Timeline for What is the difference between the transporter and the replicator?
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| Jan 9, 2012 at 13:54 | comment | added | Adam Robinson | Sorry, I've had to accept @TangoOversway's answer, since he's quoting the actual writer's technical manual. Thanks, though! | |
| Jan 9, 2012 at 3:24 | comment | added | Adam Robinson | Fair enough. Accepted! | |
| Jan 9, 2012 at 3:24 | vote | accept | Adam Robinson | ||
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| Jan 9, 2012 at 3:15 | comment | added | Thaddeus Howze | The transporter does not normally duplicate an object. It is temporarily halting the quantum existence of an object in one location and relocating it somewhere else. This is not the same as replicating it. The pattern buffer is only temporarily storing the quantum image. When the buffer is empty, the data/object is gone. Quantum data is unique to the single object being moved. | |
| Jan 9, 2012 at 2:39 | comment | added | Adam Robinson | Thanks; this is getting closer to what I'm looking for, and it does explain the reasoning behind why the transporter could deal with things (such as the Omega particle) that the replicator could not. However, it still doesn't answer why the transporter couldn't use the same pattern buffer combined with an additional energy source to duplicate the transported subject. | |
| Jan 8, 2012 at 23:20 | history | edited | Thaddeus Howze | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 8, 2012 at 23:02 | history | answered | Thaddeus Howze | CC BY-SA 3.0 |