Ok, lets clarify something. When you see people in movies going into a teleporter, they are always full clothed. But if somebody went into a teleporter fully clothed, would it not go wrong?
I assume a teleporter would break down the body on an atomic level, therefore would it not also break down the clothing, since everything is based on atoms. Would the end result of the other side of a teleporter not end up in some sort of freak merge of a person and his clothes?
2006-09-11 05:18:00 · 6 answers · asked by Game Guy 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
If it breaks down the body, why would it not break down his clothes ?...If it reassembles his bones correctly inside his body , why not reassemble his clothes on the outside of his body ?
2006-09-11 05:21:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
No, because presumably the teleporter is set up properly and puts each particle back in its correct place at the other end. So if your clothes are outside you to begin with, they go outside you where you arrive.
Since no one has ever built any real teleporters, it isn't known what would happen if one malfunctioned. At any rate, the person going through it probably wouldn't survive any transformation that occured. Having your clothes (or some air, or anything else going through at the same time as you) teleported inside you is not very healthy, to say the least.
2006-09-11 12:21:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
People are answering this question by saying we don't have a working model of a teleporter, but in fact science has successfully teleported light particles from one side of a lab to another on multiple occasions. Even 1 documented experiment by Austrian scientists was able to teleport light particles 600 meters away.
2006-09-11 14:29:05 · answer #3 · answered by T F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't currently have a working model of a teleporter, but it is commonly assumed that if there were one, it would work as you describe. But why would it go wrong? Essentially, it is "digitizing" the entity that enters it, then recreating it based on the digitized information. When you play digitized music, you don't have the bass track mysteriously transferred into vocals, or the percussion track transferred into the lead line. If you trust the concept of digitizing data, you have no problem with people's clothing in a teleporter. You are probably basing your question on the movie "The Fly", and if you recall, the problems therewith were due to the experimental stage of the machine that (forgive me) didn't have all the bugs worked out.
2006-09-11 12:28:05 · answer #4 · answered by dig4words 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Since teleporters are only science-fiction they work however the script/book/etc. says they do. Such a malfunction would only occur if the writer thought it would be good for the plot.
2006-09-11 12:25:38 · answer #5 · answered by Bob 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's a lot cooler when the guy teleports naked, but there's a fly in the teleporter with him, so he ends up merged with the fly.
2006-09-11 12:24:33 · answer #6 · answered by Steven S 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋