Heisenberg Compensator

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One of my favorite techno-spoofs was something call the Turboencabulator. In this update, we parody marketing techno-jargon and laugh as the company launches the Sun Heisenberg Compensator.

In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Heisenberg compensators are part of the transporter system.
A Star Trek matter transporter is presumed to operate by reading the precise quantum state of every particle making up the person to be transported, breaking down that person from their component matter into energy, "beaming" that energy to the desired location, and recombining this energy back into their component matter according to the information gleaned when the precise quantum state was read. However, in quantum physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states (in general terms) that one cannot know the quantum state of a subatomic particle to arbitrary precision. Therefore, matter transportation in this way was believed to be impossible, and this was formalized as the no teleportation theorem.

Thus, the creators of Star Trek created a plot device, the so-called Heisenberg compensators. It is unclear how exactly the Heisenberg compensators work. It is, of course, possible that they do not actually tell you the precise statistics of each particle; they could just compensate for not being able to know them.

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: October 29, 2007 at 1:22 am
Author: overheardinpdx

Length: 00:02:11
Rating: 4.31
Views: 6709

Tags: Sun Microsystems Star Trek comedy parody turboencabulator

Video Comments:
assimilatedMe262 (September 11, 2008 at 5:43 am)
heisenburg compensator is from star trek
warriordog1 (May 10, 2008 at 11:14 pm)
needs to get an original script instead of plagiarizin Chryslers comedic Turbo Encabulators...
overheardinpdx (May 11, 2008 at 2:15 am)
Parody is considered fair use, which is good for Chrysler, Rockwell, and GE because they al did parodys of the encabulator but none of them were the originators of this script.

If you read the video notes, this parody is described as an update of the turbo encabulator, The widely circulated piece on the mythical "turbo-encabulator" was written by Bernard Salwen, a New York lawyer working in Washington, DC during World War II.
warriordog1 (May 11, 2008 at 10:08 am)
Very interesting history; I wasn't aware of that. I didn't read the video notes because I don't know how to access it. Might be my lack of knowledge on youtube, but all I saw was the videos under turbo enc.
warriordog1 (May 11, 2008 at 10:14 am)
Never mind my last. I perused the page and discovered the notes. Funny, I was actually aware of the Heisenburg uncertainty principle, and now the irony and comedy of the 'update' sticks out to me a bit more.
Fanucon (October 22, 2008 at 5:21 am)
chrysler didnt make that script. it was posted in an engineering magazine in the 50's and people just reproduce it non stop
johome999 (March 22, 2008 at 3:19 am)
Clearly, Sun's Heisenberg Compensator is little more than an extension of the technology Chrysler developed for use in their Turbo Encabulators. Nothing new to see here, folks.
ltaylor00 (November 3, 2007 at 1:58 am)
That's what I was going to say!
mirceavorona (November 1, 2007 at 10:25 pm)
Looks so authentic.
mikeaudra (October 29, 2007 at 8:47 pm)
Very good, you must have brown eyes.