Machine Teleportation.

[Chaosolous]

They invent a machine that can teleport people.

Would you use it?

[Punished Rusty Shackleford]

Oprindeligt skrevet af salamander:

no, because the teleportation machine kills you and spits out a cloned copy of you on the other end

That's why Dr. McCoy refused to get into one in Star Trek

[Sarge, a very tiny horse.]

I've seen The Fly, there's no way.

[bisder]

Nowhere I want to teleport to

[Clone303]

From home to work and from work to home then I can sleep alot longer

[XSGames]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Chaosolous:

They invent a machine that can teleport people.

Would you use it?

Probably yes, out of curiosity, with the risk that it may become addictive

[SympliKrazi]

Dark Matter made an interesting twist with teleportation tech. You sleep, while a clone of you with you memories is created on the other side. When your clone goes back to the teleportation station for reconstitution, the original you receives the memories it created. In the event of an accident or death and the clone is unable to return, then you get nothing.

One of my fave sci fi shows.

[salamander]

Oprindeligt skrevet af dyinggg:

Nowhere I want to teleport to

teleport to tristan da cunha

[Pocahawtness]

No.
Teleportation destroys the original and creates a copy. It 's a bit like like a fax machine. It copies, with the added bonus that it sets fire to the original document! I don't want to be destroyed.
If there is ever such a machine, it should be a wormhole device. That doesn't destroy you, so that wold be fine.

[It Who Grinds Flesh]

Yes, as it could likely be easily modified to create copies of myself, which I would begin doing.

[PatRat]

You'd have to invent a "Heisenberg Compensator first".

Old Werner, before he was working on a Nazi Abomb, said you " cannot know both the position and speed of a particle, such as a photon or electron, with perfect accuracy; the more we nail down the particle's position, the less we know about its speed and vice versa"

That's why you need to make something up and give it a cool name like "Heisenberg Compensator."

[PatRat]

Oprindeligt skrevet af kbiz:

You can't teleport, OP. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light.

Well there's always Quantum Entanglement i suppose. Not sure if it would be possible to use for teleportation though.

[skOsH♥]

Physicists have teleported particles already. That's been done....

On a scale for humans though, is a monumental task.

The machine would need to be able to save the position and spin of all particles...which is an insane amount of particles...it's like 10 followed by like 50 more zeroes in terms of total particles

I don't know how this would actually work, but hypothetically it doesn't violate the laws of physics...so it could be possible

[PatRat]

I'm pretty sure it violates the uncertainty principle. But I'm no expert.

I do remember reading something about a successful teleport, but I don't think it involved matter. I could be wrong.

[Fake]

If you take a Car, completely disassemble the car, transfer it to another location and reassemble, is it the same car?

The answer is No.

[skOsH♥]

I think it was photons teleported from coast of Africa to La Palma was it not

Edit: it was from La Palma to Tenerife holy crap I'm bad at geography . I mean, it is off the coast of Africa though but I thought I wasn't being accurate enough