How many methods can you use to achieve teleportation?

[Hoshino]

Teleportation is the (hypothetical) transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them.

There are many ways of teleportation.

Teleportation could be viewed as another form of displacement manipulation.

Using gravity manipulation, you can teleport too. Gravity is the bending of space and time; therefore, by bending spacetime and creating a space between two times, teleportation could also be possible (although it may cause a paradox).

So, you could use gravity to teleport.

Another method would be traveling at or faster than light speed, but that isn't teleportation since it involves motion. However, from a person's perspective who is observing, it may seem like you teleported from one place to another. (Any body with mass cannot achieve speed equal to or greater than light, but it's fiction, so ignore it, I guess.)

Or moving at or faster than light speed without any motion, accelerating without any motion (which is impossible, but again, it's fiction).

Quantum teleportation is also there, along with superposition and quantum entanglement.

Reconstructing one's particles from one position (space coordinates) in the fourth dimension, where time and space exist, is like skipping in time, where you are at one place while simultaneously being at another. This causes the teletransportative paradox (and time paradox). (Also, aren't you violating the uncertainty principle? You would need to know the details of every particle in your body.)

Additionally, teleportation can be viewed as a jump in time, as from a subjective viewpoint (different from yours) sees you; that can also be viewed as teleportation. Time stops too.

So...

How many ways can you teleport?

How do you explain it?

How can teleportation be achieved?

 

[xedale]

You only need to make your consciousness think its favorite brain is somewhere else now.
Bending space with gravity might work.
When going FTL, time stops for the traveler, not for the observer.
Quantum teleportation doesn't involve teleportation; after you close your eyes and put 2 balls into 2 boxes without checking what color they are, you still have to manually move the boxes away from each other.
Superposition doesn't involve it too, the wave spreads at the expected speed.
A different dimension that lets you reach a place where the world is smaller or everything moves faster might work, although there is no known way to enter one and no reason to expect it to exist.

 

[LuoirM]

Slow down time, walk there, speed up time

 

[beast_regards]

Causality, relativity and time dilatation.

They ruin all the fun.

Even after you solve the matter to energy conversion without heat ...

Information could only travel at the speed of light.

If teleporting from the point A to the point B takes as much time as it would take light to travel the same distance, the time dilatation would still apply even if the object teleporting isn't accelerating to the speed of light, but simply appears there, which means time flows differently for the person being teleported than it does for the person observing the teleportation. You are not teleporting from point A to point B, you are teleporting into the future.

If teleporting from the point A to point B is faster than light, then the time would go backward and you would teleport back in time....

This only works only if the time flows the same for the person observing the teleportation as it would for the person teleporting, thus causality is not broken...

Which is the external frame of reference and also violate the laws of physics.

 

[HisDivineShadow]

It's easy-peezy! a wormhole, also known as an Einstein-Rosen bridge, is a hypothetical tunnel connecting two distant points in spacetime.
Feel free to play around with it any way you like, with any twist you prefer.

 

[RainingFish]

I mean, there are endless explanations one can give, but I suppose we are talking about more believable scifi explanations. Maybe folding space and tunneling through the folds, or maybe Quantum teleportation.

 

[Thraben]

Disassemble yourself at an atomic level, then have yourself reassembled somewhere else!

Just don't think to hard about whether or not you're the original 'you'.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Ones I've used:
1. Translation of Axis - using mathematics to "solve for the new location" by changing the character's current coordinates,
2. Having access to an alternate dimension (have one old Champions character who could teleport his limbs or his body, or others, because he was not entirely in this dimension, and Equinox in Strange Awakening steps in and out of the faerie realms at will. and the World Walkers of Between Worlds can access the Ways of Bel-Shar to travel anywhere they have visited or had accurately described to them, or have the accurate path pointed out).
3. Warping space (and/or time) and bringing two distant points together momentarily.
4. Ripping a hole in the fabric of Space (or in The Force in a Star Wars game)
5. Cloning the body in a new location and shuttling the soul into it while reducing the original body to component atoms.
6. Moving faster than the speed of light (same end result at least).
7. Stopping time.