1. Can anything disappear, or vanish without a trace?
Can anything disappear entirely? No. especially not if it is supposed to rematerialize back into its visible form again. For example, in Star Trek, when an ensign or red coat (official in the high command) needs to transport from a location on a planet, the star ship " beams them up" (also known as disintegrating the person who's being transported to the molecular level in order to make transportation at the speed of light more manageable and safe. The person rematerializes onto the star ship, molecules back in place, as if nothing had happened. Even though the person appeared invisible during the "beaming up" process, he or she didn't entirely disappear, because his or her molecules were still existent during transportation. Therefore, I don't believe that something can completely disappear (and in the context of real science, if something is sucked into a black hole, that something will simply shrink to a subatomic level, but would never entirely disappear.) ~KW
[Well, the] Law of Conservation states that matter cannot be destroyed. However, matter may be turned into energy. In fact, as energy goes up, so does mass, as Einsteins equation states. ( e=mc^2) In recent string theory, there are sub-atomic particles that may pop in and out of existence but are not trackable. On the note of teleportation, the only way that I know it could work would be if both sets of atoms have identical information (velocity, axis spin) but at different positions. ~186000mps
(NOTE: Teleportation was discussed earlier in Coffee Shop no. 4)
I believe that an object can just disappear. The solution is quite easy just use anti-matter and blow it up. The matter would no longer exist, it would just turn into pure energy. You may think that this leaves a trace but if the entire universe were to all of a sudden turn into energy, would it cease to exist? I think so. You see, energy cannot be detected, only energy in heat form can. But when energy comes in contact with matter, it should turn into heat energy. But if we turn the entire universe into energy there will be no matter to absorb it up. ~Project Z
Though I highly support Project Z's views, I will have to go with the opinion that an object cannot simply "vanish without a trace". As Project Z stated, when antimatter collides with matter, they are both annihilated leaving only energy. Energy is considered a "trace". Though Project Z stated that energy cannot be detected and is thus not considered a "trace", it is undeniable that it is still there. When something isn't detectable, it means just that, not that it doesn't exist. What I must say is that an object can "vanish" as stated earlier using antimatter, but not without a trace. ~Pomomarine
If energy is a trace then my idea wouldn't work. ~Project Z
Yes...and if energy is not considered a trace because it is..."undetectable", my objections are no longer valid. :) ~Pomomarine
~ZobyBlueberryI've found more! In the book of Genesis, it states "Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there." (Genesis 11:1-2). The story tells of how the people wanted to build a city with a tower reaching to the heavens and "make a name for [themselves]".
"But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, 'If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.' So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel—because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth." (Genesis 11:5-9) ~Pomomarine
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