Here's a quantum communication device that will change the world as we know it. You have a transmitter and a receiver both one Planck distance away from another. The receiver is always receiving information and transmitter is always transmitting relevant information. They are both aligned to fit the rotation of the Earth. The devices transmit information at the speed of light. What do we notice? Your inputted data is essentially sent to the past.
>but it only receives its own message! how could that be of any value?
Remember, the device is aligned with the rotation of the earth, the distance is one planck, the speed is that of light, and the outer velocities are all irrelevant. So you *are* sending information to yourself in the past, not your present self.
The transmitter projects in the direction of the receiver to the opposite direction that the Earth spins. Before the receiver has received its message the earth has already spun on its axis, and because time moves in one direction, the past receives the message in the exact moment that it was transmitted.
If you agree that 1. light travels at a constant speed, 2. Planck distance is the shortest possible distance in our Universe, and there can be no shorter distance between two coordinate points, 3. the earth is constantly spinning on its own axis at 1000 mph, then the message is shot at the speed of light back in time to the moment it was sent, in the near past.
This is how you should imagine it: a snail and a cheetah are racing each other. the finish line and the starting line are one planck distance away from each other. They both start at the same time, but because of that they also finish at the same time, their respective speeds being completely irrelevant.
Once you turn on this machine, you will receive an endless stream of information from the future, and you will be transmitting an endless amount of information to the past as well.
>but it only receives its own message! how could that be of any value?
Remember, the device is aligned with the rotation of the earth, the distance is one planck, the speed is that of light, and the outer velocities are all irrelevant. So you *are* sending information to yourself in the past, not your present self.
The transmitter projects in the direction of the receiver to the opposite direction that the Earth spins. Before the receiver has received its message the earth has already spun on its axis, and because time moves in one direction, the past receives the message in the exact moment that it was transmitted.
If you agree that 1. light travels at a constant speed, 2. Planck distance is the shortest possible distance in our Universe, and there can be no shorter distance between two coordinate points, 3. the earth is constantly spinning on its own axis at 1000 mph, then the message is shot at the speed of light back in time to the moment it was sent, in the near past.
This is how you should imagine it: a snail and a cheetah are racing each other. the finish line and the starting line are one planck distance away from each other. They both start at the same time, but because of that they also finish at the same time, their respective speeds being completely irrelevant.
Once you turn on this machine, you will receive an endless stream of information from the future, and you will be transmitting an endless amount of information to the past as well.
