a moving biological object & Transporters

[jefferiestubes8]

Let's discuss how a transporter works with a moving biological object.

Non Sync posted about

Star Tek: The Next Generation Technical Manual describes in amazing detail the actual timeline of a transporter sequence.

The book actually describes 58 steps.

You would want the scan to occur very close to the start of the actual transport sequence to ensure the data is the most up-to-date.

but a moving object is in constant flux of atomic.

Also the speed of a bullet:
320 m/s The speed of a typical .22 LR bullet.
as per Wiki

Micro-transporters

capable of transporting small amounts of material within an almost-imperceptible span of time. When attached to a TR-116 rifle [firing a chemically propelled tritanium bullet], it could be used to transport the bullet to anywhere within the transporter's range, where it would continue at its original velocity until striking a target.

How would this be possible with that speed even with Trek tech?
but more to the thread title. How can a moving biological object be transported such as a humanoid falling or running?

reference:
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Transporter

 

[EmperorTiberius]

Bullet wouldn't be hard since you have all the information about it. Biological object? no clue

 

[T'Girl]

320 m/s The speed of a typical .22 LR bullet.

Given the rotation of the Earth, I currently am moving east at about 350 meters per second. If beamed up, hopefully, that momentum would be canceled out .. or I'm going into a bulkhead.

In the resent movie Kirk and Sulu were beamed aboard while fall at (likely) terminal velocity towards the surface of Vulcan, they would have been moving at over 100 meters per second. If they retain that speed after being beamed up, it would have made no difference if they impacted the Vulcan surface or the transporter platform, they'd have been killed. In the movie, Kirk and Sulu only actual fell about four or five feet from a mid air stationary start.

It would seem that bringing the individual/object being transported to a stationary stop relative to the platform or target location is a standard function. The gun mentioned in the OP is unusually because it doesn't do that, the bullet retains it's angular momentum. As far as the the gun being able to scan and dematerialize an object moving at hundreds of meters per second?

That's an everyday thing for any transporter.

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[Timo]

The TNG transporter cycle probably has to be "creatively interpreted" - there must be some sort of a constant scan going on, rather than just "point sampling".

Or then no scanning is actually necessary, and the device simply imposes an all-encompassing effect on the transportee, turning him into "phased matter" for several seconds or in some cases for several hours. Instead of the machine actually knowing where each and every particle is and what it is doing, the machine simply allows the particles to freely do whatever they please; even when in the "phased matter" state, they converse with each other and maintain cohesion, just like when not "phased".

That microtransporter/gun combo didn't make much sense. If a transporter can remove the momentum of an object (and it obviously can), it should be capable of giving momentum to an object as well. There'd be no need for a gun, merely for the microtransporter and a box of bullets...

Then again, the combo was designed by a madman. So no problem there!

Timo Saloniemi

 

[T'Girl]

^ Agree, there would no need the actually "fire" the gun.

 

[YARN]

We might as well have a serious discussion about how Jack's magic beans grew the bean stalk into the clouds.

Anything is possible with "Heisenberg Compensators."

 

[Myasishchev]

We might as well have a serious discussion about how Jack's magic beans grew the bean stalk into the clouds.

Word.

Anyway, the most interesting thing to me about a biological object in a transporter is how it manages not to cause blinding, crippling, pain.

 

[SicOne]

We might as well have a serious discussion about how Jack's magic beans grew the bean stalk into the clouds.

Word.

Anyway, the most interesting thing to me about a biological object in a transporter is how it manages not to cause blinding, crippling, pain.

Perhaps it does.

Remember the Booth in the Mirror Universe? And the Agonizers? I am thinking that those are objects that might cause partial transporting or phasing of biologic matter, especially in regards to the nervous system.

 

[dgguy2006]

Assuming that, in the 23rd-24th centuries, the various species have been genetically mapped, and the computer handling the transport has a sophisticated predictive algorithm, and assuming that once 'phased' into constituent particles that ones 'return form' can be manipulated to suit the needs of the person doing the transporting, the process is entirely possible. But you know what happens when you assume... You make an ass out of u and me...

 

[thepatagonian]

Biological processes don't cease during transport. Hence there is motion. Cardiopulminary, nervous, muscular systems are all apparently marching on without the slightest sensation or interruption. Unless, they hold their breath during transport.