"If the Star Trek transporter was an actual fact, would you get in it?"
LOL - possibly, but not first in line...:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Speculating about interstellar travel, the spectrum of materialization is > > not limited to, either, physical existence, or, nothing. It is not an > > either/or universe. Quantum physics has proven this with its odd assortment > > of particles, some more energy, than mass, and its laws, which defy Newton > > and Einstein. > > > > It is not inconceivable that other civilizations have figured out how to > > transform matter to energy, and back again, at will, accomplishing whatever > > they need to, in the spectrum between pure potential energy, and full, > > physical materialization. This neatly solves the problem of travel, though > > doesn't really prove anything, wrt visits here on Earth. > > > There are many possibilities for obviously we do not know all there is to be > found out. We have transformed matter to energy (A-bomb) and converted energy > to matter (H-bomb), but not irreversibly as to the original structure. > > The Star Trek transporter is one idea. It depends on the idea that we are a > physical matrix of information and that what 'we are' is the organisation of > that information as matter - the molecular-atomic structure of the body. The > body is scanned and destroyed and the information sent to a reconstruction > scanner at some other location which reassembles the structure. Now this is > an example of physical reincarnation because with a system like this, you > die. Depending on one's philosophy though, are you reborn at the other end, > or is someone else created at the other end of the process? > > Now if there is something immaterial about human life at the individual > level, how do you move that about as no physical process would be able to > touch it? > > If the Star Trek transporter was an actual fact, would you get in it? >
