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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: matter transmission, etc.
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 04:16:26 EDT
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> Imagine that you can digitise a computer, in order to restore it
> exactly to the point it was at which you digitised it, you must
> also store the information in it's memory, this is not matter, it
> is energy.

Ah!  But all you need do to `remember' the state of a memory chip
is to record not only the positions of all those electrons, but
their velocity as well!  :-)

[For those that have not yet realized it:  Heisenberg may have slept
here.]
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