Apparating and the Theory of Relativity OR Dimensional Travel

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 185905

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
  
> Personally, I favor dimensional or domain shift travel over
> worm holes.


zanooda:

I would agree with you about the Floo network and Portkeys, but
Apparition seems different to me. It's like Alla said, all this
darkness and squeezing through a rubber tube doesn't make you think of
dimensional travel (not that I ever experienced one :-)), but of being
forced through some very narrow passage (kinda like a child being
born, I suppose :-)). When Harry had to Apparate twice in a row
without a chance to take a breath in between (escape from the MoM in
DH) he nearly suffocated and felt as if his lungs had flattened. 

It would be logical if all magical travel was based on the same
principle, but it just doesn't seem the case (IMO). Interesting though
that all types of magical travel involve some kind of spinning motion
(I'm not talking about brooms, Thestrals or flying carpets, cars and
bikes here, of course :-)). People spin in the fireplaces, and in the
last book Harry was "spinning uncontrollably" while traveling via a
Portkey. Even to Apparate, you need to turn on the spot. I wonder,
what this is all about ... :-).