Sorry for the caps and I'm new here, but I first read Ender's Game around 1995-96, and I just saw this article a little while ago. It's the ansible just as OSC envisioned it in the Enderverse. This is HUGE news, and could be the next evolution in world-wide and interstellar communications.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
Just because two objects demonstrate certain properties, a la, quantum entanglement, does not mean you can necessarily transmit information between them at a speed faster than light. That would effect a causality paradox.
"Science is not made in headlines."
Posted by Aros (Member # 4873) on :
I'll disagree -- just for spite. This technology is 100% going to lead to interstellar communications.
Because we obviously knew what was (and wasn't) possible a century ago. The notion of "unbreakable" laws and paradoxes is so quaint.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
OSC wasn't the first person to envision the ansible, as he himself has admitted.
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
I wish people wouldn't refer to quantum entanglement (or quantum anything) as 'strange'. (Much less 'STRANAGE'.) Your whole body runs on quantum mechanics; if it's strange, so are you.
Posted by Tarrsk (Member # 332) on :
He actually meant "strainage," as in the removal of particulates from a fluid run through a quantum entanglement.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
I have a quantum entanglement strainer in my kitchen. Works wonders for pasta.
Posted by Aros (Member # 4873) on :
Why is it, every time I hear of quantum entanglement, I think of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? The pasta references don't help any either, mind you.
I can't help thinking that the universe is a giant quantum-ly connected bowl of pasta, and that his noodly appendage is helping us unravel our lives.
Posted by capaxinfiniti (Member # 12181) on :
I particularly dislike the use of quantum estrangement. There must be a better term for that, if it exists at all..
Posted by T:man (Member # 11614) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tarrsk: He actually meant "strainage," as in the removal of particulates from a fluid run through a quantum entanglement.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote:Originally posted by Aros: I can't help thinking that the universe is a giant quantum-ly connected bowl of pasta, and that his noodly appendage is helping us unravel our lives.
*actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit:
quote:Originally posted by Aros: I can't help thinking that the universe is a giant quantum-ly connected bowl of pasta, and that his noodly appendage is helping us unravel our lives.
*actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.
Posted by Spkr2theDead (Member # 12697) on :
So basically theories can't be broken, and let's not think that maybe it was typed out really fast and the fingers couldn't keep up with the mind. Got it.
Posted by Aris Katsaris (Member # 4596) on :
quote:So basically theories can't be broken,
Of course they can be broken, just not by wishful thinking.
Hoping that quantum entanglement has something to do with faster-than-light communication won't make it so -- any more than wishing that magical rainbows will produce faster-than-light communication will make it so.
If you want an actual Science-Fictional idea to link this experiment to -- it should be many-worlds and the so-called parallel universes (actually branching universes). By showing that superpositional phenomena aren't limited to the quantum size-level, it means it's theoretically possible that objects can be superpositioned no matter the size: so in short, that's further evidence that many-worlds ("parallel universes") are a reality.
Not faster-than-light travel though. This has nothing to do with *that*.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
quote:Originally posted by Spkr2theDead: So basically theories can't be broken, and let's not think that maybe it was typed out really fast and the fingers couldn't keep up with the mind. Got it.
Ah. You're one of those "too smart to make himself understood," guys. Just like all the really smart folks in the field. Sagan, Hawking, Clarke, none of them could string a sentence together... one does wonder how they managed to sell collectively a half a billion copies of their books.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:Originally posted by Spkr2theDead: So basically theories can't be broken, and let's not think that maybe it was typed out really fast and the fingers couldn't keep up with the mind. Got it.
However the cause, the thread title was hilarious. I have made frantic typos in thread titles too. It was funny.
Posted by Jeff C. (Member # 12496) on :
So basically, Ender's Game is going to happen.
Who wants to register for Battle School? I'm 27 years old. Is that too old?!
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
I'm really not into the wrasslin naked children thing, i'm going to pass
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