I know little of physics. Imagine if medical procedures once "invasive" due to cutting, like the retrieval of an organ, became less invasive because of a device that would allow the organ/body part to somehow pass through the skin unharmed. "Star Trek's" teleportation is fiction. What is a believable method? I read a little about "gravity waves", that they can pass through things unchanged, but I don't understand their application to the conversion of matter to energy in this situation. Could an organ be converted to a gravity wave, pass through skin, and then be usuable?
In Greg Iles "Footprints of God", the brain was scanned with an MRI and was uploaded to a computer, and the computer became the person. Replication/cloning leaves too much room for error. Could anything allow something to pass through the skin unchanged? Could a solid matter to energy conversion take place to allow an organ to pass through the skin, to then be converted back? What device(real or not) could do it?
2007-08-03
14:26:42
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This is a serious question. I am analyzing what would happen legally to human rights if procedures that are invasive now were rendered non-invasive due to physics/technology. I really want to know if it could ever be done. If so, surgery would no longer be surgery. If it is impossible, then it's simply a matter of whether Big Brother would decide to pass laws that subject people to invasive surgeries anyhow.
2007-08-03
14:43:37 ·
update #1