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Sometimes I daydream about what would happen if FTL communications were possible, but only over short millimeters. It’d seem useless right? Until someone figur
by 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 agoAlas, 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 agoThe 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