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Likely? I’d say certain! If not then some wonderful healthcare breakthroughs will have happened and wouldn’t that be great? I’d love to see us image exoplanet
by jamiek88 3y ago
Likely? I’d say certain!
If not then some wonderful healthcare breakthroughs will have happened and wouldn’t that be great?
I’d love to see us image exoplanets for example.
I’ve often thought about a ‘relativistic chamber’.
Some device that is in space looping at an appreciable fraction of light speed.
Enter the box.
Exit a year later and it’s 200 years passed down on earth. Have a mosey around, back in the box!
Have a mooch, back in the box!
And so on.
- TremendousJudge 3y agohttps://xkcd.com/989/ https://xkcd.com/989/
- ribosometronome 3y agoIt's a shame we probably live too early for cryogenic freezing to work, either.
- brabel 3y agoIn reality, they would wake up to find themselves in a landfill as everyone just forgot what those funny boxes were for and got rid of them.
- aembleton 3y agoAs predicted by Idiocracy
- Vecr 3y agoSimilar to the XKCD, Gwern says no: https://gwern.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber https://gwern.net/hyperbolic-time-chamber
- LeifCarrotson 3y agoThe HTC is the opposite of the cryogenic freezer or relativistic chamber - it accelerates time for people inside it, allowing you to meet external deadlines while the world passes by slowly outside. A cryo freezer or relativistic spaceship decelerates time for people inside, allowing external activities to be accomplished while you don't age.
- Vecr 3y agoYou are right, I'm wrong. I thought he had something in there for that anyway, but apparently not. Still, you're just on the other side of the Amdahl’s law problems, so you better hope no one is depending on you.
- ghodith 3y agoThis is about a time chamber that works in the opposite direction.
- shagie 3y agoThe Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worthing_Saga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worthing_Saga https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40304.The_Worthing_Saga https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40304.The_Worthing_Saga ) > It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful--they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Some created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed great plans to be put in motion. It allowed interstellar Empires to be built. > It came near to destroying humanity. > After a long, long time of decadence and stagnation, a few seed ships were sent out to save our species. They carried human embryos and supplies, and teaching robots, and one man. The Worthing Saga is the story of one of these men, Jason Worthing, and the world he found for the seed he carried. --- Freeze Frame Revolution ( https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36510759 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36510759 ) > How do you stage a mutiny when you’re only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears, and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what’s best for you? Trapped aboard the starship Eriophora, Sunday Ahzmundin is about to discover the components of any successful revolution: conspiracy, code—and unavoidable casualties. --- Also going to recommend the various Vernor Vinge books: The Peace War Marooned in Realtime A Deepness in the Sky and the short story "The Peddler's Apprentice" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collected_Stories_of_Vernor_Vinge#%22The_Peddler's_Apprentice%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collected_Stories_of_Verno... )