FTL communication within the next 50 years?

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-01-06 11:25pm

In 50 years? I can see FTL communications in 50 years, but wormhole manipulation is a bit harder.
Edit: missed a word. Stupid me.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-01-07 12:03am

We already have transmitted information at 4c because of quantum tunelling. It might be possible to figure some way to do this on a broader scale. And this is discounting the discovery of tachyons

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-01-07 12:12am

o_O Since when did we find tachyons?

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-01-07 06:19am

Raise hand anybody who knows if a message sent through a wormhole will come out as exactly the same?
Hummmm, I don't see that many hands in the air...

We don't have any knowledge about wormholes, or their inner workings, as far as I know, the message could be totally lost in a pool of radiation.
(This reminds me a little bit of B5, right?)

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-01-07 07:11am

Exonerate wrote:For my group, we need to communicate from the asteroid belt to Earth. I doubt if you'd like a latency of 1200000.

Read the first line. Besides lag isn't really important anyways for most applications. I think the the lag is half that anyway.s

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-01-07 08:56am

My understanding of the experiments by Nimtz is that wave front velocities were not measured, and thus the law of causality was not shown to be broken. In reference to "On the Concept of the Tunneling Time" by Marinov and Segev, tunneling time is dependant on frequency, and thus causes a deformation of the wave packet, with the front velocities never exceeding c, but the peak (ie music) velocity may travel faster than c. All information for a wave is contained at the front of the wave, thus nothing is broken.

Until such time as FTL communiction has been conclusively shown, predictions about it being implemented are not relevant.