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Okay, let's think about this teleportation stuff for a minute. To work right,
teleportation requires you to have an electronic console of some kind at
the sending and receiving locations. So someone has to build two consoles
and transport one physically to the distant location. Then a radio beam
needs to be set up between the two locations. have you ever listened to a
short wave radio signal? There are these bursts of static and strange
fading and drop outs in the signals. Well, it would seem that the same thing
would be prevalent in an Earth to Space teleportation radio link. So, the
individual being transported might wind up at the distant end with part of
his torso missing, or his legs lopped off at the knees. The prospects of
being kneecapped would not make me real happy.
regards,
Zahbudar
teleportation requires you to have an electronic console of some kind at
the sending and receiving locations. So someone has to build two consoles
and transport one physically to the distant location. Then a radio beam
needs to be set up between the two locations. have you ever listened to a
short wave radio signal? There are these bursts of static and strange
fading and drop outs in the signals. Well, it would seem that the same thing
would be prevalent in an Earth to Space teleportation radio link. So, the
individual being transported might wind up at the distant end with part of
his torso missing, or his legs lopped off at the knees. The prospects of
being kneecapped would not make me real happy.
regards,
Zahbudar
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Well think of it this way, it is literally impossible to travel at the speed of light, no matter how advanced our society becomes, it will still be impossible just because anything besides light (since light has no mass) would be infinitely heavy at those speeds. Now that you are thinking about that, our solar system is 100,000 light years across, so even if we could travel at the speed of light, we wouldn't be able to search very far into our solar system anyway. Teleportation is most likely, especially since we are doing so many studies on wormholes now.
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How about space travel WITH teleportation.. like that next generation star trek episode where Scottie was trapped in a transporter buffer for centuries.
So, You sign up for a slower than light interstellar generation ship to a nearby star... but don't want to die of old age on the way.. SO, you teleport yourself instantaneously between two quantum transceivers in a never ending cycle- each teleport taking an instantaneous length of time to do, while the ship plods along for centuries- or even eons
Since the teleport is instantaneous, and the return teleport is equally so, you have created, in effect, a "stasis chamber", where the "you" being teleported about hasn't aged a microsecond, while the ship plods along!
Only four problems with this though:
1) we dont use generation ships yet
2) we dont have teleporters yet
3) we have yet to make a pair of complex devices that can run breakdown-free for 800 years, much less 70,000
4) we dont know if you remain conscious between teleports- stuck in an unfortunately timed and now neverending hiccup!! ACK!
:)
So, You sign up for a slower than light interstellar generation ship to a nearby star... but don't want to die of old age on the way.. SO, you teleport yourself instantaneously between two quantum transceivers in a never ending cycle- each teleport taking an instantaneous length of time to do, while the ship plods along for centuries- or even eons
Since the teleport is instantaneous, and the return teleport is equally so, you have created, in effect, a "stasis chamber", where the "you" being teleported about hasn't aged a microsecond, while the ship plods along!
Only four problems with this though:
1) we dont use generation ships yet
2) we dont have teleporters yet
3) we have yet to make a pair of complex devices that can run breakdown-free for 800 years, much less 70,000
4) we dont know if you remain conscious between teleports- stuck in an unfortunately timed and now neverending hiccup!! ACK!
:)
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Space travel will never be the most efficient. Distances are just far too great. So hypothetically teleportation.