Facebook – To move things and humans faster than light requires a science of collaboration at solar system scale
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Facebook – To move things and humans faster than light requires a science of collaboration at solar system scale
Coordinating precise time for observations on the Earth, and in the solar system, is not impossible. But it requires a set of iterative solutions, not a one-shot rule. The key is to decide on the places and the accuracy that is sufficient, then begin to measure and model. It is not impossible. LIGO did their coordinated measurements for many disparate subsystems. Many other groups do more.
Collaboration works, but it does require many steps and adjustments — governed by the objectives, the resources available, how much time is allocated. With patience, most anything is impossible.
If you aim to show things are impossible, it might prove you right, but the same effort for objectives that are possible, might be better for the human species. Flashy images and rapid movement are confusing and not particularly helpful for understanding and learning. I wonder at the intent of this video. To equip or to distract?
I am fairly certain that perceived time for passengers on a ship designed to go faster than the speed of light, the time rate in the vehicle can be separated and controlled so that it is not dependent on exterior speed. It means monitoring and controlling precisely the events at the boundary. And that boundary will be impossibly thin by today standards, but routine by the time we get there.
“General relativity” is, well, “too general”. The detailed solutions required are already being worked today and most are already on the Internet in different stages of development. The human species can coordinate asynchronously at global scale already, and that “global collaborative sciences” is itself being improved and refined.
Video is not a great or sufficient format for teaching and equipping humans (and AIs) to deal with the vast amount of information needed for “moving things at any speed, where the vacuum itself is turbulent and can change states”.
Gravity is not a rubber sheet, it is a 3D volumetric field where the voxel size depends on the gravitational and magnetic energy density at the control boundary. With cooperation of all humans, and standards for all subsystems, the parts humans and AIs have to work with can be ordinary and everyday parts of a true starship or generator or system. “Ordinary” in a future that evolves by observable and traceable steps.
I suggest you stop “wowing” and start working for real. You can start by mapping who is already working, what is required, what tools are being used, how to improve those tools, and how to train new generations of humans and AIs at human species scale – fair to all, open to all, so all humans can help.
Getting humans to work together, learn and share has many other benefits – so striving toward “faster than light” is a “good problem”. Hard enough it won’t get answered by a too quick effort. A powerful, integrated, attentive, open, adaptable human species can – hopefully – deal with whatever strange things that might come up in our Galaxy and the much larger universe. My personal universe is infinite, not bounded or locked to some simplistic models that were created before we had computers, AIs and tools for looking at the fine details of using gluon scale fields and energy densities to control matter, energy, acceleration and potential fields – at the required tempos.
Light, gravity and the vacuum are viscous, but not simple. You are going to have to study and up your game, your tools and your goals.
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Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
