Re: New Irregular ST Minis & Transporter technology NOT

>Adam wrote 
SNIP
>Anyone read the Physics of Star Trek book, quite good, but depressing
in that 
>were never going to beam anywhere folks (requires heating of matter
1,000,000 
>times hotter than the suns core, require more energy than humanity
produces, 
>improve computer storage by a factor of 1000 billion billon, flaunt the
laws 
>of quantum mechanics, imaging system bigger than the earth's diameter -
no 
>wonder McCoy was nevous).
>
>	Tim Jones
>	timj@uk.gdscorp.com

	Stick with those fine Space-Commies (sorry, Mark! ;-) ) of Iain
M
Banks "Culture" stories- in "The State of the Art", the drone
Skaffen-Amtiskaw comments rather sniffily about humans not understanding
the
difference between ST beaming and Culture "displacement"...

	Don't forget, once upon a time, "death-rays" were impossible, as
"any such object hot enough to radiate so intensely would explode
instantaneously".  Also remember (Arthur C.) Clarke's Law, "Whenever an
eminent scientist says a thing is impossible, it immediately becomes
inevitable" (Hmm, I must get someone famous to say I'll never win the
lottery...)

Rob

Rob Paul
NERC Institute of Virology 
Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SR	  Tel. (01865) 512361
rkp@mail.nerc-oxford.ac.uk
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