Can a vulcan study quantum mechanics ?

[Monocerotis]

I don't think it's possible for a vulcan to study quantum mechanics, they would probably go insane, like Tuvix.

What do you think ?

 

[Galteeth]

I don't think it's possible for a vulcan to study quantum mechanics, they would probably go insane, like Tuvix.

What do you think ?

Probably.

 

[MATLABdude]

Maybe, except that Tuvix is a combination Vulcan / Telaxian, both and yet neither.

 

[Pattonias]

I think that since they had already figured out faster than light travel before the "First Contact" movie they probably had a pretty firm grasp of quantum mechanics.

 

[Galteeth]

I think that since they had already figured out faster than light travel before the "First Contact" movie they probably had a pretty firm grasp of quantum mechanics.

I always did wonder how the transporter worked.

 

[Pattonias]

I always did wonder how the transporter worked.

I think that the transporter is a placebo effect. You become so convinced that you are going to be there that you are literally already there.

 

[Pythagorean]

I think that since they had already figured out faster than light travel before the "First Contact" movie they probably had a pretty firm grasp of quantum mechanics.

I don't know, they could have easily come up with a more complete theory in the first place and avoided the mess of QM alltogether.

 

[Janus]

I always did wonder how the transporter worked.

In the words of Michael Okuda when asked how the Heisenberg compensator worked, "Very well, thank you."

 

[f95toli]

I always did wonder how the transporter worked.

It has a built in Heisenberg compensator.

Jokes aside. Krauss "The Physics of Star Trek" is actually quite a good book. The transporter is covered in one of chapters. And one side-effect of reading it is that you do learn something about real physics as well.
Also the "Heisenberg compensator" is actually quite a clever device.
Has anyone ever seen it mentioned in a QM course*?



*Not as a "real" device of course, but explaining why one would/wouldn't be needed for the transporter sounds like a fun assignment.


Edit: Janus was faster...

 

[Galteeth]

It has a built in Heisenberg compensator.

Jokes aside. Krauss "The Physics of Star Trek" is actually quite a good book. The transporter is covered in one of chapters. And one side-effect of reading it is that you do learn something about real physics as well.
Also the "Heisenberg compensator" is actually quite a clever device.
Has anyone ever seen it mentioned in a QM course*?



*Not as a "real" device of course, but explaining why one would/wouldn't be needed for the transporter sounds like a fun assignment.


EDIT: Another thing about the book that i thought was funny, was they spent all this time on the specs of the equipment, the crucial aspect of "how" a particular technology worked was kind of brushed off.

Edit: Janus was faster...

I remember reading that when I was eleven. At the time, I figured there were some sort of electromagneic fields or something that picked apart a person's molecules based on a scan of their body and then reassmbled them in exactly the same way far apart. Of course, at the time I didn't know anything about quantum mechanics. But if you wanted to take a fictional guess, maybe the Heisenberg compensator figures out some margin of error whereas the reassembled person will be close enough to the classical person that it doesn't matter or something. I don't know, I'm not a physicist, and also the device isn't real.

It did occur to me when I was thinking about it that if this did exist, it would pretty much be the most advanced thing ever.

 

[Pattonias]

Spock: "I think Quantum Mechanics are very illogical."

Heisenberg: "Oh yeah! Well you have pointy ears..."

Spock: "Never mind."

 

[aquitaine]

I don't think it's possible for a vulcan to study quantum mechanics, they would probably go insane, like Tuvix.

What do you think ?

Ugh, terrible episode...