Transporter Buffer Error caused by trying to do a workaround for inability to get a lock on due to interference.
An unusual distortion field meant the Potemkin had difficulty beaming him up. A second confinement beam was initiated to overcome these difficulties, with the intent of reintegrating the two beams in the transporter buffer. This was unnecessary, as only one beam was successful at transporting Riker; the modulation of the distortion caused the second beam to be reflected back down to the surface, materializing the two Rikers, one on the ship, and one on the planet’s surface.
If the transporter is actually moving matter from one place to another, instead of (destructively) recording a pattern then copying it, then how could there be enough original matter to create two Rikers?
my personal opinion is that instant (i.e. arbitrarily close to speed of light) teleportation machines could be built in theory, but doing so is really expensive and there’s just no economical reason to do so.
for example, for fast travel, we already have aircraft and rockets. Yet nobody would use them to ship objects produced in china to europe, e.g. cars, if there’s no time-critical component (i.e. food that spoils very quickly etc.). So the fastest way of travel is typically also the most expensive one, while cheaper modes of transport take more time.
Then, you can think of a teleportation device as a mode of transport where the speed approaches the speed of light. If our previous experience is anything to go by, that means that the cost of transport would increase enormously, and thus practically nobody would use it anyways. So that’s the practical side to this thing.
Star Trek transporters.
Explicitly don’t work like that, the Transporter Problem Thought Experiment was “what if they worked like that”
But in Star Trek it’s a streaming connection, kept in the Transporter Buffer
Ok, then explain Thomas Riker
Transporter Buffer Error caused by trying to do a workaround for inability to get a lock on due to interference.
If the transporter is actually moving matter from one place to another, instead of (destructively) recording a pattern then copying it, then how could there be enough original matter to create two Rikers?
That’s fully never explained tbh
Time to post the first Existential Comics again
https://www.existentialcomics.com/comic/1
More like brainuppercut. Goddamn. Thankyou.
my personal opinion is that instant (i.e. arbitrarily close to speed of light) teleportation machines could be built in theory, but doing so is really expensive and there’s just no economical reason to do so.
for example, for fast travel, we already have aircraft and rockets. Yet nobody would use them to ship objects produced in china to europe, e.g. cars, if there’s no time-critical component (i.e. food that spoils very quickly etc.). So the fastest way of travel is typically also the most expensive one, while cheaper modes of transport take more time.
Then, you can think of a teleportation device as a mode of transport where the speed approaches the speed of light. If our previous experience is anything to go by, that means that the cost of transport would increase enormously, and thus practically nobody would use it anyways. So that’s the practical side to this thing.