Comments on: How close are we to a “time viewer”?

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:11:16 +0000

Stop making the world less fun, Jim :)

But I will go read that paper, thank you.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 12 May 2012 03:07:13 +0000

Quantum radar is a real thing — it’s basically a way to boost radar resolution over long distances — but the “Remote-Sensing” paper is crackpottery. You can’t use these kinds of effects to communicate information faster than light (or backwards in time, which is really the same thing). The eraser effect just modifies the probabilities involved, it doesn’t involve any influence propagating into the past. This article has a good description of the issue: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3977

That said, for an interesting fictional treatment of the idea, see the Clarke/Baxter novel “The Light of Other Days”. Among other things, it goes into detail about how the setting’s society changes when privacy basically ceases to exist.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:22:33 +0000

The cone of light leaves out the convective return path of what I call “potential matter” (neutrinos). The “big bang” placates the mindless masses who never thought to ask; “what made the big bang?” so it’s as ungrounded as saying “In the beginning God said let their be light” The beginning of what? Certainly it wasn’t the beginning of sound waves, or of God so it’s all rhetoric until you trace it all back to the source which given that space is curved means completing the loop.

All the Pope has to do is say something that sounds good, then steep it in that “doubting Thomas” phobia; they’ve kicked the can down the road for 2,000 years now, and given their success at selective breeding followers not to complete thoughts they really don’t have to give reasons, they can just say key words that people can feel without thinking much “Terror”, “Unborn”, “Salvation”, “Suffering” but never “42” because it’s too precise and 2-die-ish for the sheeple who would prefer to look down on creative and independent thinkers.