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Looks like it may have started in 1966 with a story by Ursula K. Le Guin. She called the device an ansible, which is what it was also called in OSC's books. h
by MrZongle2 9y ago
Looks like it may have started in 1966 with a story by Ursula K. Le Guin. She called the device an ansible, which is what it was also called in OSC's books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible
- dleslie 9y agoFrom the book The Dispossessed. It's a great novel, by the way.
- greeneggs 9y agoAccording to that Wikipedia page, Le Guin's ansible might not be relying on entanglement. It "doesn't involve radio waves, or any form of energy. The principle it works on, the constant of simultaneity, is analogous in some ways to gravity ... One point has to be fixed, on a planet of certain mass, but the other end is portable." About Card's ansible, it says, "Card's description of the ansible's functions in Xenocide involves a fictional subatomic particle, the philote. In the "Enderverse", the two quarks inside a pi meson can be separated by an arbitrary distance while remaining connected by "philotic rays"." So perhaps Card's "Xenocide" (1991) is where the entanglement => FTL communication myth began?