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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Telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation, pyrokinesis etc. is originally ancient greec.
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.
Originally posted by Blair Wind
ok were do the teleporters go when they teleport? i know about nightcrawler and his dimension but what about the others???
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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Originally posted by Blair Wind
like all the other teleporters in the X-men comics, excluding those that go into other dimensions.....(like nightcrawler)