Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Matter Transmission Message-ID: <198@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 23:58:26 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.198 Posted: Fri Aug 10 23:58:26 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Aug-84 01:31:04 EDT References: <717@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 22 Commenting (again) on the concept of putting a ham sandwich in one end of a transporter and pulling out gold bullion: The first thing that comes to mind is that it would be far "easier" to use a matter transporter for moving matter from point A to point B then it would be to use it for manipulating matter. Transportation would require a "simple" (hehe) scan of the subatomic structure of the thing being transported, and then based on this information, reconstruct the object from the energy wavefront. In order to create a "new" object from the "old" would require that you already had a subatomic "blueprint" to use. Also, matter can neither be created nor distroyed. Therefore, a ham sandwich would make a very small peice of gold bullion since it's desity and atomic weight are less. Ah, but I'm full of spurious comments tonite... --- Rob DeMillo MACC "...I know engineers, they LOVE to change things!"