What if they take a real rock in with them, walk away from each other (past the physical limits of the Holodeck) and then toss the rock back and forth?
This one is too easy. The holodeck could treat the rock in just the same way as it would treat a person. When it leaves the hand of the thrower, the Holodeck “wraps” it in its own miniature simulation, and hides it from the two people, who (in their own mini-Holodeck) see only an image of the rock. The rock is then moved (with force beams) from the thrower to the catcher, given the appropriate kinetic energy along the way. From the rock’s point of view nothing out of the ordinary happens. ….
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- What if they take a real rock in with them, walk away from each other (past the physical limits of the Holodeck) and then toss the rock back and forth?
- If the dirt under the dome is chewed away, would the dome be subject to gravity (a physical force)? Would the sphere and its occupants fall?
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