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RE: Star Trek Discovery's Transporter Room Still Doesn't Look Like The Original Series
As much as i love star trek still not sure how i feel about the transporter technology. I kinda wish they could redo the idea of it. Still call it a transporter but maybe use fast elevator cars attached to cables. They move at high speeds with inertia dampeners. To the point it almost feels like you arrive at your location instantly.
Or some type of blackhole or wormhole generating tech you pass through from the ship. The problem is alot of star trek tech has influenced real life tech that came true. Or is possible. The transporter is one of those things kinda bothers me. however, we do have 3d printers now, lol. That design looks weird but if they do a good job explaining the purpose of why it looks that way. i may bite, lol.
Transporter tech is probably the most difficult of the Trek technologies to actually become a reality. Current thinking suggests that it may be possible. But the downside is that you'd have to destroy the object you're transporting while scanning it into the buffer and then reassembling the object at the destination using different atoms (sourced locally). The "beam" would be a digital signal sent between transmitter and receiver, not the actual atoms that made up the object. Whether living things could be transported this way is unknown. And, assuming it is possible, what comes out of the receiver is a copy of the original, not the original object/person. So do copies of people have the same legal rights as originals? And if you're of a religious persuasion, what happens to the soul during such a transfer? Since the original is killed in the process, does the soul head to the afterlife and a soulless copy step out of the receiver?