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ToraToraTora | 22:05 Wed 07th Dec 2022 | ChatterBank
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.. but we have a ST connection so forgive me. In STNG they mention Heisenberg compensators to allow the transporter to work. What's you view on that?
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Anyway, it has something to do with being able to mention tachyons which are travelling backwards in time, and the paths of which can show how they are being affected by future particles, thereby allowing the transporter to predict where those particles WILL be. This, couples with the location sensor, then allows accurate positioning of whatever (or...
22:17 Wed 07th Dec 2022
It’s in all the ST manifestations, not just STNG.
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yes but only in STNG are the actually mentioned.
Apologies, I see you said ‘mention’, Tora. I meant it was there by default, otherwise the transporter wouldn’t work (smiley face emoji).
Anyway, it has something to do with being able to mention tachyons which are travelling backwards in time, and the paths of which can show how they are being affected by future particles, thereby allowing the transporter to predict where those particles WILL be. This, couples with the location sensor, then allows accurate positioning of whatever (or mainly, whoever) is being transported.

Or something similar (puzzled face emoji + smiley face emoji)
Measure, not mention (eyes skyward emoji).
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ZM, stop it! I'm welling up ere!
(Clapping hands emoji + live long and prosper hand emoji)
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The needs of the fanny out weigh the needs of wand.
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I didn't know you were a starfleet engineer zacs!
It was a delaying tactic to outsmart Professor Moriarty who incidentally is cast in Picard 3.

For none Trekkies:
The theory for how transporters move matter from one place to another falls foul of the Heisenberg uncertainty priciple which says it is impossible to put a coordinate on a moving particle. So the creators of Star Trek made up the ‘Compensator’ as a component on the holodeck.
In a famous ST:TNG episode, ‘Ship in a bottle’ they configured the compensator to trick Professor Moriarty into believing he could leave the holodeck, when in reality that holodeck was just in another holodeck. So he left a box within a box, and was still matter in the same place, and not moved to somewhere else.
A very clever plot device, Tora. Moriarty might be a bit cross when he works out forty years later that he has been duped.
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Yes gromit, at the end of that episode, Jordy has designed a universe in a box for the professor to navigate around with his lady friend with built in ageing etc so he should never know.
He’s back in ST: Picard season 3.. so he must have figured it out.

No mention of Stephanie Beacham unfortunately.
'I didn't know you were a starfleet engineer zacs!'

Don't get me started on Dilithium crystals! Ye cannae change the laws of physics, Jim.

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