So what in what scenario would it be more practical to send a letter through gravitational waves rather then light?
Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves
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Re: Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves
#12Any wave that can be modulated and detected lends itself to data transfer, in principle. The question would be how practical it is.
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#13"The discovery could lead to a new means of data transfer in space, e.g., between space stations." Sure, we'll be building space stations with gravitational wave transmitters as soon as we can figure out how to wiggle stars and planets in a controlled fashion to produce them. That should happen Real Soon Now.
C'mon, we can already transmit data across different dimensions using a wrist watch & morse code. Yeah, bandwidth isn't that great but hey, we could use a wall clock.
I know you are joking, but transmit information through dimensions using gravity is one interesting conjecture why gravitational force is so much weaker than the other forces. It leaks through dimensions. And maybe this type of communication will be necessary when we have to leave this dimension to hyperspace because of the entropy [1].
Re: Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves
#14So what in what scenario would it be more practical to send a letter through gravitational waves rather then light?
Maybe if there is a medium between the emitter and receiver that scatters light, like an atmosphere.
Or if you don't have line of sight because there is an occluding object like a planet or star in the way.
Or you have line of sight but it's really close to a super bright object so you can't see anything.
Re: Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves
#15"The discovery could lead to a new means of data transfer in space, e.g., between space stations." Sure, we'll be building space stations with gravitational wave transmitters as soon as we can figure out how to wiggle stars and planets in a controlled fashion to produce them. That should happen Real Soon Now.
C'mon, we can already transmit data across different dimensions using a wrist watch & morse code. Yeah, bandwidth isn't that great but hey, we could use a wall clock.
I think tweaking the ribbon of space time abstractions in a tesseract while wearing a space-suit to talk to your younger daughter, must have been a totally amazing moment to "sell" to the movie pitch guys. Selling it as Matthew McConaghy must have been doubly fun: No... we wanted Kevin Kostner
Re: Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves
#16Is it faster than 5G?
Re: Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves
#17If you like hard sci-fi, the amazing trilogy by Liu Cixin The Three Body Problem uses gravitational wave communication as an important part of the plot.
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#18Hurra: yet another way for the NSA to exfiltrate data from my keyboard.
Re: Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
C'mon, we can already transmit data across different dimensions using a wrist watch & morse code. Yeah, bandwidth isn't that great but hey, we could use a wall clock.
I know you are joking, but transmit information through dimensions using gravity is one interesting conjecture why gravitational force is so much weaker than the other forces. It leaks through dimensions. And maybe this type of communication will be necessary when we have to leave this dimension to hyperspace because of the entropy [1]. [1] http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
For what it’s worth, evidence has come out (explained well by this PBS Space Time episode [1]) that makes the “gravity propagates over more than three spatial dimensions” theory a bit less likely.
Re: Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
C'mon, we can already transmit data across different dimensions using a wrist watch & morse code. Yeah, bandwidth isn't that great but hey, we could use a wall clock.
I know you are joking, but transmit information through dimensions using gravity is one interesting conjecture why gravitational force is so much weaker than the other forces. It leaks through dimensions. And maybe this type of communication will be necessary when we have to leave this dimension to hyperspace because of the entropy [1]. [1] http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
The 3+1 dimensional spacetime is not embedded in a higher dimensional space [1]. If there are additional dimensions, they have to be "rolled up" and tiny.
[1] http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2018/07/...