Questions tagged [teleportation]
For questions about instantaneously or near-instantaneously transporting an object from one location to another.
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If a portal scroll is cheap and easily available why they are not used when one's life is in peril?
Set in the medieval period, adventurers like to frequent the guild hall to check out the bounty lists, which are updated on a daily basis. Many of the requests on the list requires adventurers to pit ...
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In a Sci-Fi Novel with Multiple Planes of Existence, How Would You Travel from One Plane to Another?
In this world I am trying to create, as of now, I have tube-like things called Gateways that basically connect four separate planes of existence to one central one (think of a cross, with the cross ...
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Equalizing Venus and Mars Through Atmospheric Teleportation
Humans have invented a technology that allows for teleportation of matter across any distance. These devices can, in theory, be scaled up to any size, so long as the necessary construction materials ...
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A place for telekinesis in physics? [duplicate]
I am a writer, and I have attempting my first fiction novel. However, I like to have things figured out in a way that works with the laws of physics in the universe, at least to a certain regard. For ...
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Speed of repeat teleportation
Teleportation is a mightily fun superpower. What I have problems with is how many times this is abused for no reason at all. As an example, the Nightstalker (I think) in X-men can teleport short ...
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Teleportation is invented but it has nasty side-effects % of the time, how will that affect usage of the technology?
A few decades ago, a new glorious invention in our huge FTL interstellar empire was created - teleportation tech. A 2 meter cube is technologically put in a "Warp" field at one location and deployed 1 ...
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What is the yield of a 1kg solid concrete transporter bomb?
I want to beam into solid concrete as a bomb. I have transporters and unlike Star Trek I’m not afraid to use them. Terrorists have taken the tech and have nasty plans for us.
The bomb is 1 kg sphere ...
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What would be shocking to learn your neighbor did with his machine that clones anything for only 0.05 seconds? [closed]
This is a stub from an overbroad question in the Sandbox
I have a device similar to what Douglas E. Richards' used in Split Second (I have never read his book) such that any object of less than 3 m3 ...
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How Can I Explain a Teleportation Machine? [closed]
In my world, teleporters have been developed. I'm having trouble trying to explain it and its invention. This is due to the fact that it is one of the only extremely futuristic technologies in my ...
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Airborne Access to Narnia [closed]
Edit: edits inspired by @TzeraFNX's suggestion
Suppose we have a pocket dimension or alternate dimension that's accessed a bit like Narnia, by having very subtle portals in various secluded places (...
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A world within our world, but hidden and doesn't look like Earth or affect it. Is it possible (or something close)?
I'm new here and this is my first question.
I have a question which is a bit complicated about an idea that I like but that is confusing me at the moment. I appreciate if you bear with me and it ...
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Ecological implications of osmotic portals
Suppose some magical civilization on Earth-like planet can create portals. Any given portal entrances are spherical surfaces of the same radius. Any particle enters one sphere and exits another in the ...
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How does targeting teleportation work without a pad or something?
So, I've got an idea for galactic travel involving some fancy particle physics and the Higgs-field, but I've just discovered I don't know how teleporting really works. Or any of that kind of stuff, ...
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Which one of these two technologies would be more difficult to create: matter replicators or matter teleportation? [closed]
It seems logical that would be more difficult to create a new object out of nothing rather than scanning all an object or a person particles and atoms and then transferring them into another location ...
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How might teleportation to or from a place far from a teleportation device work? [closed]
In many science fiction television shows, and movies characters are teleported from the space ship to a planet, and vice verse, even though the planet has no teleportation device on it's surface, and ...
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Velocity Difference From Teleportation
In Steven Gould's Jumper series, the main character has the ability to teleport, and he eventually realizes he automatically does frame matching when doing so - no matter where on earth his origin and ...
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Personal Teleportation: From Rags to Riches
I'm looking to investigate one aspect of the "real world" implications of teleportation as a super power, much like I did with this question.
In this case, I'm trying to figure out the best method(s) ...
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How do I defend a person against an attacking teleporter?
Inspired by Personal Teleportation as a Weapon
Using the teleportation rules from that question:
The Teleporter can teleport themselves and/or any object (including people) they are touching, ...
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Personal Teleportation as a Weapon
I've always considered teleportation to be one of the most under-rated super powers in all ways, but at the moment I'm thinking through the ramifications of personal teleportation as a superpower in ...
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Is there enough fresh water in the world to eradicate the drinking water crisis?
Lets assume, by the means of some advanced scientific discovery, scientists find a way to teleport simple matter to any part of the world and use this process to teleport fresh water and/or small ...
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What would be practical usage of relatively slow low range teleportation like technology? [closed]
Let's assume that there is easy and very cheap method for someone to enter 'separate dimension' in one place, walk and exit in another.
For an external observer it would look like instant ...
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Would a portal to space enable propulsionless orbital launch
I'm writing a story about a race that has space travel capabilities without rocket technology, instead is using a portal to space and was wondering whether it's possible for them to put something in ...
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What would happen to the Earth if it were suddenly transported to a completely empty void? [duplicate]
The entire planet Earth is suddenly teleported (never mind how for now) to a completely empty space. No sun, no moon, no stars or other planets. There's absolutely nothing out there and it appears ...
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What goes in, must come out - limitations of temporal displacement
I am plotting out a sci-fi setting, and trying to figure out the consequences of a non-conventional form of time travel.
In the story, time travel has been achieved by means of temporal displacement....
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Teleportation - Pressure differences
Warning
This question is one of a series about specific use of teleportation. It will concern only about pressure and atmosphere.
Here are previous question:
Teleportation and speed
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The ...
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Teleportation - Keeping momentum on arrival
Warning
This question is the first of a series about specific use of teleportation. It will concern only about momemtum and speed: other subjects will be exposed later.
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The story happens in ...
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Teleportation - the collision of matter problem [closed]
I'm surprised I can't find a previous question on this.
We all know that being teleported instantly from one place to another has a big problem. If your co-ordinates are off, you might appear in the ...
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“Slow” teleportation
I've got a new invention which I think could revolutionize the transportation of people and goods: it's a teleport unit, which can transmit matter from one portal to another regardless of what is in ...
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What are the options to incorporate teleportation in my story in a realistic fashion that adheres to the laws of physics?
I'm currently outlining my science fiction novel which deals with humanity reaching Type 3 civilization status. My goal is to place an emphasis on hard science fiction while featuring fantastic ...
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Accidental cloning
So, there is a moderately advanced civilisation, teleportation, interplanetary missiles, interplanetary system transportation, cloning devices and the like, and the main character walks into a ...
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Is it possible to rule a galaxy without mastering teleportation?
I would like to know if a very advanced civilisation could rule an entire galaxy without mastering teleportation or any other method that allows traveling faster than light (unless you give ...
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In the event of an attack on a city such as Chicago, how long would it take the US military to respond? [closed]
Assuming that the attacker was able to travel unnoticed or possibly used something like teleportation, how long would it take the military to arrive for a counteroffensive? If possible, I'd like time ...
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Sending a large object at a small portal
Imagine a portal. This portal is two-dimensional and circular, with a diameter of one meter. It is completely above the ground. It leads from Planet A to a planet across the galaxy (Planet B) . An ...
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Teleportation without dying
I have a character who can teleport to essentially anywhere he can think of, assuming he either has been there before, or is given exact coordinates.
The problem is, I can only think of two ways to ...
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Is it easier to mine asteroids than planets if teleportation technology exists?
Inspired by comments to JBH's answer to The worlds between, the consequences of instantaneous FTL.
The Premise
A technology for instantaneous travel exists, making it possible to travel to any point ...
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Is the idea of being “fused” to/into a material as a result of a teleportation accident plausible?
Assuming it were possible to phase through matter/teleport, is it possible within the laws of physics/chemistry to end up stuck/fused to solid materials? Obviously we lack the real world ability to ...
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Healing/Surgery by teleport
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I'm worldbuilding for a story that has been in my head for ages, it's a kinda SciFi/Fantasy combo. There is one "godlike" being that can alter how physics work in a certain area, and it's ...
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How can a colony of teleporters make the most money while keeping their teleportation a secret?
The Situation
A colony of 100 teleporters (between the ages of 20-40) have been hidden away living like monks for 1000's of years to prevent their detection.
With the death of their old leader, a ...
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Teleportation rules that don't cause Infinite Energy
High-Magic world. What sort of rules could be put in place to nip the pesky infinite energy teleportation problem from happening? Currently the rules I have are:
Large mana use / long cooldown
Short ...
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Imitating the double body aspect of quantum entanglement with other tech…
I’m working on a scenario where one person can be at two places at the same time, kind of like a mirror version of themselves where the original person controls both bodies even though the two bodies ...
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How to theoretically justify teleportation?
As far as my crude understanding of physics goes, to teleport something from a place to another, the matter would be needed to be converted into radiation. Since it is fiction, we assume that the ...
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Teleportation into solid mass [closed]
A scientist finally develops an accurate and safe way to teleport matter - even living one - to a defined spot. He does so by typing in three coordinates, which, in meters, define the target position ...
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How to make the best use of limited teleportation? [closed]
People in a modern setting have started gaining mysterious powers (you know how this goes), but they're pretty rare and they all have significant limitations. Our protagonist has the particularly ...
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How can I limit teleportation through magic? [closed]
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In this medieval-fantasy (Tolkien-esque, except humans are the only race except for some incredibly rare magical ones) world, a few individuals ( have become mages, sorcerers and monks - ...
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Gravitational observatories vs. teleporting aliens
Let`s suppose there is an alien supercivilization whose interstellar vessel has «exited hyperspace» in a close proximity of the Earth (i.e. a certain volume of physical space only filled with vacuum ...
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Possible Long Term Effects of Frequent Teleportation
This is a follow-up to my previous question, based on one of the comments that was made. While the answers to the original make it quite reasonable that there will be no permanent effects manifested ...
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Containing a teleporter in a forcefield
I have this guy (lets call him Mike), that can instantly teleport anywhere in the universe with little effort (yes, even inside solid walls and such). He also happens to be very very dangerous, and ...
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What will happen to an object placed between two portals facing each other
Here's the deal:
There are actually four portals. Two of them facing to a black hole and their linked portals are facing each other
In image BH is black hole
P1 is portal number one similarly P2,P3,...
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In what way could advanced aliens transport the entire human race, except for three people?
A futuristic, robot-like species has been observing the human race for thousands of years and has decided to remove them all from planet Earth. In what way could they do this, whilst also having the ...
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What rules can limit magical teleportation? [closed]
In my story, some people have the power of teleportation. I have constructed it in a way in which for teleportation to occur, it needs to be a water surface. All one needs to do is to see the ...
