Timeline for "Slow" teleportation
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| Oct 24, 2018 at 15:49 | comment | added | GreySage | Based on (what I assume are OPs editted in) information in the Question, this wouldn't work. When you cut the power the stored materials are lost. | |
| Oct 23, 2018 at 21:52 | comment | added | user458 | Same problem as the food preservation answer above. I commented there: "If the portals are nearly touching then the time to traverse while in portal will be very low. What you'd end up with at best is eliminating 30 to 40% of the time your food experiences. That's cool, I guess, but worth the effort?" | |
| Oct 21, 2018 at 22:37 | comment | added | G0BLiN | @DougR. - You are right, teleportation devices appear on several of Niven's "Known Space" Earth - The book A Hole in Space have four stories describing the evolution of teleportation and their impact on society ("The Alibi Machine", "The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club", "A Kind of Murder" and "All the Bridges Rusting") | |
| Oct 21, 2018 at 14:34 | comment | added | Ray | @Shaamaan You could avoid that issue by having two pairs of portals, aligned so that when someone exits portal A_exit, they immediately enter portal B_entrance, and when they leave B_exit, they enter A_entrance. Then just just have a timer that tracks which portal pair they're in at any given part of the duty cycle, and cut the power to the other pair when you want them to exit. | |
| Oct 19, 2018 at 18:25 | comment | added | Deacon | @nigel222 - I believe Larry Niven actually used that as a drive in a short story, but I can't find the reference. | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 17:33 | comment | added | tbrookside | Zefiro - Right. So the next time the object exits whatever portal tunnel it's in, there's no new portal opening for it to enter into. Loop broken. But the first portal is never depowered, so you don't get the catastrophic loss of the object or passenger. | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 16:23 | comment | added | Zefiro | Shaamaan: the idea seems to be to use two teleportation lines, with the object alternating between them (and the time taken for changing neglected). In that case, cutting the power of the unused one would drop the object out of the loop. | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 15:05 | comment | added | MBender | -1 from me. According to OP if something is in transit and the power is cut, that something is lost (or potentially badly scrambled). I don't see how you can safely put something into perpetual transit and then "cut the power"... | |
| Oct 17, 2018 at 13:57 | comment | added | nigel222 | Also (maybe) solve the interstellar transport problem. Teleport a teleport from behind to in front which then teleports the teleport which is now behind to in front ... no, it could never work ... could it? Might need a touch of Heisenberg compensation, or similar. | |
| Oct 17, 2018 at 11:17 | history | answered | tbrookside | CC BY-SA 4.0 |