Teleportation, it could be possible with household items

My bad. I just got to this thread, but as I'm not needed I'll go away and explode my head.

Slowpoke used PSYCHIC!!!!!




Super effective!

 

That teleportation video is someone's attempt at special effects. It's pretty convincing too, in terms of it's hard to see where the video is cut and pasted.

WOAH SERIOUSLY?!

time paradox?  wut?

I, being of psychic type, anticipated your post and responded in the past 

Actually I have no idea why that happened...

BTW, has anyone seen the teleportation seen on Spaceballs? I'm not being teleported after that!

Hahaha oh man, get it?  A post with Slowpoke in it?  It happened after it should have, therefore being "slow"?

I just tried to do that experiment with an egg... I had to clean it up. It didn't teleport!

At least you tried the experiment, and didn't just beleive or dissbelieve off video footage.

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Quote from: SPrinkZ on May 01, 2007, 11:12:08 PM

I agree...how would we be able to preserve ourself? It's murder.

You know, I read some book that had time travel/teleportation, and it's a very good point.  However, I think that it wouldn't be a big problem.  We and our consciousnesses are really only defined by the specific way all the neurons in our brains are set up.  So, even though "you" would die, another "you" would be alive, and for all intents and purposes it still would be you - not just to other people, but to the new you as well.  I don't think I really explained what I'm trying to get across, but basically, it's not a problem because you would continue living to the new you and to those around you.

Yea but the thing is the "old" you would be dead and who knows what happens to the "old" you's conciousness when the "new" you takes over your body... does the "old" you take a passengers seat or just fades?

Isn't this what Locke talked about?

To be honest, I don't think feeling how it is to teleport is possible. If we are turned into photons, and reassemble into fermions again, the stream of consciousness would be halted, and it would be as if we were a new person. The others wouldn't realise the difference, but our old self would be "dead". Maybe it's speculation, but that's how it seems to me.

Our "self" dies all the time, according to the Buddhists.  At every moment we are new people.  Personality or self is a nominal entity, like that possessed by the Philadelphia Phillies; it consists of many interacting and sometimes contrary subparts that don't really cohere, that have no center. 

Teleporting probably just feels like this.  Like how we are right now, as people bouncing from one thing to another.  As long as the neurons and whatnot are perfectly copied, one is the same person that one has always thought.  Said person has the same memories and thinks the same way. 

Have you seen The Prestige? 

Quote from: R-Tard on April 30, 2007, 06:54:45 AM

To be honest, I don't think feeling how it is to teleport is possible. If we are turned into photons, and reassemble into fermions again, the stream of consciousness would be halted, and it would be as if we were a new person. The others wouldn't realise the difference, but our old self would be "dead". Maybe it's speculation, but that's how it seems to me.

Our "self" dies all the time, according to the Buddhists.  At every moment we are new people.  Personality or self is a nominal entity, like that possessed by the Philadelphia Phillies; it consists of many interacting and sometimes contrary subparts that don't really cohere, that have no center. 

Teleporting probably just feels like this.  Like how we are right now, as people bouncing from one thing to another.  As long as the neurons and whatnot are perfectly copied, one is the same person that one has always thought.  Said person has the same memories and thinks the same way. 

Have you seen The Prestige? 

This is exactly what I was trying to get across, only put a lot more eloquently and understandably.

If you teleport, you would be effectively creating a copy of yourself. The copy would think it was the original you, would have the same memories as the original you, but it would not be the original you. It would basically be a clone, with the same mentality. The original you would be "dead", but the copy of you would live on. If the original you was left alive, we would have cloning. It's as simple as that.

What if the teleporter takes you piece by piece afew quadrillion times.  Then you would still be the same you.

What if the teleporter takes you piece by piece afew quadrillion times.  Then you would still be the same you.

You lost me.

What if the teleporter takes you piece by piece afew quadrillion times.  Then you would still be the same you.

Wouldn't you, like, die?

I don't mean "you", I mean both the current you and the teleported you.

NM, I get it.
If the teleporter took you apart faster than you could regenerate the damage, then the original you would die. If you could regenerate the damage faster than the teleporter could take you apart, then it would effectively be cloning. The copy of you would be dead in either case.

Oh, I get it.

I bet fe'ers will believe that.  They will believe anything.

Apparently they wont believe the Earth is round...

Hmm, have you guys watched The Prestige?

Neither have I, it appears.

Anyway, looks fake. Easily done with camera tricks. We'll see though.

I heard a few months ago that they were able to teleport a few photons of information, whatever that means.

EDIT: Also, if the radio antennae is the point of "teleportation", then the egg should've broken. And assorted other things when an object tries to occupy what something else is occupying (which is the base of the glass).

Hmm, have you guys watched The Prestige?

Neither have I, it appears.

Anyway, looks fake. Easily done with camera tricks. We'll see though.

I heard a few months ago that they were able to teleport a few photons of information, whatever that means.

EDIT: Also, if the radio antennae is the point of "teleportation", then the egg should've broken. And assorted other things when an object tries to occupy what something else is occupying (which is the base of the glass).

The video is just a demonstration of how the effect might work, as the movie maker states on the Coast To Coast AM website (the second link in the OP).

oic

oicu812

"Oh I see you ate one too"? 

disgusting!  You should be banned for that.   >:(

Whatever, bro.

It is possible.  Read Timeline to get an idea of this savvy tech.

It is possible.  Read Timeline to get an idea of this savvy tech.

Except ones ideas will be cut short by the bullet in ones mouth after forcing oneself to read the entire book. 

Well, if you have that short of an attention span, watch the movie.  Or get teh book on tape, preferrably narrated by some 20-something with a sexy voice.