> Let me point out that our life span is gradually increasing. The same people who may someday give us transporter beams, might figure out a way to extend your livetime well into the 22nd century. Personally, I'm amazed to have made it to the 21st. I read somewhere when I was about ten, that if you can dream it, you can do it. I've been a dreamer ever since.
> Howard

Might I recommend the very excellent book "The Physics of Star Trek" (can't remember the author)?

Among other things, it does contain a very detailed description of how transporter technology might indeed be made possible in the future. As well as a most amusing foreword from Stephen Hawking.

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