The realization of Star Trek technologies : the science, not fiction, behind brain implants, plasma shields, quantum computing, and more /: the science, not fiction, behind brain implants, plasma shields, quantum computing, and more. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mark E. Lasbury.
• Authors: Lasbury, Mark E
• Contents: 1. Phasers weapons of less destruction -- Particle beams as directed energy weapons -- Light beams ad directed energy weapons -- Masers weapons -- High energy lasers as directed energy weapons -- Laser thermal blooming -- Weaponized lasers -- US Navy LaWS -- US Air Force HELLADS laser -- The DARPA Excalibur Project -- Emerging high power laser technologies -- Free electron lasers and x-ray free electron lasers -- Laser induced plasma channels -- 2. Cloaking devices : vanishing into thin space -- Ways to stay hidden -- Active camouflage in Star Trek and on Earth -- Mirrors and Rochester cloaks -- Stealth technologies as cloaks -- Cloaking the Star Trek way -- Cloaking by bending light -- Transformation optics -- Gradient index metamaterial cloaks and their limitations -- Natural calcite carpet cloaks -- Natural guanine crystal carpet cloaks -- Cloaking by destroying light -- Plasmonic cloaks -- Mantle cloaks -- Spoofing and illusion coatings with mantle cloaks -- Future cloaking possibilities -- Wide band and active cloaks -- Slow light and positional cloaks -- 3. The replicator : maybe you can have everything -- Star Trek replicators -- Necessity and a convenience -- Replicator function -- Replication of organic materials -- Current replicators -- Additive manufacturing : 3D printing -- 4D printing -- Current 3D printing of organics -- Printing cells and tissues -- Printing food -- Future of replicators -- Nanobots -- Molecular assembly -- 4. Deflector shields : the best offense is a good defense -- Star Trek defensive technologies -- Deflector shield function and capability -- Coherent graviton fields -- Search for gravitational waves -- The graviton and deflector shield plausibility -- Current military energy deflector shields -- Electromagnetic shielding -- Military plasma shielding -- Shockwave shielding -- Shields as protection from space -- Cosmic rays -- The magnetosphere and the ionosphere -- Plasma deflector shields -- Shields against cosmic rays -- Superconducting magnetic fields as shields -- Magnetic shields build plasma shields -- Mini-magnetospheres -- Magnetic and plasma shields on the Moon -- Metamaterial shields -- Metamaterial black holes. 5. The tractor beam : pulling Earth out of the fire -- Star Trek tractor beams at work -- Tractors generate attenuated and collimated gravity beams -- Gravity beams exert force -- Current tractor beams on Earth -- The aquatic tractor beam pulls with waves -- Pulling with sound, an acoustic tractor beam -- Laser-based tractor beams -- Saving the Earth with tractor beams -- Magnetic field architecture for repulsor forces -- The real threats to Earth -- Near Earth object collision avoidance strategies using beams -- Ablation by repulsive laser beams -- Ion beam shepherds -- Gravity tractors -- Enhanced gravity tractors -- 6. Universal translators : now you're speaking my language -- Star Trek universal translator usage -- Star Trek UT mechanism and the EEG -- Audiovisual sensors of the UT -- The translation matrix of the UT -- Linguacode -- Current translation mechanisms -- Optical character recognition -- Speech recognition -- Language recognition -- Translation -- Synthetic speech generation -- Computational linguistics and the possibility of a UT -- Linguistic universals and speech characteristics -- Using linguistic universals to translate dead languages -- Can neurolinguistics identify universals? -- Limitations in developing a UT -- Culture and the UT -- The lessons of Klingon -- 7. Geordi's visor : a vision of the future -- Visual processing -- Converting light to electricity -- Translating visual information -- Camera based visual prostheses -- Degenerative retinal diseases -- Parameters for making visual prostheses -- The Argus II Epiretinal Implant -- The Alpha-IMS Subretinal Implant -- Visual cortex implants : the Orion I -- Vision based on the retinal code -- Visual prostheses as artificial retinas -- Future visions for visual prostheses -- Software updates -- Virtual electrodes and current focusing -- Algorithms to improve recognition -- Expanding our vision beyond visible light -- 8. The transporter : are we there yet? -- Issue : targeting a spot in space -- Celestial reference frames and coordinate systems -- Quantum level patterning -- Quantum information -- Heisenberg Uncertainty -- Quantum entanglement and coherence -- Quantum computing uses qubits -- Coherence and entanglement in quantum computing -- Issue : reducing you to atoms or less -- Breaking down matter -- chemistry, light and plasma to break down molecules -- Colliders can break down matter further -- Converting matter directly to energy -- Issue : transmitting atoms or information -- Entanglement allows teleportation of information -- Examples of teleportation -- Issue : rematerialization -- Building macroscopic objects from atoms -- Building macroscopic matter from subatomic particles -- Fusion builds matter -- Building matter from energy -- 9. The tricorder : a high-tech multitool -- Star Trek tricorders -- Tricorder functions -- Smartphones as tricorders -- Peripheral sensors for DEO tricorder functions -- Environmental smartphone sensors -- Smartphones as health monitors -- Achieving a medical tricorder -- The Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize -- Team Aezon, undergraduate Tricorder XPrize finalists -- Vitals functions monitoring -- Tricorders for diagnosis of disease -- Point of care testing and the medical tricorder -- Microfluidics -- Lateral flow testing -- Quantitative polymerase chain reaction in POC testing -- Differential diagnoses from computers -- Emerging platforms for POC testing -- Microcantilevers -- Quantum dots -- Magnetic nanoparticles and nanorobots -- Smelling disease.
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer Nature
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 358.8; Popular works; Space weapons; Particle beams; High power lasers; Star Trek television programs; Star Trek fiction; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science; High power lasers; Particle beams; Space weapons; Star Trek fiction; Star Trek television programs; Technology & Engineering -- Industrial Design -- Product; Technology & Engineering -- Electronics -- General; Technology & Engineering -- Engineering (General); Computers -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics; Technical design; Imaging systems & technology; Biomedical engineering; Artificial intelligence; Science (General); Engineering design; Biomedical engineering; Engineering; Science -- General; Popular science; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319409146
• Related ISBNs: 331940914X; 9783319409122; 3319409123
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO), viewed August 31, 2016.
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