“Scotty, beam me up!” -Although thanks to CBR and others, we already know that this sentence has never fallen, it is still one of the most iconic Star Trek quotations. Beaste and Star Trek: that just belongs togetherjust like salt and sugar, Bibi and Tina or Kirk and Spock itself.
However, there is a problem with the technology of the beam. The so -called Heisenberg’s blurring fault Prevents us to simply teleport ourselves from one van to another in real life. And the famous Heisenberg compensator comes into play in Star Trek.
The beam fails in reality to quantum physics
First of all, the basics: the vans in Star Trek disassembled travelers into all their particles and put them together again elsewhere. That creates every now and then complex philosophical problemssuch as in the Star Trek: Voyager episode Tuvix. Here, two organisms merge into a new and forms their own awareness of life.
In reality, however, this will never happen. Because here the beam already fails due to basic problems of physics. The scientist Werner Heisenberg already stated in 1927 in Heisenberg’s blur fault that never determined the place and the speed of a particle at the same time can become.
This means that no more precise scan of an organism can be done, as it happens in Star Trek. Too bad! This was also found by those responsible for the series and quickly invented the Heisenberg compensatorwho solves this problem in the distant future.
Not even the inventor knows how the Heisenberg compensator works
How exactly the Heisenberg compensator now dissolves the blurred fault is still and maybe forever An unsolved puzzle. The technology is mentioned for the first time in Star Trek: The Next Generation and is the subject of numerous repairs and error diagnoses. Sometimes they are scanned, sometimes they should help in Star Trek: Voyager to save lost officers from the HoloDeck. Apparently they are true all -rounders.
When Michael Okuda, the then scientific advisor and artistic director of the series, was asked how the Heisenberg compensator works, he replied to Time Magazine completely dry:
It works very well, thanks for demand.
In the meantime, we have come a step closer to the technology of the beam: with the help of Quantum restrictions the Heisenberg uncertainty can be avoided. The condition of two particles is then simply coupled and transmitted directly without measurement. The man who for this breakthrough in the so -called quantum teleportation Nobel price received, tearing on YouTube even Joking about Star Trek technology.
This shows once again how close fiction and reality in science fiction genre can be together. Until the Heisenberg compensator is invented, we must first continue to work by car or bicycle instead of beaming comfortably.