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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please advise on this conversation we had over on c/Piracy. Transporters and replicators, basic operating principles?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Had to look this up on Memory Alpha. The base principle for both replicators and transporters is confusingly termed “matter-energy conversion”, yet doesn’t appear to create matter from pure energy. Rather, it seems to use energy to convert matter from/to atomic or subatomic particles (for replicators and transporters, respectively). During the process, the matter is “energized”, and - I’m no expert, but - I’d imagine the subatomic particles in the transporter’s matter stream exhibit energy-like properties.