From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Mon Dec 21 1998 - 11:11:32 MST
DELRIVIERE [delriviere@brutele.be] wrote:
>Probably it's old hat for everybody, but I've just discovered today this
>german guy called Nimtz. He claims that he's able to make travel a
>Mozart symphony at 4.7c.
Just like "quantum teleportation", it's a cool-sounding technique which
isn't very useful in the real world. I forget the precise details of
his experiment because I skimmed them at the time and realised very quickly
that it didn't do what the media said it did; yes, the signal tunnels through
in less time than light would take to travel that distance, but it takes so
long to start tunnelling that the average velocity is still slower than
light.
Mark
P.S. I don't believe in FTL or expansionist extraterrestrial sentient life;
does that make me "unextropian"?
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