Just read an article on Optical Image Generation.
The implication for the Transporter is profound...
The implication for the Transporter is profound...
Optical Image Generation
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In what way?
It means for the real world, it is now possible.
As opposed to very unlikely.
One of the problems with the Transporter has been the amount of computation involved.
To go further; this implies the Replicator as well.
Meaning plugging back into Star Trek, the NX-01 should have been replicated. Not fabricated...
Just don't be the first to volunteer. You are needed. By your family if no one else...
There is a whole slew of possibilities opening up.
As opposed to very unlikely.
One of the problems with the Transporter has been the amount of computation involved.
To go further; this implies the Replicator as well.
Meaning plugging back into Star Trek, the NX-01 should have been replicated. Not fabricated...
Just don't be the first to volunteer. You are needed. By your family if no one else...
There is a whole slew of possibilities opening up.
Still not understanding the connection to the Transporter.
What I can find seems to have absolutely nothing to do with "beaming" someone or something from one point to another.
https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/12/2/92
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221486042500154X (paywall)
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https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/12/2/92
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221486042500154X (paywall)
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Perhaps one of these stories?
phys.org
phys.org
Wiki has something on “Solid Light.”
Optoelectronics research could bring holograms to your smartphone and closer to everyday use
New research from the University of St Andrews paves the way for holographic technology, with the potential to transform smart devices, communication, gaming and entertainment.
Researchers pioneer optical generative models, ushering in a new era of sustainable generative AI
In a major leap for artificial intelligence (AI) and photonics, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have created optical generative models capable of producing novel images using the physics of light instead of conventional electronic computation.
Wiki has something on “Solid Light.”
So not transportersPerhaps one of these stories?
Optoelectronics research could bring holograms to your smartphone and closer to everyday use
New research from the University of St Andrews paves the way for holographic technology, with the potential to transform smart devices, communication, gaming and entertainment.
Researchers pioneer optical generative models, ushering in a new era of sustainable generative AI
In a major leap for artificial intelligence (AI) and photonics, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have created optical generative models capable of producing novel images using the physics of light instead of conventional electronic computation.
Wiki has something on “Solid Light.”
techxplore.com/news/2025-08-ai-breakthrough-power-images.html
You asked. But it isn't a hot link.
You asked. But it isn't a hot link.
So, still not a transporter.
Didn't say it was. But instead of basically being impossible because as someone else calculated at 10^28 bits required, and still someone else calculated, that if we are basically holographs, and thus reducing it to a mere 10^12 bits, this makes the calculations more than a bit easier...
A person is a large data set. Therefore any reduction in the number of steps is valid.
In other words, instead of being centuries away, it is now decades away.
In other words: soon.
A person is a large data set. Therefore any reduction in the number of steps is valid.
In other words, instead of being centuries away, it is now decades away.
In other words: soon.
They're all equally imaginary, but computationally digitizing an object and then de-digitizing it is probably the worst way a teleport could work.
Just picking one major issue of many, it's not actually teleportation, it's duplication. Destroying the original and using the energy generated to build the copy is just a bit of theatricality to make it look like teleportation. If the object is being scanned by computer and constructed on the receiving end by a different computer, the data is all that matters, and you could use the scan to make as many copies as you wanted.
There are other problems (for instance, "converting matter to energy" is more commonly known in the real world as "exploding"), too. I think Mike Okuda once said that if he was starting over with trying to explain Star Trek technology from scratch, he would've had the transporter operate by space-folding or tiny wormholes or some other method that avoids the mess entirely. Unfortunately, TOS had enough lines about "scrambling molecules" to make that impossible.
Even if you were to go with that form of teleportation, I feel like it involving any kind of "lossy" compression (which is essentially what this article is about, though I don't understand how a laser is supposed to somehow emulate a digital program running a diffusion model in analogue reality) would make all the practical and philosophical issues with it so much worse. And, yes, I remember that PIC season 3 did establish that the transporter is lossy, and uses known archival data to streamline beaming rather than scanning 100% of every subject every time. Seems bad! And, you know what, it was.
Just picking one major issue of many, it's not actually teleportation, it's duplication. Destroying the original and using the energy generated to build the copy is just a bit of theatricality to make it look like teleportation. If the object is being scanned by computer and constructed on the receiving end by a different computer, the data is all that matters, and you could use the scan to make as many copies as you wanted.
There are other problems (for instance, "converting matter to energy" is more commonly known in the real world as "exploding"), too. I think Mike Okuda once said that if he was starting over with trying to explain Star Trek technology from scratch, he would've had the transporter operate by space-folding or tiny wormholes or some other method that avoids the mess entirely. Unfortunately, TOS had enough lines about "scrambling molecules" to make that impossible.
Even if you were to go with that form of teleportation, I feel like it involving any kind of "lossy" compression (which is essentially what this article is about, though I don't understand how a laser is supposed to somehow emulate a digital program running a diffusion model in analogue reality) would make all the practical and philosophical issues with it so much worse. And, yes, I remember that PIC season 3 did establish that the transporter is lossy, and uses known archival data to streamline beaming rather than scanning 100% of every subject every time. Seems bad! And, you know what, it was.
Why do you think that I advised people not to be the first?
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