Why Star Trek Transporters Are Sci-Fi’s Most Impressive Technology! (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)
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One of Star Trek’s signature technologies is the transporter, but if you look deeper into how they would actually work, they are the greatest piece of sci-fi technology. Kyle beams down some science on this week’s Because Science!
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Not gonna lie, I'm only subbed for this guy. He could- and should, in my opinion- have his own series.
He does, you're watching it?
+Mr Hogg I think he means his own channel.
Honestly me to
+Sketch It D.I.Y what's the cahnnel
+Sketch It D.I.Y he'll comment with it sometimes
"The stack of flashdrives would extend well beyond me"
I would like to nominate that statement for understatement of the year.
the century more like it
I'm willing to risk "of all time" on that one...
I remember one episode where they're explaining transporter technology as a 'cure' for limited resources. Because the technology creates matter from matter, they just transport a load of unwanted stuff such as waste, and tell the transporter to rearrange the atoms into something useful, such as food. Basically making anything possible, because the end result is always atomically identical to the real thing.
I loved that last section where the music cut out and it went all philosophical. That was the most deep thing I've watched on UA-cam in a long time. Got goosebumps thinking about it.
"Beam me up, Scotty"
"Do you realize how much energy and time that would take?! Why don't we just send a shuttle?"
Average 60KG man ~ 5.3925 x10^ 18 power. (5,392,500,000,000,000,000 joules)
'We can't send a shuttle, sir, according to Gene our budget is limited, transporter is cheaper'
lmao!
"But there have been significant advancements IN technology AND budget.We're sending a shuttle."
Yep. Transporter was a cheap workaround for not having the budget to land the Enterprise nor having the budget until later to have a smaller craft you could afford to land. Heisenberg Compensators came later (much as moving the warp nacelles more inline with the center of mass) due to "That's great and all, but you know..." comments.
Why is this version of Thor so smart?
Well Hulk is smarter too in the next movie.. So I guess it's to make sure Thor always has an edge?
lol...he really looks like thor
+TwitchNitr0 Hulk is already a super genius he just doesn't think when in rage
I'd say he is so smart... because science :P
You win the internet today.
Transportation by disintegration and reintegration = NO.
Transportation by folding space/opening portals = Yes.
Yeahh, more likely
Except that Einstein was an idiot to believe that the stuff he thought of means that space actually bends, therefore, no folding space or opening portals. So, what now?
Allen Helmer
Ludwig flamm: Allowed me to introduce myself
Folding space isn't transporting.
@@allenhelmer8418 Sure...
This episode made me realize that transporters could effectively be used as mind reading devices. If they're transmitting your data, it would have access to your memories in your brain. So it would be a simply step (relatively speaking) to read the information out of a person's brain.
my favorite star trek joke: Crewman to Scotty "how does a heiseberg compensator work?", Scotty "I not sure." badum-tss!
Number one, you've got the bridge. I have to make a number two.
I dont get it
Rob oh man, I hate explaining a joke, but here we go: in star trek, a heisenberg compensator is a device that compensates for the effect of the heisenberg uncertainty principle, that states, that you can either exactly know where a particle is or how fast it is moving but not both (if one is certain, the other is uncertain). So saying that you are not certain how it works, is kind of a play on words. get it?
Actually, there was an episode of Next Generation that they found a transporter "clone". It occurred when Riker was transported up from a planet years in the past but because of the way the atmosphere was, the beam both passed through to the ship and was reflected back to the surface. Thus two different Rikers were made in different places with different lives and experiences. One went on to become the second in command on the enterprise, and the other had to scrape out a living on a barren world all alone for years, without anyone even knowing he existed.
and then in DS9 that other riker caused some shit. it was a whole thing.
One of best episodes explaining transporters too
+ionfalcom1 I didn't know this. I'm gonna go look this up now.
That's a pretty good excuse for the second Riker never being heard of
yeah, great episode. The transport beam was refracted like a prism and reflected a copy of the beam back to the planet, making 2 rikers.
I've always figured that if the transporter has all of the information that makes up you stored in it...
When you transport back, even if you've been killed, they should be able to "reboot" you with the stored information by transporting your no longer living body back and reconstructing it in it's previous living form.
Hint for next week: One of the most requested episodes about an apathetic superhero.
can u do a video on iron man's repoulsor blast and uni-beam how hot it is can it kill a human and can it melt steel???????
Can't wait
No hashtags :(
Dr Manhattan?
It's an anime bald guy
jijijijiji
When the music cut out why did it feel so tense and important? Jesus that felt really fuckin' intense for some reason XD
Greenbat Sigma I'm sure you were high.
Kyle, it's incredible when you do an episode that really resonates with you. Your excitement for what a transporter IS and represents (from 4:20 on) was palpable and wonderful to watch. That's the excitement that I love about scientists. The excitement went above and beyond the silliness of you and Dan (though I do love Elon Musks Bats) and elevated to the plane of Dr Tyson. Incredible work, sir. I look forward to more of this in the future.
That speech in the middle... Brought a tear to my eye. Thank you sir
Kyle got real deep their for a second. hit me right in the feels...
Donna Noble has been saved
Who turned out the lights?
Could you give me a little Spock, for once?
Awesome video again Kyle, never fails to make my day. Why? Because science!
man that moment when you started talking about the information on the flash drive, you have me the feels man thank you kyle
Great editing on this ep. When you get deep and the background music fades away it really hits you.
Not a fan of Star Trekk, but this was the best episode of Because Science. Congrats..
Thanks Felipe! -- KH
Just because you are Captain Kirk's father doesn't mean you can make "Make it So" jokes
This might be the best "Kyle looks like Chris Hemsworth" joke yet.
Thanks for including that part about how the second in command sits down. That gave me a good laugh. The thing I like about your videos is that there is a human aspect to it. The visualizations, relatable opinions, and the bonus features at the end (which I look forward too so much) are some of the best, if not the best, UA-cam has to offer.
The first Gigabyte hard drive was the size of a fridge and weighed a Tonne. Now commercially i can get a 512GB of space in the size of the end of pinky finger haha.
That's what i love about science, it's always evolving and pushing the boundaries of what we thought possible a moment earlier. great video.
when the music stoped and was only his voice
he sounded so deep
Anyone remember Tuvix from Voyager? That was a hell of a moral dilemma!
Not really, I think it would be a clause and a duty to recover you or anyone else from any accidents caused by the transporter.
@Lost Aquarian a third option of saving Neelix, Tuvok and Tuvix would have been the better fix. If they can make anything with the replicator, surely they could have transfered Tuvix into another "ugly bag of water". 😉
@Lost Aquarian use Borg Tech then...
This was probably BS's best video yet! I love the way they stop the music in the middle of the video so that you can really focus on Kyle's profound speech.
Wow!!.. You really got yourself high with this explanation Kyle. I believe this is my favorite video so far. The philosophical implications for the human information storage are mind blowing. Regards from Venezuela!
I understand why Dr. McCoy hates transporters so much: I SURE don't want my atoms ripped apart and then MAYBE reassembled in the right order.
PLUS, I would also wonder "am I still me?".
If they can just rip a hole in spacetime, then yes.
Because me! 😁
Think about it this way: if people in the 1600s were exposed to the idea of flying in a giant metal plane hundreds of feet in the air, they would be horrified and never agree. But because so many people do it all the time today, we are now desensitized to it and aren’t as scared. Granted, there are some people who are still scared, but they’re not the majority. I think that if this actually existed, over time, people would desensitize to it as more and more people did it without consequence and it became a normal thing. There would also probably be some sort of safety measures to make it more safe, as humans do.
4:25-5:17 the feels are real
I just watch this episode and I think it's funny how serious you are about these issues. but I still love you ,it's funny as hell to watch keep up the good work.
This episode has surprisingly powerful message about immense value of each human life.
4:27-5:18 deep Kyle best Kyle
"That part of you who loves swimming... That part of you that regrets not making enough time for your Familly..."
O.O Am I on that flash Drive by any chance...?
I love your work Kyle! And you got deep and philosophical today! Awesome!
I also never noticed the Riker sitting thing, I can now never unsee this.
AND THAT WOULD NOT EVEN TELEPORT OUR CLOTHES
Hahaha
That's why they're great ;)
not to mention that they often use the teleporter in groups
Jacob Leavens XD
I would never use a transporter. Destroy me and create a copy of me to take my place? No thank you. Stargates and portals are the way to go.
But the copy IS you. What else would it be? -- KH
Well, it would be a copy if you. Yes, an exact copy with all your fears, memories, thought patterns, everything. Yet still a copy, whereas the original you would be dead. Same way that, through errors, this type of teleportation might make two copies of you. Does that mean both of them are you, or only one of them? What if the teleporter malfunctions, makes a copy of you at the destination, but doesn't deconstruct the you which was meant to be transported? Who is you, the copy or the 'original'.
***** It won't copy your conscience.
And how do you know that Romrot? Our consciousness is merely due to evolution. Due to the chemical processes in our brain, how our brains evolved over time, down to its atomic structures.
If you replicate a person perfectly, like what a teleporter like this could theoretically do, and copy their brain aswell down to the smallest level? Then yes, that copy will have a consciousness, and you wouldnt be able to tell it apart from the original. It would even have the same gaps in memory which the original had.
Firecage If we created a clone of you, would you be aware of your body and that clone's body?
Awesomeness..! I died when he showed the compilation of Riker sitting at the end though xD I NEVER noticed that!
That monologue about what a human really is made of nearly brought me to tears. That or some onion cutting ninjas have invaded my room. Either way, it was a damn beautiful speech.
My family and I look forward to these every week. My 4 year old calls you "Kyle the Science Man".
What better way to get kids into science and learning than by combining it with sci-fi and superheroes.
That is wonderful, thank you for sharing. Tell her/him I said "hi!" -- KH
+Nerdist I found out that you use a mirror effect or a reverse effect for when you write! I saw the pocket on your shirt it moves from your left side to your right side!
***** I just did, she is bouncing off the walls now that you said hello, thanks Kyle, you made a little girls morning.
4:39, Kylie must have some really bad regrets.
I really loved this episode. Keep up the great work man!
4:27 When the music stops to make the point hit home, good editing
this guy is so good at writing backwards!
Ikr
Unless he's writing forwards, and they flipped the recording?!
he is writing normal... the video is just flipped
+Rolling Guy #1 of course not, but kyle answered this question like a thousand times
Rolling Guy #1 In a video you can see the Apple Logo flipped, that means he just flips the image bro
"This isn't that hard. Well. It might be a little hard." - Seth Brundle
I LOVE that line because it's exactly what a sciencey person would say. -- KH
Such a very episode. Great job!
Very good, with all of the vids; thank you. Mr. Frakes does that because Riker is a BOSS!
You went full Carl Sagan, man! Everybody knows you should go full Carl Sagan as often as possible!!
I'd be very lucky if I could capture even a moment of his wit and lucidity. -- KH
I know how to do it!...but i'll never tell ;D
I think I do too, but that's a different video. -- KH
+Nerdist quantum physics? Poor Einstein
What would happen if a teleporter say Nightcrawler teleported while being beamed up?
Salman Ige the same thing that would happen if you put a portable hole in a bag of holding, or crossed the streams...total protonic reversal.
What I don't understand is how the transporters don't bring every single atom around you. How would it know where to stop transportting? If you stood in your house and were transported up, how would it know not to transport the WHOLE HOUSE?
I like the real talk at the end, that was nice.
This has been my favourite video that you've made yet! I laaavvvvv iiiit!!!!!
This is why we would warp space-time instead. It's a lot simpler, and more efficient.
Like that deep ending.
Kyle, you got so "deep" at the end of the video... I thought I was going to cry.
His grin when he said „we made it so“, is the cutest. No homo.
"...that part of you that regrets not spending enough time with your family."
Jesus, Kyle, i'm just trying to watch a video on UA-cam. Did you have to go right for my balls?
terrorkind Kyle isn't Jesus, and He doesn't like you using His Name is vain 😇
Thor went deep in this one.
@@snbforever idk, Kyle seems pretty cool
So you're saying it's easier for us to just create a Stargate I always thought so too
love how the music in the background stoped at 4:26 and then it got real and kinda serious
I know I’m watching this almost 2 years later, but that description Kyle gives with the sound cut out...just breathtaking to understand. #lovescience #becausescience
Deep thoughts by Kyle Hill
Heres something you can do for "Because Science" Can the Flash vibrate though Vibrinum?
That is an excellent question. I would love to see a video about that.
that a great idea
They did a video on how the flash would pass through a wall
+Frank Nubler But Vibranium can absorb vibrations. So how would that work. The Flash has to vibrate to move on between atoms.
+Zytran L In that video he explain: leave aside Vibranium, in real life you can't just pass through wall because you vibrate at the natural frequency of air like the movie explain
The video's name is : How Superheroes Phase Through Walls Is All Wrong!
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the end monologue is AMAZING.
the part when the music stops, and he gets real, is pretty cool. humbling actually.
That got very philosophical. Not to get all mushy, but the fact that a single human being is made up of that much data, and were are just one in 7 billion, of a single species in this tiny blue ball in the middle of our ever expanding universe is really rather beautiful! And that was a very long run-on sentence, oops.
*drops flashdrive down storm drain* Shiiiiit.....
Man that hurt, just tying to imagine a stack of flash drives stacked across the universe. You got me on that one. Great video!
something about this episode got really really deep. i wasn't ready
You basically die every time you use the transporter.
I have this fantasy where the "you" that is reconstituted on the other side remembers dying for a split second and appears in the other transporter screaming your lungs out. -- KH
depending on how you look at it you only die once then another version of you will die when he goes to use the teleporter and so on... better question is why was this technology never used to create backups or clones of specialists in the series.
I don't know if it is available in english, but I've read "Der Drache von Samarkand" in which teleporting has that aspect. I think it is described as "like in a famous poem in which a quince sits on a spoon and is carried" only the quince is the person and the spoon is a dimensional catapult that throws you outside of our four dimensions, only to catch you at your target position at the same time (the other station has been sent the exact information as to when to catch you, that's how it overcomes the need to send ALL of your information).
It's not actually dying in it, just being shot outside of our four dimensions. But apparently that shock alone is enough that people died from screaming too much after they come back ;~}
+Nerdist
That's creepy, but I think that's what really happens
Exactly.
These aren't wormhole generators, you're not being moved from place to place--you are totally being destroyed and then re-created, and that new 'you' isn't you at all. It just thinks it is.
Watching the new Trek movie with that in mind made the whole thing pretty grim viewing.
"Transporters--very, very impressive machines that kill everyone who uses them"
I like the new Star Trek movie
I love this guy. I suspect he would be the coolest buddy you can have.
it got a little to real and deep at the end haha. great video
I think that if we were to talk about a theoretical universe where sending this amount of information is possible, I think it is a lot more likely that transporters somehow instead fold together/overlap two points in space (or space-time?) so that they touch each other, similar to folding a 2d piece of paper in the third dimension, allowing the person or object to travel the distance between a ship and a planet in a single "step". I mean, this is the same universe where warp speed is a thing!
That's a really cool alternative method for transporting a person/object across space. It doesn't match what is canonically described within Star Trek (which is breaking down a person/object and transmitting the molecular/atomic/quantum information to a receiver where it's reconstituted), so what you're saying isn't how transporters work, that's how Warp Drives work. But if you want to write your own universe where transporters use the same technology as warp drives, go ahead and do that. The world can always use more sci-fi authors.
I had the same idea. In fact this would be a more realistic solution then disassembly and re-assembly teleport -> No existential questions plus there's no speed of light limit to traveling disassembled atoms..
+Illusion-XIII So you mean a sort of Stargate?
I will never believe that it will ever be possible for humanity to bend space in a way that doesn't cause massive damage to everything involved. You can't just sit somewhere in the universe and "bend space".
+schadowization I think more like the Goa'uld transport ring. An equal area of space at both ends switch positions at the exact same time. They even used this to get inside ships when Jaffa troops were sent down.
Wouldn't it be easier to Quantum tunnel someone instead of transport them?
Absolutely amazing video!
That was deep :O
Really brings it home, how much information makes up... _us_
~Subbed!~
That video just went vsauce deep
I prefer 2 SNES's over half an N64
Saw that shirt-fix before exiting stage-up; classic transporter etiquette
6:45 It's called the Riker Maneuver, and it's awesome!
This hit me hard. Exestensial chrisis.png
That "deep voice" is more like how I sound off camera. My "on" voice has a lot more energy than it usually would. -- KH
+Nerdist here's another existential crisis. If we could hold all the bytes that make up a person, couldn't we avoid death forever? like a donor card in the wallet Emts could just print a new you if you had the flash drive on you. *wavey eyebrows*
aren't transporters and replicators basically the same thing? they all reconstruct things atom by atom
Now that you put it that way.... Yeah, pretty much.
which implies that if you sent transporter-beam info to the replicators, you could serve up slices of Ryker straight from the replicators
...or bits of Deanna Troy. Or a complete copy of 7of9 but without a brain, so she won't protest the disgraceful things I'd do to her.
Man, this got weird quickly. I think I need a cold shower.
(edited 2 hours later) I just realised that 7of9 without a brain would essentially be a dead 7of9 being spat out the replicator. At this point the right thing to do is probably throw the body out of an airlock, and not drag it back to my cabin to ...use.
Ah, but wait! Can the brainless 7of9 be truly called 'dead' if it never actually lived? Ah ha! Saved from accusation of necrophilia by the magic of semantics!
They always have been. It's one of the problems I have with Trek. If you have a pattern - and there is no 'soul' - then all you ever need to do is copy the best and brightest to go explore everything. You could even just mass produce starships, once you had a power source that's replicable. Nuclear sort of w*rks. Trek rilly got silly toward the end of Voyager. Not even talking about the latest movies, with superblood and transgalaxy beaming.
They are indeed similar technologys. But there is a major difference. Replicator "only" saves information on a molecular lvl which is enough for food, clothes or other items. But they cant "Replicate" humans because you need to use the quantum lvl and this is too much for a Replicator. This is also the reason some individuals taste a difference between real food and replicated food. Or why there are some materials that can't be replicated (Latinum for example).
not only that but such a thing would be against the ethics of the federation. they don't even allow human augmentation.
Thank. Good use of calm.
After 4:15 we get to see Kyle's inner humanist philosophical side come out for a full minute as he contemplates life (very deep, thank you) and then we get the nerdy Star Trek humor at the end about The Second-In-Command, topped with a snort! Thank Kyle lmbo
So that technology is amazing because it would allow us to download unconceivable amounts of porn instantly. Now I get it!
JuQmadrid you could create a version of anyone you were interested in, do what you wanted with them and then just destroy them when you were finished. Potentially not murder as they were never really born.
that is dickblowing
Compression. This UA-cam video uses it and so would an encoding system for describing a physical human being. DNA is an example already existing in nature.
also for the transfer using quantum entanglement would be a good start since it's instant - imagine you buffering because your data volume ran out lmao
Doesn’t really solve the time issue, the amount of time needed to map the entire person and then to compress it would be phenomenal
Yannick Gleichauf actually transporters do that
great video. what do you make of the Stargate, and the Goa-uld rings as examples of point to point transportation?
this is quite a beautiful episode
Hi, Kyle and the Nerdist family. As I was watching this episode, I was wondering if the transit 2.0 in the show Dark Matter is more plausible than beaming people. Is it? I love this show, channel, and I hope you keep it up because it's inspiration to the fellow nerds out there who are craving this stuff.
Wow, this one got real philosophical toward the end
The Picard Maneuver was a nice touch.
This sort of thing always reminds me of the Hyperion new U stations from borderlands. "Hyperion reccomends not thinking about the fact that your current body is only a digital reconstruction of your original body, which died the first time you respawned. Do NOT think about this."
4:27 well, that became philosofical all of a sudden
goosebumps! Great episode.
Wow! That's some crazy numbers, guess I now know why my transporter is on back order.
Do an episode on the science behind the food replicator or one about the science of storing ones mind onto a digital device.
hahahaha that grin tough 1:42😂😂😂
i love all of these but this is my favorite
That is a lot of information to just evolve over time.
ok I never noticed Riker taking a seat like that, but now I've seen that, I won't be able to unsee it now.