Teleportation

Classical Mechanics Level 2

What do you think will happen to your surroundings(from where you've got teleported) if you get teleported from one place to other?

Teleportation: It is the theoretical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them.

A lot of energy is released due to imbalance in gravitational field because of teleportation. Sudden dislocation creates a vacuum and the air around collapses generating a huge shockwave. None of these. We ourselves will collapse under the high pressure generated by the air. Air around crushes in and heats up the surrounding to high temperatures. Nothing actually happens, we just teleport.

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Sravanth C.
Oct 5, 2015

A sudden dislocation of our body creates a temporary vacuum in the place we were. And we know that air travels from a region of high pressure to that of low pressure, so the air rushes in rapidly filling up the gap crated by the vacuum. This creates a sudden outburst of a shockwave .

Though most comics, fictions, other shows on TV show it as a magical power and create absolute nonsense, the actual thing that is going to take place is this. The shockwave may even through you away from your place if you teleported to such a small distance(as in the gif.). It may even cause damage to the eardrums of the people around you, and also create cracks in walls in nearby buildings. So teleportation is not a thing to mess with!

Even though this is a super-highly-speculative subject (very hard to guess what the physical consequences would be at the place where you arrive!), I think you do need to make clear that you're asking about the surroundings where you are teleported from . The problem doesn't say which.

Michael Mendrin - 5 years, 8 months ago

Thanks sir, I've edited it. Would you mind joining me in the upcoming wiki collaboration party on 9th October?

Sravanth C. - 5 years, 8 months ago

I'll check it out this Friday. Conservation of energy? Sounds like a rich subject.

Michael Mendrin - 5 years, 8 months ago

@Michael Mendrin – Thanks sir! Are you on slack?

Sravanth C. - 5 years, 8 months ago

@Sravanth C. – Well, I'm a member on Slack, yes.

Michael Mendrin - 5 years, 8 months ago

@Michael Mendrin – Well, let's meet on slack tomorrow!

Sravanth C. - 5 years, 8 months ago

The SciFi movies like this Teleportation thing so much without thinking the scientific consequences.

You've pointed such an important flaw of these movies. Thumbs Up!

Muhammad Arifur Rahman - 5 years, 8 months ago

Oh, movies always play fast and loose with physics. Like in politics, facts matter very little. There's all kinds of difficulties with the concept of "human teleportation".

Michael Mendrin - 5 years, 8 months ago

Like in politics! Like on Harry Potter : The Chamber of Secrets - Dumbledore casts his spell -"Arresto Momentum". Surely the producer managed a physics students to provide him with a scientific spell!

LOL!

Muhammad Arifur Rahman - 5 years, 8 months ago

Thanks Arifur! Would you mind joining me in the upcoming wiki collaboration party on 9th October?

Sravanth C. - 5 years, 8 months ago

We're on it now!

Muhammad Arifur Rahman - 5 years, 8 months ago

You answered it like teleportation is really possible. Nice fiction though, upvoted.

MD Omur Faruque - 5 years, 8 months ago

Well, we know that quantum teleportation is a fact. Now if we could only make ourselves behave like Schrodinger's Cat? But the unhappy reality is that it's still not "conveniently instantaneous travel" as Star Trek fans would like it to be.

Here's one way how it can be done, which requires dual streams B, C of entangled particles to both locations. Setting up streams B,C is the problem.

Michael Mendrin - 5 years, 8 months ago

Well, I know almost nothing about quantum mechanics. But any transport not instantaneous isn't a telport. It can only be achievable by energy.

I think of it like this: When matter travels at very high speed (close to light) time slows down for it. But it still isn't instantaneous. For the time to be instantaneous, it must stop the time. And stopping time means you are stuck in a moment (Can we say it has transformed into energy?), which is obviously not possible. Even if it's possible, then how can it start the time again?? (Point: No change of time. So, in whatever speed it may travel, the speed will be $\infty$ ).

There might be many wrong ideas there, it's just the way I've thought about it.

MD Omur Faruque - 5 years, 8 months ago

@Md Omur Faruque – Here's the cave-man version of "teleportation". Using special equipment, I "read" the location of all of the atoms of your body, and put all the data in a super-flash drive. I ship the super-flash drive to location B, where special equipment reconstructs you. Voila! No quantum physics is necessary. Of course, then we'll have to kill you at location A.

When talking about teleportation, we're hoping for something more "conveniently instantaneous" I expect that if and when anything remotely like it becomes possible, it'll involve quantum physics.

Michael Mendrin - 5 years, 8 months ago

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