Would you choose invisibility or teleportation?
Would you choose invisibility or teleportation?
You could turn invisibility on and off as you like and there would be no time limit. Your clothes would turn invisible too, and you could decide whether the items you are holding would be visible or not.
There would be no limits on how many times or where you could teleport. The items you hold while teleporting would be teleported too. You would also have the ability to know if the place would be safe to teleport to, so you wouldn't teleport and get impaled by an icicle or teleport inside a wall and get your insides filled with concrete or something.
Personally, I don't know which one would I pick. Invisibility would be awesome for pranks and stuff, but teleportation probably would be more useful for everyday life.
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Teleportation solves the world energy crisis, invisibility does not.
It could help in a lot of other crises too
During a natural disaster, you could jump back and forth carrying aid in, and the wounded people out. In any time sensitive crisis, you could get people out of harms way. This bit is more complicated, but you could potentially help out during floods and fires, depending on how far the 'teleport other stuff with you' extends to.
A reasonable limit might be 'Only what you could physically carry yourself', in which case you'd need to be a lot more strategic. In that case, you could work on personal strength and be a one-human-rescue-team. When there isn't a disaster, you could probably shuttle light weight (but important) stuff for a fee, then use that money to fund your own charity to do good
As for this prompt, you could probably just teleport away when someone might see you, or teleport to spots that people can't see. So you could do most things that invisibility would allow
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. It could use energy proportional to the energy that could be gained by moving an object somewhere.
There would be no limits on how many times or where you could teleport. The items you hold while teleporting would be teleported too.
Sure, if you choose to change the parameters from what OP said, it might change the outcome.
How could teleportation solve the energy crisis? I'm too lazy to think myself so pls elaborate.
In addition to what the other commenter said: from the description of OP, the teleportation is basically "magic", ergo free potential energy (by moving objects from one place to another).
Create a large magnet in a generator that's very tall, free transport the magnet up to the top, let it fall slowly creating electricity. It's basically how hydro works: the sun "transports" water, in the form of clouds, to a higher point, gravity pulls it down, we use that to make energy.
What if you could only teleport yourself and not other objects?
Build a flywheel with a bunch of places to stand positioned around the wheel, teleport to the higher platforms as the wheel turns.
There would be no limits on how many times or where you could teleport. The items you hold while teleporting would be teleported too.
Sure, if you choose to change the parameters from what OP said, it might change the outcome.
That said, the other guy already answered you. It would become less efficient if you only had your body weight, but it still a solve of unlimited (though small volume) energy.
Scratch costs with transportation. No need for any means of transportation.
Also a lot more free time. No commuting, no early leave to get somewhere on time. Just blink and you're there.