rhydra
01-01-2009, 10:45 PM
Particles pop in and out of existence ll the time, "empty space" is not empty, a lump of lead fills only a small amount more space than the air which we breath, it is only the interactions at the sub atomic level which give us the difference between lead and air.
So, just as a shadow is the two dimensional facsimile of a three dimensional object, it is not beyond reason, if it is at the moment, beyond technological capability, of the creation of a perfect copy of a three dimensional object.
We already have seen lasers which create three dimensional templates by a form of three dimensional photocopying "sculptures" out of wax or plastic. These are the stone axes in comparison to electron microscopes, however.
Imagine the possibilities if, one day, there is a machine on the market, which when you put an object inside it, it will scan it, analyse it for size, composition, judge the weight and dimensions and after, say, ten seconds a light flashes.
You expectantly open the door on the other side of the machine and you find a perfect copy of the original inside.
What that perfect copy would be would be up to you, it could be a £50 note, you could then copy two, four, eight, sixteen until you were a multi millionaire, or a diamond, your dog, and old master, or your wife... Or you.
Maybe there is such a machine, maybe for those very reasons we will never see it, maybe it is already in use.
So, just as a shadow is the two dimensional facsimile of a three dimensional object, it is not beyond reason, if it is at the moment, beyond technological capability, of the creation of a perfect copy of a three dimensional object.
We already have seen lasers which create three dimensional templates by a form of three dimensional photocopying "sculptures" out of wax or plastic. These are the stone axes in comparison to electron microscopes, however.
Imagine the possibilities if, one day, there is a machine on the market, which when you put an object inside it, it will scan it, analyse it for size, composition, judge the weight and dimensions and after, say, ten seconds a light flashes.
You expectantly open the door on the other side of the machine and you find a perfect copy of the original inside.
What that perfect copy would be would be up to you, it could be a £50 note, you could then copy two, four, eight, sixteen until you were a multi millionaire, or a diamond, your dog, and old master, or your wife... Or you.
Maybe there is such a machine, maybe for those very reasons we will never see it, maybe it is already in use.