{"id":15443,"date":"2018-01-08T12:16:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T17:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15443"},"modified":"2018-01-08T12:16:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T17:16:42","slug":"space-book-treknology-by-ethan-siegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15443","title":{"rendered":"Space book: “Treknology” by Ethan Siegel"},"content":{"rendered":"

In astrophysicist Ethan Siegel’s new book Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive<\/a><\/em>\"\", he looks at the impact of Star Trek and science fiction in general on technological innovation and development :\u00a0Star Treknology: Imagining The Future Into Being : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n

And how about that most\u00a0Star Trek\u00a0of\u00a0Star Trek\u00a0transport modalities \u2014 the transporter? Siegel manages to be both concise and complete in his discussion of the various ways a transporter might work. Do you actually move all the atoms of your body from one place to another? Or do you just transport the information about those atoms and then rebuild the body? These questions allow Siegel to unpack some basics of quantum physics, like the\u00a0Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle<\/a>. From there, he opens discussions of information and quantum computing with questions like: How can you map the atoms in your body for transport when you can’t know exactly where they are leading? All of these ideas are laid out at just the right level for a light-hearted science book about science fiction.<\/em><\/p>\n

Treknology\u00a0is pretty complete. It has a section on weapons and defense (deflector shields, phasers), a section on computing (the holodeck, androids) and a section on medicine and biology (recorders, cybernetics). There is a lot more, too, and each chapter in each section is richly illustrated with images from the shows and well-composed scientific diagrams. That means a lot of eye-candy here for both\u00a0Trek\u00a0and science fans.<\/em><\/p>\n

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