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Teleportation Thru Time And Space, Black Holes Everywhere, Not Really Tuned For Life, Polygamice Win At Selection, Mammoth Cloning, Amoeba Lunches, Birdie Piggie Back, Biological Bird Clocks, Dog Food, And Much More…
Show Notes:
Some of the stories we discussed…
Transporters and Time Travel?
Polygamouse versus Monogamouse…
Problems with Mammoth Cloning
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Dr. Kiki, at the VERY beginning, you were talking about q-bits and entangled particles. I JUST finished a book earlier today that talk about all that stuff. It’s called “Decoding Reality. The Universe as Quantum Information” by Vlatko Vedral. This book is an introduction to Information Theory, and it address SO many of the things you and Justin were throwing back and forth. I read a LOT, and this book was quite literally the most fascinating scientific book I have ever read. I very much suggest that you guys read it, and I would even go so far as to recommend it for a future TWiS Bookclub Book of the Month. I could go on and on about this book, but really, you guys need to check it out for yourselves. The logic is almost irrefutable, and the implication are mind-blowing. I’ll even buy you a copy. That’s how much you need to read this book. ::laughs::
Justin, the problem with your idea for text messages to the future is this:
Entanglement is only evident after a classical signal has sent correlative information from the observer of particle A to the observer of particle B.
So, if you have a particle today entangled with my particle from tomorrow, you’ll have to leave me a message containing the correlative information, and wait for me to perform my experiment before I can receive your message. You might as well have written the text message on the note! Conversely, if I want to send a message to you some time tomorrow, you’ll have to wait until tomorrow so you can get the correlative information needed to intemperate the message you receive today. Either way, it’s not very convenient…
I just found the show this week and I love it. I had a question about the article on the cosmological constant not being fine tuned for life. My understanding is that the article stated the the universe isn’t fine tuned for evolution of life not necessary not fine tuned for life itself. I would love a little clarification.
hello
huge fan of the show and excited to have a teensy bit to contribute.
The ‘entangled particle’ instant text messaging device that justin was talking about
sounds very similar to the ansible device featured in Ursula Le Guin’s ‘Hainish cycle’ science fiction books.
Ansibles can communicate instantly over long distances but only in messages with limited amounts of text.
Also the ansible is explained as working on ‘the constant of simultaneity’. The books (most of them anyways) were written in the 1970’s, how long has this concept been around for.
anyways all the books of the series are all really good ‘the dispossessed’ especially.
best wishes in countdown to baby/robot domination
@khushrenada
Interesting you mention the ansible device, because it while I dook like Le Guin, I had never heard her use that term before. However, in Orson Scott Card’s books revolving around Ender’s Game, they also talk about the ansible device that is used in the same fashion. It is an interesting parallel, even in fiction, because two very different writers are using the same made-up word to describe the same made-up device. I wonder what the connection is.
Hey guys!
Thanks for a one more epic episode, but could you tell me why does the MP3s come out so much later than the actual show? 🙁
Thanks,
W.