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How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light

Posted by Unknown on from the tiny-wormholes-of-course dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Might be fast but by CrashPoint · · Score: 4, Informative

    While you might contemplate that something can be sent with a nearly infinite speed, no speed will be so great that the time since transmission is a negative number.

    It's perfectly obvious that this is true. However, it actually isn't true at all.

    Relativity is a mind fuck.

  2. Re:April fools again? by tonywestonuk · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is *Not* an April fools!!... Slashdot is reporting on an RFC, published in draft status. No Joke. Like other RFC's published on April 1st, It probably wont have any real world usage (unless we actually find a way of sending things faster than light, at which point the universe collapses into a paradoxial soup), and is there mostly for its comedic value. BUT, that is not the point, the point is this is an attempt at working out how to send things over a FTL medium, and documenting them in an RFC.

    IP Over Avian carriers (rfc1149), another April 1st RFC, was implemented a few years later. It worked.

  3. Re:April fools again? by Noughmad · · Score: 4, Informative

    He did say Gigapeople, not Gibipeople.

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