Physics experts please help me solve this fictional situation . .?

Question

I'm writing story, and I'm stuck due to a technical problem. Im my story A person on earth have been able to view the events happening on a farway planet with total clarity using a revolutionaly type of radio telescope. The planet he is survying is several lightyars away , and therefore the events he is watching are decades old. The problem is that I want my character to be able to intervene in the events happening in that faraway planet, to be able somehow to see the events on that planet in real time , not just that, but to be able to interact with the characters on that faraway planet without leaving his place.
Is there any way, any revolutionary technology you might think of that would enable someone on earth to see the events happening on another planet in real time, and not delayed due to the distance light has to travel, and also to send signals to that farway planet which will not be delayed by the distance? Instant receiving and sending regardless of the distance?
Thanks

Answer 1

No. A basic tenet of modern science is that NOTHING (except thought! --- by which I mean our ability to suddenly change from thinking about Earth to thinking about the most distant galaxy across the Universe) can travel at speeds exceeding that of light. (That point about "the speed of thought" not original with me --- the great English astrophysicist Sir Arthur Eddington wrote that in one of his many very readable books.)

The only thing that it seems you could do is to do what others have done --- throw in some fancy obfuscatory language about "connections with distant places via intervening wormholes between topological folds in the greater dimensional manifolds of the multiverse , etc." which is simply scientific sounding gobbledygook intended to snow its recipients.

Another thing might be to make use of "tachyons" --- fictional particles capable of travelling faster than light, and therefore enabling one to communicate with the future, if appropriately directed! I now recall that Gregory Benford wrote an extremely entertaining story, "Timescape," using just that scenario, some years ago. I think it won major awards. Check it out, if you haven't heard of it. People like (a very old) Kip Thorne and Martin Rees populate it.

I hope this helps.

Live long and prosper,

Answer 2

As Dr Spok said, Tachyons sound the most promissing, since they are Faster Than Light particules (FTL), but seems to be a mathematical possibility (and it is why scientists are still looking for them!).
Invent a spacial (not spEcial) transciever using tachyons as carrier wave, make these waves to be instantaneous, throw in a few gravitons (transporting the gravity force) to "bend" the space your tachyons travel, hence making them even faster.
Use gluons, carried by the tachyons to "glue" a few photons (to carry images) and a few, say, electrons, mesons or other to carry sound, et voilà!
Add a few accidents of the beam hitting some super-strings on the way to garble part of the messages and make things a bit more complicated.
Not so hard, after all...
I think it is called "artistical freedom"...

Answer 3

technology fiction writers were inventing FTL communications and commute for years now. Hyperwave is one which a lot of them use. except you want to describe it and the way it truly works for your tale, only bypass it off as some thing each and anybody is established with about, i.e. ought to you describe how a telephone works in case you used it in a narrative?

Answer 4

Science fiction writers have been inventing FTL communications and travel for years now.

Hyperwave is one that a lot of them use. Unless you need to describe it and how it works for your story, just pass it off as something everyone knows about, i.e. would you describe how a telephone works if you used it in a story?

Answer 5

Time travel, parallel universe hopping through rifts in space/time, astral projection, are a few of my favorite things. A communication device that super-cedes Ma-bell. be it a magical pair of displacement boots or a reality shifting pill to be swallowed. Perhaps a chanted spell left behind by an ancient, super advanced, car ring yet cannibalistic, charismatic chaps with cream, chrome, and charcoal colored candy coated chitinous coverings. (Can you tell its really late at night by my digressions?) Any way that sounds quite possible in the multi-verse.

Answer 6

If you cannot think of any phantastic (literally) idea yourself, you should stop trying to write a science fiction.
What is the trouble just naming anything whatever and to declare it being faster than light ?