# Can I turn my teleporter into a time machine? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 3, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-turn-my-teleporter-into-a-time-machine/534804 "2010-04-03T03:53:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-turn-my-teleporter-into-a-time-machine/534804/21 "2010-04-04T00:02:36Z")
I’m not saying that it’s impossible that we’d ever find such a frame, but if we did, it would disprove Special Relativity. Which is not completely out of the question, of course: Yes, SR is the most thoroughly-tested theory in all of history, but then, that title was once held by Newtonian mechanics, too. SR would continue to be a useful approximation for anything not involving teleporters or the new physics associated with them, just as Newtonian mechanics is a useful approximation for speeds much less than c, but it would not be absolutely correct. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-turn-my-teleporter-into-a-time-machine/534804/22 "2010-04-11T01:40:31Z")
> [@toadspittle](#): > > Sure. Just turn the cardboard box around and climb in. But don’t flip it over and climb underneath—that’s how you turn it into a transmogrifier. I avoided that problem by the simple precaution of skipping a crucial step: I didn’t write “TraNsMogriƒier” on the side. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-turn-my-teleporter-into-a-time-machine/534804.md?page=1)