Generalizations

Next time you say a generalization about people, keep in mind the average person knows about 600 people (a), and there are 7.3 billion people in the world. You know about 0.00000821917808% of the people on the earth. But you've met more people than that.You will meet about 80,000 people in your life (b). Let's see: that's a whopping 0.00109589041% of the world population.


a>The Average American Knows How Many People? - The New York Times
b>www.quora.com/How-many-people-does-the-average-person-physically-meet-in-a-lifetime

The Solution

In september of last year, I posed a question about time dilation: http://deepindeepthought.blogspot.com/2014/09/question-about-time-dilation.html. What I did not know at the time was that it is physically impossible to send messages instantly, as was proven by one of einstein's thought experiments. 

My Opinion on Teleportation

For a while, I have been considering if teleportation is possible and feasible. Here are my thoughts:

1. Teleporting objects

How would you teleport objects? One way would be to read every particle and it's state, destroy all the particles, send the information to the other portal, and reconstruct the object there. The problems with this? The object's information could be lost, the process would take huge amounts of energy, and the transportation would not be instantaneous. But, it might be possible.

2. Teleporting Humans?

If you could teleport an object, could you teleport a human? This raises a few questions: 

Is a human just made up of matter? Currently science does not know how the brain works. I believe re-creating the physical part of someone's brain would not recreate their memories or their soul.

But, if it did, would it be a good idea to create this teleportation system? No. First of all, you would have to completely destroy someone, and recreate them. Basically you would be killing them, and attempting to reincarnate them somewhere else. This seems like a bad idea. And it seems illegal.