Re: convert light into energy

[Joseph Bellina <jbellina@SAINTMARYS.EDU>]

In the comics it is the same Nightcrawler after the teleportation.  In
the laboratory experiment described, I don't think anyone would claim it
is the same electron...so the comic version and the Viennese version are
not the same.

cheers

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Larry Smith wrote:

> Somebody please explain this to me.
>
> In the magazine section of the Sunday paper this week was an article (well,
> actually just a little inset table) about "So, you wanna be a superhero?
> Now you can."  For example, Superman has x-ray vision and we now really
> have Elex-ray; Wonder Woman uses steel bracelets to defect bullets and we
> have kevlar, Popeye eats spinach for strength and Mark McGwire eats
> androstenedione, etc.
>
> The one that baffles me is about the Nightcrawler (of the X-Men) who can do
> teleportation.  "Today's technology: Scientists in Austria moved a photon
> by converting the light packet into energy and then reconverting it across
> the lab."  What kind of energy are we talking about here?  What kind of
> conversion?
>
> Thanks,
> Larry