Teleportation

[Iliaran]

I've always wondered, if something was teleported while it was moving, would it retain its momentum after it was teleported? (question comes up every time I watch a star-trek episode)

 

[Dragnskull]

Look at the facts and thing about it:

1. To be "teleported" you must travel at the speed of light (by what weve learned with todays technology, not watching a sci-fi movie)

2. If you are teleported while you have momentum (say your running) it will only be a fraction of a second used to teleport you since your going at the speed of light. you wouldnt even realize you had been teleported, which means you would still have the same ammount of momentum because you will still think your running, you will continue moving your legs, plus thats not enough time to slow down (the fraction of a second that is)

If anything, when you were "teleported" you would have gained momentum for moving at such a speed.

 

[Iliaran]

no no no, i meant teleportation as being decontstructed molecularly somewhere, and being reconstructed simultaneously elsewhere... (I get what you mean since you'd have to travel at the speed of light for it to be instantaneous)

so basically, if you threw a ball and teleported it in mid-flight (assuming that teleporters will exist someday), would it just drop to the ground when reconstructed or would it still have momentum?

 

[Crookedfoot]

Since momentum itself is a reaction of force on the molecules that put it into a state of movement, I would think it would either continue once it rematerialized, or be moving as it is reintegrated.

It would really depend on the mechanics of the device.
Say the device temporarily freezes time somehow around the object so that all molecular activity stops till the process is complete.
Then the stasis field if you will is released.
The object should continue again since the molecules were not given a chance to release the energy from movement.

If the devise were to work slower than the movement of an object.
As in they have a sign that says "Hold your breath and remain perfectly still till we tell you to move."
If you were to throw a ball, and activate the process, the ball may come out at the other end in a dust form since the molecules did not reassemble properly.
Or the ball may elongate into a stretched oval of sorts.

You would think the process would take either the stasis field concept, or use an event horizon.
As in on one side of a line your here, on the other you are there, where ever there may be.... instantly as you cross the line.

In the earlier Star Trek series, the effect usually had the stasis look.
You froze, sparkled, stopped sparkleing, then moved.. ahhh it's done I can breathe again.
This was because of the lack of special effects technology.
In later series like Star Trek the next generation, you would see them standing still on the planet while dematerializing.
Then they would be in the middle of a conversation while rematerializing, like there was a tunnel effect with a delay that you were conscience of.

Forgive me, I grew up on Star Trek, and live about a half hour from the future birth place of James T Kirk.
I don't consider myself a Trekker as much as a child of science fiction.

{and yes it's Trekker, not Trekky, the geeks find insult in being called a Trekky}

Teleportation is an itreguing concept, but highly improbable.

 

[Dragnskull]

also, with your demolecularizing theory, i would say it would be a -must- to stay absolutely still.

think about it. the "program" to deconstruct you is made to take you apart, and put your cells back in the same cordinate area (like gridding your body for a map-like purpus) so if you were moving, and it goes to put your cells back together in that grid, and say you move your arm while its "gridding you back" ..well.. i dont even wanna think about where that arm would end up.

 

[Chain3r-]

I think that if you did teleport like that you wouldnt end up like a pile of dust. Your cells would be reconstructed exactly like they were the instant before teleportation. AS for the momentum thing i don't know.

 

[Iliaran]

Chain3r-, the momentum thing is the whole reason I started this thread. If momentum is taken into consideration, then your cells 'won't' be constructed just as they were. Plus, your memories will be all messed up since its impossible to determine the momentum (as a vector) of an electron AND its position (the Heisenberg uncertainty principle), and well... synaptic charges basically form your memories... So basically, teleportation should technically fry ur head and all the cells in your body if mometum is taken into account.

However, the whole time-stasis thing does sort of explain a way through which teleportation 'can' be possible, yet freezing time isn't really realistic, and you'd still have the electron problem.

 

[Chain3r-]

Ill take your word for it.

 

[Mustafa]

Wow...you guys went to college

I know nothing of momentum I just play WarCraft a lot

 

[dP]

i would do anything for the power to 'blink'.