sign that
says, “Undervalue me”? How come, to get back to the matter in hand, that in the history of the Heimdall virtual bridge,
I’m
the fucking Trotsky?
Not that I’m bitter.
I admit, of course, that the scientific groundwork for Heimdall was laid down by others. I’m not the Einstein, or the Dyson,
or the Fermi, or the Lopez. I was, by that time, in my fourth or fifth major change of career, the elected President of Humanity.
For nearly a hundred years I was the most powerful person in the Human Universe. I created peace, harmony, understanding.
And Heimdall.
Heimdall is, of course, a quantum artefact. Its essential principles relate to the well established concept that a quantum
state in one part of the Universe can affect a quantum state in another part of the Universe, simultaneously and without any
passage of time.
Scientists call it – I feel you flagging here but please, bear with me, this is the very structure and essence of the Universe
we’re talking about, so if you fail to grasp this paragraph you might as well be, frankly, pond slime, or a laboratory rat
– the principle of wholeness, or entanglement. Which means that whenever two systems have at some previous moment interacted
(or entangled), their description is tied together
no matter how far apart they may subsequently be
. And a datum that is true of the one system, will be true of the other system also.
But since all the Universe originated in a single near-infinitesimal singularity – in its pre-Big Bang golden idyll – every
part of the Universe was at this very earliest moment entangled with every other part. And that connection persists, despite
the subsequent expansion of the Universe. It’s like twins separated at birth and raised in different countries, who remain
empathetically or even telepathically connected.
And so quantum theory allows an amazing loophole to the law that says nothing can travel faster than light. The exception
says that i
nformation
can be conveyed instantaneously, whatever the distance involved, if it’s information about a quantum state between two previously
entangled quanta.
But to get any value out of this hallowed principle of physics, you have to be able to manipulate the quantum states on both
sides. Not by much. You just need the difference between Quantum State A and Quantum State B. Which is the difference between
0 and 1. Which of course is the basis for a long-distance digitised computer connection, capable of communicating information
instantaneously.
And so, once you have your two quantum state controllers in place… distances vanish. An email sent in Australia will
reach Africa
the very instant it is sent
. It won’t be quick, it won’t be fast; there won’t even be a millisecond of time elapsing.
It will be instant
. And so it becomes as easy to send an email from Australia to Africa as it is to send one from London to
the other end of the galaxy
.
And thus, as a result of these discoveries, the Universal Web becomes possible. Video phone calls can be made between planets,
without even a momentary delay. And all this is made possible by the “quantum state manipulation nano-computers” which were
christened, by me, Quantum Beacons.
The snag is that there’s a huge amount of work involved in setting up this means of communication. The near Beacon is always
on Earth or in the Earth system, but the distant Beacons have to be literally flown through physical space to the desired
remote location. In a metaphorical nutshell; the telephone wire has to be hooked up at
both ends
.
I was, I have to admit, one of the first to realise the great value and potential of all the decades of difficult theorising
into the field of quantum communication. And I believe that the construction of Heimdall was the greatest accomplishment of
my Presidency, tarnished only by the memory that the scientists and the explorers were given all the credit, whereas
says, “Undervalue me”? How come, to get back to the matter in hand, that in the history of the Heimdall virtual bridge,
I’m
the fucking Trotsky?
Not that I’m bitter.
I admit, of course, that the scientific groundwork for Heimdall was laid down by others. I’m not the Einstein, or the Dyson,
or the Fermi, or the Lopez. I was, by that time, in my fourth or fifth major change of career, the elected President of Humanity.
For nearly a hundred years I was the most powerful person in the Human Universe. I created peace, harmony, understanding.
And Heimdall.
Heimdall is, of course, a quantum artefact. Its essential principles relate to the well established concept that a quantum
state in one part of the Universe can affect a quantum state in another part of the Universe, simultaneously and without any
passage of time.
Scientists call it – I feel you flagging here but please, bear with me, this is the very structure and essence of the Universe
we’re talking about, so if you fail to grasp this paragraph you might as well be, frankly, pond slime, or a laboratory rat
– the principle of wholeness, or entanglement. Which means that whenever two systems have at some previous moment interacted
(or entangled), their description is tied together
no matter how far apart they may subsequently be
. And a datum that is true of the one system, will be true of the other system also.
But since all the Universe originated in a single near-infinitesimal singularity – in its pre-Big Bang golden idyll – every
part of the Universe was at this very earliest moment entangled with every other part. And that connection persists, despite
the subsequent expansion of the Universe. It’s like twins separated at birth and raised in different countries, who remain
empathetically or even telepathically connected.
And so quantum theory allows an amazing loophole to the law that says nothing can travel faster than light. The exception
says that i
nformation
can be conveyed instantaneously, whatever the distance involved, if it’s information about a quantum state between two previously
entangled quanta.
But to get any value out of this hallowed principle of physics, you have to be able to manipulate the quantum states on both
sides. Not by much. You just need the difference between Quantum State A and Quantum State B. Which is the difference between
0 and 1. Which of course is the basis for a long-distance digitised computer connection, capable of communicating information
instantaneously.
And so, once you have your two quantum state controllers in place… distances vanish. An email sent in Australia will
reach Africa
the very instant it is sent
. It won’t be quick, it won’t be fast; there won’t even be a millisecond of time elapsing.
It will be instant
. And so it becomes as easy to send an email from Australia to Africa as it is to send one from London to
the other end of the galaxy
.
And thus, as a result of these discoveries, the Universal Web becomes possible. Video phone calls can be made between planets,
without even a momentary delay. And all this is made possible by the “quantum state manipulation nano-computers” which were
christened, by me, Quantum Beacons.
The snag is that there’s a huge amount of work involved in setting up this means of communication. The near Beacon is always
on Earth or in the Earth system, but the distant Beacons have to be literally flown through physical space to the desired
remote location. In a metaphorical nutshell; the telephone wire has to be hooked up at
both ends
.
I was, I have to admit, one of the first to realise the great value and potential of all the decades of difficult theorising
into the field of quantum communication. And I believe that the construction of Heimdall was the greatest accomplishment of
my Presidency, tarnished only by the memory that the scientists and the explorers were given all the credit, whereas
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