Platt%UPenn@UDel-Relay@sri-unix.UUCP (08/18/83)
From: Steve Platt <Platt%UPenn@UDel-Relay>
Somewhere in my distant past I remember reading stories which transported
not by disassembling and reassembling matter, but just by shifting the
probabilities of location of the constituent (sub-)atomic particles to
the "desired" location. No copying, just a legitimate "move". Focusing
the "realigned probabilites" can be done in any of the manners previously
mentioned; again, the matter is moved as a single chunk. If the dice roll
off the table... well, we saw that in ST:TMP...
or... Star Trek IV: Return of the Fly
with William Shatner, DeForest Kelly, Vincent Price,
the holograms of Leonard Nimoy, Alec Guiness, Frank Oz...
A side note: this mechanism is universal in the sense that it also creates
the tractor beam ("you want to be closer... you want to be closer"), force
field ("go away!"), etc.
-steve
platt.upenn@udel-relaypreece@uicsl.UUCP (08/31/83)
#R:sri-arpa:-433000:uicsl:10700029:000:285 uicsl!preece Aug 30 12:08:00 1983 There is, of course, a simple mechanism for explaining how the Klingons could be stored in the transporter without assuming they were actually stored (and hence copyable). All you have to do is have the alternate circuits keep moving them around, never quite completing the transfer.