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Teleporters & You: The Teletransporter Paradox and Personal Identity

The question of whether or not one should step into a teleporter has plagued science fiction fans for decades. Although teleporters are not real, the perceived consequences of stepping in one provide insight into our intuitions about what matters most when it comes to personal identity. We’re going to talk about one of my favorite thought experiments, the teleporter thought experiment, and discuss exactly how it helps us make sense of personal identity.

The teleporter thought experiment

For those unfamiliar with scifi tropes, teleportation is the act of transferring objects and people from one location to another. The most common type of teleportation portrayed in science fiction, and the form most relevant to our thought experiment, involves a device like Star Trek’s transporter. The way these devices are assumed to work is by atomically deconstructing any objects placed on their entry point and reassembling them at the destination . Star Trek itself has been somewhat vague if transporters simply transfer information – details about the atomic structure of the transporter object – and uses this to recreate the object with new atoms, or if the original atoms are physically moved across space. For the purposes of this thought experiment we’ll assume the former. It should be noted that both scenarios appear to be scientific impossibilities, although the former does resemble quantum teleportation (a real phenomenon), albeit at an absurdly larger scale.

Using a machine he dubs the teletransporter, philosopher Derek Parfit asks us to consider this type of teleportation in his work Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons. Longtime readers of this blog might remember Parfit’s name mentioned in several entries from 2018’s Halloween themed thought experiment list . That’s because he’s an ethicist who specializes in issues of personal identity. If you’ll recall his fission or split-mind thought experiment, some of the same intuitions are present in this particular thought experiment too. You should definitely check out that post if you find this one interesting!

Anyway, in this thought experiment, Parfit asks us to imagine the following :

Suppose that you enter a cubicle in which, when you press a button, a scanner records the states of all the cells in your brain and body, destroying both while doing so. This information is then transmitted at the speed of light to some other planet, where a replicator produces a perfect organic copy of you.  Since the brain of your Replica is exactly like yours, it will seem to remember living your life up to the moment when you pressed the button, its character will be just like yours, and it will be in every other way psychologically continuous with you.

The question that inevitably follows from the thought experiment is what exactly about you that makes you… well you survives the teleportation process?

This might seem like an absurd question, but the answer is a matter of life or death given that our initial intuition might be that the teleporter kills us while preserving our likeness in a clone. Additionally, as fantastical as the premise of the thought experiment, it allows us to explore the answer to questions we may find ourselves asking throughout our lives. These are questions like what is it about you that survives a coma or your death, are you the same person after a traumatic personality-altering brain injury , and in what way are you the same person you were at age 10?

Central to all of these questions about the conditions under which you “remain” you is the notion of continuity. That is to say, when we ask such questions about personal identity, what we seem to be getting at are aspects or properties that can consistently distinguish us across time to form a line or a continuum from our past to our present. Some of the most common answers to the teletransporter paradox and other questions of personal identity involve identifying specific types of continuity linking an individual’s identity to who they were both before and after they stepped into the teleporter.

Defining personal identity through different types of continuities

The property or properties we decide to use to establish a connection between our past and present selves can best be thought of as a sort of metaphysical “glue” that allows us, at least under ordinary circumstances, to talk and conceive of ourselves as a single person persisting across time. You were once the 10 year old in your memories because this glue is doing its work in the background allowing you and others to make sense of yourself as a single person as you age.

What exactly is the nature of this glue? Well, that’s somewhat of a debate in metaphysics, but you’ll find that many objects and properties familiar to you have been proposed at one time or another as candidates for establishing a continuity of personal identity.

The soul theory of personal identity (continuity through the soul)

It should be no surprise that one of the oldest proposals for the survival of identity was the soul. There are a variety of ways a theory of the soul can be conceived, some of which might not even make the soul essential for personal identity and continuity. However, theories of the soul like Plato’s, suppose that there is an immaterial essence that resides within an individual during their life but survives their death.

The body theory of personal identity (bodily continuity)

The body theory of personal identity is fairly self-explanatory. This theory posits that it’s the persistence of the body over time that matter in determining continuity of identity. Though while the theory is simple, we can conceive of the concept of a body in many different ways. For example, does every part of the body matter equally? Should someone break an arm or lose a hand, does that matter in the same way as losing something like someone’s brain to trauma or disease?

Psychological and personality-based approaches to personal identity (psychological continuity)

These approaches to continuity take facts about an individual’s psychology, like memories, beliefs, and desires to be the basis of consistency over time. Of course it’s true that such things change gradually, but what most theories are concerned with what is considered to be psychological overlap rather than the persistence of the exact same memories, beliefs, and so on. Just as the body theorist understands that, for example, every 28 days our skin doesn’t literally consist of the same cells and atoms, psychological theories can account for gradual change of psychological states over time.

Stepping into the teleporter

Going back to Parfit’s thought experiment, your intuitions about which of these theories of identity might be correct will inform whether you believe you survive the teleporter. From what we can tell, bodily continuity is almost certainly violated through the teleporter’s disassembly process, however psychological continuity is preserved. If you’re sympathetic to a theory of souls that assumes the soul is central the personal identity, it’s impossible to tell what the teleporter does. The reassembly process could be akin to a resurrection, or disassembly could be akin to death with the teleporter spitting out a zombie-like shell that’s similar to you only in atomic constitution at the other end.

For Parfit however, the purpose of his thought experiment wasn’t to establish the importance of identity. As a reductionist Parift states that:

…personal identity through time is constituted by (“reduced to”) relations between mental and physical states and events in the absences of anything like a necessarily determinate and indivisible soul.

What this means is that, according to Parfit, there is no fact of the matter for survival over and above a type of psychological continuity that persists as a result of an appropriate cause. This notion is referred to as Relation R. Under normal circumstances Relation R is maintained by the persistence of your brain (and thus your psychology and personality) in your skull over time.

Parfit, through his fission and teletransporter thought experiments, illustrates a much broader notion of psychological continuity than what I briefly mentioned above. Key to this conception of psychological continuity is a causal relationship between past and future selves. This might seem somewhat abstract, but if you’re familiar with something like Buddhism, you might have an inkling of what Parfit is getting at. For Buddhists change is a constant of our universe, thus it’s somewhat illusory to look for some consistent thing that we can use to establish a notion of identity or self in the traditional sense. Likewise, for Parfit, questions about identity are missing the point, because there’s nothing for us to consider aside from psychological continuity that persists as a result of appropriate causes.

In Parfit’s teletransporter, it is the case that the individual entering the teleporter is not only psychologically connected to the individual exiting the machine, but causally connected to them as well, given that they are the cause for the machine recording and transmitting the information needed to reconstruct their body. In Parfit’s view, our intuitions that this type of causal relationship has vastly different consequences than those that occur under normal circumstances are mistaken. To get a better understanding of Relation R, consider the cause of fission presented in the blog’s thought experiment post.

What do you think? Would you step into a teleporter. Feel free to share your thoughts before or on Facebook or Twitter @Philosimplicity.

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Star Trek's Use of Transporters, Explained

The transporter is one of Star Trek's most magical and powerful creations, but how does the technology work and where did it come from?

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There are many iconic things about Star Trek , from the communicators that inspired flip cell phones to the unmistakable silhouette of the USS Enterprise . However, one of the most iconic elements of Gene Roddenberry's universe are the transporters that "beam" characters from one place to another. This technology is one of the earliest and most high-concept ideas in those early shows. Yet, it was born -- like so much in television production -- out of a need to save money. So, how does the fantastical transporter system work? If someone who wasn't a fan of Star Trek was asked to quote a line of dialogue from the show, they most likely would say, "Beam me up, Scotty."

The chief engineer of the original USS Enterprise was also the one often tasked with overseeing this complicated and sometimes dangerous process. Yet, the phrase never appears in Star Trek: The Original Series . In fact, the closest fans ever got to hearing it was in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home . While saying goodbye to Gillian, their 20th Century marine biologist ally, Kirk says, "Scotty, beam me up." Throughout every future iteration of the franchise, the transporter is a crucial part of the technological armaments used in the stories. While no single science-fiction concept is wholly original, the transporter is one element that's rarely copied by other storytelling universes. Doctor Who uses them, but it's often only the aliens or antagonists who have access to them, and for good reason. While it saved money for production, conceptually it complicates the series' drama.

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Looking back at Star Trek: The Original Series , modern-day viewers can be forgiven for saying it looks "cheap." Yet, during its day, the show was one of the most expensive on television, which is why The Original Series was canceled despite strong fan support. In fact, while still in development, Gene Roddenberry almost blew the budget simply researching starships. From that experience Roddenberry said, "I would blow the whole budget…just in landing the [ship] on a planet," in The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 Years by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman. "[T]he transporter idea was conceived, so we could get our people down to the planet fast…and get our story going by page two."

The technology also allowed the characters to only bring the props they could carry like phasers, communicators and tricorders. Anything else they needed could simply be transported to them. Len Wein, a writer on the early Star Trek comics , chided earlier writers for showing the characters with backpacks, because anything they needed was a simple beam-down away. Still, the transporter posed a problem for the production crew. It was one of many visual effects techniques that had to be invented for the series. Sure, the use of composite shots -- which allow figures to appear or disappear -- existed as long as motion picture cameras. But in Star Trek , everything had to be bigger.

In The Fifty-Year Mission , visual effects legend Howard A. Anderson talked about how they achieved the effect. They "used aluminum dust falling through a beam of high-intensity light" photographed separately. Using matte shots, they would shoot the characters, followed by a cut-out of the character with the glitter effect, and then make the effect disappear leaving an empty transporter pad. It was one of the show's simpler shots, but that, along with the sound, became a beloved hallmark of the series. Despite modern advancements, the transporter effect still has elements of the original.

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In most cases, the transporters still work the way they were intended to, namely by getting characters into the action quickly. However, they are also a source of drama. In Captain's Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , also by Gross and Altman, Roddenberry lamented about a cut scene from the (second) pilot where Dr. McCoy gives voice to his concern about using it. The line told fans "one of these days we may see a story about a transporter malfunction." When this eventually happened in The Original Series , for "regular viewers, it comes out of the blue," he said. A transporter malfunction is also how the show introduced Star Trek's infamous "Mirror Universe."

Of course, if the characters could simply be whisked out of dangerous situations with a transporter, it hurts the drama. In The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years , second-wave writer and producer Hans Beimler said they "had to break down the transporter…so that [the characters] could be in trouble." This is why there are so many "ionic storms" or stories set in deep caves. The character of Dr. Pulaski on Star Trek: The Next Generation shared Dr. McCoy's contempt for transporters, too. Yet, it wasn't always a hindrance to the storytelling.

In The Next Generation Season 6, a transporter malfunction created a double of Riker who spent years on a planet waiting for rescue. In Star Trek: Voyager , another malfunction -- in concert with an alien flower -- bonded two characters together into a new being in the episode "Tuvix." As recently as 2023, the transporters were used in Star Trek: Picard as a key element of the Borg's plan to stealthily invade Starfleet by assimilating the officers under the age of 25. This technology is about much more today than getting characters to a planet quickly and cheaply.

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It's surprising how scientifically accurate a show like Star Trek can be, even without its science consultants. In an early The Original Series episode, Captain Kirk makes reference to what sounds like a black hole, a year before the term appeared in scientific literature, according to science consultant and astrophysicist Erin MacDonald on NPR's Science Friday . Regretfully, she said the transporter is not one of those things. Beyond the massive task of disassembling and reassembling seven billion-billion-billion particles, there are the laws of physics to contend with, namely the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

The scientific concept states there is an incalculable measure of uncertainty in measuring and locating a particle at any given time. Star Trek sometimes takes liberties with real physics. MacDonald noted the depiction of gravity waves in Season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery was depicted inaccurately because it was more visually appealing. It is a television series, after all. Still, Star Trek tries to account for these things. In certain episodes when transporter "technobabble" is required, there's an element called a "Heisenberg Compensator." This accounts for the uncertainty, but asked how it works, all MacDonald can say is "very well, thank you."

There are more recent elements that are equally scientifically preposterous, especially the "pattern buffer." This is a memory storage device that holds a transporter "pattern." In The Next Generation , Scotty is found alive decades after his disappearance inside one. Strange New Worlds used the concept, too. Dr. M'Benga used it to store wounded Starfleet officers in the Klingon war and, later, his own daughter who had a degenerative disease. It makes for great fiction, but it's not real science. In fact, there is a massive debate about whether the transporter kills each person who goes through it.

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In Star Trek: Enterprise Season 4 , the inventor of the transporter, Dr. Emory Erickson visits the ship for an experiment that's a secret plan to save his son, lost in a transporter accident. During the episode, he dismisses out-of-hand the idea that the transporter "kills" the people who use it. However, it's not so easy to dismiss. The transporter breaks down the physical structure of a person to the smallest particle and then rebuilds them in a different location. There is an argument to be made that they are not the "same" person who went into the machine. Instead, they are a new being who possesses the same matter and memories, or in Will and Thomas Riker's cases, two people with the same matter and memories.

With this philosophical question, there is no clear answer. Dr. Erickson is convinced the idea is nonsense, but Star Trek: Picard proved it's not so beyond the pale. The Starfleet officers had their DNA rewritten with biological Borg elements they didn't have before. Dr. Crusher notes the "bio-filters" should've caught it. These filters are supposed to be able to remove contaminants and pathogens an away team might pick up on an alien planet.

While the transporter is reassembling a person's particles, it can and does change them when required. This is a fan-debate for which there is no clear answer, nor should there be. For Star Trek's purposes, however, the people who are transported aren't killed in the process. The one exception is the people in Star Trek: The Motion Picture whose molecules were scrambled by beaming aboard the refitted USS Enterprise . Despite Roddeberry's desire for his universe to hew closely to real-world science, Star Trek 's transporters are its most magical technology.

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The Transporter Conundrum: Do People Die When They’re Teleported?

One of the coolest technologies depicted on Star Trek is the transporter, which can be used to send a person tens of thousands of miles in just a few seconds. But as any good Star Trek fan knows, transporters are far from perfect. Over the years, we have seen that transporter malfunctions come in many shapes and sizes — literally. In one episode, a transporter error transforms several crewmembers into children . More broadly, transporter malfunctions have split crewmen into multiple people, combined multiple people into one person, separated crewmen’s minds from their bodies, transported people to wonky mirror dimensions, and, in the most mundane scenario of all, sent crewmen to the wrong destination. These regular malfunctions raise a bevy of legal questions about transporters, liability, and personhood.

To explore some of those questions, we can divide our inquiry into two categories: transporters working as intended and transporter malfunctions. This week, I’ll consider the first category and will determine whether someone dies when they are transported and whether a person who facilitates a transport is a murderer. Next time, I’ll consider some of the legal questions associated with transporter malfunctions.

Whether people die when they are transported is one of the most interesting questions relating to transporters. There are three dimensions to this question: technical, philosophical, and legal.

The technical dimension relates to how transporters actually work. Since the underlying technology is fictitious, I am not concerned with how the technology is actually implemented as much as I am with what purportedly happens to the transported matter. There are three possibilities. The first possibility — which we can call the “Portal Theory” — is that the transported matter is sent, as a whole, from point A to point B, without any interruption or meaningful decomposition or recomposition. In this model, transporting is just like walking through a portal .

The second possibility — which we can call the “Jigsaw Theory” — is that transported matter is broken down to the atomic level, sent through the transporter, and reassembled on the other side. This is like the Portal Theory, except that instead of an entire person going through the portal, it’s the constituent, unassembled matter that is sent. In this model, there is a brief interruption in personal continuity, as matter must be decomposed, then recomposed.

The third possibility — which we can call the “Xerox and Shred Theory” — is that the transported matter isn’t transported at all, but is instead scanned, copied, and destroyed. The transporter then sends the data pattern from point A to point B, where it is reassembled from whatever matter might be on hand at the destination. In this model, there is a permanent interruption in the matter, since the transporter is actually sending data and, in fact, destroys the underlying matter.

Unfortunately, there is not an easy way to determine which of these three theories is actually in play, since each one finds support in some episodes but is refuted in others.

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The philosophical dimension is somewhat amorphous and turns on one’s conception of personhood. Once again, there are three theories.

The first theory — which we can call the “Body Theory” — posits that personhood is defined through physical parameters. A proponent of the Body Theory would say that a person dies when their body no longer functions. Thus, a proponent of this theory would say that a person died under the Xerox and Shred Theory, since the original body is destroyed. Likewise, a proponent would say that a person temporarily dies under the Jigsaw Theory while the transport process is underway and that a person would not die under the Portal Theory, since the body remains intact. Generally speaking, the Body Theory is not particularly popular or prominent. Most people have a conception of life that includes some component of the mind or sense of self.

The second theory — which we can call the “Mind Theory” — posits that personhood is defined through mental processes. A proponent of the Mind Theory would say that a person dies once their mind is no longer functioning. Thus, a proponent of this theory would say that a person temporarily dies under the Jigsaw Theory (since no thought processes take place when the mind is decomposed), but that a person would not die under the Portal or Xerox and Shred theories, since the subject’s mind is still functional under both of those theories. The Mind Theory is more prevalent than the Body Theory — most people can imagine having a sense of self even if their mental processes were separated from their body. This theory is explored in some detail in Amazon’s new series, Upload .

The third theory — which we can call the “Hybrid Theory” — combines the first two theories. It posits that personhood is defined by the combination of one’s body and one’s mind. A proponent of this theory would say that a person dies if their mind or body ceases to function. Thus, this theory would hold that a transported person temporarily dies under the Jigsaw Theory, dies under the Xerox and Shred Theory, and lives under the Portal Theory.

There is a fourth theory worth mentioning — a theory of consciousness. A proponent of this theory would say that personhood is defined by one’s consciousness. This theory does not shed much light on transporters, since there is no way to know whether the person who appears at point B shares the same consciousness as the person who disappeared at point A. Obviously, the person at point B thinks of themselves as the same person from point A, but subjective belief is not sufficient.

To see why, consider what happens when a transporter malfunctions and creates a perfect copy of the transportee at point B. Both people would think of themselves as the same person, but only one — the original — would be correct. Because there is no way to actually evaluate personhood under this theory, it is useless for anything other than thought experiments. Even if transporters were real, there would be no way to know whether the output consciousness is the same as the input consciousness.

Finally, it is worth noting that the various theories are not mutually exclusive. In particular, the body and mind theories often overlap, since, in most instances, the mind’s operations are carried out by the brain. Likewise, one can mix and match the theories as appropriate. For example, one could adopt a Hybrid Theory that places more weight on the mind than on the body, saying that personhood requires a body but is not defined by any particular body. Thus, a person would die if their brain were put into a computer but would be alive if their mind were transferred into a different body. While there are countless possibilities, what matters most is that each one is (or should be) driven by a conception of what it means to be a person and what distinguishes people from one another.

These and other theories are discussed in considerable detail in Stanford’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Legal perspectives of personhood are rooted in the philosophical theories described above. Unfortunately, the law has not had to grapple with any of the complex questions implicated by transporter technology. Nevertheless, legal rules provide some insight into how the law views personhood. For one thing, the law has explicitly rejected the Body Theory — a person whose body is alive but whose mind is dead is legally dead .

The law is less transparent when it comes to the Mind Theory. On one hand, we can consider people with “ locked-in syndrome .” Locked in syndrome is the opposite of brain death — a person with locked-in syndrome has a mind that is fully functional, but a body that is completely paralyzed. Those people have rights, and it would be illegal to kill someone with locked-in syndrome. This suggests that the law subscribes to the Mind Theory — or, at the very least, a Hybrid Theory that places considerable weight on the Mind.

On the other hand, several state laws regarding abortion and fetal homicide turn on the physical, rather than mental, development of the fetus. This suggests that the law subscribes to a Body Theory, or, at the very least, a Hybrid Theory that places considerable weight on the Body.

Admittedly, these analogies are imperfect, since we have not yet encountered a scenario in which the mind and body have been completely separable. For instance, a person with locked-in syndrome still has a body, and a fetus that lacks physical viability will also lack the ability to develop mental capacity. Nevertheless, the analogies suggest that the law is most consistent with a version of the Hybrid Theory that is weighted more heavily towards the mind than the body.

Based on the analysis above, this means that the law would have no issue with transporters (working as intended) under the Portal Theory or under the Jigsaw Theory, since transporters under those theories would not meaningfully interfere with physical or mental processes. For similar reasons, there is a strong argument to be made that the law would have no issue with the Xerox and Shred Theory. Even though the underlying matter is destroyed, the mind and its constituent mental processes remain intact.

This conclusion is further bolstered by the fact that, at its core, the law is rooted in pragmatism. It is designed to encourage good or desirable behavior and to discourage negative or undesirable behavior. Generally speaking, actions are illegal if they hurt other people (like murder), encourage activities or mindsets that are likely to hurt other people, (Scientists can experiment on animals, but animal cruelty is illegal.) or impose objective and readily apparent harm on the person taking the action. (This is why many drugs are illegal.)

Taken at face value, transporters do not meet any of those criteria. Regardless of which theory of personhood one subscribes to, there is no basis to say that transporters hurt anyone other than the transportee, the only activity potentially encouraged by transporters is more transporter use, and there is no readily apparent harm on the person transporting. (The person at point B is indistinguishable from the person at point A, and the transportee does not appear to suffer any pain or negative consequences.)

At most, one could argue that it should be illegal to transport someone without their consent. But that’s true even now — transportation without consent is the definition of kidnapping, and it is illegal regardless of if it’s by foot, car, shuttlecraft, or transporter beam.

In sum, transporters — when used as intended — do not satisfy any of the criteria that would support a conclusion that they should be illegal. While certain philosophies may maintain that transporting amounts to murder (depending on how the transporter actually works), they lack the pragmatic hook needed to turn the philosophical musing into practical law.

Come back next time for Part II, when I consider some of the legal questions associated with transporter malfunctions. There will be clones, there will be children, there will be mirror universes!

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Beam me up Scotty: German scientists invent working teleporter, of sorts

New system destructively scans objects transmits them through encrypted communications across any distance and rebuilds it the other side

Teleportation has been the holy grail of transport for decades, ever since Mr Scott first beamed up Captain Kirk and his crew in the 1966 opening episode of Star Trek . Now the technology may have been cracked in real life … sort of.

Scientists from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam have invented a real-life teleporter system that can scan in an object and “beam it” to another location.

Not quite the dematerialisation and reconstruction of science fiction, the system relies on destructive scanning and 3D printing .

An object at one end of the system is milled down layer-by-layer, creating a scan per layer which is then transmitted through an encrypted communication to a 3D printer. The printer then replicates the original object layer by layer, effectively teleporting an object from one place to another.

“We present a simple self-contained appliance that allows relocating inanimate physical objects across distance,” said the six person team in a paper submitted for the Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction conference at Stanford University. “Users place an object into the sender unit, enter the address of a receiver unit, and press the relocate button.”

The system dubbed “Scotty” in homage to the Enterprise’s much beleaguered chief engineer, differs from previous systems that merely copy physical object as its layer-by-layer deconstruction and encrypted transmission ensures that only one copy of the object exists at any one time, according to the scientists.

Real-world applications are pretty short for this kind of destruction and reconstruction. But the encryption, transmission and 3D printing objects could be key for companies wishing to sell goods via home 3D printers, ensuring only one copy could be made per purchase – effectively digital rights management for 3D printed objects.

Those looking to cut their commute by simply beaming into the office will have to wait at least another decade or two.

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About: Transporter (Star Trek)

A transporter is a fictional teleportation machine used in the Star Trek science fiction franchise. Transporters allow for teleportation by converting a person or object into an energy pattern (a process called "dematerialization"), then sending ("beaming") it to a target location or else returning it to the transporter, where it is reconverted into matter ("rematerialization"). Since its introduction in Star Trek: The Original Series in 1966, the name and similar concepts have made their way to other science fiction scenarios, in literature (such as the Thousand Cultures series), games (SimEarth), etc.

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Piattaforma del teletrasporto sulla Stazione Deep Space K-7 nel 2268

Un dispositivo di teletrasporto della Federazione del XXIII secolo

Un pad del teletrasporto in dotazione alle navi di classe Galaxy nel 2369

Il teletrasporto è un dispositivo subspaziale in grado di spostare quasi istantaneamente un oggetto da una posizione ad un'altra. I teletrasporti sono in grado di smaterializzare, trasmettere, e riassemblare l'oggetto del processo.

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La piattaforma di teletrasporto nella fase di smaterializzazione di quattro soggetti

• 1 Il Teletrasporto
• 3 Gli usi del teletrasporto
• 4 La sequenza di teletrasporto
• 5 Controllo
• 6 Coordinate di destinazione
• 7 Come funziona
• 8 Raggio di confinamento
• 9 La scansione
• 10 Archiviazione
• 11 Smaterializzazione
• 12 Destinazione d’arrivo
• 13 Flusso di materia
• 14 Buffer degli schemi
• 15 Trasmissione del flusso
• 16.1 Psicosi da teletrasporto
• 16.2 Rocce conficcate nella pelle
• 16.3 Divisione di una entità in entità buona e malvagia
• 16.4 Teletrasporto all’universo dello specchio
• 16.5 Morti accidentali
• 16.6 Divisione di una entità in due entità identiche
• 16.7 Rimaterializzazione senza abiti
• 16.8 Viaggio nel tempo
• 16.9 Trasformazione in ologrammi
• 16.10 Due entità fuse in una
• 16.11 Altri incidenti di teletrasporto
• 17 Collegamenti esterni

Il Teletrasporto [ ]

Quasi tutte le culture maggiori, in grado di viaggiare a curvatura , inclusi la Federazione , i Romulani , i Klingon , i Ferengi , i Borg e il Dominio , posseggono un sistema di teletrasporto . Ognuno dei sistemi ha le sue particolarità, ma il principio è simile in tutte le specie della Galassia che ne fanno uso.

Origine [ ]

Sviluppato nel XXII secolo , l’aspetto e la struttura generale del sistema di Teletrasporto sono stati parte integrante dei vascelli della Flotta Stellare per circa 200 anni. Da sempre un sistema molto complesso e sofisticato, è diventato sempre più affidabile nei tempi più moderni. I malfunzionamenti sono meno comuni nei giorni pionieristici dell’Enterprise NX-01 e persino della USS Enterprise NCC-1701.

Gli usi del teletrasporto [ ]

Il teletrasporto è un sistema per spostare, quasi istantaneamente, squadre di ricognizione, di soccorso, di riparazione o per missioni segrete in luoghi altrimenti inaccessibili, tramite smaterializzazione e rimaterializzazione corporea . Il normale raggio di operazione può arrivare fino a 40.000 Km, pur essendo influenzato dal carico e dalla velocità relativa del materiale: un teletrasporto standard può trasferire sei persone in una sola volta. La maggior parte delle navi stellari possiede anche teletrasportatori di emergenza che servono in caso di evacuazione della nave e hanno un raggio ristretto a 15.000 Km, variabile in base all’energia disponibile. Tuttavia, qualsiasi manovra di teletrasporto è impossibile quando gli scudi deflettori sono sollevati, o mentre la nave viaggia a velocità di curvatura , a meno che il punto di arrivo non sia collocato su un vascello, o altro dispositivo, che viaggia alla stessa, identica, velocità di curvatura.

La sequenza di teletrasporto [ ]

Tutti coloro che si preparano ad essere trasportati entrano nella sala teletrasporto e ognuno prende posto su un disco della piattaforma di teletrasporto . I dischi sono leggermente sollevati per evitare eventuali scariche elettrostatiche. L’addetto al teletrasporto usa il controllo automatizzato del sistema, un subprocessore apposito, situato nelle postazioni laterali, per verificare con un controllo diagnostico che tutti i componenti del sistema siano operativi.

Controllo [ ]

Per scongiurare qualsiasi potenziale malfunzionamento tutti i principali componenti dei sistemi di teletrasporto sono controllati automaticamente ogni volta che vengono usati. Tutti i componenti includono le bobine di energia principali, le bobine di transizione di fase, gli scanner molecolari di immagine, il buffer degli schemi, il biofiltro e, all’esterno della nave, le griglie degli emettitori e gli scanner di localizzazione.

Coordinate di destinazione [ ]

Le coordinate di destinazione vengono trasmesse tramite il computer da un’altra postazione della nave oppure inserite direttamente dall’addetto al teletrasporto, e quando il sistema e i viaggiatori segnalano di essere pronti, l’addetto spinge verso l’alto i tre cursori tattili. Ciò avviene in seguito al tradizionale comando: "Energia".

Come funziona [ ]

• Le bobine di energia principali creano il raggio di confinamento anulare (Anular Confinement Beam: ACB ).
• Le bobine di transizione di fase eseguono la smaterializzazione vera e propria.
• Gli scanner molecolari di immagine registrano lo schema di ogni soggetto a livello quantistico.
• Il buffer degli schemi incamera e deposita in sé ciascuno degli schemi e li conserva per il breve tempo del teletrasporto.
• Il biofiltro rimuove, dai soggetti in arrivo sulla nave, microbi esterni potenzialmente dannosi.

Raggio di confinamento [ ]

Il raggio di confinamento anulare (ACB) crea una matrice spaziale dalle bobine di energia principali superiori. Un campo interno, secondario, funge da backup di sicurezza per evitare scariche di energia qualora l’ACB fosse danneggiato.

La scansione [ ]

Quattro scanner molecolari di immagine, ridondanti nei dischi superiori, creano un file di memoria dello stato quantistico di ciascun soggetto trasportato.

Archiviazione [ ]

Lo schema di ognuno viene immagazzinato nel computer centrale della nave come traccia di teletrasporto richiamabile, e l’operazione stessa viene registrata nel diario del teletrasporto.

Smaterializzazione [ ]

Usando un campo di manipolazione quantistica a banda larga, le bobine di transizione di fase nei dischi inferiori iniziano l’effettiva smaterializzazione di ciascun corpo tramite un parziale slegamento della sua energia a livello subatomico.

Destinazione d’arrivo [ ]

Poiché non è necessario alcun apparato di "arrivo", la destinazione del teletrasporto può essere un punto all’interno della nave stessa, un altro vascello o la superficie di un pianeta. Entro certi limiti e condizioni struttural-geologiche è possibile teletrasportarsi anche nel sottosuolo. In situazioni avverse, il sistema di teletrasporto del punto di destinazione può essere usato per agevolare la ricezione, se adeguatamente equipaggiato tramite amplificatori di segnale che creano una zona sicura per il processo di trasporto

Flusso di materia [ ]

Una volta registrato e deconvertito, il flusso di materia di ciascuno schema viene conservato nel buffer degli schemi fino a quando non viene identificato lo spostamento Doppler tra la nave e la destinazione.

Buffer degli schemi [ ]

Il buffer degli schemi è uno strumento superconduttore, detto Tokamak , che mantiene gli schemi in sospensione. Ciascun set di sale teletrasporto, accoppiate, condivide un buffer ma, come per ogni fase del processo di trasporto, viene assegnato un backup per un eventuale trasferimento di emergenza. Lo schema può rimanere nel buffer fino a 420 secondi (meno di otto minuti) prima che si verifichi un degrado irreversibile. Tuttavia, un ingegnere con grande esperienza, può creare un circuito di sospensione perpetua che può durare decenni, condizione in cui all’atto della rimaterializzazione, se l’energia si mantiene stabile, il corpo teletrasportato non subisce alcun danno di sorta. ( TNG : " Il naufrago del tempo ")

Trasmissione del flusso [ ]

Una volta assicurata la trasmissione, un trasportatore ACB dirige il flusso di materia di ciascuno schema attraverso una griglia di emissione, posta sullo scafo esterno della nave, verso le coordinate di destinazione. Un set di amplificatori di bobine e scanner agisce all’inverso, all’interno dell’ACB, per riassemblare ciascuno schema nella sua forma originale. Entro cinque secondi dall’iniziale trasmissione di energia, il corpo teletrasportato si materializza completamente a destinazione. Il processo inverso, da una destinazione senza apparati, si compie più o meno allo stesso modo, usando come punto di aggancio il comunicatore personale del soggetto, oppure i sensori della nave.

Incidenti di teletrasporto [ ]

Nonostante i teletrasporti siano un modo abbastanza sicuro di portarsi da un posto all’altro, ci sono stati tuttavia casi di incidenti di teletrasporto:

Psicosi da teletrasporto [ ]

Nei primi modelli di teletrasporto, errori a livello molecolare potevano causare seri danni ai soggetti viventi nel corso del tempo. Come risultato di questi errori, alcuni individui sviluppavano una sindrome che venne chiamata " psicosi da teletrasporto ". ( TNG : " Paure nascoste ")

Rocce conficcate nella pelle [ ]

Nel 2151 , il guardiamarina Ethan Novakovich viene teletrasportato a bordo dell’ Enterprise NX-01 dalla faccia di un pianeta, più tardi conosciuto come Archer IV , da un sistema di teletrasporto ancora sperimentale. Il teletrasporto di emergenza viene tentato durante una violento ciclone. All’arrivo, egli è incosciente e ha rocce, foglie e altri detriti della superficie del pianeta conficcati nella pelle.

Phlox riesce a rimuovere i detriti e a riparare i danni piuttosto estesi, e Novakovich si aspetta la piena guarigione. ( ENT : " Strani, nuovi mondi ")

Divisione di una entità in entità buona e malvagia [ ]

In data stellare 1672.1 , nel 2266 , uno strano minerale ha alterato la funzione del teletrasporto, causando uno dei più bizzarri incidenti di teletrasporto registrati, nel quale il capitano James T. Kirk è stato diviso in due entità separate.

Un uomo ha dato corpo a tutte le cosiddette qualità positive di Kirk e l’altro ha incarnato tutte le sue qualità "cattive". C’è voluto tempo prima che l’incidente fosse scoperto, e la versione maligna di Kirk ha vagabondato per la nave, rubando liquori, assalendo marinai, e addirittura tentando di violentare l’ attendente Rand .

Quando egli viene messo all’angolo, e finalmente catturato nella sala macchine, un colpo vagante del suo phaser danneggia ulteriormente il teletrasporto. Scotty e Spock isolano e riparano il danno.

Le loro riparazioni sono confermate quando un animale da esperimento, precedentemente diviso in modo simile a Kirk, è mandato attraverso il teletrasporto nel tentativo di reintegrare le due creature. Una volta reintegrato, si rimaterializza morto.

Paralizzato dall’indecisione, Kirk può, a malapena, compiere il viaggio, e le sue due metà vengono di nuovo reintegrate in una. ( TOS : " Il duplicato ")

Teletrasporto all’universo dello specchio [ ]

Nel 2267 , una tempesta di ioni provoca un incidente di teletrasporto. Dopo il fallimento nel convincere il Concilio Halkano di permettere alla Federazione di estrarre dilitio sul loro pianeta, una squadra di sbarco della USS Enterprise , che si aspettava di essere portata indietro sulla sua nave, viene teletrasportata a bordo di una sconosciuta ISS Enterprise nell’ universo dello specchio .

Rimaterializzati a bordo, i membri della squadra scoprono che la pacifica Federazione dei Pianeti Uniti è stata sostituita dal brutale Impero Terrestre , e che essi hanno la propria controparte dello "specchio". ( TOS : " Specchio, specchio ")

La morte del comandante Sonak nel 2272

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Morti accidentali [ ]

Nel 2272 , due marinai dell’ Enterprise , tra i quali il comandante Sonak , rimangono uccisi in un malfunzionamento del teletrasporto quando vengono portati sulla nave mentre il teletrasporto dell’ Enterprise è ridotto per le riparazioni. Il teletrasporto fallisce, mandando i corpi deformati dei marinai indietro sulla Terra; il Capo del teletrasporto riferisce di rimando, scosso, "Enterprise, ciò che abbiamo avuto indietro non vivrà a lungo... fortunatamente." ( Star Trek: Il film )

Agli inizi del 2375 , Weyoun 5 rimase ucciso in un incidente di teletrasporto. Damar stava per andare con lui ma "era stato chiamato altrove", attirando su di sé il sospetto di una possibile "organizzazione" dell’incidente. ( DS9 : " Tradimento, fede e il grande fiume ")

Divisione di una entità in due entità identiche [ ]

Nel 2361 , su Nervala IV , la USS Potemkin ha condotto una evacuazione dell’avamposto scientifico sul pianeta. Il tenente William T. Riker faceva parte della squadra di sbarco in quel momento.

Un insolito campo di distorsione ha significato per la Potemkin difficoltà a portare su Riker. Per superarle è stato iniziato un secondo raggio di confinamento, con l’intenzione di reintegrare i due raggi nel buffer del teletrasporto.

Questo non è stato necessario perché un solo raggio ha avuto successo nel teletrasportare Riker. La modulazione della distorsione ha fatto riflettere il secondo raggio indietro sulla superficie, materializzando due Riker, uno sulla nave, e uno sulla superficie del pianeta. Diversamente dai due Kirk creati nel 2266, entrambi i Riker sono funzionalmente identici all’uomo originale.

La Potemkin ha lasciato l’ orbita , ignara di abbandonare il Riker duplicato. Dopo otto anni, questo incidente viene scoperto dall’ Enterprise -D che visita di nuovo il pianeta, trova il secondo Riker e lo porta sulla nave. ( TNG : " Duplicato ")

Rimaterializzazione senza abiti [ ]

Durante la sua carriera nella Flotta Stellare, Chakotay viene coinvolto in un malfunzionamento del teletrasporto. La sua uniforme cade nel buffer dello schema ed egli si rimaterializza indossando unicamente il proprio comunicatore . ( VOY : " La teoria di Shaw ")

Viaggio nel tempo [ ]

Nel 2371 , Benjamin Sisko , Julian Bashir e Jadzia Dax vengono accidentalmente teletrasportati nell’anno 2024 da un’esplosione in una singolarità microscopica, mentre passano attraverso il sistema solare nel momento il raggio del teletrasporto li porta fuori.

Fortunatamente, Miles O'Brien riesce a escogitare un modo per mandare Kira Nerys e se stesso in un periodo diverso della storia della Terra per cercare di scoprire dove la squadra di sbarco è stata mandata, e poi riportarla a casa.

Mentre è nel XXI secolo , Sisko causa accidentalmente la morte di Gabriel Bell , ed è costretto ad assumere l’identità di questa figura storica. Come risultato, Sisko è di fatto in tutte le foto storiche di Bell. ( DS9 : " Tempi passati - prima parte ")

Trasformazione in ologrammi [ ]

Nel 2372 , gli schemi di Sisko, Kira, Worf , Dax, e Miles O'Brien sono temporaneamente conservati nel nucleo del computer di Deep Space 9 per impedirne la degradazione a causa di un’esplosione sul loro runabout al momento di essere teletrasportati fuori.

Essi vengono integrati in un oloprogramma fatto funzionare da Julian Bashir , e ciascuno assume un ruolo olografico nel programma. Alla fine, Michael Eddington riesce a restituire i marinai alla normalità. ( DS9 : " Bashir, Julian Bashir ")

Due entità fuse in una [ ]

L’ enzima lisosoma di una orchidea aliena è la causa di un altro incidente nello stesso anno. Tuvok , Neelix e l’orchidea si sono temporaneamente fusi in un unico essere durante il teletrasporto. Tuvix , come ha chiamato se stesso (o se stessi ), è un completo miscuglio dei talenti di entrambi i membri dell’equipaggio.

Dopo che si è scoperto come separare i due schemi e ricuperare sia Tuvok sia Neelix, Tuvix protesta che come procedura può equivalere alla sua uccisione, ma il procedimento viene ad ogni modo intrapreso, e Tuvok e Neelix vengono reintegrati. ( VOY : " Tuvix ")

Altri incidenti di teletrasporto [ ]

• " La ragnatela tholiana "
• " Sul pianeta Triacon "
• " Giovani eroi "
• Star Trek: Il film
• " Punto di non ritorno "

A causa di questi incidenti, alcune persone soffrono di fobia del teletrasporto o sperimentano lo shock da teletrasporto .

Si può notare che a metà del XXIV secolo, ci sono in media soltanto due o tre incidenti di teletrasporto all’anno da una capo all’altro della Federazione, e già milioni di persone vengono teletrasportate ogni giorno. ( TNG : " Paure nascoste ")

Collegamenti esterni [ ]

• Principali incidenti del teletrasporto su StarTrek.com
• Teletrasporto su Wikipedia
• Teletrasporto (Star Trek) su Wikipedia
• 1 Star Trek: Serie Classica
• 2 Federazione Unita dei Pianeti
• 3 Personaggi principali

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Star Trek Just Doubled Down on Its Wildest Body-Switching Concept

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Body switching is a classic sci-fi trope. From Freaky Friday to Farscape , and of course, most of Quantum Leap, the idea of the consciousness from one person inhabiting the body of a different person will never stop being the fuel for speculative stories that are both hilarious and profound. But, when Star Trek invented the “joined” species of the Trill in 1991, it took the body-switching/body-surfing trope to a new level. While a specific Trill symbiont might live for several hundreds of years, this slug-like creature generally inhabited a humanoid host. This “joining” often created a new hybrid personality each time, sort of like Time Lord regeneration from Doctor Who mashed up with internal alien parasites from Alien; a chest-burster that never burst, but just stayed in you forever.

And if all of that wasn’t wild enough, on June 12, in the episode “Facets,” 1995, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine added a new wrinkle to Trill canon. Not only were the memories of all the previous hosts alive and well in the current symbiont, but, through a process called “zhian’tara,” a specific host’s personality could leave the symbiont and enter into the body of... anyone! Basically, this was Trill joining via spacey magic, and now, 29 years after “Facets,” Star Trek: Discovery is doubling down (tripling down?) on this very specific form of consciousness transfer in the Season 5 episode “Jinaal.” Spoilers ahead.

The Trill host trick

Dax and Odo discuss sharing memories in “Facets.”

Although the Trill were established in The Next Generation episode “The Host,” the vast majority of Trill canon comes from Deep Space Nine , thanks to the presence of Jadzia Dax, who later, in Season 7, switched hosts and became Ezri Dax. But, in the memorable Season 3 episode “Facets,” Jadzia’s previous host, Curzon, left her body through the zhian’tara process and settled in the body of the station’s resident shapeshifter, Odo. From that point, Odo’s entire personality was merged with Curzon’s, which put everyone on the station in a deeply uncomfortable position.

As a stand-alone episode of DS9 , “Facets” remains a fantastic story about memory, regret, and what one generation owes the next. But, the legacy of “Facets” is easily the concept of zhian’tara, which was used to save Gray Tal’s consciousness in Discovery Season 4, and now, in Season 5, is being employed again to unravel an 800-year-old mystery.

Discovery’s return to Trill

Cubler (Wilson Cruz) takes on an ancient Trill tradition in Discovery Season 5.

The planet Trill was first seen in DS9 in the episode “Equilibrium,” but Discovery has actually visited the planet more times, starting in the Season 3 episode “Forget Me Not,” and now again, in “Jinaal.” This time the need to transfer the memories of one previous Trill host into someone else is all connected to the secrets Jinaal Bix has about researcher of the Progenitors in the 24th century.

After transferring Jinaal’s consciousness into Culber, the entire personality of our stalwart Starfleet doctor changes, and, just like “Facets,” he suddenly becomes cockier, and more evasive. If you watch “Facets” right after watching “Jinaal,” the parallels are clear. While Curzon’s secret was connected to something personal, Jinaal’s secret has broader implications. Turns out, Federation scientists were working on cracking the Progenitor tech during the era of the Dominion War, and so they decided to bury any knowledge of the technology to prevent any planet or government from weaponizing their research.

Interestingly, this detail dovetails with Picard Season 3 a bit, in which we learned that Section 31 was pushing different Federation scientists to weaponize the organic nature of Changelings. Basically, the Dominion War created a lot of corrupt scientific research within the Federation, making the top-secret Daystrom labs that Riker, Raffi, and Worf raided perhaps just a small sample of the horrible top-secret weapons the Federation has developed.

What Discovery does is make it clear that Jinaal did the right thing at the time by hiding the research — even if that doesn’t help our heroes at the moment.

A classic Original Series nod

Sargon enters Kirk’s body in “Return to Tomorrow.”

Of course, within the canon of Trek, the Trill weren’t the first time the franchise explored the concept of sharing consciousness. Spock transferred his katra to Bones in The Wrath of Khan , and Kirk switched bodies with Janice Lester in the controversial final TOS episode “Turnabout Intruder.”

But, one wonderful 1968 episode from TOS Season 2 — “Return to Tomorrow” — featured ancient beings borrowing the bodies of Kirk, Spock, and Dr. Ann Mulhall in order to build more permanent, android bodies. When the ancient being of Sargon enters Kirk’s body, one of the first things he says is: “Your captain has an excellent body.”

Now, 56 years later, when Jinaal finds himself in Culber’s body, he says something similar: “Wow, this guy really works out!”

Across decades of internal canon, Star Trek can make the same body-switching joke, and make it work, in any century.

Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 drops new episodes on Fridays on Paramount+.

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Teletrasporto (Star Trek)

Tecnologia immaginaria che permette la trasmissione di persone e cose a distanza. primariamente usata nell'universo di star trek. / da wikipedia, l'enciclopedia encyclopedia, caro wikiwand ai, facciamo breve rispondendo semplicemente a queste domande chiave:.

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Un teletrasporto è un dispositivo immaginario dell'universo fantascientifico di Star Trek , che consente il trasporto istantaneo di materia (organica e non) da un punto ad un altro. Il teletrasporto funziona grazie alla conversione di materia in energia, quindi la materia che compone una persona o un oggetto viene convertita in energia, processo chiamato dematerializzazione, viene irradiata verso il punto di destinazione, dove viene riconvertita in materia, processo chiamato rimaterializzazione. Quando questo processo non avviene con successo si verifica quello che viene definito "incidente di teletrasporto".

« Beam me up, Scotty! »

( James Tiberius Kirk )

Secondo quanto riportato su The Making of Star Trek [1] , nei piani originali del creatore di Star Trek Gene Roddenberry non era incluso il teletrasporto: i personaggi sarebbero sbarcati con la nave stessa. Questa soluzione, tuttavia, avrebbe richiesto set poco pratici e molto costosi, riprese con modelli in stop motion , ed in più tempo per mostrare le fasi di atterraggio e decollo della nave. Un'idea successiva fu quella di impiegare una navetta, ma il modello a grandezza naturale non fu realizzato in tempo per l'inizio delle riprese dell'episodio pilota. Il teletrasporto fu concepito come alternativa meno costosa, realizzato grazie all'uso degli effetti di dissolvenza su un soggetto. [2] Il primo teletrasporto appare nell' episodio pilota della serie originale Lo zoo di Talos ( The Cage ). L' effetto speciale del teletrasporto fu creato per mezzo di una telecamera capovolta filmando al rallentatore della polvere di alluminio retroilluminata lasciata cadere tra la telecamera e uno sfondo nero [3] ; successivamente l'effetto verrà realizzato con animazioni generate al computer .

In ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ Technical Manual [4] viene riportato che le tre barre luminose sensibili al tocco della consolle di teletrasporto dell ' Enterprise D era un omaggio alla serie classica in cui la consolle duotronica di teletrasporto dell ' Enterprise originale era dotata di tre cursori.

Nell'agosto del 2008, il fisico Michio Kaku sul Discovery Channel Magazine ha predetto che un dispositivo di teletrasporto simile a quelli visti in Star Trek potrebbe essere inventato entro 100 anni. [5] [6] Studenti di fisica dell'Università di Leicester hanno calcolato che per "trasportare" solo le informazioni genetiche di una singola cellula umana, non la posizione degli atomi, ma solo la sequenza genetica, insieme ad uno "stato mentale", potrebbero volerci 4,850 trilioni di anni, presumendo una lunghezza di banda delle microonde a 30 gigahertz. [7] Uno studio svolto da Eric Davis per il laboratorio di ricerca dell'aeronautica militare statunitense sulla tecnologia di teletrasporto speculativo mostra che per dematerializzare un corpo umano riscaldandolo fino a più di un milione di volte la temperature del nucleo del sole, in modo tale che i quark perdano la loro energia di legame e diventino senza massa e possano essere teletrasportati alla velocità della luce, che si avvicina alla fisica impiegata nel dispositivo di teletrasporto mostrato in Star Trek , potrebbe richiedere l'equivalente di 330 megatoni di energia. Soddisfare le esigenze di immagazzinamento e trasmissione delle informazioni richiederebbe che le attuali capacità informatiche continuino a migliorare di un fattore da 10 a 100 volte per i prossimi 200-300 anni. [8]

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teletrasporto

• Thread starter Blackgrrrl
• Start date Dec 16, 2008
• Dec 16, 2008

C iao, sapete come si dice "teletrasporto"? T he sentence is Caro babbo natale, per natale vorrei il dono del teletrasporto T hanks in advance  

Paulfromitaly

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Insomniae said: Teleportation?Ma daiiii,sembra una parola inglese italianizzata Click to expand...

london calling

london calling said: Beam me up, Scotty! The most misquoted phrase in the history of TV.... Star Trek's Captain Kirk is asking his Chief Engineer to transport him back onto the Enterprise. The machine used in Star Trek is known as a "transporter" and it uses a "transporter beam" to beam people up! Mitici! Click to expand...

Paulfromitaly said: Ask Scotty to beam you up then Click to expand...

Hermocrates

Insomniae said: Because of you I passed 5 min looking for the meaning of what you said:Who the hell is Scotty? Now i know Gosh,maybe I'm the only one round here who has never seen Star Trek. Click to expand...