A teleportation question

So I was thinking about teleportation the other day. If teleportation was to be invented, I was curious to one issue that could arise. There is a teleporter entrance and exit, one where you enter and one where you come out. What happens if I put the teleporter exit in the teleporter entrance?

Is there some sort of reaction that science can predict or will I of done the equivilant of dividing by zero?

anyone who has seen the Fly, knows not to meddle with such technology...

So I was thinking about teleportation the other day. If teleportation was to be invented, I was curious to one issue that could arise. There is a teleporter entrance and exit, one where you enter and one where you come out. What happens if I put the teleporter exit in the teleporter entrance?

Is there some sort of reaction that science can predict or will I of done the equivilant of dividing by zero?

Pixel-Pirate

So I was thinking about teleportation the other day. If teleportation was to be invented, I was curious to one issue that could arise. There is a teleporter entrance and exit, one where you enter and one where you come out. What happens if I put the teleporter exit in the teleporter entrance?

Is there some sort of reaction that science can predict or will I of done the equivilant of dividing by zero?

Pixel-Pirate

It would depend on what happened to a person's molecules/energy during transport. If the exit and entrance were placed inside one another and operating, I'm assuming it would just an endless transport of matter/energy until one was shut off. In that way, it would be more like a Mobius strip than dividing by zero.

If it was a well-built teleporter, I would presume that it would have a handshake and a timeout much like accessing a network, where if the entrance does not get a response from the exit after a certain period of time then it would conclude that an error occurred and would simply put back the teleported item.

If it was not a well-built teleporter, then I would presume you would have a permanently molecularly disassembled teleporter exit. :P

It would probably be a universe ending dividing by zero scenario but honestly, who would make the exit able to fit into the entrance.snowman6251

So I was thinking about teleportation the other day. If teleportation was to be invented, I was curious to one issue that could arise. There is a teleporter entrance and exit, one where you enter and one where you come out. What happens if I put the teleporter exit in the teleporter entrance?

Is there some sort of reaction that science can predict or will I of done the equivilant of dividing by zero?

Pixel-Pirate

I think it would just break the machine or not do anything; nothing out of the ordinary.

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So I was thinking about teleportation the other day. If teleportation was to be invented, I was curious to one issue that could arise. There is a teleporter entrance and exit, one where you enter and one where you come out. What happens if I put the teleporter exit in the teleporter entrance?

Is there some sort of reaction that science can predict or will I of done the equivilant of dividing by zero?

racer8dan

This is the only thing I could think of.

This question assumes the teleporters are two devices. You are putting one device (the exit) into another device (the entrance). The exit now has to come out of itself.

This is the only thing I could think of.

This question assumes the teleporters are two devices. You are putting one device (the exit) into another device (the entrance). The exit now has to come out of itself.

Pixel-Pirate

But there would have to be three steps to any teleporter: the disassembly at the entrance, the transmission to the exit, and the reassembly at the exit. In this case, we will have already disassembled the exit, so there is no exit to transmit to, so the entrance (if properly designed) would simply report that there was a problem reaching the exit and would return to you what you put in it.

anyone who has seen the Fly, knows not to meddle with such technology...

gamedude2020

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anyone who has seen the Fly, knows not to meddle with such technology...

Strider_91

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This is the only thing I could think of.

This question assumes the teleporters are two devices. You are putting one device (the exit) into another device (the entrance). The exit now has to come out of itself.

GabuEx

But there would have to be three steps to any teleporter: the disassembly at the entrance, the transmission to the exit, and the reassembly at the exit. In this case, we will have already disassembled the exit, so there is no exit to transmit to, so the entrance (if properly designed) would simply report that there was a problem reaching the exit and would return to you what you put in it.

Now what happens if I enter the teleporter....holding the exit in my hand?

Now what happens if I enter the teleporter....holding the exit in my hand?

Pixel-Pirate

Well seeing as how there can never be "true" teleportation, I don't see this as an issue...

What I mean by that is, there will never be teleportation that is physically taking something and instantly moving it from one point to another (magically lol)...

There already is teleportation on an Atomic level, but it is data related... An atom is decoded and deconstructed and sent over a data line as electric impulses and reconstructed from the data on the other end... I think "maybe" hundreds of years from now we will have technology advanced enough to decontruct objects of more mass (such as humans?) and then transmit them the same way... But we are talking about like millions of exabytes of data at a time... And who knows... We may have wireless communication with that much bandwidth... Which means we may get some Star Trek "beaming"...

But since the object isn't "teleported" it is simply deconstructed, transmitted, then reconstructed... I don't think your idea would be a problem.