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From: ix469@sdcc6.UUCP (david smith)
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Subject: Re: transporters
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Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 12:41:25 EDT
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Here's a thought: If you zapped someone's matter into energy, would
each atom zapped give off a different frequency?  If so, and if you
could keep the beam intact, converting back with the same process of
frequency to atom conversion, you'd never really have to deal with
that massive amount of information.  matter=energy*(speed of light)^2,
so given you've got the same energy you started with, you're still
you.  If we have the exsistance of a soul, would it just take off if
the body was no longer intact, or would it stick with what should be
the body?
	Note that since the information is not really processed
anywhere (we'll assume that zapping matter to energy can be reversed
with atom x=frequency x=atom x again) it would not be readily
possible to make "clones".  A question.  Since you weren't killed,
but merely transformed, are you dead?

(This discussion is what we all get for taking Gene Rodenberry too
seriously:-)


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