“You” teleport 7 inches, but if “you” is a relative concept thats so far undefined (are your clothes “you”? The contents of your stomach? The air in your lungs? What chemicals dissolved in your blood count as “you”?), and A and B are both “you,” technically youve teleported 7 inches while sort of fudging the actual distance.
As with all magic, the interpretation of the rules is more important than the rules themselves.
I think we’d have to figure out at what part of the brain consciousness originates before we could implement teleportation, because you’d (almost) always want to travel exactly 7" from your point of view.
No, that’s fundamentally breaking the 7 inch limit.
In that scenario, both your hand and foot would have traveled more than 7 inches. They would have traveled 7 PLUS the pre-teleport distance between your hand and foot. That’s the same distance every part of your body would have traveled.
It doesn’t matter how you cut it, or how you define “you”. You would be teleporting more than 7 inches.
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 7 months ago
Pre teleport hand position is A.
Post teleport foot position is B.
The distance between A and B is 7 inches.
“You” teleport 7 inches, but if “you” is a relative concept thats so far undefined (are your clothes “you”? The contents of your stomach? The air in your lungs? What chemicals dissolved in your blood count as “you”?), and A and B are both “you,” technically youve teleported 7 inches while sort of fudging the actual distance.
As with all magic, the interpretation of the rules is more important than the rules themselves.
swab148@startrek.website 7 months ago
I think we’d have to figure out at what part of the brain consciousness originates before we could implement teleportation, because you’d (almost) always want to travel exactly 7" from your point of view.
I_Has_A_Hat@startrek.website 7 months ago
No, that’s fundamentally breaking the 7 inch limit.
In that scenario, both your hand and foot would have traveled more than 7 inches. They would have traveled 7 PLUS the pre-teleport distance between your hand and foot. That’s the same distance every part of your body would have traveled.
It doesn’t matter how you cut it, or how you define “you”. You would be teleporting more than 7 inches.