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1-Warp Speed:
this one is pretty far off unless some breakthroughs are made in opening wormholes without the need for huge graitational fields.
2-Tricoders
remote sensing technologies are coming out all the time....the difference is mainly one of range. Many indirect sensors now need to be in near contact, but this will change as tech improves.
3-Phasers
something very much like a phaser has already been tested. It combines a high energy laser with a coaxial charged particle beam. Devastating. Even without the charged particle beam highly portable solid-state lasers with in the 100,000 watt range should be here within a few years. They're already pushing 20,000 watts or more.
4-Holograms or Holodecks
depends on the market forces in terms of 3D displays, but don't expect to be able to give Angelina Jolie a big fat "hug" anytime soon
5-Shield or force fields
electromagnetic force fields have already been designed and tested on a small scale for spacecraft. These would surround a spaceship with a 30km diameter "magnetosphere" to both protect it from solar flares and provide a non-physical solar sail.
With enough power, and shrinking the radius of the field to up the power density per sq. meter, it could also shield against charged particle beams. As it ends up the tech is very simple.
6-Teleportation
quantum teleportation has already been achieved. Until recently this only involved "teleporting" the quantum state of particles to remote particles to do the duplication by means of a quatum entanglement between the source and target particles, but more recent developments may exceed even this capability.
7-An Enterprise like space ship
depends on the development of many of the above technologies, but things like low impulse ion engines have already flown. High impulse nuclear plasma engines are under test NOW.
Beyond this extremely high impulse nuclear rockets with power ratings of over 50 MEGAWATTS were pretty much perfected in the early 60's. That tech still exists if we have the will to use it.
8-A computer as sohisticated and powerful as the computer on board the Enterprise.
ever hear of "black hole computing" using synthetic mini-black holes (mass < 2kg) as quantum computers? Read the cover article in the November Scientific American to get your mind blown.
Basically it's been found that emissions from a black hole can contain information about the matter fed into it. This information is a result of quantum entanglement between this matter and the Hawking radiation that escapes the holes event horizon.
It also seems that this information can take the form form of a result when the problem is expressed in terms of the spin, charge and quantum state of the holes "food".
VERY strange.
Now for the good part: CERN is expecting to create artificial mini black holes, albeit short lived ones, within the next few years and some theorize that before long it won't take a particle accelerator to do it.
Dr. Mordried
this one is pretty far off unless some breakthroughs are made in opening wormholes without the need for huge graitational fields.
2-Tricoders
remote sensing technologies are coming out all the time....the difference is mainly one of range. Many indirect sensors now need to be in near contact, but this will change as tech improves.
3-Phasers
something very much like a phaser has already been tested. It combines a high energy laser with a coaxial charged particle beam. Devastating. Even without the charged particle beam highly portable solid-state lasers with in the 100,000 watt range should be here within a few years. They're already pushing 20,000 watts or more.
4-Holograms or Holodecks
depends on the market forces in terms of 3D displays, but don't expect to be able to give Angelina Jolie a big fat "hug" anytime soon
5-Shield or force fields
electromagnetic force fields have already been designed and tested on a small scale for spacecraft. These would surround a spaceship with a 30km diameter "magnetosphere" to both protect it from solar flares and provide a non-physical solar sail.
With enough power, and shrinking the radius of the field to up the power density per sq. meter, it could also shield against charged particle beams. As it ends up the tech is very simple.
6-Teleportation
quantum teleportation has already been achieved. Until recently this only involved "teleporting" the quantum state of particles to remote particles to do the duplication by means of a quatum entanglement between the source and target particles, but more recent developments may exceed even this capability.
7-An Enterprise like space ship
depends on the development of many of the above technologies, but things like low impulse ion engines have already flown. High impulse nuclear plasma engines are under test NOW.
Beyond this extremely high impulse nuclear rockets with power ratings of over 50 MEGAWATTS were pretty much perfected in the early 60's. That tech still exists if we have the will to use it.
8-A computer as sohisticated and powerful as the computer on board the Enterprise.
ever hear of "black hole computing" using synthetic mini-black holes (mass < 2kg) as quantum computers? Read the cover article in the November Scientific American to get your mind blown.
Basically it's been found that emissions from a black hole can contain information about the matter fed into it. This information is a result of quantum entanglement between this matter and the Hawking radiation that escapes the holes event horizon.
It also seems that this information can take the form form of a result when the problem is expressed in terms of the spin, charge and quantum state of the holes "food".
VERY strange.
Now for the good part: CERN is expecting to create artificial mini black holes, albeit short lived ones, within the next few years and some theorize that before long it won't take a particle accelerator to do it.
Dr. Mordried
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