If you think dial-up is slow, imagine communicating with a ship 100 light years away using coventional technology...
2007-07-09 05:02:57 · 11 answers · asked by Bill W 【ツ】 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
To answer that question, let me ask another. Suppose you have a telephone pole, made out of very compact crystal, that is 1 light year long. You (at one end) push the pole 5 feet. When do I, sitting at the other end, see it move? If it's instantly, then theoretically, we've communicated faster than the speed of light.
2007-07-09 05:53:46 · answer #1 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Interesting question. I believe that particles in the universe are all connected. I'm sure in the future we will be able to come up with some kind of communication device able to instantly transfer data. If you think about it, the only reason we would need to do so is if we have found a way to actually travel faster than the speed of light. In which case, data transfer should be considered relatively easy. I have actually heard that if you were to take binary particles, and place one at one side of the universe and the other at the other side, and change the polarity of one of the particles, the other particle would instantly changed polarity accordingly. It's interesting to think about. Of course, with our technology as we stand today, such a concept is almost impossible to even comprehend.
2007-07-09 12:28:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are several possibilities on the drawing board for rapid interstellar travel. One is Alcubeirre's warp drive principle. The other is the worm hole theory. To instantaneously send data light yrs. I believe the worm hole theory holds the most hope. Experimentally worm holes have been created in the lab. However, they are sub protonic in size. So, lets make one just a little bigger say the size of a small bacterium or large virus. Then transmitting data through this worm hole shouldn't be difficult. Making a worm hole this size is currently beyond our capability, but in the future who knows!!!
2007-07-09 12:50:42 · answer #3 · answered by Deslok of Gammalon 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, it doesn't look like it so far. Even with experimental results indicating quantum entanglement phenomena greatly exceed the speed of light, there seems to be "quirks" to it that limit the max speed of communication to the speed of light. If it were possible to communicate at faster than light, there would be reference frames possible that would enable communication between the past and the future, a violation of causality.
2007-07-09 12:42:12 · answer #4 · answered by Gary H 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. The answer from xjmox1 hit the nail on the head. ..." if you were to take binary particles, and place one at one side of the universe (or one side of the room) and the other at the other side, and change the polarity of one of the particles, the other particle would instantly changed polarity accordingly" ...In the lab, when such a split particle was measured, it's other half changed state. The "two" were still connected!!!
2007-07-09 14:45:06 · answer #5 · answered by Hgldr 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, so far physics doesn't seem to want to let us have instantaneous communication. I guess if we're going to manage it, we'll probably have to mess up physics a bit. Perhaps it could be done by sending the messages through an alternate universe or something, but we'll have to wait and see.
2007-07-09 12:06:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes
2007-07-09 12:09:27 · answer #7 · answered by Wally H 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Waiting for your call to go through, you could
grow a beard about 30 miles long.
2007-07-09 13:36:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no distance is near same for sound as light
2007-07-09 12:08:45 · answer #9 · answered by KnightRider 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
no
2007-07-09 12:23:51 · answer #10 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋