Do you belive Portals can be created in the future?

[psychedelica]

small scenario:

ok think of games like Portal or wow portals. you see a door but at the outside of the door is different nature or climate. when you enter you will still be yourself only you just walked in two spaces (winter time of Norway to summer of Australia) you can still see Cold winter-breeze coming from other side of the door gets vaporize by the hot temprature of Australia, while not conflicting with the machine mechanism.

do you believe its possible to create this in the future to travel? or do you believe in other ways can be created?

[Xarkan]

small scenario:

ok think of games like Portal or wow portals. you see a door but at the outside of the door is different nature or climate. when you enter you will still be yourself only you just walked in two spaces (winter time of Norway to summer of Australia) you can still see Cold winter-breeze coming from other side of the door gets vaporize by the hot temprature of Australia, while not conflicting with the machine mechanism.

do you believe its possible to create this in the future to travel? or do you believe in other ways can be created?

Considering that i am no scientist and science babble about worm holes and space folding are beyond me i am just going to go with

Maybe

[Reg]

Portals is basically time travel because you are moving through time and space to another location in an instant. Maybe one day.

[Wishblade]

Considering that i am no scientist and science babble about worm holes and space folding are beyond me i am just going to go with

Maybe

I think I'm gonna go with the same answer. Maybe, would be kinda cool, but I think so far most would go "No", but I'm no expert, maybe the top scientist would say, "It's quite possible that in some future we can do it".

[Enyu24601]

I believe that, considering the advances of man, we will eventually create portals. man has constantly been improving their technology, despite seemingly impossible limitations. many said that man would never fly, or man would never go to the moon. so yes, I believe that man will invent portals.

[Deleted]

I am no physicist but... I believe something like that might be created in the future, albeit not in the near one.

Portals probably will not work exactly as we have seen them. I'd expect no free-falling perpetual motion is possible, unless some energy is continuously provided to the portal to compensate the otherwise free kinetic energy gain.

Also, no instant travelling: light speed is impossible to break, as far as we know.

[Siika]

They don't teleport you.
They make an exact copy of you, send the information to the other end, recreate, and then kill the original.
There's quite a few problems in that.

[Jiry]

On the quantum level teleportation is already possible, but only when we encode classical information to quantum information and back again. The main issue at the moment is the lack of a complete Standard Model that incorporates all aspects of matter and energy. Not sure whether we'll ever find a complete model, I think it'll be an endless WIP.

But one day teleportation, FTL transmission, warp drives and the like will become reality, or so I'd like to believe.

[Greelix]

Mathematically it is possible for them to exist, but is it truly possible for them to exist? No one knows. Mathematical theory is just that, theory. It hasn't been proven yet. The question is how can it be proven or seen? If you answer that you will be extremely rich.

For my opinion I will have to go with no. Just like with quantum teleportation not being true teleportation, I believe we will only be able to manipulate natural occurances of worm holes and not be able to pull them out of our rear ends.

[Pum]

Teleportation with humans will never be possible. Teleportation has already been achieved with a hydrogen atom, but the amount of energy just to teleport the hydrogen atom to another location was insane, and the amount of energy required to teleport a human would be 'unfathomable'.

Also, when the hydrogen atom was teleported, it was all jumbled up, warped and parts of it were destroyed.

[slime]

Teleportation with humans will never be possible. Teleportation has already been achieved with a hydrogen atom, but the amount of energy just to teleport the hydrogen atom to another location was insane, and the amount of energy required to teleport a human would be 'unfathomable'.

Also, when the hydrogen atom was teleported, it was all jumbled up, warped and parts of it were destroyed.

Because we never learn or make technology better. And when computers were created they didn't take rooms and rooms to do the math of a calculator and now we have laptops and iphones. Nope, even though it exists we will never harness it...
/sarcasm off.

[Deleted]

From what I've read and heard in terms of what's actually possible in the future, I seriously doubt it's realistically ever going to be achievable.

[Greelix]

Teleportation with humans will never be possible. Teleportation has already been achieved with a hydrogen atom, but the amount of energy just to teleport the hydrogen atom to another location was insane, and the amount of energy required to teleport a human would be 'unfathomable'.

Also, when the hydrogen atom was teleported, it was all jumbled up, warped and parts of it were destroyed.

We have a big ball of "unfathomable energy" right next door. On top of that they used a blank slate atom to be the receiver of the information that they sent from another atom. Information itself was lost in transit causing the problems you stated.

[Gemini Soul]

Portals yes but before that we will have teleporter technology like in Star Trek, only thing holding it back is the technology we have yet to invent.

[Sinndra]

yes.. in the history of mankind.. the most technological advances have happened within the last 100 years. look at computers alone, 30 years ago they were the size of large office buildings and could barely do simple math. compare that to today.. our smart phones have more memory and more abilities then even the command module of Apollo 13, and the phone fits in our hand. how does this relate to teleporting? if we have been able to make computers as efficient as they are today.. eventually they will be able to do more.. even teleportation. trial and error.. technology.. eventually we will get it right. to think its impossible is to be extremely close minded. especially when considering what humans said was completely impossible in the past. world was flat? flying was for the birds? space travel was for comics and fictional stories?

100 years have passed, just a little over one life time, and we have gone from using candles and horses.. to cars and electric lightbulbs. pen and paper, to computers and programs. the question isnt "is teleportation possible?" but rather "when will teleportation be possible?".

[Dedweight]

Teleportation with humans will never be possible.

If we can do it on a massively small scale why couldn't we eventually do it on a larger one? I could only imagine that it would only be a matter of working out the kinks and making the process more energy efficient.

As far as Portals go I'd have to go with maybe as well.

[Runeforged]

Not the portal you're thinking of, no, at least not in your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildrens' lifetimes. It would take over a thousand years before we advanced to the point where we have enough energy to successfully bend space-time, to allow you to be able to simply step from one continent to another, or maybe one planet to another. Teleportation through quantum copying, however, should only be 50-100 years away.

[caractacus]

They don't teleport you.
They make an exact copy of you, send the information to the other end, recreate, and then kill the original.
There's quite a few problems in that.

This is the big question imo. Imagine going to sleep then something making an exact sleeping copy of you in every way even down to your memories. Then your original is euthanised and the copy is awoken. Would you still be alive?

They are already testing teleportation, check this video from 37:00 onward
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv1_YB1IedE

[Collegeguy]

For one, I believe portals are basically wormholes, and they are theoretically possible as long as you can stabilize it to keep it open. You just travel through it.

Portals are not teleportation. Teleportation is impossible or a bit more tricky.

[Halicia]

This is the big question imo. Imagine going to sleep then something making an exact sleeping copy of you in every way even down to your memories. Then your original is euthanised and the copy is awoken. Would you still be alive?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_L...uter_Limits%29

is a great episode that addresses EXACTLY this conundrum. Its more a question of consciousness though.

first reading the OP though, I thought of climate controlled doorways, wouldn't it be cool if environments could be better selfcontained without the need for physical doors ? step inside from a toasty desert into a nice AC-filled room without the cold air bleeding outside and going to waste ?