We'll say that instead of using the states of the tangled pennies to try to transfer information, we'll just use the fact that we stopped them.
Sorry, this can't really be done (and, yes, if it were possible, it would provide a means for faster-than-light communication, once a link was established). If I stop one of the pennies "here", there's no way to know that immediately at the "remote" end. The point of the analogy is that when we stop the corresponding penny at the remote end, we can know whether the initial penny here was heads or tails. The only way we can let them know at the remote end that we stopped our penny here is through other means of slow, light-speed communication.
Yes, yes, and this is why, fundamentally, the Matrix doesn't really make sense.
But I really doubt the 100 microwatts of power they are trying for will be significant enough to be noticed--your body gives off about 100 watts of radiation as it is.
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We'll say that instead of using the states of the tangled pennies to try to transfer information, we'll just use the fact that we stopped them.
Sorry, this can't really be done (and, yes, if it were possible, it would provide a means for faster-than-light communication, once a link was established). If I stop one of the pennies "here", there's no way to know that immediately at the "remote" end. The point of the analogy is that when we stop the corresponding penny at the remote end, we can know whether the initial penny here was heads or tails. The only way we can let them know at the remote end that we stopped our penny here is through other means of slow, light-speed communication.
Yes, yes, and this is why, fundamentally, the Matrix doesn't really make sense.
But I really doubt the 100 microwatts of power they are trying for will be significant enough to be noticed--your body gives off about 100 watts of radiation as it is.