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| Thread ID: 55052 | 2005-03-01 10:10:00 | Teleportation / Time travelling... | Renmoo (66) | PC World Chat |
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| 329435 | 2005-03-01 10:10:00 | Hey guys, I need your opinion on teleportation. If let's say a car wants to travel x distance in a period of time of 0 seconds, the speed would be infinity. How do you define infinity in this case? Surely not that it is uncountable because in this world everything is countable. Any suggestions? |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 329436 | 2005-03-01 10:18:00 | It would be easier to say the speed is equivalent to the speed of light, given current happenings. In theory if you could travel at or greater than the speed of light, you would become invisible. |
agent (30) | ||
| 329437 | 2005-03-01 10:28:00 | for the car to 'travel' x distance in zero seconds it would have to co-exist in both places at the same time and therefore could not be said to have travelled at all as it was already there ! | drcspy (146) | ||
| 329438 | 2005-03-01 13:56:00 | Hey guys, I need your opinion on teleportation. If let's say a car wants to travel x distance in a period of time of 0 seconds, the speed would be infinity. How do you define infinity in this case? Surely not that it is uncountable because in this world everything is countable. Any suggestions? You would need to warp space so that the points of origin and end coincide. You would find warped space around massively dense bodies and Federation Starships. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 329439 | 2005-03-01 20:45:00 | You hint at two questions: Is teleportation possible? Would time pass while moving from one point to the other? I don't know an answer to the time passing. Teleportation in the sense of an object disappearing at one point and appearing at another is possible. However as Vin says, it involves tunnelling through regions of space by warping space itself. Current physics says you need massive gravity to twist space enough to create such a wormhole. Teleportation as portrayed in Larry Niven's books, is a different technology. There the component atoms are sent - teleported- from a sender to a reciever. There are enormous problems regarding disassembly of the object, mapping it, sending the map ahead, and then reassembling billions of atoms in the same geometry at the other end. Alternatively the map alone could be sent and used to create your car out of new atoms at the reciever end. The original car would presumably be destroyed in the mapping process. Some time must pass during the transfer of the map. Otherwise, as Drcspy says, the car would exist at both points - or at infinity which wouldn't be very useful. Quite a wait for it to arrive. :D |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 329440 | 2005-03-01 21:07:00 | It would be easier to say the speed is equivalent to the speed of light No the only theoretical way, in my opinion, is it doesn't matter how fast or slow it travels; it's a matter of time. So long as no time elapses during the travel, speed is irrelevant. As someone else suggested about space-warp - it's time-warp that counts :D |
Greg (193) | ||
| 329441 | 2005-03-01 21:13:00 | Maybe if you had a look at this interesting website, it might shed some light on teleportation . I have setup a search on teleportation for you . . box . sk/search . php?srch=teleportation" target="_blank">science . box . sk This website is actually very interesting, well for me it is . ;) Enjoy! And talking about teleportation, it would be great for sending original documents . I hate those companies who won't accept faxed documents as proof . Just teleport your document and they have the original . Don't send passports you dummy! :eek: Of course, it would be great for transportation uses too . I wonder if Microsoft will get their hands on a machine for their staff to transport between home and work? :confused: |
mister harbies (5607) | ||
| 329442 | 2005-03-02 01:39:00 | I've read some stupid posts here in the past but this definately takes the cake! | Veale (536) | ||
| 329443 | 2005-03-02 03:46:00 | I've read some stupid posts here in the past but this definately takes the cake!But was it taken instantaneously or in a very short period of time? | Tony (4941) | ||
| 329444 | 2005-03-02 04:39:00 | Maybe Veale's Arrow of Time was exceeding the speed limit... Fueled by Dark Energy .. | TonyF (246) | ||
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