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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (141730)	1/15/2002 5:22:03 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585536

We see this as transporters in star trek. they make no mention of conservation of angular momentum, or gravitational potential energy, but there is probably an adjustment for it. If not anyone who transported from orbit to ground would end up red hot. the other way, close to -273K. Both fatal. Maybe another mass could be transported back the other way and the angular momentum and gravitational potential could be exchanged, conserving it within the system consisting of the two masses. In any case if they can convert your body in to energy and beam the energy and reconstitute it at the other end they would have to be able to safely handle a lot more energy then the gravitational potential from earth to orbit. Another question is - Is what comes out at the other end of the transporter really you or is it just a copy? (or is that question even meaningful?) You should be able to add extra energy and copy the information and produce as many copies as you want if you can transport one. If you don't want to do that you should be able to resurect someone from information storage from their last transport if they die. Tim