Matrix on the holodeck

[TheDoctor 0]

Would you be able to do matrix style moves and defey the laws of gravity on the holodeck? Could you make everything slowmotion?

 

I'm just wondering what you think would happen.

 

I think you would be able to say a voice command to make everything slowmotion and the computer would use the tractor beams it uses to move holocharacters to make you not be able to move as fast as normal.

[cptwright 1]

WWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY COOL LETS TRY IT. LOL would be neat though.

[Xeroc 0]

I'm sure you could do that kind of stuff on the Holodeck.

[Captain Bolivar 0]

Ok, you could do slow motion in a holodeck, but only with the holograms except in certain situations.

 

If a real person was in a slow motion program and lifted his arm there would be nothing to prevent him or her from moving it at the speed he or she wishes as the arm is moving relative to his or her body.

 

However, if the person was moving relative to the program he could move in slow motion.

 

for example... the program is a HALF SPEED and the person jumps off a cliff. By animating the cliffs side moving past the person at half normal speed the person would fall along the cliff side at a relative speed that would be half of what gravity would normally cause. In reality, you would just be slowing down how fast the cliffs move past the person. The persons speed hasn't even changed. (the person is never actually falling anyways)

 

This ignores the fact that a person technically can't fall in a holodeck as they would just land on the floor.

 

The simulation where B'ellana orbital sky dives doesn't even make sense! How can you fall thousands of meters in a room that is only 10 m high?

 

Oh well, it served the purpose of the show!

[Abakai2003 0]

It's all done with Force fields. in the same way you can walk for miles in the same small room. the field kind of acts like a tredmill. as for falling that would pobabley be done by employing Tracktors as well

[ARMS 0]

I believe it is as simple as a voice command.