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From: appatel@kcl-cs.UUCP (ZNAC???)
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Subject: Re: matter transmission, etc.
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 10:33:23 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 18 10:33:23 1985
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In article <196@argon.kcl-cs.UUCP> thornton@argon.UUCP (znac468) writes:
>In article <195@argon.kcl-cs.UUCP> ramsay@argon writes:
>>
>>With regard to storing all the electron positions, surely Heisenberg's 
>>uncertainty principle puts the kibosh on that since we need to know both 
>>where the electron is and how fast it's travelling. Besides, think of the 
>>memory required....
>>
>>				R.Ramsay
>	
>	Surely at the instant of transmission you would only have to map the
>electron densities that existed in the object at thet moment. After
>transmission all electrons would take up their original motions which were
>only due to the electron densities anyway. Despite this I think the process
>will NEVER be used as the problems involved will always be unsolvable.
>	Star Trek should have made more use of 'THE VALID TRANSPORT DEVICE' 
>e.g. shuttle.
>	Someone please correct the above if it is wrong.
>
>						Andy T.(Not a physicist)
>
>	('GENTLEMEN, I SUGGEST YOU BEAM ME ABOARD'...)
>
>

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