Re: Faster Than Light Travel - Reply

Alan E. Aebrain Carmel J. Brain writes:

@:) Of course, so does Newtonian physics, within its realm. Case in
@:) point: FTL transmission of information has been achieved over
@:) macroscopic distances, about 2 cm if memory serves.

  Quantumly speaking, I think the difference between 2cm and 2ly is
not great.

@:) A piece of music was played, and transmitted via tunnelling,
@:) arriving at a speed not less than a large multiple of c, and
@:) recognisable as the tune being played (very distorted, a lot of
@:) signal loss). Still, even such a small crack in the FTL door
@:) rather puts the Kibosh on the absolute "Thous shalt not transmit
@:) any information faster than light" prohibition.

  Wow.

@:) Now this does not an FTL drive make. But it _IS_ interesting. I'll
@:) see if I can dig up the references to the experiment.

  Please do.  Note that this system, cleaned up and expanded to large
distances, provides about a third of the technology required for
teleportation.	Scanning an object at the quantum level and storing
all information about it is, of course, no mean feat, and I haven't
heard of any way to construct an object particle by particle but
... well, it's imaginable at least.

-joachim