I recently stumbled on an article describing a theory that sound can indeed produce mass. After reading it for a third time a Random Thought came crashing into my awareness. The following is from a recent article titled ‘We just got more evidence that sound waves really do carry mass’

“…Traditionally when we think of sound waves, we think of invisible vibrations moving weightless through the air - not carrying any mass.

That might be about to change. Physicists have just provided further evidence that particles of sound really can carry tiny amounts of mass. And that means they can produce their own gravitational fields - which could be a big deal for our understanding of space.

But let's back up for a second and go back to the basics. Kick a ball, and you put energy into it. Einstein would tell you you've also contributed a tiny bit of mass by making it accelerate.

If that ball is a tiny particle, and the kick is a wave of sound, you might imagine the same thing. Yet for decades, physicists have argued over whether the momentum within a surge of jiggling particles adds up to a net amount of mass…”

This might prove interesting for future ideas. If sound can produce mass as they theorize, can sound be recorded into a recording device, say through a sound card of a computer, and stored on a storage device to be played back later? Does this theory also come into play that the same mass will reemerge again from a loudspeaker?

Now, if this proves true then perhaps we can say that the sound being transmitted, by say FM Radio, can also convert mass into radio frequency energy and reconvert the sound back into mass again?

Again, if this can or does happen, can we presume that something such as a Star Trek Transporter can actually work converting mass into radio and back to mass again? Rumors circulate that this type of action, ‘transmitting’ mass across open space, has already been done with small, simple non-biologic objects.

Could future Humans ‘beam’ across space as illustrated in Star Trek? This could finally be a solution to long lines at the TSA checkpoint in airports. We can just ‘beam’ to that warm tropical beach in the dead of winter and return all in the same day.

I guess only time will tell…