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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bernd: [QB] [QUOTE]The problem is that Kraus is trying to explain things with real world physics as much as possible, which states that the cellular information is essentially copied, wheras the Trek tech explanation is pseudo-science, and states that the cells and particles are actually moved. [/QUOTE]Exactly. But it's not that the Trek approach is necessarily less realistic. Krauss makes a very fundamental error when he assumes that all particles are actually stored. We know that they are not (the exception of "Our Man Bashir" came later). No one less than Rick Sternbach once wrote in a newsgroup that the transporter is working like a TV broadcast, not like a video recorder. And I may add, not like a *digital* video recorder, which is exactly what Krauss assumes. BTW, even if Krauss were right with his assumption, I can't follow his argument where he ridicules the principle by stating that light years of staggered hard disks would be needed for that purpose. But a memory cell may and will be as small as one atom some day. The pattern tank, if it really were something like a computer memory, has an absolutely realistic size to store one or a few human atomic patterns. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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