Star Trek technologies and real physics

posted on November 9th, 2004, 6:55 pm

i thought that replecators reorganized the atomec structor of an atom to creat something else like they take the waste of the crew and turn it into a yumy bowl of pudding or a banana or something if you thank about it it is possable

posted on November 9th, 2004, 7:45 pm

That's the big unknown in replicator technology. It would make sense to create matter by reorganizing other matter, but I think it was stated that replicators turn energy into matter.
Same with transporters (as it's essentially the same technology): Are personell dissolved into energy and transferred to and from the ships as energy beams (hence "beaming") or are they dissolved into their atoms (or possibly their subatomic particles) and transported that way?
I'd go for energy-matter - conversion, as it's even more science-fictional, but who knows?

posted on November 9th, 2004, 7:48 pm

Yeah the transporters are a big mystery. I can tell you that the food replicators work off tanks of replicants, which are special protein soups or something, not energy. I would assume that the engineering replicators work off of special metal blocks or plastics or something, with some energy mixed in to make things slightly different from ready spares.

posted on November 9th, 2004, 8:02 pm

no i think it is matter atom reorganizition

posted on November 9th, 2004, 8:09 pm

hell is that a long text......

perhaps i can shorten that dramatically:

--> The reason for your travel into the past can not be changed because if you change something you would not travel back.

posted on November 9th, 2004, 8:16 pm

well bacicaly but his explanition is more prestigious

posted on November 11th, 2004, 9:51 am

I am not reading that entire post.. but welcome to the forum.. lol

posted on November 12th, 2004, 2:16 am

no i think it is matter atom reorganizition

yeah.. like i said

posted on November 12th, 2004, 2:41 am

I think that the greatest achievement of star trek technology is Lt.Cmd.Data, artifficilly created lifeform. And how is today technology expanding anything is possible.

posted on November 12th, 2004, 3:31 am

no, i know that there is a greater advance in tech......like bioneural gell packs in the E, Voyager, and the Prometheus

posted on November 12th, 2004, 11:43 am

if we talk about cyborgs we should look at the borg

posted on November 12th, 2004, 1:08 pm

and if we start talkin bout the borg we can talk about reallife..

posted on November 12th, 2004, 5:17 pm

Does anyone else think that it's kinda inevitable that we're going to borgify ourselves over the next 100 or 200 years? By that I mean enhance our mental and physical abilities with robotic and cybernetic implants coupled with gene resequencing.

posted on November 12th, 2004, 5:32 pm

think about, terminator, i,robot, matrix and the other blockbuster movies, the borg... and try to imagine whats a possible future.. if we would live long enough, for sure.. cause i dont think humans can get past the 200year deadline

posted on November 12th, 2004, 5:56 pm

If we do enhance our selfs i dont think we will be dumb enough to loose our souls or spirit, like the borg have, many couse we have all seen the moves. lol