Now if the wedding is broadcast at the same time that Disaster Area is "broadcasting" (using the term loosely) from a neighbouring planet, how far away can SETI be and still detect the signal?
Having just watched the emminently entertaining Children of Dune on SciFi I am reminded that this psycho-babble-history really can work as long as you have the God-Emperor and his Wormy offspring chugging back enough spice of life to Make It So on the Golden Yellow Brick Path to the future;-)
-- Mmm, apparently there really are only 7 plots to stories, or something. Note to self: stick with day job and forget writing next big novel.
You need to get out of your Euclidian thinking and at least join the last century:
Even if you could somehow "know" everything, and Heizenberg's prevents that, you still face the possibility that quantum events are not pre-determined but in fact random in which case your predictions / or two universes start to diverge dramatically beginning a very short time interval after you made your magical recording of "everything".
I used to work at Adobe, and the specced monitors were either a Diamond Pro, or Sony Viewsonic? I went with the Diamond Pro 2040u and have no regrets.
Er, make sure that your video card is up to snuff, it needs quality circuitry to handle the higher resolutions with enough power. (Typically an nVidia problem as some of their oems go with cheap components).
Many things are impossible in general theory but with increasing knowledge of your problem domain these theoretical limits can be overcome.
In this case for example (see www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2003/split/621-1.html) by adding the direction a signal is coming from you can not only eliminate certain interference, but in fact boost your bandwidth in some useful cases.
One way to think about it is to imagine all transmitters sending very narrow beams exactly to the receiver. Woah, what interference?
No doubt Heizenberg's is the ultimate limit on this.
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Now if the wedding is broadcast at the same time that Disaster Area is "broadcasting" (using the term loosely) from a neighbouring planet, how far away can SETI be and still detect the signal?
Having just watched the emminently entertaining Children of Dune on SciFi I am reminded that this psycho-babble-history really can work as long as you have the God-Emperor and his Wormy offspring chugging back enough spice of life to Make It So on the Golden Yellow Brick Path to the future ;-)
-- Mmm, apparently there really are only 7 plots to stories, or something. Note to self: stick with day job and forget writing next big novel.
You need to get out of your Euclidian thinking and at least join the last century: Even if you could somehow "know" everything, and Heizenberg's prevents that, you still face the possibility that quantum events are not pre-determined but in fact random in which case your predictions / or two universes start to diverge dramatically beginning a very short time interval after you made your magical recording of "everything".
I used to work at Adobe, and the specced monitors were either a Diamond Pro, or Sony Viewsonic? I went with the Diamond Pro 2040u and have no regrets. Er, make sure that your video card is up to snuff, it needs quality circuitry to handle the higher resolutions with enough power. (Typically an nVidia problem as some of their oems go with cheap components).
Many things are impossible in general theory but with increasing knowledge of your problem domain these theoretical limits can be overcome.
In this case for example (see www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2003/split/621-1.html) by adding the direction a signal is coming from you can not only eliminate certain interference, but in fact boost your bandwidth in some useful cases.
One way to think about it is to imagine all transmitters sending very narrow beams exactly to the receiver. Woah, what interference?
No doubt Heizenberg's is the ultimate limit on this.