Taxonomy of teleportation models
Blog » Teleportation is when a physical object travels from one place to another without passing through the intervening space.
Teleportation is, at least to a first-order approximation, fictitious. However, when it does appear in fiction, it frequently has some kind of logical underpinning, and it becomes interesting to break down those various models. In fact we come up with a sort of taxonomical tree.
Wormholery
The subject travels through some sort of "exotic matter tunnel", "Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen bridge", "folded space" etc. etc., reaching a distant location through what essentially amounts to a shortcut. Examples: Stargate, Portal.
This is not teleportation. Although it is true that the subject did not travel through most of "the intervening space", there are numerous physical routes between locations in the real universe; a wormhole in the usual sense is nothing more than regular space, highly distorted or contorted or warped or compressed to present one route which is much shorter ...
Teleportation is, at least to a first-order approximation, fictitious. However, when it does appear in fiction, it frequently has some kind of logical underpinning, and it becomes interesting to break down those various models. In fact we come up with a sort of taxonomical tree.
Wormholery
The subject travels through some sort of "exotic matter tunnel", "Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen bridge", "folded space" etc. etc., reaching a distant location through what essentially amounts to a shortcut. Examples: Stargate, Portal.
This is not teleportation. Although it is true that the subject did not travel through most of "the intervening space", there are numerous physical routes between locations in the real universe; a wormhole in the usual sense is nothing more than regular space, highly distorted or contorted or warped or compressed to present one route which is much shorter ...
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