The discussion revolves around the feasibility of teleportation as depicted in Star Trek and other science fiction media. Participants explore various theoretical models, implications, and the nature of teleportation, including its potential physical limitations and philosophical questions regarding identity and replication.
Participants generally disagree on the feasibility and implications of teleportation, with multiple competing views regarding its theoretical underpinnings and the nature of the process itself. No consensus is reached on whether teleportation could ever be realized or what its consequences would be.
Participants express uncertainty regarding the definitions and mechanics of teleportation, particularly in relation to identity and the replication of consciousness. There are also references to fictional narratives that complicate the discussion of teleportation's feasibility.
no, not according to currently understood physics.TheQuestionGuy14 said:Will teleportation, like in Star Trek or many sci-fi movies, where people disappear with a puff of smoke, ever be possible in the real world. Will we ever be able to build something that can do this, and what would it be like?
The year is 1500. Person A asks, "Will ocean travel ever get to the point where we can cross the Atlantic in less than three months?" Person B replies, "Of course not, it's physically impossible to create a sail big enough to gather the necessary amount of wind."TheQuestionGuy14 said:Will teleportation, like in Star Trek or many sci-fi movies, where people disappear with a puff of smoke, ever be possible in the real world. Will we ever be able to build something that can do this, and what would it be like?
No, that's not how the Star Trek teleportation works. It uses magic to transport, not replicate.cobalt124 said:No, not for me, the teleporter would obliterate me and create a copy somewhere else.
cobalt124 said:the teleporter would obliterate me and create a copy somewhere else.
phinds said:No, that's not how the Star Trek teleportation works. It uses magic to transport, not replicate.
Ryan_m_b said:As with all things Star Trek different writers treat the setting differently. When it comes to the transporter it definitively moves the same matter...until it doesn't.
phinds said:No, that's not how the Star Trek teleportation works. It uses magic to transport, not replicate.
The teleporter in the movie "The Prestige", made copies of the original, without obliteration.cobalt124 said:No, not for me, the teleporter would obliterate me and create a copy somewhere else.
rcgldr said:The teleporter in the movie "The Prestige", made copies of the original, without obliteration.
phinds said:Well, I stopped watching after the original series so was not aware of that.