From: Ross A. Finlayson (extropy@apexinternetsoftware.com)
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 20:48:41 MDT
On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 09:36 AM, John K Clark wrote:
> "Ross A. Finlayson" <extropy@apexinternetsoftware.com> Wrote:
>
>> "One if by land, two if by sea." Eight such experiments
>> is an FTL byte, octet.
>
> But suppose I change the code after each transmission, that in effect is
> what nature is doing, so when you see "two" you won't know if it means
> land
> sea or it's time to wind your wristwatch. In a way you can send a
> message
> faster than light but it's encoded so you don't know what it means and
> can't
> even be sure it is a real message and not just random noise until you
> receive the translation key, and that is only generated at the moment of
> transmission and must be hand delivered to the receiver at light speed
> or
> less.
>
> John K Clark jonkc@att.net
Hi,
I have an idea about that. Let's say for the experiment there are two
random states, at point A and point B. Each varies from zero to nine.
Now, A has the capacity to send a given state to B instantaneously.
Yet, A doe snot know the current state of B and B does not know the
current state of A. Also, as the random state changes for each to a
random number each time interval, neither A nor B has the immediate
knowledge if A's value was just sent in the immmediately previous time
interval. However, they do have synchronized clocks. Now, the goal of
A is to send a message, a bit of information, within an interval of the
smaller time intervals. Say the time intervals are seconds. At exactly
twelve midnight, A starts monitoring the state and whenever the state is
zero, a one in ten chance, then itis sent over to B. Now B also has a
one in ten chance of having a zero, yet also, there is the added
probability of it being a zero from aA sending a zero. Now, being
random, over the 3600 seconds in the hour from 12:00 to 1:00, B would
expect 360 zeros if none were sent from A. However, with A sending each
zero, then when B sees around 360+36-3.6 zeros in the hour, about 392,
then he knows A has been sending a message for the last hour.
Ross
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