If there was such a thing as instant transportation would it create something similar to an atomic bomb?
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An instant.. There's the nutty problem. You are saying something moves from one place to another with no time lag.\nMuch much faster than the speed of light. \nMass is inversely related to energy and you want the thing to exist in two places for and instant but then, not to exist at the same two places for an instant. \nThis is similar to the fly hitting the windscreen... Does it stop moving, actually that is easier to answer.\nIn order to move something at the speed of light the something cannot have a rest mass. So if you wanted to Transport something, you'd firstly have to change it into energy. This is indeed possible, but not at the moment in our evolution. Once you've got it into energy you'd have to send it somewhere, at the speed of light and then reconstitute it at the other end.. Possible for inanimate objects but may be a bit tricky for living organisms.. More tricky still would be to transport our personalities, mind you there are a number of people I think could do with this transportation!!!
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Since Superman is, alas, a fictional character, and since this mode of transportation has been postulated in science fiction, I see no reason why he cannot do it.  However, this remains an open question as to whether mere humans can ever do that at some point in the "future."\n\nIf so, then our past and present may be peppered with people from the future.  Remember "Chariots of the Gods?"  In fact, much of what we call miracles or magic may be the works of people from our future.  Remember "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?"
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If you could shoot a rocket into outer space with enough force to cause it to leave our solar system, perhaps it would exhibit "perpetual motion" and travel forever.  But that would be deceptive.  It would continue to move unchanged only because it meets little matter or force to overcome.  On earth, to set something into motion you must add to its kinetic energy which equals one half times its mass times its velocity squared.  It doesn't matter how you add the energy (or that it gains more say by falling) we are interested only in the energy you added to create perpetual motion.  It could revolve say suspended above powerful frictionless magnets within the vacuum inside an evacuated bell jar for a very long time.  However, there is no perfect vacuum on earth and there would still be atoms or molecules that would collide with and slow down the rotating item whether that took hours or days or years.  Perpetual motion must last forever(!) without you or Nature adding to its original kinetic energy.  If you hold your hand outside a moving car you will feel wind on your hand and some reasoon it could be harnessed (like a sail boat) to propel the car, neglecting the fact that the wind exists solely because the car is burning fuel.  Out of gas = out of wind.\n\nI would encourage you to pursue your theory for the lessons involved but carefully account for all the energy.  Consult with any engineer (especially mechanical at first) or any physics teacher (professor) and remember that your theory could involve a better use of energy if not perpetual motion.  You must patent most devices within a year of public disclosure (which would not include a witness to your theory or device).  Good luck.
102002
Sure, but as you can tell, it would take a whole lot of energy to make a little mass.  Just think atom bomb.
86601
Hmmm... Right now, i'm sick of traffic jam, so if I were a product dev. manager, and I can make anything I want, then I'll make a TELEPORT MACHINE: A Machine that can move you to anywhere you want in just seconds!! (You know, like those in Star-Trek or other science fiction movies..) I'm sure it'll be very, very usefull in our life, especially in BIG CITIES!!!Also, it'll lessen the air polution and much more efficient!! ^---^
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Speed is relative, Earth itself is actualy traveling quite fast away from the center of the universe, but relative to Earth, beyond any doubt, LPA's (Linear Particle Accelerators) (not realy "made", more like harnessed to make other particles move very fast), You could possibly also argue a Hydrogen Fusion Bomb, (or maybe it's a Uranium Fission bomb?, I can't remember)... anyways, the nuclear reaction created "travels" very quickly for the first few fractions of a second. As for things that carry people, the space shuttle, and as for Land speed, I do belive the Thrust SSC (The brittish) was about 750-760mph (thats cookin' on land alright) and was set in the late nineties... the first time somone had ever exceeded supersonic speeds on land, however... there are rocket sleds (looks like a cart on rails) used by the US military for testing that can far exceed supersonic speeds, but are unmanned.\n\nJust read Kes's answer... very trippy, but very true.
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YES\n===\nEverything is relative so in relation to some other object in space, yes it would be completely stopped as the train slowed down from the impact.\n\nNO\n==\nEverything in the universe is in constant motion.
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This is an impossibilty.  The more you accelerate, the more mass you attain.  The more mass you attain, the more energy needed to accelerate you until the required energy becomes infinite (before you reach light speed).  However, if you are a massless person, travel at light speed would be possible but the laws of physics remain stable as massless particles have little power of interaction with the universe around them.  If you were massless, and could withstand the cold, the laws of relativity state that time would pass normally for you but you would observe the universe evolving around you at an incredible rate of speed.  At absolute zero, most of the molecules in your body will have undergone a phase transition, eg all gases (oxygen, carbon dioxide etc) will have turned into a liquid and all water would have crystallized long ago.  I would suggest wearing a set of thermal long johns before attempting this venture!
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Neither you, nor the train, could ever travel at the speed of light since both of you have some non-zero rest mass.\nIn order to accelerate something with a non-Zero rest mass, an infinite amount of energy would be required....and in the whole universe, there is not an infinite amount of energy.\n\nBut lets say you were traveling just under the speed of light...at 99.99999999999999% of c and you began to run toward the front of the train, \nyou would still NOT be traveling at or above the speed of light (as seen from an outside, "stationary" observer) since at relativistic speeds such as this, velocities do not add in the normal Galilean way, you would still be traveling slower than the speed of light.
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The easy answer is no, you would never get there.\n\nBut if you take quantum physics into effect, there is a point when the distance remaining between you and your destination is too small to measure and you might as well be there.\n\nThere is a length called a "Planck Length" which is equal to about 1.6160(12) E-35 meters, smaller than this, and your measurement doesn’t have any meaning.  This length is EXTREAMLY small, and when I say extremely, I mean EXTREMELY SMALL.  To give you a sense of this length....an atom has a diameter on the scale of Angstroms (E-10 meters), so a Plank Length would be on the order of 1/10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 th of an atom's diameter. [I dont know why Yahoo answers cuts off my number and puts ... on it, but it should be a 1 with 25 zeros after it]\n\nAnother things, thanks to the Heisenberg uncertainly principle, the more accurately you know your position (i.e. the distance you are away from the destination), the less you know about your velocity.  So if you KNOW you are EXACTLY 1/2 the distance between your starting point and your destination, you have absolutely no idea how fast you’re traveling.\n\nI have severely over complicated the problem.
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The answer is a definite Maybe.\nAs for the space elevator, my understanding is that to complete one, we would need an ultrathin, ultralight, flexible material wit a tensile strength surpassing all we have now. Quantum Physics is THE tool for people who design new materials. Without using quantum physics, it would all be simply trial and error.\nTime travel is a very slippery subject and I can't comment on that. Right now we have no idea how to begin thinking about it.\nMolecular transport, as in beaming stuff the Star Trek way?\nI'd say there's a lot of problems with that, but quantum physics is the very starting point. All that happens to molecules is subject to quantum laws. Therefore I don't know if qf can bring those things abot. However, nothing else can.
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It would take a lot more energy than is generated in one fusion bomb.  Watch the movie 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
83798
no, it would hurt, but the air hitting it would not cause it to go that fast.
193299
It would take infinite energy to accelerate you and your light fixture to the exact speed of light which would thus be impossible.  However, as you approach the speed of light, at ever greater fuel expenditure, your rocket ship would shrink in the direction of travel and you would become a "pancake" but not be aware of it.  When you turn on your light, the photons emitted straight ahead would travel at the speed of light, c.  Photons always travel at the speed of light in a vacuum.  it is not like shooting bullets ahead from a fighter plane where muzzle velocity is added to the speed of the plane.  Although Einstein's theories of relativity do apply to the plane and bullets as well as photons, the effects are almost undetectable at the very low velocities we ordinarily experience on earth.
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Ford produced the concept Ford Nucleon, but a nuclear car is unlikely to ever exist. Selling nuclear material to the public in quantities larger than a smoke detector isn't exactly safe, they could be used by terrorists to create a dirty bomb, you'd have to evacuate an area for a million years every time there was a car crash, and the weight of the shielding would be just a bit of a problem.
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Suprisingly, yes! And, even more suprisingly is, they've already done it! They have teleported the properties, the atom, across a several meter space. This is a step towards teleportation, but really, it's not a very big step because even though we might be able to teleport atoms, we can't arrange them, so it isn't feasible to teleport a human unless they don't mind becoming random atomic sludge on the ground.
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Any nuclear bomb will create an electromagnetic pulse.  The size of the pulse radius will be approximately related to the blast radius.