

  As I said before, the transporters should be moved into the catagory of
  inconsistancies, and not be taken too seriously.

		Kevin Chu
		Computer Center Knave
		@ UC Davis

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