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Funny that the sci-fi got it backwards. It seems rather obvious in hindsight that should it even be possible, we will clearly be able to detect warp signatures far before we would be able to build a machine capable of producing them.
We’re in the crystal-radio stage of gravitometrics.
Huh, so you can hear things explode in space, after all. If you're close enough to a warp field doing funny things, the gravitational wave strain would create audible-frequency artifacts, as it wiggles your eardrums at frequencies close enough to the audible. They derive an equation for estimated strain as a function of distance from the warp bubble collapse. How does strain translate to sound intensity, in the situa…
This is excellent. Like the Dyson sphere, predicting signals for technologies that we can imagine but not yet construct seems like a great way to guide our search for other life. Now we need a team of smart folks to identify tearing or other processing anomalies in universe-scale simulations.
If you like spooky stuff there is lots of fun things to think about. Just off the cuff; We are predicting a soul upload technology with Neuralink etc. So an alien technosignature could look like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment This one is not rigorous but there are lots of other possibilities of this pattern.
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Funny that the sci-fi got it backwards. It seems rather obvious in hindsight that should it even be possible, we will clearly be able to detect warp signatures far before we would be able to build a machine capable of producing them.
> Our work highlights the importance of exploring strange new spacetimes, to (boldly) simulate what no one has seen before. cute
It's fun that people can get paid to do this.
Funny that the sci-fi got it backwards. It seems rather obvious in hindsight that should it even be possible, we will clearly be able to detect warp signatures far before we would be able to build a machine capable of producing them.
> we will clearly be able to detect warp signatures far before we would be able to build a machine capable of producing them We’re in the crystal-radio stage of gravitometrics.
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> we will clearly be able to detect warp signatures far before we would be able to build a machine capable of producing them We’re in the crystal-radio stage of gravitometrics.
Excuse my ignorance about the term, what does “crystal-radio stage of gravitometrics” mean in this context?
Huh, so you can hear things explode in space, after all. If you're close enough to a warp field doing funny things, the gravitational wave strain would create audible-frequency artifacts, as it wiggles your eardrums at frequencies close enough to the audible. They derive an equation for estimated strain as a function of distance from the warp bubble collapse. How does strain translate to sound intensity, in the situa…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Excuse my ignorance about the term, what does “crystal-radio stage of gravitometrics” mean in this context?
Primitive. (Primitive radios used a crystal for tuning. We have since gotten a lot better at tuning radios...)
But yeah, we've gotten a lot better at rectifying too.