Can terminators telefrag?

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**jayko657**

Deadshot wrote:
There would be gaps inside that ball of dough, between the atoms (as atoms are generally spherical, to be basic about it, and so don't tessellate perfectly), where your smaller ball has its atoms forcibly inserted.

Imaging the dough is a rock, and your arm is the smaller ball. You're atoms are now forcible inserted into the gaps between the rocks atoms, probably with the electrons' various orbits crossing and either colliding (ow!) or at least being close enough that the cross paths. Given the amount of energy involved in teleporting you could imagine ionic bonding also occurring.

A bit late to the party, but I second this. In Master of Sanctity, a terminator ends up "telefragging" when the matter detection systems malfunction, resulting in his arm being stuck in a wall, and he describes it as it being inside him.

**Psienesis**

Swastakowey wrote:
ImAGeek wrote:
Swastakowey wrote:
Psienesis wrote:
According to recent findings of quantum physics, you can. Basically, the concept of a "solid" bit of matter is... not entirely accurate. On the atomic and sub-atomic level, nothing is solid. There's always gaps between particles, smaller and smaller gaps.

There's no reason to replace anything with anything, the sections of you that end up inside a solid object are just atomically fused with whatever it was you appeared inside of. So if you were half-in/half-out of a mountain, the parts sticking out are fine, the parts inside the mountain are unrecoverable, because you've become "one with the mountain".

So how does this method stop the teleporting objects becoming part of the air around them when they teleport then?

I still think its not right what you are saying, but I don't know enough to say much about it.

When teleportation happens in the book they often describe a noise, a crack of displaced air. So I'm guessing air gets moved out the way somehow. Things like mountains and spaceship hulls aren't really going anywhere though.

Or just chalk it up to an inconsistency in the writing. What Psienesis said is correct (not a physicist but it sounds right from my A Level anyway, the majority of atoms is 'empty space'), it just doesn't happen with air for whatever reason, because if it did teleportation wouldn't be possible at all in the books.

So when they teleport does it take the air in their lounges or stomach acid with them etc? I assume it must take an object and move it since they have armour.

Imperial teleporters open a tunnel in the Warp, like a Web-way passage except without all the safety and stability, and then it hurls you through it to what you pray is the target location.

This often fails to deliver, in a very literal sense.

**BioVass**

Psienesis wrote:
You're also committing the cardinal sin of trying to make sense of the Warp.

Zoggin' saved.