@KellyJay saidThat's not how you answered the RNA research, it was strictly POO POO, they are NUTS because GOD did it.
As long as you avoid being specific, there is nothing to poo-poo; you have to have something to argue for or against before you can agree or disagree.
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@moonbus saidBeing something of a quantum physicist myself … 😅
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Can I presume that you have heard about the tunnel effect? A pulse sent into a tunnel can traverse the tunnel at faster than c. The pulse wh/ exits the tunnel is not the same as the pulse wh/ went in. Physicists have concluded from this, falsely IMO, that no information can be sent, because the pulse wh/ comes out is distorted.
But being a networker myself, no ...[text shortened]... s on one or both tunnels at faster than c, and bingo, we have information transfer at faster than c.
I think you will find that the hypothesis of your thought experiment is incorrect moon. I’m pretty sure that in the case of a theoretical wormhole/tunnel/throat, the distance between the entrance and exit is mathematically reduced to zero** in a similar mathematical way that a photon travelling at c from one star to your retina, the distance is reduced to zero. Therefore a photon experiences no time; as it has no mass it doesn’t interact in a gravitational way and is not impacted by space time. At least that’s what I’ve picked up from all YouTube videos I've watched on the topic.
**Assuming the robot was at one mouth of the wormhole and the receiving sensor was at the other mouth and there was no space time traversed.
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Haven’t read the whole thread but from quantum physicists I follow online; faster than light travel is impossible even for light. For anything with mass, even a quark, the energy required to move faster than say 90% of c becomes exponential as it approaches c, and there isn’t infinite energy.
PS I don’t in any way claim to understand the mathematics involved, but the principles are graspable.
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I did see @wildgrass say that the cosmos appears to be designed in such a way that humans will never be able to navigate interstellar distances and I have to agree. Although not sure about the simulation bit.
And no, I also don’t think humans will ever travel to nor live on Mars.
a) I don’t think we’re going to make much past the next several decades as a civilisation/species
b) the distances involved, even to Mars are colossal
c) Mars is a most inhospitable place with gravity maybe a third of earth (check notes) and travellers would never be able to return to earth as over the time their bone structure would decay too much.
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What the thought experiment proposes is a way to get information out of a quantum tunnel. Previous experiments have measured faster than c transits, with the caveat that no information could be sent faster than c, because the particle stream got distorted inside the barrier.
I refer you to the following article, which accepts faster than c tunnels as established;
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-tunnel-shows-particles-can-break-the-speed-of-light-20201020/
What we may conclude is that our perceptual categories of space, time, and causality break down at quantum levels. Particles are not little billiard balls with a determinate size, location, or trajectory.
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@diver saidSimulation is a bit of a joke because it fails the test of falsifiability.
I did see @wildgrass say that the cosmos appears to be designed in such a way that humans will never be able to navigate interstellar distances and I have to agree. Although not sure about the simulation bit.
And no, I also don’t think humans will ever travel to nor live on Mars.
a) I don’t think we’re going to make much past the next several decades as a civilisation/spe ...[text shortened]... s would never be able to return to earth as over the time their bone structure would decay too much.