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How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light
higuita writes "With faster technologies showing up everyday, people need to prepare in advance the problems of faster-than-light communication. The main problem is that packages will arrive to the destination before they are sent, forcing a huge redesign of most protocols. Read here the first draft RFC. Any network expert is free to help fine tune this draft."
Last time I started mentioning proven scientific fact, demonstrated in laboratories, and taught in universities, a bunch of dumbasses modded me down, saying that it's impossible. Well welcome to 2013. Guess what, it's not. Even if this is a joke, it i s true. There have been experiments where data from some sort of quantum photon path thing basically did a funhouse mirror trick where the light existed at the end just as it was leaving then . It was a story on Slashdot. You cannot possibly have missed it! It was even titled something like "light arrives at target before leaving."
Also, I'm still 99.99999999999999999% sure that there have been entire Discover Channel specials about quantum entanglement that state, word for word, that quantum entanglement will solve the overseas reporter audio delay issue. Modifications to one particle happen instantaneously to the other since the data doesn't have to "travel," as the two particles are actually the same particle. There is no mass or radiation that has to move from point to point. It's just basically one particle in two places in space at the same time. Via the laws of physics, modifications to one HAVE TO happen to the other in realtime. They even said that a Mars rover with a quantum chip would be able to be driven in realtime by a remote control because of the zero delay. The biggest problem lately, as stated in MANY slashdot stories, is how far they can get the particles away from each other before the entanglement collapses. Every time a new record for distance is set, it's a slashdot story. So stop spouting off outdated crap from your high school physics class 10 years ago and saying I'm wrong.
In some parts of the world it's still April 1st.
At the time this story was posted, there was no place on earth were it was still April 1st, and also the morning of April 1st. Both are requirements for an April fool's prank to be considered as such.
You can never know everything, and part of what you do know will always be wrong. Perhaps even the most important part.