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All the laws of physics are closely interlinked. Generally, an event or situation that violates one law of physics must also violate many others as well. For example, instantaneous teleportation would violate conservation of energy (because the departure and arrival points would have different gravitational potentials), relativity (because of faster-than-light travel), and conservation of momentum (because you need to adjust your velocity to match the arrival point in order to arrive safely), among others. This doesn't mean that teleportation violates the laws of physics in three separate ways. The three violations are all different ways of looking at the same physical impossibility.



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