Ideas for how pokeballs work

[Metal Force]

Mods/Admins if this is breaking the rules in any way then I'm sorry & close this.

Well we know that it's thrown to catch a pokemon & it shrinks the pokemon to get in the ball, but HOW DOES IT WORK? & how can it shrink pokemons?
Feel free to discuss how does it work.

 

[Omega Pirate]

I say sort of like TV works, it splits them up into a zillion tiny little pieces and puts them back together inside. Shrinks them somehow (or maybe I've been reading too much Roald Dahl). I've always imagined the inside of a pokeball to be like a room with a bed and maybe a TV etc. and the better the ball the more luxurious the room.

 

[MetaKnight]

maybye the luxury ball could have a spa and a swimming pool and the pokemon inside could ask a remote control for something.

and...well,
like you see in the anime.
the pokeball sends out a red glow and makes the glow go inside the pokeball.

 

[Blaze Dragon]

Maybe in the red glow are nanobots that divide the pokemon into molecules and then reunite them

 

[OmegaDragon]

I think that they divide the pokemon into molecules which are then formed into energy. The energy is then stored into the ball. When the pokemon comes out, the energy reforms into the pokemon. This could also explain how the pokeballs shrink without squishing the pokemon

 

[Rodian]

Who said it's small *inside*? The only reason the Pokéballs are that size is so they're pocket-size. They might be HUGE inside for all we know. Sort of like a alternative dimension.

 

[The Organizer]

I bet its like some star trek thing lol, converts the pokemons atoms into small light beams. Thats my guess lol, this forum needs some science nerds to answer this question.

 

[Volteon]

I don´t know. Maybe it uses those shrink technology then it "abduces" (like UFO does) to put the pokémon inside the Pokéball.
When the pokémon don´t like how it looks inside it tries to fight to break it.
Master ball maybe shrinks even more, making the pokémon weaker, then it doesn´t have a way to fight with the ball.

I liked the luxury ball having one spa inside XD.

 

[Torkoal]

maybe it puts them in suspended animation inside the ball?

 

[Praxiteles]

I actually had a bit of a theory for that in another thread. I'll quote it.

So, Pokeballs. Those familiar things that shoot red beams at Pokemon, make them red, and suck the whole thing in. If you look closely, they're also those familiar things that have shiny metal plates on the inside. I believe that the Pokeball contains a harsh version of an Alpha particle beam. Confused? Well, a particle beam is essentially a laser beam. Light (which includes all light, not just the type we can see) exists in both particles and waves. Taking this, we can measure the intensity of a type of light (say, an X-ray) both by how closely spaced the waves are and by how much energy the particles of the light contain. Understand the particle beam part? On to the last. There are about three main types of high-energy light beams; the Alpha, Beta, and Gamma rays. The Gamma ray has the highest amount of energy, the Beta lesser, and the Alpha the least. Remember that though the Alpha beam has the least energy from the three, it still has a lot of energy. Keep in mind.
So, back to what I was saying. This Alpha particle beam stays inside the Pokeball most of the time, since, when it tries to go out, it just gets reflected by the metal plates lining the inside of the Pokeball. But when the circle in on the Pokeball gets pressed, that circular piece of metal retracts, and the beam has a path to go out through. It hits the Pokemon, and then a complicated thing happens. When the beam touches the atoms of the Pokemon, it transfers all its energy to the electrons. All the electrons seperate from the atoms, and the atoms go into the surroundings. What you have left is a blueprint of the Pokemon. You must have learnt that each substance has atoms with different numbers of particles? This makes use of that fact. As soon as this has happened, the air inside the Pokeball is given a lot of protons, making the air have a positive charge, and the electron 'blueprint' - or, as I like to say it, Winzip file - is attracted back into the Pokeball in that position. Later, when the electrons are released again, they immediately attract their respective kinds of matter towards them, and the Pokemon is reconstructed from that Winzip file.

 

[killerjaw01]

I guess it's like getting a genie into a bottle

 

[Megg Lavender]

I'm guessing the Pokeballs contain little bits of special data, then when the Pokeball opens, the small bits of data captures the Pokemon, and that's how the Pokemon goes inside? (something like that... ^^; ) I also wonder what it's like inside a Pokeball... *scratches chin, thinking*

 

[Metal Force]

I must say that you made some intresting ideas guys/gals, & yeh I do think that master ball shrinks pokemons more cuz it makes sence.

 

[Magma Grunt Alex]

I think that the red glow is energy coming from the pokeball sucking up the pokemon to fit the pokemon inside the pokeball. Or the red glow can be atoms all clustered together.... I dunno.....

 

[ZibaLaZiba]

The red beam is a tractor beam. For the size issue, have you seen Willy Wonka or Harry Potter 4 (the tents)?

 

[wcgold]

This Alpha particle beam stays inside the Pokeball most of the time, since, when it tries to go out, it just gets reflected by the metal plates lining the inside of the Pokeball.

If it stays inside most of the time, then how would it escape in the supposed rarer times? This actually happens with Misty's Psyduck and Jessie's Wobbuffet, and I'm just wondering what you might think about it.

 

[Dex]

Maybe Misty's and Jessie's Pokeballs are Damaged in some way, For instance, the Pokemon may not like it in there, and struggle to get out, thus breaking/bending the metal plates, which opens a leak, so the tractor beam gets out, thus, they get out. Or, if it had hard contract, a metal plate MAY have broken. *That would have to be a big fall though.*

 

[Jupetta]

I believe that it transforms them into some sort of energy... explaining how they are able to be teleported throught the machines.
~;354;

 

[Magneto]

Intresting theories...I have one small problem with them.(Yes, it is the science nerd to rescue)
Well it is feasible to disassemble and reassemble things in the ways we have discussed, it would erase or kill the minds of said creatures. The brain itself has no potency. What holds your memories and facilitates brain functions is the electric pulses and synapses fired within your brain. If you divided the brain, the electric pulses would die, and memories, abilities, and any other functions would be erased, destroyed, anihilated, and totally devastated.
In short, the reassembled Pokemon would be, quite frankly, a veggie.
So, thats the major flaw here.

 

[Magma Grunt Alex]

I just came up with another conclusion....

MAGIC!!