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Re: Holodecks about to be one step closer to reality?
« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2014, 12:07:36 am »
Other things that come to mind:


Pair production requires that you create just as much antimatter as matter. You need to have some way to store all that antimatter you just made, which incidentally explodes on contact with everything. On the upside, you have a quick way of recovering some of those quintillions of joules of energy you used to create you matter.

Once you made your elemental particles, you need some way to assemble them into atoms and then the atoms into molecules and then the molecules into whatever it is you're trying to build. If you have a way to do that (nanotech, presumably), it strikes me as much simpler to just take the atoms and molecules that already exist and use that in your holodeck rather than bothering to spend all the energy in the world.


Don't get me wrong, the whole thing is great news from a theoretical physics research point of view. I just don't think "holodeck" is a realistic practical application.
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Re: Holodecks about to be one step closer to reality?
« Reply #16 on: May 20, 2014, 02:52:32 am »
Why do we need more matter?
Why Groc make heat-light? We already warm warm from sky-orb!


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Re: Holodecks about to be one step closer to reality?
« Reply #17 on: May 20, 2014, 03:30:09 am »
Why do we need more matter?
Why Groc make heat-light? We already warm warm from sky-orb!



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Re: Holodecks about to be one step closer to reality?
« Reply #19 on: May 20, 2014, 04:03:23 pm »
This makes twice that I've had to point out, in this thread, that the post was made by OLD VIKING.  The dude pretty much takes the piss with every post he makes.  Come on now, Lizard, you aren't that much of a newbie.
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Re: Holodecks about to be one step closer to reality?
« Reply #20 on: May 20, 2014, 05:11:34 pm »
This makes twice that I've had to point out, in this thread, that the post was made by OLD VIKING.  The dude pretty much takes the piss with every post he makes.  Come on now, Lizard, you aren't that much of a newbie.
I realized that after posting, but if didn't want to let good snark go to waste.

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Re: Holodecks about to be one step closer to reality?
« Reply #21 on: May 20, 2014, 05:16:24 pm »
This makes twice that I've had to point out, in this thread, that the post was made by OLD VIKING.  The dude pretty much takes the piss with every post he makes.  Come on now, Lizard, you aren't that much of a newbie.
I realized that after posting, but if didn't want to let good snark go to waste.


Aah.  No tantric snark for you, eh?
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Re: Holodecks about to be one step closer to reality?
« Reply #22 on: May 20, 2014, 06:51:26 pm »
Lizard is sorta like a combination of Old Viking and Ironbite.

With plenty of his own charm.  And plenty of his own sources of frustration.
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Re: Holodecks about to be one step closer to reality?
« Reply #23 on: May 20, 2014, 07:11:14 pm »
Lizard is sorta like a combination of Old Viking and Ironbite.

With plenty of his own charm.  And plenty of his own sources of frustration.
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Re: Holodecks about to be one step closer to reality?
« Reply #24 on: May 20, 2014, 08:41:58 pm »
That should be our tagline.