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FuzzBall 005

PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 6:18 am
Im just going to assume that most of you have seen the picture showing how the christian dark ages drasticlly effected our technology. And I was thinking, What kind of technology would we have if that never happened.
Personaly, I think we would have nano-bots that attach to our central nervous systm that can tell us what time it is.

What kind of stuff do you think we would have had?

(Bonus question) How many people do you know think that Emerica was founded soley as a christian nation?  
PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 7:25 am
I think we'd have the cures for AIDS and some cancers. I also think we'd have found a way to move faster than light (they only recently discovered faster than light travel for particles).  

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dl1371

PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:34 pm
Labyrinthknight7
(they only recently discovered faster than light travel for particles).
We've known about entanglement for quite a while...

As for what we'd know, I think we'd have blasted ourselves back to the tribal ages with nuclear weapons.
EDIT: Actually, since in a modern society more people are coming in contact with more people, I think the plague would've set us back more than the dark ages.  
PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:46 pm
dl1371
Labyrinthknight7
(they only recently discovered faster than light travel for particles).
We've known about entanglement for quite a while...

As for what we'd know, I think we'd have blasted ourselves back to the tribal ages with nuclear weapons.


How is entanglement faster than light travel?  

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Lethkhar

PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 1:20 pm
Artto
dl1371
Labyrinthknight7
(they only recently discovered faster than light travel for particles).
We've known about entanglement for quite a while...

As for what we'd know, I think we'd have blasted ourselves back to the tribal ages with nuclear weapons.


How is entanglement faster than light travel?

I'm curious about this, too. 3nodding  
PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:43 pm
Artto
dl1371
Labyrinthknight7
(they only recently discovered faster than light travel for particles).
We've known about entanglement for quite a while...

As for what we'd know, I think we'd have blasted ourselves back to the tribal ages with nuclear weapons.


How is entanglement faster than light travel?
Its not particles, its information.  

dl1371


Lethkhar

PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 8:11 pm
dl1371
Artto
dl1371
Labyrinthknight7
(they only recently discovered faster than light travel for particles).
We've known about entanglement for quite a while...

As for what we'd know, I think we'd have blasted ourselves back to the tribal ages with nuclear weapons.


How is entanglement faster than light travel?
Its not particles, its information.

Man, I wish I cared enough about math to get beyond relativity... sweatdrop  
PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:08 pm
Lethkhar
dl1371
Artto
dl1371
Labyrinthknight7
(they only recently discovered faster than light travel for particles).
We've known about entanglement for quite a while...

As for what we'd know, I think we'd have blasted ourselves back to the tribal ages with nuclear weapons.


How is entanglement faster than light travel?
Its not particles, its information.

Man, I wish I cared enough about math to get beyond relativity... sweatdrop
Don't bother
General Relativity is confusing as hell.
And then there's quantum mechanics...  

dl1371


Lethkhar

PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:18 am
dl1371
Lethkhar
dl1371
Artto
dl1371
Labyrinthknight7
(they only recently discovered faster than light travel for particles).
We've known about entanglement for quite a while...

As for what we'd know, I think we'd have blasted ourselves back to the tribal ages with nuclear weapons.


How is entanglement faster than light travel?
Its not particles, its information.

Man, I wish I cared enough about math to get beyond relativity... sweatdrop
Don't bother
General Relativity is confusing as hell.
And then there's quantum mechanics...

Well, I survived general relativity. I haven't taken a class that goes beyond that, though.  
PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:56 am
dl1371
Artto
dl1371
Labyrinthknight7
(they only recently discovered faster than light travel for particles).
We've known about entanglement for quite a while...

As for what we'd know, I think we'd have blasted ourselves back to the tribal ages with nuclear weapons.


How is entanglement faster than light travel?
Its not particles, its information.


Ah, but you see, it's not possible to transmit information using entanglement smile
If you entangle two photons, for example, you can influence the other by changing the first one. But, these photons are already doing so much random stuff all the time, that it's impossible for the "receiver" of the information to separate the changes you make to the first photon from the random noise.  

Artto


dl1371

PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:48 pm
Artto
dl1371
Artto
dl1371
Labyrinthknight7
(they only recently discovered faster than light travel for particles).
We've known about entanglement for quite a while...

As for what we'd know, I think we'd have blasted ourselves back to the tribal ages with nuclear weapons.


How is entanglement faster than light travel?
Its not particles, its information.


Ah, but you see, it's not possible to transmit information using entanglement smile
If you entangle two photons, for example, you can influence the other by changing the first one. But, these photons are already doing so much random stuff all the time, that it's impossible for the "receiver" of the information to separate the changes you make to the first photon from the random noise.
Even if the information can't be calculated its still information...
EDIT: and its faster than light.  
PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:51 pm
Lethkhar
dl1371
Lethkhar
dl1371
Artto


How is entanglement faster than light travel?
Its not particles, its information.

Man, I wish I cared enough about math to get beyond relativity... sweatdrop
Don't bother
General Relativity is confusing as hell.
And then there's quantum mechanics...

Well, I survived general relativity. I haven't taken a class that goes beyond that, though.
I never really understood the tensors...  

dl1371


Blood Thirsty Turtle

PostPosted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:46 am
OFF TOPIC...rofl  
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