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We should go 4D and start dissipating heat into the past.

by Two4 2y ago

cpuguy83 2y ago
Wait... global warming... shakes fist at the future
RheingoldRiver 2y ago
Ah, that's how the ice age ended
xen2xen1 2y ago
Well, the Earth was in a different point in space in the past, so it would not end up on Earth.
- PhilipRoman 2y ago
  Interesting idea, although if true then time travelling even a second earlier/later would likely put you several hundred km in the sky (or the ground). I guess any potential time travelling device would have a reference point located in itself, therefore prohibiting this effect.
elcritch 2y ago
Sometimes I daydream about what would happen if FTL communications were possible, but only over short millimeters. It’d seem useless right? Until someone figured out how to put it in chips! Faster processing and memory. Also there would be a poetry to FTL via quantum entanglement being possible only as a speculative “guess”, similar to specter but on the quantum hardware of the universe. Sure FTL signals might be impossible but guessing at FTL signals might not be. ;)
- almostgotcaught 2y ago
  > Sometimes I daydream about what would happen if FTL communications were possible, but only over short millimeters. It’d seem useless right? this is already a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light#:~:text=In%20quantum%20mechanics%2C%20virtual%20particles,section%20on%20static%20fields%20above https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light#:~:text=In%2...).
  - elcritch 2y ago
    Alas, virtual particles appear to travel FTL, communication isn't possible with them: > Therefore, this does not imply the possibility of superluminal information transmission.
    - Terr_ 2y ago
      The idea of a time travel loop in the processor reminds me of a talk by Damian Conway, in which he shows how avant-garde Perl code to exploit sci-fi hardware. "Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Spacetimes... Made Easy!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpInOI4o2LY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpInOI4o2LY
cycomanic 2y ago
Sort of the opposite to what we do with CO2 production at the moment?

We should go 4D and start dissipating heat into the past.

by Two4 2y ago

We should go 4D and start dissipating heat into the past.

cpuguy83 2y ago

Wait... global warming... shakes fist at the future

RheingoldRiver 2y ago

Ah, that's how the ice age ended

xen2xen1 2y ago

Well, the Earth was in a different point in space in the past, so it would not end up on Earth.

PhilipRoman 2y ago
Interesting idea, although if true then time travelling even a second earlier/later would likely put you several hundred km in the sky (or the ground). I guess any potential time travelling device would have a reference point located in itself, therefore prohibiting this effect.

elcritch 2y ago

Sometimes I daydream about what would happen if FTL communications were possible, but only over short millimeters. It’d seem useless right? Until someone figured out how to put it in chips! Faster processing and memory. Also there would be a poetry to FTL via quantum entanglement being possible only as a speculative “guess”, similar to specter but on the quantum hardware of the universe. Sure FTL signals might be impossible but guessing at FTL signals might not be. ;)

almostgotcaught 2y ago
> Sometimes I daydream about what would happen if FTL communications were possible, but only over short millimeters. It’d seem useless right? this is already a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light#:~:text=In%20quantum%20mechanics%2C%20virtual%20particles,section%20on%20static%20fields%20above https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light#:~:text=In%2...).
- elcritch 2y ago
  Alas, virtual particles appear to travel FTL, communication isn't possible with them: > Therefore, this does not imply the possibility of superluminal information transmission.
  - Terr_ 2y ago
    The idea of a time travel loop in the processor reminds me of a talk by Damian Conway, in which he shows how avant-garde Perl code to exploit sci-fi hardware. "Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Spacetimes... Made Easy!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpInOI4o2LY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpInOI4o2LY

cycomanic 2y ago

Sort of the opposite to what we do with CO2 production at the moment?