Timeline for Can latinum be transporter beamed?
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| Jul 24, 2023 at 2:56 | comment | added | Jon B | Extensive answer on replicating latinum: scifi.stackexchange.com/q/5337/21264 | |
| Jan 30, 2018 at 18:22 | comment | added | JAB | @Iszi That was a hack that essentially had Scotty in an infinite transporter loop, and as shown in that same episode it resulted in the effective death of the other person the method was used on. | |
| Jan 9, 2013 at 14:30 | vote | accept | zipquincy | ||
| Jan 7, 2013 at 17:35 | comment | added | Iszi | @Izkata And then there's Relics. No massive holodeck database there. Just the transporter buffer. | |
| Jan 5, 2013 at 0:49 | comment | added | Izkata | @loghaD This is basically correct AFAIK, and I think it's actually a dual problem in replicator-land. Storing people at the quantum level was shown to take so much memory that it's extremely impractical (and was only done in a panic at the time). Storing the patterns for everything a person would want to replicate at the quantum level would be similarly infeasible, if they could even be scanned, which sort of further explains the latinum-replicator side, but not the transporter side. | |
| Jan 4, 2013 at 22:38 | comment | added | loghaD | I believe the general idea is something along the lines that you can't scan the pattern without destroying it (which sounds sort of like a sci-fi approximation of quantum mechanics), which is also why you can't use it to make duplicates of people (except in extraordinary cases such as TNG: Second Chances, so arguably that's a technological problem rather than a theoretical one). | |
| Jan 4, 2013 at 19:23 | comment | added | user11683 | However, transporters have pattern buffers, so one could replicate bars of latinum simply by reusing the pattern buffer contents. This seems to be simply an inconsistency which one is expected not to examine too closely. | |
| Jan 4, 2013 at 18:51 | history | answered | loghaD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |