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[Anonymous No.12267228]

Brainlet cross-boarder here, explain this to me in workin' mans words.

Wouldn't efficient teleportation violate the first law of thermodynamics because of potential energy? If gravitational potential energy is mgh then to not violate this law the teleportation process would have to, er, expend equal to or greater than the gain in potential energy if teleporting it upwards? Else if the energy used in teleporting is less than the gain you've created energy?

[Anonymous No.12267428]

>>12267228
I wouldn't say that is much of a problem regarding the first law since you could just input energy to reach that height (assuming what is meant is that the person is atomised and then reassembled). A bigger problem would be the second law in that entropy tending to go up means the teleportee tends to go incorrectly assembled and dead.

[Anonymous No.12268649]

>>12267428
Also not a real problem for the same reason - just pump negentropy in

[Anonymous No.12268845]

>>12267228
The mechanism of teleportation doesn't require to decompose you at the incoming end is desired.

[Anonymous No.12268846]

>>12267228
Also haven't you heard of syzifos? He's been pushing things uphill for centuries.

[Anonymous No.12268850]

It would all depend on exactly how the teleporters worked. For a sci-fi example, the teleporter booths in Niven's Known Space stories have heat sinks to absorb extra energy from people/goods being teleported from higher elevations, and had to pump in extra power for people going uphill.