hear BEAMING?

[Mr. Laser Beam]

True, in The Voyage Home she "felt" herself being transported before the visual/audio component of the effect kicked in

Yeah, I forgot about that. Gillian clearly felt that she was about to be transported well before the sound effect kicked in.

 

[RobertScorpio]

True, in The Voyage Home she "felt" herself being transported before the visual/audio component of the effect kicked in

Yeah, I forgot about that. Gillian clearly felt that she was about to be transported well before the sound effect kicked in.

Yes, I forgot about that as well..

So lets assume that there is a sound that is being generated, what do you think it is????

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Kryton]

As mentioned upthread, I'd always attributed it to molecular displacement of oxygen.

Plus without the sound, the visual isn't quite as interesting.

 

[T'Cal]

Aside from the buzzing/whining sound of the transporter beam, when one member of an away team beams up to the ship from a planet or wherever, shouldn't the rest of the group hear the air filling the vacuum where the person beamed had just been standing (perhaps a whooshing sound or slight thunder sound)?

Just curious, as I'm certainly no expert at fluids or thermodynamics.

I read a discussion about the possibility of a real transporter system and the author pointed out that when something is beamed in, those nearby should hear the pop of the air being instantly pushed aside, or something like that. I think that what we hear when characters beam away is the transporter device in the transporter room, while where they are beaming to shouldn't hear that electro-mechanical whine. The whoosing noise described above makes more sense as the air where they are beaming to is pushed aside.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Aside from the buzzing/whining sound of the transporter beam, when one member of an away team beams up to the ship from a planet or wherever, shouldn't the rest of the group hear the air filling the vacuum where the person beamed had just been standing (perhaps a whooshing sound or slight thunder sound)?

Just curious, as I'm certainly no expert at fluids or thermodynamics.

I read a discussion about the possibility of a real transporter system and the author pointed out that when something is beamed in, those nearby should hear the pop of the air being instantly pushed aside, or something like that. I think that what we hear when characters beam away is the transporter device in the transporter room, while where they are beaming to shouldn't hear that electro-mechanical whine. The whoosing noise described above makes more sense as the air where they are beaming to is pushed aside.

Okay..then how about this...can you SMELL beaming..after they are gone, is there any scent left over??? weird, but by son asked me that some time back and I didn't know..

Rob
Scorpio

 

[T'Cal]

Aside from the buzzing/whining sound of the transporter beam, when one member of an away team beams up to the ship from a planet or wherever, shouldn't the rest of the group hear the air filling the vacuum where the person beamed had just been standing (perhaps a whooshing sound or slight thunder sound)?

Just curious, as I'm certainly no expert at fluids or thermodynamics.

I read a discussion about the possibility of a real transporter system and the author pointed out that when something is beamed in, those nearby should hear the pop of the air being instantly pushed aside, or something like that. I think that what we hear when characters beam away is the transporter device in the transporter room, while where they are beaming to shouldn't hear that electro-mechanical whine. The whoosing noise described above makes more sense as the air where they are beaming to is pushed aside.

Okay..then how about this...can you SMELL beaming..after they are gone, is there any scent left over??? weird, but by son asked me that some time back and I didn't know..

Rob
Scorpio

Only when Riker beams in. He wears really strong smelling cologne he got from Risa. It's very musky!

 

[Flexdog]

Just watched Peak Performance


When Wes beams the science experiment over La Forge doesn't seem to hear any thing until it rolls on the table.


He wasn't that far away One would think that if there was a sound he would turn around to see what it was.

One other explanation is that since the sphere was relatively small maybe it made less noise, or objects only make sounds when leaving and not arriving
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[Timo]

The holodeck would seem to require the existence of soundless, sparkle-less beaming technology, really.

And we see soundless, sparkle-less beaming with Federation-level technology in "Devil's Due", trickery that Picard dismisses as "cheap" when he realizes what is going on. Probably it is no big matter to introduce extra holograms or anti-phase sounds or other refinements that can make beaming a sound-free and glow-free process, but there is no good practical reason for doing so in the standard case. Most probably, the beaming process is at its most efficient when it is allowed to leak a bit of sound and light.

Timo Saloniemi