There was a “Three days later” caption.

This all seems very, very similar to the new specialization in Guild Wars 2, the Chronomancer, that was announced two weeks ago: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/meet-t…

Thanks!

Better question: what’s the brand name on the shirt’s tag?

Where did you find it? I’ve been looking for science-y shirts like this!

Gwen-neato.

Mathematically, 99.9999.... is exactly and completely identical to 100. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...

Thanks, that seems like strong (but not fully conclusive) evidence that you’re one continuous person during transport. It would just leave the question of whether you really survive being taken apart.

Pardon my nitpicking - in which episode or movie does McCoy state this?

Hmm. You’re right in that the events of “Second Chances” make interpreting the transporter less than obvious. From Memory Alpha:

Evidence please? I see this assertion about Star Trek transporters a lot, and no one has proven that the show establishes this is how they work.

Nice find! Probably enough for some impressive telekinesis effects.

I suppose I was using the physiological understanding as a deep analogy. You seemed to want a physics-based way to constrain telekinesis to reasonable effects. I figured the “telekinesis as muscle” explanation would be a good way to provide for which physics concept was at work and also provide that constraint.

I just looked up some of the physiology involved here. The reason we get tired from holding something up, but tables don’t, is that our muscle fibers are constantly contracting and relaxing when bent. So when holding up a book, our muscles are doing work (force over distance) to move the fibers inside our arms. Work…

I had an idea for a story once where the telekinesis was a link to a parallel universe in which the telekinetic person was actually doing the moving with her arms. So to her it felt like she was lifting the box, and it would become just as tiring just as quickly.

The lesson here is, don’t underestimate a waterbender.

I am completely in favor of this.

Agreed. Buuuuuuuuut the Starfleet logo is a nice touch.

I’m ready to catch it!

http://qntm.org/calendar — this covers basically all the obstacles to calendar reform.