Reply #37: Okay, about that. [View All]

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Now, water is still matter, so if we are talking about something like teleporting, where molecules are reassembled, then landing in water could result in more than getting wet, unless you land above water. Some of my favorite ways around that have been 1), a built in displacement device that will shift the materializing object to the nearest available space (which always begs the question of what at the other end could possible reassemble the object, anyway, but it's always assumed the originating device handles that somehow), and 2) a system that takes advantage of some natural set of laws that makes travel possible. The later was done by Michael Creighton in Timeline, where a lab discovered that they could dematerialize from the present time and be remade from completely separate molecules in the past. They claimed, IIRC, that quantum particles once linked but separated by miles of distance would still behave in unison, thus when particles on this end of time were shredded, they would be reassembled on the other end by linked quantum particles, so they would always reassemble in the open. One minor theme in the theory was that they were never sure if they were actually traveling to the past, or whether their actions created a completely separate dimension identical to the past they thought they were traveling to.

Oh yeah, and the signs were cool. No idea why I springboarded from your post! :rofl: I'm not even that much of a sci-fi geek anymore.