Comment by aatd86
3 years ago
Seen iRobot once... tries to make self-driving cars and underground tunnels :o)
I still want to see what is on the other end of the galaxy though. Requires more lifespan and faster than light/instantaneous data transmission. So some entangled particles stored in space relay expansions?
Or (and I think this is the problem) it requires us thinking about how to enable it for a generation so far in the future we don’t directly identify with them. We like to not care about anything unless we get to benefit from it.
Funny how we think about needing to live longer or travel faster than light.
> So some entangled particles stored in space relay expansions?
Entangled particles aren’t going to help us. (Wish i could find that video that explains why…)
I don't know about the video but here are a couple of other sources explainingwhy quantum entanglement doesn't allow FTL communication[0,1].
[0]https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/512504/in-layman...
[1]https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/why-does-quantum-entan...
Well, the way I've seen it explained, seems like it's similar to being able to dereference some object locally to read a value (observation) but not having access to that global state between the two variables to write it (we don't know yet at least).
The problem being that dereferencing (observing) is a mutating operation.
So, maybe we will find something some day. A bit of a professional deformation :o)
Science evolves.