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  • i think the writers of this joke may not have thought it through thoroughly. they did not consider the law of conservation of mass. Sheldon states that we would have to destroy and then recreate the object of teleportation, but "The law implies that mass cannot be created or destroyed, although it may be rearranged in space and changed into different types of particles; and that for any chemical process in a closed system, the mass of the reactants must equal the mass of the products."

  • My mom said she had a crush on Leonard when he was on Rosanne. O.O

  • everyone calls me sheldon mabey im the new sheldon and yes i look like him O_O. maby he did teleport.................

  • @mariowiifan1 With that spelling and grammar I highly doubt you resemble Sheldon all that much.

  • hmm i also had the same thought lol... oh dear..

  • The funny thing is that I actually thought about this earlier this day xD

  • Sheldon, in his own words, F T W!!

  • Jim Parsons FTW

  • Just think if sheldon had a friend who nurtured his crazy ideas-he'd have a nobel by now!!

  • Go sheldon

  • @colonelfantastic89 so would you say that our memories can almost be compared to a matrix of ones and zeroes like on a computer? If they can be placed exactly in the same way, we should end up being essentially the same person, only with a different, but identical body, correct?

  • I love Sheldon. He has those random thoughts everyone gets, but actually mentions them instead of forgetting about it.

  • Sheldon is looking at teleportation from a physicists perspective, from the biologists perspective just about every cell in your body will die off and be replaced, as life forms we are constantly being simultaneously destroyed and created. Therefore the things that make us who we are; all of the thoughts, knowlage, and experiences we have would remain intact essentially preserving the individual in every way.

  • odd he made no refrence to the fly

  • teleportation according to him...destroy then recreate, this is the dumb way, cut and paste a file viola teleportation achieved,please dont take this comment seriously

  • Sheldon is actually wrong.

    It depends on what you consider as a teleportation device. He mentioned that a machine that transfers your particles to another location is a teleportation device. If what he says is true, then even an escalator can be considered a teleportation device. It teleports your particles to another location.

    The real idea of teleportation is to do this without any required time, or instantly.

  • does that mean that there are physical representations of memories and for that matter personalities? i NEED to know a Sheldon it would be fascinating to have a conversation

  • @legomastr1 Of course there are. It's called your brain.

  • The sad thing is that I have actually thought of that problem myself. You could even teleport the thoughts with the person, but it wouldn't be the same person. Also, after teleportation, there would be no way to distinguish between the first person and the second person, to tell if the original was killed in the process.

  • @Willpie13 if so you would have to ask: is there multiple realities constantly moving past the line as a nanosecond passed? its like asking someone what death was like. no person alive would be able to answer it, plus maybe each death triggers different electric energy that passes through the mind giving someone thoughts and feelings that so called "occur"

  • @legomastr1 I'm not sure if your comment exists, so I'm not going to respond to it or let it affect me in any way. Oh... right.

  • it would take a while to get a perfect recreation and in the meantime youve got people who cant remember most of the week before....sounds like a normal saturday night

  • That's how nazi zombies were born

  • I've always thought this! The copy being recreated would never know he's a copy and tell everyone, hey the transporter works great! But in reality you are really dead!!!! I'll never use one ever!!! ....if it ever was invented...hence never!

  • i allways thought this

  • Well if you actually destroy then recreate yourself at a different location, as long as the same particles are used to assemble you, you should still be yourself, it's like taking apart a car at a factory, shipping the pieces somewhere else, then reassembling the car. It's still the same car.

  • @AGuyInAG It's a tough one, how do you know it's not using the same particles. Theoretically any other particle could be used to recreate you once the transporter knows your pattern. If you've ever seen any of the old Star Trek episodes, there's one where the transporter made a mistake and made 2 copies of the same person, they both thought they were the same person!

  • What?

  • Sheldon would know that the cells of the body are replaced every seven years anyway. There is no such thing as an original Sheldon since the particles of his body are being continually replaced. Teleportation merely replaces all the particles in one step.

  • Is it weird that I had the same idea in 4th grade?

  • If you think about it, every character on Star Trek has been killed and resurrected A LOT.

  • That totally ocurred to me

  • wait a second, ive watched the show, they have used copyright material lots of times, Penny works at Cheesecake Factory, Sheldon plays Red Dead Redemption. But when leanard drinks clearly a can of diet coke they have to substitute the can with a can that says Cola!?

  • @scarface12347 you dont want to use real coke unless coke pays you. why gice coke free advertising?

  • I think sheldons theory is wrong because if you get destroyed in one spot and recreate the same physical body in another spot would you lose everything that you know and just big a big oversized baby?

  • @jamesgriff97 no since everything would be copied and recreated instantly. its like copying and pasting a file. however the original sheldon would be dead and the copy would be alive. so the actual sheldon would die and it wouldnt actually be him at the other location

  • @jamesgriff97 The precise copying of the pattern down to the quantum state of the atoms would create a brain that already held the exact same knowledge, so you wouldn't lose everything. The brain stores memory in physical, chemical structures. If they could be scanned and copied exactly, there would be no loss.

  • @Hanamorichan Yes, but it's a copy....recreated with new particles...remember, matter is converted to energy then recreated into matter. So the chemicals that made up your brain and made you, "you" is destroyed. Its just as you said...an exact copy...not the original.

  • In this essence a teleportation device would be the perfect cloning machine. It could create and exact replica of the user and dispose of the original. The clone would believe he was the original while the original died. You would die. Your clone, being of a secular existence would continue your life as usual with no knowledge of any problem; therefore, others would use the machine and suffer a similar fate. You would be dead with a clone stand-in. Is it cheating if your wife bangs your clone?

  • ahh.. I remember that episode.. good times.. good times.. :)

  • I kinda actually knew that before i watched this video lol

  • I would be completely fine with destroying the old me and creating a new one since we are practically the same person and i will only think of being the other person untill i will be the other person and who gives a shit about the old me im the new me now

  • @Zaxomio

    Except the question arises, will the new "you" really be you or will the new "you" be someone else?

  • That was always a problem with teleportation. Not to mention if you DESTROY the original person, and then reassemble the atoms, what constitutes the fact that it won't just drop dead, or will even have conciousness?

  • oh so it's like alchemist you destroy something to create something of the same value.

  • Am I the only one who think this sitcom is stupid ?

  • @catcoolishcat No. Sheldon is the only one carrying the show tbh

  • Philosophy students will immediately have the words 'personal identity' come to mind!

  • The funny thing is that im in grade 7 and i always agree and understand everything Sheldon says even though almost everyone his age dosent know what language hes speaking

  • @AthyNa100 The funny thing is your cocky asshole who thinks he's the smartest guy alive.

  • @MrBrokenRevolver 1.im a girl 2. i was trying to make A JOKE J-O-K-E maybe you heared of it 

  • @AthyNa100 No, you weren't joking. Because: there was not a hint of humor, and it wasn't funny at all.

  • @MrBrokenRevolver "almost everyone his age dosent know what language hes speaking" how about you stop being a hater and go find another video site where you can hate all you want

  • @AthyNa100 A better question is why you are on youtube in the 7th grade. You should probably wait a while. Douchebags are plentiful in the youtube universe. Not to mention all the cursing you shouldn't be subject to. I got on youtube in the 10th grade. And even that was early.

  • @MrUndacovabrova Everyone in my class has a youtube account and at my school the 1/2 class know the songs im sexy and i know it by LMFAO, Tick Tock by Ke$ha and all the songs by P!nk. P.S our parents dont care if we hear swears and stuff like that pfft my parents BEG me to watch Jeff Dunham with them

  • @AthyNa100 That comment kind of proves that you're too immature to be on here...

  • @dropyourcalls it took you that long to come up with that....

  • @AthyNa100 What are you talking about?

  • @dropyourcalls some guy was hating my comment and we were arguing all i said was

    "the funny thing is im in grade 7 and i know and agree to everything sheldon says and most people his age dont know what hes saying" and then he says that i think im smarter then everyone else blah blAH BLAH

  • "lay it on me" thats what she said

  • BAZINGA!!!!!

  • of course! it all makes sense now...

  • If sheldon was a woman, he'd be anna from V

  • which episode is this?

  • sheldon if you can improve on the technology you could probaly make it that molecules would fly together yet they stay together like a superspeed human launcher but steering them so they miss everything in their way or disintergrating a hole into a building.

  • @frankgodstill Then it's not teleportation anymore.

  • @Aviatorsmith .........fuck......you're right......its fast travel it's like being superman and the flash rolled into one or just superman.or a guy who can fly superfast and control hiself

  • @frankgodstill Exactly. If technology had been invented to do that, you would have vehicles available for that.

  • @Aviatorsmith ....."bazinga" quoting sheldon sorry for misspelling....TNT...

  • ah i understand dont use teleporters... I'll just use my hand held portal device then :D

  • I don't find this funny...it makes sense in a terrifying way. I'm never using a teleportation device again.

  • @DirigiblePlumCompany Using the word 'again' would imply that you have used one before.

  • @DirigiblePlumCompany Again?! =O

  • @DirigiblePlumCompany never using it AGAIN? omg

  • @DirigiblePlumCompany i love you.

  • @DirigiblePlumCompany even if its made by ap. science

  • @DirigiblePlumCompany Not to mention, what would happen to your soul if this happened? I am not one willing to figure this out first hand :P

  • @NewbieDrumming nothing, as the scientific consensus is that there's no such thing as an incorporeal soul, and therefore any definition of "soul" must be a result of your biological structure at a given time.

  • @NewbieDrumming nothing souls dont exist you schoeld fear that the recreating your body woeldnt include your memory so you dont become in a vegeteble state

  • @NewbieDrumming Don't worry about the soul thing. No one's ever found any evidence that one exists.

  • @Stairc You didn´t read "the lost symbol",did you?

  • @kevinschuckstyle You're talking about the novel?

  • @NewbieDrumming Your soul would continue to not exist.

  • @NewbieDrumming, @LanceDirk

    The grown-ups were talking about science, not some ridiculous, half baked religious fantasy. There is absolutely no evidence for the existence of a soul.

  • @Nilguiri Yeah, I think what he means is the "personality" of the person. However, this is usually determined by past experiences and any medical factors in your brain/nervous system that affects how you act around other people and stuff. So I'm pretty sure the soul would stay the same....

  • @0beastly0

    Right, because you are copied right down to the subatomic level, you should retain 100% of the person, including memories, personality, illnesses, etc. You will be indistinguishable from the original and would remember being teleported.

    People who believe in a "soul", can pretty much make it up as they go along because

    superstition and science are incompatible. Who cares what they think?

    The "soul" is extracorporeal, so it should be left behind, right? I feel stupid just saying it!

  • @Nilguiri Exactly :) Soul basically means your personality, but when you get into where your soul leaves your body and all kinds of spirit crap you start to go downhill...lol

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  • @DirigiblePlumCompany again?

    You holding out on us....

  • @SoloDee What a douche, eh? Keeping shit for himself.

  • they are eating crap aaaall the time!!!

  • .-. Jim's epic. Too epic for words.

    I love him. So. Very. Much.

  • As soon as I saw this I promised myself I would never use a teleporter for as long as I live... Unless I'm playing video games.

  • I wish I could find me a man like Sheldon <33

    Oh wait...I've had way too many men like Sheldon. It's not as good as you think.....nvm

  • @MeredithOD You spelled attention craving whore wrong

  • @MeredithOD Well all my hope of finding anyone is gone.

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  • I've actually had this same conversation.

  • sooooooooooo i can walk

  • Leonard is annoying

  • I like how Sheldon is drinking V8

  • Where's the joke? The closest thing are Leonard's obnoxious remarks... which aren't very funny.

  • @Jumbif This is not supposed to be a joke?

  • I love this show!!!

  • I don't understand. why are these people laughing?

  • @SpanielDayLewis They think that laughing makes them look more smart. It shows that they think they understand what he's saying when they really have no fucking clue.

  • I can tie my own shoes!

  • @ThePianoPlayer1999

    YOU ARE AWESOME!

  • @shitbringer Arn't I?

  • It would take an appreciable amount of energy to destroy and recreate everything to its original state in another location. Also, there would be no way to properly realign every particle unless the theory of quantum entanglement works with a considerably large amount of particles. What would be the first thing you teleport and would you still use teleportation if it meant losing a random memory from your past every time you used it?

  • @testermanish best reply ever. -all the awards-

  • @multicoloredwiz It's intelligent humor. It's not for everyone. Hey, there's a Sxephil video up. He's talking about boobs, you should check it out.

  • @testermanish May you please explain the humor of this video, and possibly what is and why this is intelligent humor? I personally don't find anything in this video funny.

  • I figured this out when I was 10............

  • Number of Jokes: 1 shitty punchline

    Number of times the laugh track kicked in: 9 fucking times...

  • By his logic, he might as well resist EXISTING, since all the cells in your body are replaced many times over the course of your lifetime. =P

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  • @ThaMahstah Your skin has 200 cell turnovers to be exact, and your brain has 9. :)

  • Do they actually write jokes for this show? Or is it just stupid shit like this?

  • The TV show "Outer Limits" had an episode dedicated to this, actually. Something went wrong with the process and the original person was not destroyed when the new one was created.

  • I love how Leonard reacts to Sheldon's "Here's the problem with teleportation" .

    * What the hell is he talking about, we're eating and... oh never mind it's Sheldon * : Lay it on me

  • I have to disagree with Sheldon on this one. My understanding of teleportation is that the original form is not destroyed, but converted to energy, that same energy is beamed to another location the same way as a signal is, then reassembled elsewhere. It would be like freezing a glass of water, transferring the ice to another glass, then melting it so that every molecule is in the same position, just in a different glass, thus preserving the integrity of the original water.

  • @ishingo69 damn, I like this explanation !

  • @ishingo69 that still means that all particles should be destroyed and it would have been transported and recreated just like sheldon explained.

    Your water explination is way of... due to the fact that water when frozen is still water. While with teleportation as you say all mater turns into energie.

  • @taeke18 Destroyed means broken up. The molecules in my explanation aren't destroyed, only transformed in state, such as water when it becomes ice. And fundamentally you're wrong about water. When it is frozen, it's no longer categorized as water, but in its solid state is categorized and labeled as ice, despite the fact that the molecules have the same basic makeup. In Sheldon's explanation, atoms are scanned and copied, destroyed, then recreated elsewhere.

  • @ishingo69 Actualy your in the last message right, though changing particles to energie isnt just changing state. The state is purely a point of when a particle gets enough energy to go from solid to liquid or even into gas. After gas a particle can go into a higher state known a plasma.. but there is no clue of particles actualy changing into energie.

  • @taeke18 I've had a theory for some time that energy may be a separate state of matter (perhaps a form beyond the ionization that creates plasma) which would support the type of teleportation i've thinking of. We just haven't been able to achieve it yet. Not in a way we can control anyway. I'll get my research team on it. And by research team, I mean my brain cells, lol. (FYI, my research team thinks it's smarter than it really is, and it drinks alot, so don't expect any results.)

  • @ishingo69 There is actualy a theorie out there, this one is that all mater is actualy a vibration, created by the universe it self, this would partialy support your theorie you just said.

    But still something isnt real until you know it is real. For example if someone told you from birth that blue is yellow en vice versa, then blue would actualy be yellow.

  • @ishingo69 Kinda like the way a cell phone works? lol

  • @ishingo69 I think Sheldon is talking about another method of teleportation? There are a few theories at the moment, another one would be worm hole (a tunnel through space-time).

    I think Sheldon's method has been successfully accomplished on at least one photon (or other type of particle), that is gathering all the information about the photon simultaneously, transfer them digitally to another location using computer, and reconstruct another photon using those information.

  • @ishingo69 But humans, unlike water, have a habbit of dying when our body cant move blood around, or beat the heart. Wich is impossible the second your body is converted to enegy.

    So the problem is, that Teleporting that way, most likely would cause Heart-Attacks, instant Death, insanity. Ect. :)

    I know it's science fiction, but we can still look a little realistic on it :D

  • @BelindaKliem You're thinking in terms of moving a body in a solid form over a period of time. In relation to the body in question, this process of teleportation would be instantaneous (although in the brief moments following reassembly, there would be some physical discomfort for sure.)

  • @ishingo69 That's wrong in so many levels...

  • @tornadoxxx1 Ah, you make a compelling argument.

  • @ishingo69 What do you meant exactly by "energy"?

  • @tornadoxxx1 Now THAT'S asking the right questions, my friend. I guess in this case "energy" could mean matter converted to a state that can be manipulated in ways similar to waves (able to have their patterns easily copied and/or broadcast through space).

  • @ishingo69 Do you mean an electromagnetic wave consistent of photons (pure energy)? How do you argue that after we kill the original specimen in order to transform him into this wave (let's accept that) and we bring him again to life by transforming the wave arriving at the destination in matter according to the information it carries the conciusness will be the same?

    Before you answer take into account that there's de facto no chance that no information is loss in the wave journey.

  • @tornadoxxx1 I guess the only accurate answer is that there's no way to know. We just don't know enough about consciousness to have an answer. If we assume it's something tangible and tied directly to our physical form, then it would possibly go with the wave. If its something....spiritual, then it would probably mean we'd be porting over a dead body. Like I said though, we just don't know enough about consciousness.

  • @ishingo69 What I was trying to say was that even if conciousness is strictly tied to our physical form, given that some photons would be lost along the way to the arrival point (how many of them would depend on the efficiency of the energy transmission system) there's chances that we kill the original individual as some pieces of the brain may (in the form of photons until the arrive) never make it to the end. I'm not talking here about the spontaneous macro-quantum entanglement case

  • @tornadoxxx1 In the latter case, assuming it feasible, there's no doubt that, as only one copy remains, one of them must be eliminated, namely the original.

  • @tornadoxxx1 Actually, death due to photon loss, or even degradation, is entirely possible even without the concept of consciousness. Imagine 2% of our cells suddenly vanishing (and in the first instances of testing, 2% is probably an extremely low estimate of loss). Its definitely not going to be pretty, lol. Fortunately, what makes it across space won't live long.

  • @ishingo69 Yeah! of course...in the end would be a matter of luck (supposing random photon loss, i.e. if we don't know a priori what photons will be lost although having an estimate how many of them will). The luck of not losing anything needed to keep living.

    As I have said, it would depend on the transmission system efficiency.

    Rocket launcher trips these days have a 99% reliability, wich means 1% chances of an horrible die too haha.

  • @tornadoxxx1 I hate to sound rude, but in your last "paragraph" its which, not wich. Which :) I know you know. I'm just a perfectionist. I do this to all the posts.

  • @cargal013594 It's "it's which", not "its which".

  • @megatimtim LOL

  • @megatimtim Haha! You are right! Thanks for catching that. :)

  • @cargal013594 Yeah, I know :) . It was a typo. Anyways, thanks for your help, even though it's still futile since youtube won't let me edit the comment. Oh! and by the way, I'm astonished by what you do; all the posts are a lot of posts to correct. Great way of spending your time!

  • @tornadoxxx1 Oh I know. I'm just bored. I really didn't mean to be mean. Sorry! I make TONS of errors.

  • @ishingo69 Ah, yes, but in a sense the process of dying is still undergone because of the change in form.

    Of course by the time (if possible) a method of teleportation is used by society I doubt there would be anyone believing in a soul alive and therefore no one concerned of the "death."

  • @TwistedLemniscate I see your point. It kinda depends on how you define the soul though. In our concept of soul, its the energy pattern that gives us consciousness, bound to our flesh, making us "alive". In this reasoning, this soul could easily remain bound to our bodies regardless of what form they take. Of course, it could also be lost in the process, which could mean either a temporary form of "dying", or just good ol' fashioned death. Never know until we try, I say, lol.

  • @ishingo69 hmm it appears, TBBT has significant impact on your language as well, coming to the point, There's no mistake in any sentence, when you convert mass into energy, it is quite clear, you do not have it any more, only when you reconvert energy into mass, you will get back the matter, it is like destruction and reconstruction.. I dont see any mistake

  • @raghavmc This just comes down to semantics. Destruction means not being able to get something back to its original state (burning something destroys it since you can't ever get it back to its original state). What would take place in this form of teleportation isn't destruction, just change.

  • @ishingo69 Do you know about Carbon cycle? dude apply basic science, what if, you transformed matter into energy, but if you couldn't re-transform it..aren't you destroying here?

  • @ishingo69 Ah, but rather, you should say soul instead of energy for the retards who cannot understand this. I still agree with you.

  • @PokeWHA288 Maybe the soul IS simply energy, and we just don't totally understand it yet........ :D

  • @ishingo69 Well, it varies according to the teleportation method envisioned. The type you put forth (and used in the Star Trek series) is even more of a challenge.

  • @ishingo69 wow, really? -.-

  • @ishingo69 that's stupid.if you convert all the mass into energy and than you convert it again into mass you will have destroyed the original form and recreate it...also there is not such a thing as teleportation yet so you cant talk about your understanding on it.

  • @phoenix1925 You're absolutely right. I'm an idiot, and I have no business talking about things that don't exist. In fact, no one should ever discuss anything that doesn't exist. Your superior wit and knowledge have bested me in this most important of forums, the comments section of a Youtube video about a television show clip. I jut thought people would benefit more from an exchange of ideas as opposed to the internet's usual back and forth of people calling each other curse words.

  • @ishingo69 relax man..i didnt answered to you with hate, i just said that is stupid.I cant believe its top comment with 60 votes.sience has nothing to do with opinion, its just facts (in most cases). and what you said was realy out of science(and logic)...

  • @phoenix1925 But science begins with opinion in a sense. Opinion leads to the beginnings of experimentation. It can provide a starting point for disproving theories, and when you start eliminating possibilities, you start leaving behind truths, facts. And science, like you said, is all facts.

  • @ishingo69 Except that the form would not be solid, hence disintegration.

    Disintegration: the process of losing cohesion.

    You said in your words 'converted to energy', yet in your example you solidify a liquid, that is not converting in to energy.

  • @ishingo69 i have a basic understanding of this i dont think the particles are converted into energy but they are matched with enough entangled particles to match the numer of particles in the indvidual. the other entangled particles are in the other transporter and when the indivduals particles come into contact with the entagled particles the other particles are changed two creating the indvidual...so your both right

  • @FirstInstruMentalist ok 1 problem...entangled particles are always exact opposites so youd be creating a negative of yourself right?

  • @ishingo69 Amy?

  • @ishingo69

    1.if someone is transfered into energy then transport must remember location of any atom in your body(and other things)

    2.Then it use energy created from your body to recreate you in another location

    3.but if you woud use energy from enother source without transfering body into energy, just scaning the location on atoms etc. there woud be two of you

    4.Energy isnt deferent from enother energy so it coud be from any source, it coud be in deferent form but what matter is that E=MC*2

  • @ishingo69 yes but to convert a person to energy you would have to break down the subatomic particles/ atoms that make a person to actually convert it.

  • I've always thought that too...

    But i think there is no problem with transportation of unanimated objects, just living things.

  • This was discussed first in an episode of The Outer Limits, and then again in Star Trek Science. In the episode of the Outer Limits, there was a malfunction and thought that the person did not materialize on the other side and the original person still existed in the first location only to find out that the malfunction was that it did not kill the original person.

  • Seth Brundle would have done well to take Sheldon's advice. He was certainly not the same after teleporting.

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  • if you all are at such a turmoil over the teleportor, just shut up and use a shuttle pod! >:/

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