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From: kiessig@idi.UUCP (Rick Kiessig)
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Subject: Re: Matter Transmission
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Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 20:46:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 13 20:46:38 1984
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	There are other implications of matter transmitters:

		1. The 'original' matter must somehow be 'destroyed'.

		2. Because of the large amount of energy present
		   in matter (e=mc^2), it seems likely that matter
		   transmitters do NOT in fact imply matter duplication,
		   except perhaps at extremely high cost.  In the
		   normal case, it seems more likely that the energy
		   obtained by 'disintegrating' the original matter
		   would have to be used to recreate the object at
		   its new location.  I suppose it might be possible
		   to use some other matter as an energy source,
		   but only if the encoding and disintegration processes
		   were seperable, which doesn't seem obvious to me.

		3. Because of this, a more likely technology would
		   not involve 'storage' of a 'pattern', but rather
		   disintegration combined with simultaneous recreation
		   at the receiving end.  It seems unlikely that sufficient
		   energy could be stored remotely to create any       
		   substantial amount of matter - the required energy
		   would more likely be transmitted, along with pattern
		   information.

		4. I do think that a pre-cursor of a matter transmitter
		   would have to involve controlled (i.e. non-radioactive)
		   disintegration of matter - into some form of energy 
		   capable of holding information.  I'm not sure which
		   energy form is capable of passing the required amount
		   of energy most efficiently.  Lasers?  Microwaves?

		5. Another pre-cursor would have to be the creation
		   of matter from energy.  Has any theoretical work
		   yet been done on that?  The obvious problem is
		   how to 'tell' the energy to condense into some
		   particular molecular form, including specific
		   bonding information.  Sounds like a real messy problem.

		6. Receiving stations would likely be accompanied by
		   large power plants, because of energy transmission
		   losses that would have to be made up if the original
		   matter were to be exactly recreated.

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