Problems with Telepathy and Teleportation and their Supplementation with Science
First of all, why is sending ideas to another person considered a “pathy”, or a disease of some sort. This is something people might have thought about in past ages, but with a cell phone, we can now just call anybody and let them know what is on our mind, and find out what is on their mind. If you are thinking of inserting ideas into their heads without their knowing it, the internet, full of unchecked propaganda, which can be accessed almost anywhere, can easily do that. As well as some foxy TV channels or social media sites such as Truth Social. With such having been achieved, we don’t even have to discuss the physics, biology, or neural constraints on it. The word “Telepathy” was coined in 1882.
The need for Teleportation has also largely been supplanted by actual jet travel or even cruise ships. The first commercial airplane transport started in 1914 in St. Petersburg Florida. As far as merchandise delivery goes, that is now overnight or in a day or two without shipping costs with an Amazon prime subscription.
I was going to point out that either Telepathy or Teleportation would easily be blocked by walls, or buildings, or over long distances even by the surface curvature of the earth. In terms of modern communications, that is now solved by cellular networks, satellite communications, and cables, especially those across the oceans. Even for direct Teleportation over a distance, one would have to drive up a tall mountain, and then be teleported to a site or another mountain top, if close enough not to be blocked by the earth’s curvature. Probably more effort than just driving or flying there. The first use of the term “Teleportation” is in 1931.
Star Wars “beam me down Scotty” couldn’t take place from inside a space ship since the walls would block any transmissions. One would have to start outside the ship, and be essentially over the target destination. Any beams involved would also be subject to the atmospheric fluctuations occuring during the transmission, as limits the capabilities of ground level telescopes. Hardly accurate enough to successfully reconstruct any biological molecules much less an error-free person. That would also be true of any complex physical object.
Fortunately, we have largely supplanted the need for such super capabilities by scientific and entrepreneurial advances.
