Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!columbia!topaz!Lubkin From: Lubkin@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: transporters Message-ID: <3709@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 17:24:49 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3709 Posted: Fri Sep 20 17:24:49 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 06:31:55 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 10 From: "Lubkin David"@LLL-MFE.ARPA The unofficial official explanation for how the Enterprise's transporters work is that they convert matter to energy, zap the energy somewhere, and then convert the energy back to matter, *not* by scanning your body for information content, blasting you, and then making a new one at the other end, as Blish unfortunately explained in _Spock Must Diet_. Given this, is it still the same you after beaming down? Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com