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devil's advocate: replacator ?
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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 182097" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p>Bronking, say whatever you want, of course, but it's just not possible ......</p><p></p><p>Yes, "replication" is a commonly encoutered sci fi idea, but some ideas have far more basis in fact than others!</p><p></p><p>Organic molecules - which make up life - are the most complex structures we know about (much more so than micro-electronics!). That's not even considering stereoisomers (the left-handed right-handed stuff)! So, the idea of replicating even a single celled organism - never mind anything more complicated - has no basis in fact.</p><p></p><p>Even "teleporting" a single quantum state - as mis-reported in the popular press! - can't be done, because any measuring actually changes that state (Heisenberg's uncertainty principle)! This restriction is a fundamental physical law, there's no way round it!</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoisomerism" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoisomerism</a> .</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle</a> .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 182097, member: 192438"] Bronking, say whatever you want, of course, but it's just not possible ...... Yes, "replication" is a commonly encoutered sci fi idea, but some ideas have far more basis in fact than others! Organic molecules - which make up life - are the most complex structures we know about (much more so than micro-electronics!). That's not even considering stereoisomers (the left-handed right-handed stuff)! So, the idea of replicating even a single celled organism - never mind anything more complicated - has no basis in fact. Even "teleporting" a single quantum state - as mis-reported in the popular press! - can't be done, because any measuring actually changes that state (Heisenberg's uncertainty principle)! This restriction is a fundamental physical law, there's no way round it! [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoisomerism"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoisomerism[/URL] . [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle[/URL] . [/QUOTE]
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