14th May 2010, 2:28 AM
In your example, a person becoming pure energy would mean that they're only the energies and none of the matter. That makes perfect sense to me, it's not fundamentally an untruth and can be completely plausible. They are simply the energies that held together the molecules, without the molecules. This is a real thing, I mean it's done in labs though highly unstable.
Are you saying you wish they went in to details about the specific types of energy in the make-up of the "matter-less being"? If a person became nothing but energy, they'd disperse bouncing and absorbing in to everything, but most good sci-fi has a reason why it's staying together. Sometimes explained by the technology, a byproduct of the method to how they became matter-less or that they have become ethereal, like a real ghost, or even playing on religious aspects. "His will to live was so strong" etc.
I wish I could find the vid cuz it's amazing. But basically a person cuts a leaf off a plant then photographs it while firing different radiation at it, the resulting picture would reveal that energy is still coupled where the leaf was, slowly dispersing over time. A less scientific example is when people with recently amputated limbs will feel their missing limbs, even specific things such as itching, pain, tickling, etc. and it cant be explained. So even a story where a person becomes pure energy but only exists for an hour or so before discombobulating would be completely believable as far as I understand it.
Did you see (or read) Watchmen? The good doctor spent months dispersing all over the base and training himself to keep his energy together and form whatever he wanted. He can totally kick your ass too so you'd better agree.
Are you saying you wish they went in to details about the specific types of energy in the make-up of the "matter-less being"? If a person became nothing but energy, they'd disperse bouncing and absorbing in to everything, but most good sci-fi has a reason why it's staying together. Sometimes explained by the technology, a byproduct of the method to how they became matter-less or that they have become ethereal, like a real ghost, or even playing on religious aspects. "His will to live was so strong" etc.
I wish I could find the vid cuz it's amazing. But basically a person cuts a leaf off a plant then photographs it while firing different radiation at it, the resulting picture would reveal that energy is still coupled where the leaf was, slowly dispersing over time. A less scientific example is when people with recently amputated limbs will feel their missing limbs, even specific things such as itching, pain, tickling, etc. and it cant be explained. So even a story where a person becomes pure energy but only exists for an hour or so before discombobulating would be completely believable as far as I understand it.
Did you see (or read) Watchmen? The good doctor spent months dispersing all over the base and training himself to keep his energy together and form whatever he wanted. He can totally kick your ass too so you'd better agree.