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IIRC Star Trek style replicators and transporters get around that limitation by freezing time inside the assembly field.

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I've never heard that lore before.

But we can't freeze time, and even if we could I don't see how that would help get rid of the energy of combustion either.

Oh that's easy, if you freeze time with quad-phasic, flux-capacitance, dilithium crystal matrices, then when they break down from the heat, the excess energy is dissipated into the reversed output of a toroidal sub-space containment field.

Essentially, a bit like a miniature black hole created on demand to dispose of present-day physics.

Easier to just microwave a can of soup, no?

But is it _cooler_ than freezing time to make your cup of chicken noodle?

The United Federation of "hold my beer, I got this": https://imgur.io/gallery/wpZ4w

I half-remember a point in Deep Space Nine where they started using the replicator or transporter to do surgery and I thought "ok, so you have a machine that is Dr. Manhattan, it can literally do anything. Where do you go from here?"

Turns out the answer is genocide (DS9) and screwing around with VR and time travel (Voyager). Pretty realistic.

And don't forget about the Heisenberg compensator!

How does it work?

I can either tell you or you can know, but not both

It works very well, thank you.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Okuda#Work_in_Star_Tre... )

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