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ieightpiAt 19 billion kilometers away, it takes about 18 hrs for a signal from Voyager 2 to be intercepted by Earth. Pretty crazy how long it takes at this distance.
But then again this isn’t even that far. For comparison a message from Alpha Cenauri, the closest star system, would take four years for it to be intercepted…
If we ever become an species spanning multiple solar systems I wonder how communication tech will evolve to help reduce ~4 years down to well anything else lol
It would take some discovery that required rewriting the laws of physics, and a lot of what we currently think we know would have to be revisited.
Yeah, that’s why the quantum world is so appealing yeah? Seemingly breaks laws of physics that it shouldn’t. My only guess for communication exceeding light speed would be somehow using quantum entanglement, but that would be thousands and thousands of years in the future I think lol.
AnomandarisYou say that, but some journalist said we were one million years away from flight and then something like a week later the Wright brothers conducted their first flight.
While we may not be quite that close, it may not be as far away as you think.
While I’d love this to happen, it’s a very different proposition. We knew heavier than air flight was possible, birds had been doing it fo millions of years prior to the weight brothers. Even humans had demonstrated flight, the Montgolfier brothers had demonstrated flight more than 150 years before the Wrights.
The issue is we know of nothing that can transmit faster than the speed of light, we have no model to work from.
Quantum entanglement was my first thought. They’ve already tested it and it holds when one is the entangled particles is up in space.