Apparating and the Theory of Relativity

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 185890

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:

> That brings a question, do we know that they are not the same? I 
> mean, of course there is a use of Portkey which is different, but 
> what else?


zanooda:

The sensations are different :-). With Apparition it's mostly darkness
and pressure, and with a Portkey it's "howl of wind and swirling
color" - no pressure, no squeezing through a rubber tube :-).


> > Carol:

> > BTW, Floo powder also seems to involve
> > moving through space. Apparition may or may not.
 
> Alla:
 
> Right, well I tend to think that it does involve moving 
> through space but of course I cannot be sure.


zanooda:

If not moving through space, then what is it? Do you mean that sort of
teleportation where a body kind of disintegrates at the starting point
and then gets reconstructed at the destination point :-)? If so, I
agree with you, Apparition doesn't seem to be it. When Apparating
together with someone, Harry can feel their hands  (Hermione, Ron,
Dobby), so he definitely doesn't cease to exist even for a second.
However, it seems to me that Splinching is more consistent with this
kind of teleportation than with "moving through a wormhole" kind.