From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 09:08:38 MDT
On Wed, 8 May 2002, John K Clark wrote:
> At that time you have no way of knowing if I have flipped my coin or not.
> I get into my spaceship and head for your house at 99% the speed of light.
> A billion years later we meet and I tell you my sequence and you tell me
> yours, and it is only then that we know the coins have been instantly and
> powerfully influencing each other, but there is no way to use that fact to
> exchange information faster than light.
Actually, as Spike and I have pointed out, traveling through space at 99%
the speed of light is a very risky proposition due to the ions, atoms and
dust particles you encounter. I'm sure Spike could compute how far you
you could get at that speed before it was 99.9999% certain you would be
a crispy critter that is incapable of remembering flipping the coin.
I strongly doubt it would be *anywhere* near a billion light years.
:-)
Robert
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