Senkaku wrote:So, assuming that you had sophisticated enough sensors and the incomprehensible amount of memory and computing power it would require (and that the whole weird paradox about being dead on arrival or not having any memories didn't apply), how would teleportation of a person work? I'd be thinking that a matter transference beam uses tidal forces to break every atom of them apart at the exact same time, they get passed through an accelerator, and then basically beamed through a particle accelerator while a computer sends all the data about the states and layouts of every last quark. Once they arrive, some sort of receiver system would just arrange the atoms exactly as they were, or the teleportation beam could somehow be adjusted to fire every individual atom to a specific position in spacetime corresponding to the destination and the desired layout of a person or a cargo. Could either of these work, assuming you had the enormous computing resources required to track every single quark?
I'd also like to know- seems like FT makes surprisingly little use of teleportation in general. Is that just me who feels that way?
On another subject, since the cuttlefish aliens I asked about a while back don't use soundwaves to communicate, does it humanize them too much to just use the excuse that the humans who discovered them gave a lot of the stuff around them Aztec-sounding names?
The Foldspace Drive requires an insane amount of power. It essentially takes the space around a person, "folds" it until such time as they are instantaneously in the new position. It doesn't require breaking atoms at all. Think of the FSD as something like a wormhole generator that forces the user instantly inside the wormhole and then back out, without a wormhole portal or any of that appearing. The same concept applies to ships. They appear to 'teleport' instantly from point a to point b, but what's really going on is the FSD is simply folding space around the specific area of effect (determined by how powerful/large the FSD is), causing a 'wormhole' to instantly fold the person over to the new position. A personnel-equipped FSD would be connected to the same thing which powers the powerarmor, along with two of it's own separate batteries of sorts. Teleportation via removing the "middle man" portal-gates or sudden wormhole generators. Just instantly appear where you need to go. You just need the proper and exact coordinates, and you're set.