Subspace is the answer of course!

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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    11 months ago

    My first thought was ‘no shit’ as well. There’s a horrible heartbreaking anime about that… Voices of a Distant Star.

    other forces … can transmit information at speeds >c

    I sadly disagree. Even if we figure out a way to instantaneously transport ourselves across the universe, there will be some shitty clause in fine-print that says we can’t go back, or it took 0 time for us but 1 billion years for everything else.

    Check out this video by Anton Petrov:

    https://odysee.com/@whatdamath:8/woah!-someone-just-sent-an-impossible:4

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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      11 months ago

      or it took 0 time for us but 1 billion years for everything else.

      That’s just time travel with extra steps!

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      11 months ago

      They’re probably referring to quantum entanglement, which affects the entangled particles instantly.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah but you can’t interfere with quantum entangled particles, if you do you break the entanglement. So it isn’t usable as a method of communication.

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        11 months ago

        Something I’ve not been asked to get through my head about QE: If observing the entangled particle destroys the entanglement, doesn’t that mean we’d need “containers” of entangled particles to send a bunch of information?

        • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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          11 months ago

          You can’t send information with entangled particles. You just learn the state of the other particle by inference when you observe the first particle.