"Beaming" makes noise?

[RobertScorpio]

It is burning you! I think the novel Spock Must Die! goes into detail on this Your atoms are subjected to a controlled 'burn' after the quantum states of each atom is scanned and stored in the pattern buffer.

I get it..so thats the destruction of the old you, as the new you is constructed on the other end..isn't that..well...Murder?

Rob

 

[SpyOne]

Beaming is converting matter to energy at the transport point.

Actually, it isn't. I might not even have to go to TNG for evidence: didn't McCoy describe being transported as having his molecules scattered across space? Or was that only when he appeared in TNG?

 

[22 Stars]

I'm not sure how the fictional physics of transportation works if it doesn't convert your matter into energy... I seem to remember at least a few characters explaining it in layman's terms to other characters that way. I think McCoy's 'molecules scattered' is to be taken as hyperbole in any event. The data that represents your molecules is transmitted, but not your actual molecules, imho.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I'm not sure how the fictional physics of transportation works if it doesn't convert your matter into energy... I seem to remember at least a few characters explaining it in layman's terms to other characters that way. I think McCoy's 'molecules scattered' is to be taken as hyperbole in any event. The data that represents your molecules is transmitted, but not your actual molecules, imho.

So, subspace isn't used for the transporter? Because, if it was, maybe Mccoy was onto something..

Rob

 

[Timo]

Well, from TNG "Firstborn" (or "Bloodlines", I always confuse those two) we know that if it's a "subspace transporter", it's something exceptional, something completely different from standard transporter.

Doesn't necessarily mean the standard transporter wouldn't use subspace. But if a fundamentally different technique gets a name that so prominently features the word "subspace", it's rather suggestive, now isn't it...?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[gastrof]

The Romulan commander heard it.

Best onscreen proof, and thus canon. She heard the transporter effect begin, and grabbed Spock before he began to dematerialize, thus beaming out with him.

No other reason for her to have done it, and we plainly heard the sound which she then obviously responded to.

Yep.

Federation transporters in the TOS era made a sound, at least when you're beaming out. Since we've heard the same sound during beam-ins, we'd have to assume the beam-in sound was audible to the characters too.