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To the contrary, it postulates the existence of an impossible device. It's like asking questions about time paradoxes.
by choeger 5y ago
To the contrary, it postulates the existence of an impossible device. It's like asking questions about time paradoxes.
- nautilius 5y agoHere's something you may find interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experiment On the other hand: you just single handedly disproved general relativity, because, clearly, there are no elevators in space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%27s_thought_experiments#Trains,_embankments,_and_lightning_flashes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%27s_thought_experimen...
- choeger 5y agoYou either don't get it or you are trolling. Einstein's elevator metaphor did not at all draw any important bits from the impossible construction. A spaceship under constant acceleration works just as well. A thought experiment that creates a problem out of an impossible premise is just worthless as such. First of all, everything can follow out of a wrong premise, and secondly you can create an arbitrary amount of such experiments, preventing any insights.
- nautilius 5y agoHaha, alright, let me adjust my level of argument: no, you don't get it! Which advanced insight into the physical principles, the design, and the operation of practical teleporters do you have?