NASA working on FTL Drive

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[The Dharma Bum]

[uebermann]

[The Dharma Bum]

Well with nonlocality distance is not an issue. If two particle are entangled and you change one's position the other one will follow suit and change position as well no matter what the distance.

This feature of quantum entanglement could possibly be exploited as a signaling device over vast distances. The entire universe, it is thought. However there are some obstacles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem


Quantum teleportation can't be used to transmit classical information but maybe we can figure out a system to use as sort of a "telegraph" to transmit a coded message or something.

[The Dharma Bum]

[uebermann]

Yeah but I'd think it would need a station or such. A place to unload old stuff and put on new stuff. I could be wrong but it just seems like it would be needed. Plus, pretty much all of the scifi shows have docks, and they can't all be wrong. I'm assuming that the ship itself isn't going to be huge and have a giant cargo hold. Nor the one going to it. But I guess if both did, it would be ok to not have a dock. But having a place to dock also gives us more cool stuff to have in space =P

[The Dharma Bum]

I agree. The Lagrange points are suitable for a orbital platform. That's where they'll put'em.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_p ... lonization

[eric]

As TDB pointed out, quantum entanglement should do the trick for communication, once we figure that out we can invent a method for traditional human input to be converted into quantum bits that interact with the ship, and display data in a manner that is usable for humans.

[Spider]