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Posted By: SiliconDream =PN= | Date: 12/18/01 8:54 a.m. | |
In Response To: Re: Quantum Time Travel (Steve Levinson) : I missed this point when you posted. You do have an elegant idea, here. No,
Problem is, to the degree that you influence the particles' spins in any way--for instance, by using them to encode information such as memories--you also break the entanglement. The pattern buffer could only provide a perfect copy of the info in the marine's mind if that info had been generated perfectly randomly--which is hopefully not the case. :-) All known quantum-related time travel/FTL tricks contain provisos such as this which prevent you from actually transmitting information faster than light or back in time. Of course, we have to (I guess) pick some theory which we'll play around with to justify Marathon's time-travel aspects, and quantum theory's no worse than relativity in this regard--but I'm not sure it's much better. : It's a bit far fetched, but I like this theory and it has some plausability,
FTL and time travel are equivalent, so I'd be inclined to use a pseudorelativistic explanation for the time-hopping just as Bungie does for the FTL drive. Folding space...or singularities...or...something. :-) --SiliconDream |
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Time Travel revisited (no pun intended) | SiliconDream =PN= | 12/15/01 3:34 a.m. | |
Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended) | Mark Levin | 12/15/01 4:04 a.m. | |
Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended) | SiliconDream =PN= | 12/15/01 3:40 p.m. | |
Quantum Time Travel | Hippieman [B.Org] | 12/15/01 4:48 p.m. | |
Re: Quantum Time Travel | Steve Levinson | 12/18/01 5:23 a.m. | |
Re: Quantum Time Travel | SiliconDream =PN= | 12/18/01 8:54 a.m. | |
Re: Quantum Time Travel | Steve Levinson | 12/18/01 12:49 p.m. | |
Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended) | Tru7h | 12/15/01 4:40 a.m. | |
Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended) | SiliconDream =PN= | 12/15/01 3:45 p.m. | |
Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended) | archon | 12/15/01 8:33 a.m. | |
Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended) | Steve Levinson | 12/15/01 12:54 p.m. | |
Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended) | [Tycho?] | 12/15/01 1:28 p.m. | |
Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended) | Steve Levinson | 12/15/01 2:47 p.m. | |
Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended) | SiliconDream =PN= | 12/15/01 4:05 p.m. | |
Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended) | Steve Levinson | 12/16/01 11:09 a.m. | |
Oops | Steve Levinson | 12/15/01 1:01 p.m. | |
Re: Oops | Jeff Nosanov | 12/16/01 9:23 a.m. | |
Re: Oops | Steve Levinson | 12/16/01 10:42 a.m. | |
Re: Oops | Grail | 12/29/01 1:34 p.m. |
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