Physics nerd. Currently studying some quantum gravity adjacent stuff in QFT
They/them
Physics nerd. Currently studying some quantum gravity adjacent stuff in QFT
They/them
I’M SHOOK
You’ve changed my whole world
Well, data just doesn’t really flow at the speed of light. It’s a really really complicated thing to discuss in terms of physical circuits because the true picture involves considering how the EM field evolves. Electrons in a circuit move at extremely slow speeds, ~millimeters per second.
The good news is you don’t need to send information particularly fast to send it through time. Generally in physics, we build time travel systems by creating extremely curved spacetime that contains paths to the past, theoretically you could send light through such a path to transmit information back in time. As someone already mentioned, you generally need negative mass to construct these.
If you have negative mass there are three options I’m aware of:
If you want to send information into the distant future, you could get really fancy and scatter some light off of a black hole or something.
I hope you’re right, but explaining mysterious cosmic things seems to have a history of ruining scifi.
Also just like, starfield never gave me a reason to care about any of that besides it simply being the main quest line.