Teleportation - dangerous, unpredictable danger
About such things as teleportation and moving to a parallel world, the only ones who seriously (or almost seriously) talked in print, it is, of course, science fiction writers. Therefore, it is precisely their works that you turn to in the first place if you set out to find out the most general ideas of the average person about teleportation problems. There is still no such academic topic "Security in teleportation transport", just as there is no such transport. However, you can talk about this topic now.
The main dangers that, as our contemporaries believe, may lie in wait for our descendants (more precisely, those of them who dare to travel by teleportation) are quite few. But any of them can drive you crazy with horror … So, as a last resort, science fiction writers believe.
Violation of integrity during teleportation
The classic of the genre is the American film The Fly (with the continuation of The Fly-2). A young promising scientist makes experiments on teleportation, the machine reads its structure, genetic code, chemical composition, and other necessary parameters, "removes" his body from one teleportation booth and restores it in the next one. Luck turns away from the scientist when an ordinary fly accidentally flies into the first cabin. The machine, not noticing the increase in the mass of the transferred object by 0, 000 … percent, reads the genetic codes of the scientist and the fly as a single organism! Fly genes in a teleported organism at first do not manifest themselves in any way, unless the person “suddenly” began to eat more sweets and climb walls like an acrobat. Then hard, bristly hairs began to grow from the scar on the back. But what then began to happen to the unfortunate … it is better for children not to see at all!..
Some science fiction stories play out the same situations with maniac scientists who are pushing their teleportation technologies to the market. The world is applauding, the auto and air companies are facing bankruptcy, the shares of the railway companies are dropping to almost zero. New technology comes into life, and the layman quickly gets used to using teleportation booths, as he used to use a computer and a cell phone.
Teleportation abuse begins, lazy uncles and aunts teleport even from the apartment to the store - instead of walking for a minute. What life was like without teleportation - no one understands this and does not want to understand … The more terrible is the almost instantaneous collapse of teleportation policy. It all started with the fact that some citizen entered a booth at his work, pressed the button with the address of his apartment and … stayed where he was; Considering that the device had broken down, he got to the house in a different way and found himself in his apartment … himself! There is a trial - who is number 1, and who is number 2 "double", a stormy family begins at first, after a nationwide scandal. Then they found out that the brilliant scientist, who gave the world a new method of transportation, could not generally solve the problem of teleportation,but mastered the cheap way of materialization and dematerialization.
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In other words, before restoring the "teleportable" by bones and atoms, each of the millions of "teleportation booths" sprayed, destroyed people in batches, wholesale and retail … Humanity is shocked, the scientist should be tried for killing billions of people, but … there are no traces of those killed, moreover, they are all alive and do not want to believe that they are only "doubles" and even "doubles of doubles" and "doubles of doubles of doubles" of the truly living representatives of the human race that once existed. Humanity is also long gone, there is a copy, and far from the first copy …
By the way, I have not read anywhere whether the material of the killed was used for the synthesis of new arrivals. If so, this is a good way to make all people in time brothers in the flesh. In fact, we, living creatures, have always consisted and still consist of atoms and molecules of once living beings, but in former times this process took tens or hundreds of years, now it is an instant. Natural circulation in seconds.
Although nothing changes from a mathematical point of view from this method of "teleportation" (more precisely, dematerialization and materialization), only the most immoral can get used to this kind of scheme. By the way, it is precisely such a "teleportation" scheme (so far at the level of elementary particles) that Western physicists are seriously considering. If there were now a public opinion poll followed by a vote, the budget for such research would have to be cut.
But … let's shift the emphasis a little. Let's say now that the "teleportation booths" do not just blindly and stupidly copy you to a new place, but also … creatively approach this process, taking into account your wishes. If you want to be slimmer, a little younger, change the color of your hair, skin, eyes, your height, age, gender, sexual experience, etc., etc. - all this the machine, in principle, will do without problems! After we learn how to copy DNA, learning how to change it is as simple as … enlarging or reducing photocopies after mastering the principles of working on a copier. So, we should say that "teleports are destroyed" - 99% of people will be against us, if we add that "teleports are revived in an improved version" - 99% of women will become a mountain for us. And only a few pundits will cautiously recall another danger mentioned in passing.
The emergence of parallel "takes"
A small psychological test: who will be in favor of duplicating and cloning copies of Hitler? All or almost all are against … And if you duplicate yourself by your order? If you are able to feed all your copies, then you are already hesitating … And if the duplicates are called only at a strictly defined time, strictly according to your desire and by your order? Answer yourself honestly: which part of your “I” is for it, and which part is against it?
The result of such a test shows to what extent you are an adventurer at heart. The percentage of your first self is the percentage of adventurousness. Because the desire to use the help of tens, hundreds, thousands of duplicates (like-minded people to the core) is unambiguously called an adventure by ordinary people and science fiction writers. What kind of plans were not built by the heroes of numerous fantastic works, when they found themselves in their hands numerous duplicates: from love affairs to conquering the world!
The percentage of realism of these adventurous designs is the degree to which strict control over manipulations in Parallel Worlds is necessary. Theoretically, nothing prevents you from finding and seeing your counterparts in paraworlds (if they are there), and regardless of the mechanism of movement ("classical" or as described above - with the help of materialization). But in the "classical" method there are difficulties - as practice shows (in the form of eyewitness accounts) meetings with doubles in various historical characters were almost exclusively before the death of the "original" character. So, the way is closed for maniacs who want to seize power?..
Erroneous transfer to another spatial address
After teleportation, instead of a scientific symposium hall, he finds himself in a women's bathhouse - this is ridiculous, but perhaps not yet scary. And what if a simple short circuit in the circuit throws you into the mouth of a volcano, far into the ocean, into the center of the desert. Who can guarantee that you will not find yourself in a light summer suit in Antarctica at -80 ° C ?! How do you find yourself in outer space ?!
And these are not the worst options, why not make an error in the third spatial coordinate (in height). Will it be easier if the teleported person is close to the destination, but at an altitude of 2–3 km or even “only” hundreds of meters in the air !? Or - at a depth of several meters under a concrete highway !?
Go out on the highway one quiet night and put your ear to the asphalt - do you hear curses addressed to the teleportation movement calculators? If so, then the unfortunate ones ended up there because of an error not only in Space, but also, possibly, in Time or in Parallel worlds …
Erroneous transfer to another parallel world
Something similar can be seen in the film "Sliders" (we also demonstrated it under the title "Travels to Parallel Worlds"), the entire series of dozens of separate plots just tells about cases of the main characters ("sliding") getting into the most incredible History options. Retelling the series is a thankless task; more than one book can be devoted to this. But the main idea of the film is "when going to parallel worlds, be careful not to lose your way home." The main characters violated the instructions and are now forever doomed to travel in other people's realities …
The danger of misdirection is also present in the American TV series "Miracles of Science", but in this comedy the reason for mistakes is purely subjective. A computer sorceress who fulfills the slightest whims of two cheerful ignoramuses too often misunderstands the commands, forgets something, is capricious or simply starts pumping rights - and then the unfortunate guys end up in the middle of nowhere … Until the beautiful sorceress takes pity on them …
In the picture "Crossroads of Worlds" the main characters, the mercenary A. T., the spy Laura and the ordinary student Joe Talbott, jump from world to world no longer by chance, but by the ill will of the powerful villain Ferris, whose goal is to take away the magic crystal from the heroes. magic scepter and with their help send your warriors to conquer parallel worlds. Of course, the heroes will win, but before that they will fully feel all the delights of uncontrolled teleportation, when the fight begins in the Martian desert, continues on the playground in the USA, and ends after changing dozens of places in the Albanian dungeons …
Erroneous transfer to a dangerous parallel world
“… Great God! Probably, the Mongolian expedition should expect success! And that means that the future of the American Khanate, of which Sandoval only dreamed … must be a real future!.. Space-time is unstable. The world lines can turn back and destroy themselves, so that all the most important events seem small and insignificant … And Maine Everard, captured in the distant past along with his partner Jack Sandoval, came from a never-existing future as an agent of the Time Patrol. which never was and never will be!.. This is how an experienced teleportator thinks with horror. In theory, he should get used to the various problems of this type of transport for a long time, but there are dangers that cannot be accustomed to.
You can understand it. Who might like to be in the world in 5 minutes. until the end of the world in it?..
… And after 5 minutes. after the end of the world ?!
Erroneous transfer at the same time and at another time
In Sliding, the heroes disappeared forever in endless parallel worlds, still remaining in their Time, everywhere they found themselves in Los Angeles at the end of the 20th century - in this sense, their fear of the unpredictability of travel (in different versions of History) was only half. This kind of trap sucked in the heroes of the domestic film "Mirror for a Hero" and the American "Groundhog Day", where the heroes for a long time (at first it seemed - forever), almost indefinitely long fell on the same day (that is, they visited dozens and hundreds of versions days and in the same number of parallel worlds).
It is also half scary to be lost in Time (not knowing the year, but, as before, be sure of the place of stay). Now imagine the fear "in full": a complete loss of orientation in Space-Time and a variant of History.
There was something similar in the American film "The Philadelphia Experiment" and "The Philadelphia Experiment-2", but even there the director did not live up to the "full-program" fear, otherwise he would have confused the plot too much … By and large, no one has yet embodied this confusing situation in the book or on the screen … Scary …
The main danger is the unpredictability of the danger
In "Star Wars", "Star Trek" and other classics of the fantastic genre, a significant part of all the terrible adventures of the heroes falls on the moment of teleportation, when the ships fall, fleeing the pursuit of the enemy fleet or other misfortunes, "from the fire into the fire" …
In the fantastic film "Lost in Space" the Robinson family sets out in 2065 to build a teleportation "star corridor" for earthlings on the planet Alpha Prime. But the insidious Dr. Smith breaks the on-board computer. And off we go! Dangers and stellar adventures begin to pour in on the friendly family as from a cornucopia - a mad robot, abandoned starships, space spiders, meteor showers and other surprises that are ordinary for space far away. Yes, and the evil Dr. Smith is not appeasing …
Simply put, what misadventures did the unfortunate travelers experience in the teleportation channels before, after and at the time of their movements. The fantasy of science fiction writers is endless …
… Just as our ignorance of danger is boundless. We do not know how dangerous teleportation is, but we know that it can be relatively safe only for an inhabitant of the distant future, long accustomed to the reality of instantaneous spatial transitions and at that moment experiencing some even more fantastic means. Practical teleportation is not yet available to most of us. Today it is a fantasy, a fairy tale.
The tale may be kind, but we do not know the end yet, and it scares …
V. Chernobrov