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>"All electronic devices send out eletromagnetic waves. so does your monitor. and your monitor does it all the time. and at very high frequencies. high enough f
by peter_d_sherman 3y ago
>"All electronic devices send out eletromagnetic waves. so does your monitor. and your monitor does it all the time. and at very high frequencies. high enough for your short wave AM radio. all you have to do is display the "correct" image on your screen and your monitor will emit the "right" signals. Tempest for Eliza displays pictures on your screen. one for each note in the song."
This is interesting from a "dimensional expansion"/"dimensional collapse" perspective.
In other words, we have a computer monitor.
The screen, more specifically images on the screen -- are 2D entities.
Radio waves, on the other hand, could be considered 1D, or even 0D (time domain oscillations only), depending on one's perspective...
So, if what the article says works, we have this mapping of a specific patterned 2D screen image -- which maps to a note (a human hearable frequency) mapped to a much higher frequency 1D or 0D entity (the AM radio wave).
Anytime an apparent one-way mapping can be spotted -- I like to imagine if it could be reversed, and if so, what might be required to do that...
Reversed, this looks like a 0D/1D radio wave generating a 2D screen.
Well, we already have something like that... that's basically streaming YouTube videos over WiFi (2D screens gettting generated from 1D/0D information)... but that's still with an encoding method, compression, computer intervention, etc.
Perhaps there is something more fundamental there...
Old-time analog TV's used a radio (well, rf/electromagnetic spectrum, whether you call it "radio" or VHF or UHF or not...) signal only to create their 2D pictures without encoding or decoding, without computer intervention.
But, I don't know.
I think the whole idea of converting something in several dimensions to something in lesser dimensions, and then converting it back again -- has a whole lot of merits and applications -- thus far we've "discovered" TV and Computers and moving pictures of all sorts -- what potential applications will we find for this set of ideas in the future?
- londons_explore 3y agoOne of Musks late night tweets was along the same lines: > If there are so many dimensions, why does it all fit on a SerDes? [0] I can confidently tell both of you that dimension reduction from m to n is easy as long as you are happy to quantize (m-n) of the dimensions and have sufficient bandwidth in the remaining dimensions. [0]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1701164151429579072 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1701164151429579072
- willis936 3y agoWe're continually chasing that 30 GHz pixel clock necessary to fool visual perception.
- GeoAtreides 3y ago> we already have something like that... that's basically streaming YouTube videos over WiFi I don't think that's correct. Streaming data over WiFi it's like loading a painted portrait in a boat, rowing over the river and then unloading it in a different place. What you're thinking is like reconstituting the portrait from the wave patterns made by the boat in the river. Which is possible and it's called Van Eck phreaking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking