Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: ctangus

It's probably been 2-3 years since I've tithed. I hope no one wants to collect arrears...

Is Martin (VSWG) still hanging out?

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ORIGINAL: ctangus

It's probably been 2-3 years since I've tithed. I hope no one wants to collect arrears...

Is Martin (VSWG) still hanging out?

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

OK - i've come up with an idea for faster-than-light communication (patent pending)... not sure if it's original (i.e. - if i am the first to think of it), but i'll claim it as mine!

Recent experiments have shown that you can get quantum entanglement of (say) photons. You can separate the photons then measure the polarization of one photon. If it is vertically polarized, the other photon which is quantumlyy entangled will also be vertically polarized.

Here's the cool part: they've separated quantumly entangled photons by several miles then measured their polarization at the same time. They were (as predicted) the same. In order for any information to have passed between the two particles, it would have had to travel at least 10,000x the speed of light.

Now: it is possible to CHANGE the polarization of a photon by passing it through a rotating device... so if the photon was vertically polarized, it could be changed to horizontally polarized. If it was horizontally polarized to start with, then it would stay horizontally polarized.

So, you get a bunch of entangled photons, and keep half for yourself and send half to your friend in a space-ship near (say) Alpha Centauri (or whatever). You've arranged a code so that if you read the polarization of a particle and it is vertically polarized, that is a 0 (zero), horizontally polarized is a 1 (one).

So, you want to communicate digitally with your friend. You want to send the first digit in your digital message as a zero, so you put in the first entangled photon into a vertical rotator - it will become a vertically polarized if it wasn't, and will stay vertically polarized if it was that way to start. Your friend on Alpha Centauri measures the first quantumly entangled photon in his bucket, and it will be vertically polarized, and interpreted as a ZERO. Repeat for the rest of the digital message.

Of course, there are a number of practical problems with this approach - but, hey, it's good enough for science fiction!

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

OK - i've come up with an idea for faster-than-light communication (patent pending)... not sure if it's original (i.e. - if i am the first to think of it), but i'll claim it as mine!

Recent experiments have shown that you can get quantum entanglement of (say) photons. You can separate the photons then measure the polarization of one photon. If it is vertically polarized, the other photon which is quantumlyy entangled will also be vertically polarized.

Here's the cool part: they've separated quantumly entangled photons by several miles then measured their polarization at the same time. They were (as predicted) the same. In order for any information to have passed between the two particles, it would have had to travel at least 10,000x the speed of light.

Now: it is possible to CHANGE the polarization of a photon by passing it through a rotating device... so if the photon was vertically polarized, it could be changed to horizontally polarized. If it was horizontally polarized to start with, then it would stay horizontally polarized.

So, you get a bunch of entangled photons, and keep half for yourself and send half to your friend in a space-ship near (say) Alpha Centauri (or whatever). You've arranged a code so that if you read the polarization of a particle and it is vertically polarized, that is a 0 (zero), horizontally polarized is a 1 (one).

So, you want to communicate digitally with your friend. You want to send the first digit in your digital message as a zero, so you put in the first entangled photon into a vertical rotator - it will become a vertically polarized if it wasn't, and will stay vertically polarized if it was that way to start. Your friend on Alpha Centauri measures the first quantumly entangled photon in his bucket, and it will be vertically polarized, and interpreted as a ZERO. Repeat for the rest of the digital message.

Of course, there are a number of practical problems with this approach - but, hey, it's good enough for science fiction!

Kirk Lazarus: I know who I am. I'm the dude playin' the dude, disguised as another dude!
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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

OK - i've come up with an idea for faster-than-light communication (patent pending)... not sure if it's original (i.e. - if i am the first to think of it), but i'll claim it as mine!

Recent experiments have shown that you can get quantum entanglement of (say) photons. You can separate the photons then measure the polarization of one photon. If it is vertically polarized, the other photon which is quantumlyy entangled will also be vertically polarized.

Here's the cool part: they've separated quantumly entangled photons by several miles then measured their polarization at the same time. They were (as predicted) the same. In order for any information to have passed between the two particles, it would have had to travel at least 10,000x the speed of light.

Now: it is possible to CHANGE the polarization of a photon by passing it through a rotating device... so if the photon was vertically polarized, it could be changed to horizontally polarized. If it was horizontally polarized to start with, then it would stay horizontally polarized.

So, you get a bunch of entangled photons, and keep half for yourself and send half to your friend in a space-ship near (say) Alpha Centauri (or whatever). You've arranged a code so that if you read the polarization of a particle and it is vertically polarized, that is a 0 (zero), horizontally polarized is a 1 (one).

So, you want to communicate digitally with your friend. You want to send the first digit in your digital message as a zero, so you put in the first entangled photon into a vertical rotator - it will become a vertically polarized if it wasn't, and will stay vertically polarized if it was that way to start. Your friend on Alpha Centauri measures the first quantumly entangled photon in his bucket, and it will be vertically polarized, and interpreted as a ZERO. Repeat for the rest of the digital message.

Of course, there are a number of practical problems with this approach - but, hey, it's good enough for science fiction!

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

For our lime-enhanced THREAD brothers-an object lesson in the difference between American and British culture...

http://www.wimp.com/americanbritish/

I must say, that was a fine head fake that Gordon Brown threw on that poor bobby. The American 'gonna shake your hand...not gonna! Psych!' version would have had him extend his hand and then quickly palm the hair over his temple in a 'gotcha' moment.

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ORIGINAL: ctangus

Tithe!!!

Mike

"Good times will set you free" - Jimmy Buffett

"They need more rum punch" - Me


Artwork by The Amazing Dixie

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Mad ninja skillz. It haz dem.

http://www.wimp.com/catsound/

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ORIGINAL: DivePac88

Hi Guys hope everyone is well, and there turns are treating them well. I am still in Hospital, but should be out in another two weeks maybe. Well the bad news is I have been diagnosed with an Endocrine tumour, and it is inoperable. But the good news is that it is that there are several treatments to arrest and retard this growth.

So I've started on the first treatment, which involves me learning to, and injecting myself twice a day with a drug. This drug call Octreotide will arrest the growth, and stop the tumour doing some other nasty things. Then all I have to do is put some body weight back on, and I can go home.

I’ll start posting regularly again on the Thread/Forum when I get home. So you guys all have a nice day, and I’ll be back as my annoying self soon.

Des.

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Morning tithe.

I'd like to join your cheering section, Des. We may not have the short skirts or shapely legs but we have boundless enthusiasm.


(I'd post a picture but that might cause the world to end).

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

... and we also had some corvette/patrol boat (?) visiting just offshore.

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: Kwik E Mart

speaking of renal physiology...it's clear to me that cats are far more advanced than any other life form on earth...hmmm...they're probably from Mynok's neck of the woods...

The really amazing thing is that's a picture of just one cat, but he's doing the time travel thing and having a laser battle with himself.

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: ctangus

It's probably been 2-3 years since I've tithed. I hope no one wants to collect arrears...

Is Martin (VSWG) still hanging out?

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

OK - i've come up with an idea for faster-than-light communication (patent pending)... not sure if it's original (i.e. - if i am the first to think of it), but i'll claim it as mine!

Recent experiments have shown that you can get quantum entanglement of (say) photons. You can separate the photons then measure the polarization of one photon. If it is vertically polarized, the other photon which is quantumlyy entangled will also be vertically polarized.

Here's the cool part: they've separated quantumly entangled photons by several miles then measured their polarization at the same time. They were (as predicted) the same. In order for any information to have passed between the two particles, it would have had to travel at least 10,000x the speed of light.

Now: it is possible to CHANGE the polarization of a photon by passing it through a rotating device... so if the photon was vertically polarized, it could be changed to horizontally polarized. If it was horizontally polarized to start with, then it would stay horizontally polarized.

So, you get a bunch of entangled photons, and keep half for yourself and send half to your friend in a space-ship near (say) Alpha Centauri (or whatever). You've arranged a code so that if you read the polarization of a particle and it is vertically polarized, that is a 0 (zero), horizontally polarized is a 1 (one).

So, you want to communicate digitally with your friend. You want to send the first digit in your digital message as a zero, so you put in the first entangled photon into a vertical rotator - it will become a vertically polarized if it wasn't, and will stay vertically polarized if it was that way to start. Your friend on Alpha Centauri measures the first quantumly entangled photon in his bucket, and it will be vertically polarized, and interpreted as a ZERO. Repeat for the rest of the digital message.

Of course, there are a number of practical problems with this approach - but, hey, it's good enough for science fiction!

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: stuman

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Morning tithe.

I'd like to join your cheering section, Des. We may not have the short skirts or shapely legs but we have boundless enthusiasm.


(I'd post a picture but that might cause the world to end).

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

For our lime-enhanced THREAD brothers-an object lesson in the difference between American and British culture...

http://www.wimp.com/americanbritish/

I must say, that was a fine head fake that Gordon Brown threw on that poor bobby. The American 'gonna shake your hand...not gonna! Psych!' version would have had him extend his hand and then quickly palm the hair over his temple in a 'gotcha' moment.

I'm not so sure that lime is an enhancement. As best as I can tell, all it does is make you consistently misspell routine words, "smoke fags" (not that theres anything wrong with that), drive on the wrong side of the road and lament some "colonies" and "empire" or other. Not sure what that mean but I hope its not contagious.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

OK - i've come up with an idea for faster-than-light communication (patent pending)... not sure if it's original (i.e. - if i am the first to think of it), but i'll claim it as mine!

Recent experiments have shown that you can get quantum entanglement of (say) photons. You can separate the photons then measure the polarization of one photon. If it is vertically polarized, the other photon which is quantumlyy entangled will also be vertically polarized.

Here's the cool part: they've separated quantumly entangled photons by several miles then measured their polarization at the same time. They were (as predicted) the same. In order for any information to have passed between the two particles, it would have had to travel at least 10,000x the speed of light.

Now: it is possible to CHANGE the polarization of a photon by passing it through a rotating device... so if the photon was vertically polarized, it could be changed to horizontally polarized. If it was horizontally polarized to start with, then it would stay horizontally polarized.

So, you get a bunch of entangled photons, and keep half for yourself and send half to your friend in a space-ship near (say) Alpha Centauri (or whatever). You've arranged a code so that if you read the polarization of a particle and it is vertically polarized, that is a 0 (zero), horizontally polarized is a 1 (one).

So, you want to communicate digitally with your friend. You want to send the first digit in your digital message as a zero, so you put in the first entangled photon into a vertical rotator - it will become a vertically polarized if it wasn't, and will stay vertically polarized if it was that way to start. Your friend on Alpha Centauri measures the first quantumly entangled photon in his bucket, and it will be vertically polarized, and interpreted as a ZERO. Repeat for the rest of the digital message.

Of course, there are a number of practical problems with this approach - but, hey, it's good enough for science fiction!

Photon transfer of information at FTL has been SO done...

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ORIGINAL: stuman

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Morning tithe.

I'd like to join your cheering section, Des. We may not have the short skirts or shapely legs but we have boundless enthusiasm.


(I'd post a picture but that might cause the world to end).

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ORIGINAL: stuman

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ORIGINAL: ctangus

It's probably been 2-3 years since I've tithed. I hope no one wants to collect arrears...

Is Martin (VSWG) still hanging out?

Welcome back, and you owe THE THREAD 792 posts.