why is teleporting something with the mind? were is the tele part of the porting? i mean why is i called teleporting? telekinetic, and telepathic i can understand...but teleporting?? can someone explain please?
it maeks sense. but theres also hydrokinesis and pyrokinesis so not everything that deals w/ the mind has to have tele in it i guess but thats a good question
this is a good question....i have an answer...english is a very strange language where many rules contradict each other and there are a suprising amount of 'exceptions'...>__<
Telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation, pyrokinesis etc. is originally ancient greec.
"tele" simlply means "far" or "distant"
"pathy" means "feeling" or "sensing" on a mental level
"kinesis" means "movement"
"portation" means "to change the location of something/one"
"pyro" means "fire"
Though all the mentioned powers are publicly associated with the mind, the words themselves have nothing to do with it, they discribe a process.
Petrokinesis for example means stone- or rockmovement and could be done by simply grabbing a stone and throwing it, though noone would call the process of throwing a stone in this fashion.
Any power, incl.Teleportation, that is thoughtcontrolled could be called mental or psionic.
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ok i have another related question.....were do the teleporters go when they teleport? i know about nightcrawler and his dimension but what about the others???
Not to doubt your etymological skills, as it was nice to have someone at least whip out a dictionary, though there are Grecian roots, many also come from Latin. Though Latin did take a bevy of words from Greek and canibalize them, so it could all be disputed. For instance, I found two etymologies for the world etymology, one from Greek and one from Latin.
Latin, various examples of those roots in action during ancient times, and the modern terms thus stemming from them:
petra, ae, f. -- rock, the word has Greek roots, I believe.
pyra, ae, f. -- funeral pile, pyre, whereupon bodies would be burned/cremated, coined by Vergil.
hydria, ae, f.--jug, urn, waterpot. Has Greek roots, but this and other terms were coined by Cicero himself.
tele- -- at a distance, Latin, taken from Greek
pathy/pathos -- straight from Greek, meaning emotion, sympathetic
Abyss, though not a teleporter, teleported/exiled people to another dimension.
Thin Man, while not a mutant, teleports through sub-space, shifting and bending through a sub-dimensional plane to wind up elsewhere on earth, or whever he wants.
1. A teleporter could bend space, so that two places would come close enough to overlap, so he could choose in which place he wants to stay. Since every other person would be bended alongside space, they would notice nothing but the Teleporter "vanishing" when space returns to it´s normal state.
2. A teleporter could shortly transform into an energetic state("astral" or "psychic" energy for example) and "beam" to the targeted place, where he would become material again.
3. A teleporter could use quantummechanics. In this context it has something to do with wave/particle-characteristics of matter and being located everywhere at once. Unfortunately I´m FAAAR from being an expert in quantummechanics, I just read some articles and bookchapters about it, which makes me not exactly the most competent person for a short and understandable explanation(sorry).
4. A teleporter could create matter at the targeted location in EXACTLY the same quantumstate the matter of his body is currently in, which would be HIM as well, and simultaniously disintegrate his current body.
I can´t think of other possibilities, though I´m certain there are plenty. Hope it helps you a little, Blair Wind!
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Just tried to keep everything on a level that is easy to understand and allows to easily create a connection between the words and their comic-meaning.
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ok thanks guys.....u guys are the best...i think this thread can die now unless anyone has any questions on teleporting or anything mind related...or u can just ask questions on whatever......
We could name teleporters and see if we know how they teleport.
There's nightcrawler who's been done.
Hmm Magik... she controlled disks in limbo (hell) that could take u anywhere, anytime.
Locus of the mlf.
Lila Cheney.
Blink.
Gender: Female Location: Somewhare over the rainbow
You know when kurt teliports, don't he go thu an alternant demintion of fire and stuff, the smoke and sulfer he makes when he teliports leavese questions, but dosen't he go so fast after ripping a hole in the dementions that the "Other" bieings can get out in time, if they know he's even there?
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