Is there any difference between time travel & teleporting someone?
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These answers sound pretty good.  However, if the fantasy idea were real and I looked up teleportation in the dictionary, which is based on common usage, I suspect I would find 'time travel' as the definition.\n\nWith my two cents, Teleporting would be a method of time travel, as opposed to others, I guess like OBE's.  I'm sure there would be more than one way to time travel by then.\n\nYou might not be the same person, Star Trek transported people out and back without their diseases or illnesses as a cure.  But if you did the sling-shot effect, using that method as opposed to teleporting you would be the same person.
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It is much faster and efficient to transmit information than it is to transport matter. For that reaon, a practical system of teleportation would not transport all your atoms. Instead, it would disassemble you particle by particle, creating a dataset of the pattern. It would then transmit the dataset at the speed of light to your destination, where raw materials are available to reassemble you from the pattern. The raw materials are recycled from others who have been disassembled in the process of teleportation. \n\nAfter teleportation, you will be the same person, with the same memories, knowledge, and personality. The only difference is that you won't consist of the original particles. That should not matter, because all atoms of any element are identical and indistinguishable.
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I think so, It depends on which type of teleportation you are referring to.\n\nHere's a good resource for teleportation info:
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Of the three, I would say a dream viewer would be the most tangible.  Science is constantly making advances in neurology.  Time machines and teleportation devices would both defy laws of science.  Time travel itself would be a form of teleportation.  Would you want to trust a machine to reassemble your atomic/molecular structure?  I also would consider impossible for a machine to transport the human soul.
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Do some research on a gentleman by the name of Kip Thorne, and he will explain about the possibility of time travel through use of a wormhole. Think of a universe as a sheet of paper. bend it so that one end touches the other, the wormhole would connect the two opposite ends of the paper by the shorter distance between the ends of the paper, you follow? This is what a wormhole does. Now according to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, time will slow as you move closer to the speed of light, and will stop entirely once you reach that speed. SO, if we have two ends of a wormhole, and send one off into deep space at light speed, for several years, then when it returns in, let's say, the year 2020, then we would be able to jump in the end of the wormhole that stayed here and come out the other end in the year 2006. Time travel into the past would be highly unlikely due to the fact that in the past (like prehistoric times), neither you nor the time machine existed. Mr. Thorne also has several possiblities when entering a wormhole. 1) soon as you enter one end of a wormhole, you instantly pop out the other. 2) there is a slight delay between the time you enter and the time you exit. 3) you exit the wormhole before you even enter it. Wild huh? the only problem is that wormholes are unpredictable, they open and close all the time, so one may get crushed in it while attempting to travel to the past. However, they have recently found a way of transporting information FASTER than the speed of light. Accordind to Einstein's ToR, that would cause a reverse in time...so who knows...?
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Time travel back and induce labor on your mother.  Hope you don't accidentally alter the time stream so that Biff is running the whole city when you get back.
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Time travel seems to make sense to us because we have the concepts of past and future.  In particular, we can vividly picture in our minds the parts of the past we have experienced.  The past can seem to have a kind of reality because of memory, as the can future because of imagination.  But, neither the past nor the future have any real existence.  There is only the present.\n\nTime is not a container like space is.  We can travel in space because other places really exist.  Time is not a container.  There's nowhere to go.  So, no, time travel is not possible.
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I haven't.But.......\n\nTime travel has been a popular science-fiction theme since H. G. Wells wrote his celebrated novel The Time Machine in 1895. But can it really be done? Is it possible to build a machine that would transport a human being into the past or future? \nFor decades, time travel lay beyond the fringe of respectable science. In recent years, however, the topic has become something of a cottage industry among theoretical physicists. The motivation has been partly recreational-time travel is fun to think about. But this research has a serious side, too. Understanding the relation between cause and effect is a key part of attempts to construct a unified theory of physics. If unrestricted time travel were possible, even in principle, the nature of such a unified theory could be drastically affected....
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No.  You'd need to have a wormhole.  Current theory predicts that transversable wormholes exist but would not allow time travel.  See reference for details.
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Only if travelling long distances in time costs the same as short distances in time. In all the modes of transport I know, travelling long distances costs more than travelling short distances. Travelling long distances is also more dangerous than travelling short distances. Therefore, users can only afford to make a short ride back in time because a long journey is expensive and dangerous. \n\nSo, suppose it's Monday and Eric is the owner of the first time machine. Eric travels back to last Tuesday. There, his concubines Amie and Atria will be able to take the machine apart, so that Eric can't get back home, but Amie and Atria won't be able to replicate it, because they can't understand how it works, because the crucial part won't be invented until Saturday. The girls will wait until Saturday and then buy a time machine at the same store that Eric bought his. \n\nThus everyone who wants a time machine has to buy one on Saturday at the earliest.
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Teleportation. We at least have theory on how teleportation could work. If the universe under discussion permits of time machines, then no time machines will be invented. The noted s/f author Larry Niven wrote a couple excellent essays on these topics, which I recommend to your attention. They will provide all the information you could possibly need.
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According to Einstein, time travel like that which you are speaking is impossible. It revels in the laws of circular contradiction. Allow me to explain: If you were to go back in time and kill your grandfather, your parents would cease to exist and therefore you would cease to exist. But if you never exist, you cannot go back in time to kill your grandfather and he would therefore CONTINUE to exist and eventually you would be born into his lineage. Though time travel is impossible according to Einstein, he firmly believed that time VIEWING was completely possible. As for why you ask these questions, Einstein has no answer. Though Descartes might as he coined the phrase "I think, therefore I am." So perhaps you just "are", and that is why you ask these questions.
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the answer is - it depends - on a lot of things\n\nI hate to answer a question with a question but here goes ...\n\n- do you mean in theory or in practice ??? (in [einstein's relativity] theory it is possible to travel into the future - all you need to do is to go out into space for a while - the time here on earth will continue to progress at a normal pace while time for you will progress more slowly - when you come back you'll have essentially traveled into the future - not quite a time 'machine' but same effect
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You cannot go into the past beyond your own birth and the future for the same reason. In both cases non-existence cannot be overcome. You may live to 100 but you have not yet so....you cannot visit yourself, there is nothing to visit. When you get to 100 you can visit yourself at 20 and so see yourself at 100 and see the future that way.\n\nTime travel  will always be limited to a persons life time i am afraid and the events that occured during it. No hunting dinosaurs, Hitler killing, Cruxifiction visiting.\n\nThis is the reason no one from the future has visited us yet. Once the future becomes the present and they invent time travel they can but only if the people who invent it and use it are alive now.\n\nGet it.\n\nIt a paradox I know but.....
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time is not linear and people can shape shift, remote veiw, and time travel. For the answer to your question, simply sit and meditate upon it, it will become clear....you already know.
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Time travel at least in the sense of viewing the past events is possible. This can be done with meditation, remote viewing,scrying, Dream work, past life regression, psychic vision or hypnosis. Most people can learn. I have done it and know many others who have also done it. It is also possible to veiw created realities too. Yes psychic veiwing often reveals  things very different from the accepted view. \nFor example,remote viewing of the Crucifition shows around 40 crucifixions on the site at that time rather than three.\nThis is probably historically correct . \n Rather than being confusing this is usualy liberating and has a quality of rightness that was missing from the conventional version. Biblical  historical events are often quite different from taught versions. Some of these psychic perceptions have been confirmed by archeologists and historians.
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Time?  No.  Space?  Hell no.\n\nUnfortunately, we will never be able to do either of the two.  The energy levels in our solar system are what hold our molecules and atoms together.  Stray too far and you will find yourself entering a part of the Universe that has a different charge balance, the electrons will begin flying off, and you will start falling to pieces.\n\nTime travel is a concept that everyone can understand so it persists.  Any changes that have happened to the matter have already taken place, there's no going back.  Just like you can't unburn a match, you can't turn back time.