Time travellers outsmart the NSA If there are time travellers around, they're being careful not to leave their fingerprints on the Internet. That's the conclusion in a paper published at Arxiv, put together by Michigan Technical University physics professor Robert Nemiroff and PhD candidate Teresa Wilson. They searched the Internet for “prescient” signatures …
Of course, this is just one instantiation of a general problem: that no one really has a clear idea of what it means to treat spacetime itself quantum-mechanically.
Thst's the wrong type of question. You can't quantise 'space time' because it has no independent existence. It's not a backdrop upon which events occur, it's an emergent effect of the relationship between fundamental particles/fields.
Paraphrasing The Man(tm) himself - space is what stops everything happening in the one place and time is what stops it all happening at once.
"Paraphrasing The Man(tm) himself - space is what stops everything happening in the one place and time is what stops it all happening at once."
Ah, so that's the answer to the two questions "What created the Big Bang?" and "What was before the Big Bang?"
Since both Space and Time were created in the the Big Bang, that was the one time when everything did happen in the same place and at the same time at once. So Cause and Effect happened in the same instant (they had to, since there was no Time before the Cause and no Space for it to happen in) and the Big Bang created itself. Neat.
I guess the only other moment when everything happens in the same place and the same time will be the Big Crunch, when Spacetime crushes itself out of existance.
At least there is symmetry.
I mean this is embarrassing. They monitor the whole world. People die of their actions. They waste lots of money, cause damage in all sorts of ways, but don't actually contribute anything to society.
Can't we just shut down the NSA and the rest of those secret services? Just think how much good we could do in the world with such amounts of money. We could give everyone a decent education and eradicate terrorism. Then later we can consider recreating the small bits of the those secret services we might still need.
Just think how much good we could do in the world with such amounts of money. We could give everyone a decent education and eradicate terrorism.
This is exactly what they are doing.
They are just failing hard on both points.
You think you gonna do any better?
Oh here we go again.
In truth, liberals and conservatives are the same control freaks.
You may note that you have currently the most liberal multicolored hopistic poster child of the liberal wankshow and he is a serial catastrophe on everything from warmongering to mandatory healthcare fail while bailing out cronies left and right, printing money, keeping the gitmo open and shitting on the constitution.
Yeah, it's all due to the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. Sure.
...Can't we just shut down the NSA and the rest of those secret services?...
Yes, we could, quite easily. The work that they do could easily be done (and SHOULD be done) by the police.
The key point about 'secret services' is that you have them in time of war, when you suspend the requirement for your actions to be legal. The key point about the police is that they police in society, and have to create cases and justify their actions in an open court. There is no reason why the police should not 'do intelligence' - indeed they regularly do so.
What we do NOT need is an uncontrollable secretive organisation with an ethos of ignoring rules. These organisations were set up during war scares to address perceived national threats of overwhelming force which justified the suspension of the rule of law, and they should be closed down when we are not fighting for our lives
Many years ago before even the days of Wildcat BBS, a local paper had picked up where a Psychic group in the South of England had cancelled a two/three months hence meeting because the weather would be too bad to travel. Would love to know if they had been right but never got off my backside to check at the time.
If I was a time traveler I would be going to times way before the internet. If I did pass through 2010 for a jolly then how would my future phone even work to allow me to tweet? My network contract wouldn't even exist yet!
My twitter account wouldn't even exist (lets say I was travelling from 2100)
And even if I did Tweet imagine how messed up it would be. My latest tweets would be showing as my oldest tweets. It would be all out of sync. No definitely wouldn't bother with any social media if I was surfing time and space. I would be too busy causing mayhem. Committing any and every crime then leaping into the next time zone!
...could presumably be backwards-compatible with the ancient WiFi standards of 2010, which most probably "will are going to were have been" (or however the frakk the grammar works) in use in Africa or some such place even when said iPhone 39 "was is going to will have been" built.
So you just step into a Starbucks or McDonald's and log set up a new Twitter account. HTH!
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I did go back in time and changed something. I then found myself branched off into a new future in a parallel universe. The old universe continued unchanged and thus no evidence existed. In my new universe the evidence had always existed and could not be classified as prescient. So I went back and changed what I had changed but this just put me into a new parallel universe again, presumably because something else had changed from the original universe i left when I made my first change. I had a few beers and decided that this time travel malarkey was just not worth the hassle, I mean, just how many parallel universes can one man create, is there enough Dark Matter to go round?
Thus accessing and blending in the branes again in a useable form, is the skill to master?
Coursing through the dark matter and back again, scalararities of each successive instance experienced instantly avail information via each petal of a flowered lens portal as reflections off the apparently shiny surfaces of most monitored matter.
Seamlessly separating all those channels at once is by a special dedication achieved absent self-reference other than DNA harmonics, hence we tend to focus exclusively on the easy mainstream channel rather closely, ignoring the others as just an aberration.
Due to the Quantum effect, such information 'knows' where it is going, in it's own darkened, alternatively dimensional journey.
Can you see how Schroedinger's Cat's Fur showers the shagpile when the box gets opened by the perceiver remotely. Please don't pull your hair out?
The remote drag on a particle from being mass-analysed actually drains it of energy, hence the tone of politics and leaDOHship.these daze.
Delta those leveraged disabilities with a MMORPH-DNA-SKA?
If Everyone agrees, of course?
Time travel must be impossible for *this* frame of reference, because even a single photo passing through a "time portal" would cause massive feedback and probably a boom...
Think about it.
But I did have good giggle at this , but not as nice as Steven Hawking’s "welcome time travellers" gag.....
P.
If there are any time travellers out there, they would have known about this research before coming back to the past, what with it already having been published back in the future.
They would therefore know exactly what to avoid posting on the internet, and if they made any slip-ups, they could check when they get back forward, then come back before they came originally and stop themselves from doing whatever they did that they were going to do before they went back forwards again.
Perfectly clear...
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