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I agree with your choices but your logic for the teleportation doesn’t hold up. You’ve assumed your momentum wouldn’t be conserved through the teleportation in a weird way. Assuming momentum is conserved, you would still fall just as quickly. In fact, you would reach terminal velocity in short order, and would have to continually teleport to keep yourself from crashing into the ground. By itself that would be bad enough, but you moving through the air between teleports would cause the air to move as well, so assuming you could keep up and hold your elevation, your velocity relative to the ground would increase to some number higher than terminal velocity. Think Chell continually falling through portals. Now you’re stuck unless you can also teleport slightly to the side without falling. Best case you go to one of those indoor skydiving places and get in so you can slow down without dying. I was going to explore what would happen if your momentum somehow wasn’t conserved, but that would imply some absolute fixed frame of reference or magical mumbo jumbo, neither of which exist.

You could totally travel faster though, without even needing to walk. You would also be super dangerous in one on one combat sports. A well placed 7 inch teleportation can easily get the win in the right sports.

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Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I disagree with your teleportation assessment. Just as I don’t think my momentum would be conserved, you think it is. You have no more reason to believe it would than I have to believe it wouldn’t. Because there’s no foundation for teleportation as it doesn’t exist.

I’m not sure what logic you want to use with something that is made up. But im gonna go ahead and assume my teleportation will work on my rules since no rules were ever specified.

You can feel free to use whatever made up rules you want for your own magical power.

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- applebusch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Conservation is a law of nature, making it natural to assume it would still hold even with a hypothetical power. But you do you. It’s ok to be wrong sometimes.
  
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  - theoretiker@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    conservation of momentum is only a true, when translational invariance holds. In addition, there may be a countless number of mechanisms by which teleportation changes a persons momentum. E.g. maybe the way this kind of teleportation works is Star Tek-like and your atoms get disassembled and reassembled, meaning they don’t need to have the same overall momentum, when whatever is doing the dissassembly stops atoms for dissassembly.
    
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    remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    There are a ton of conditions that are left floating, for sure. Some people here are imagining this as “instant” teleportation. As in: here one second, there the next.
    
    If zero time passes when a person is teleported, that causes some problems. I like thinking about that one, TBH. That starts to dive into the realm of breaking space itself, which is super cool to noodle on. (Wormholes FTW!)
    
    My own questions would be more about how disassembly and reassembly would maintain original state. If an electron is moving when it is transported, where does that momentum go and how is it reapplied.
    
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remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I love the thought experiment. However, what really makes me think is how air behaves.

Would the air from the destination get teleported back to fill the void that you left? Does the person just displace the air at the destination when they teleport?

What really gets me curious is what would happen during several quick teleports if the air is just displaced at the destination. Regardless, there would be an extreme vacuum at the starting location for a very short period of time. There was no specific time given about how long a person needs to wait between jumps, so you could leave a heck of a trail of destruction in your wake.

Some air would be displaced backwards after the teleport decreasing the volume of the void, but a void would still be there.

Would the forces be strong enough to suck the person backwards? Would the atmosphere simply collapse the void creating a bit of thunder and heat?

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- BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You know when you see people teleport on TV and they just appear in a different place with no major world breaking repercussions? It works like that
  
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  - remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Sure. But that is boring. The magic of TV does a poor job of taking fictional situations and showing how things work in real life. Real life can be much more dramatic and interesting. (Or much less dramatic and interesting, in some cases. Like car explosions.)
    
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Numenor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
But Midi-chlorians…

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