Thread:Eureka Enderborn/@comment-26535281-20170108014839/@comment-26084195-20170109011613

Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote:

Eureka Enderborn wrote: A device capable of transforming energy into matter on the spot, in complex patterns, allowing finished products to be created within seconds. That's not a replicator.

A replicator "copies" (more pastes but you get the idea) patterns preset into it to create objects.

Replicate is the key part.

A machine that converts energy into matter probably does have a name, but that name makes no sense. It's what Star Trek calls it.