“The ‘Pooncho’ was served in distinctive earthenware mugs, glazed dark green.
Agent Shant watched as the two raised the mugs and tested the contents.
- Well then, what is your verdict?
Wingo coughed and cleared his throat:
- This is a drink of several dimensions. It should not be judged in haste.”
Jack Vance, Lurulu, p. 260, Tom Doherty ed. 2004
Communicating instantaneously at a distance
As expeditions are envisioned to start wandering far across the solar system and beyond, to the stars, the issue of the most efficient communication process is soon going to be critical for decision makers: it is much more tolerable to be bounded by light speed for matter and radiation – at least until “beam me up” becomes a reality – if it is possible to communicate instantaneously, no matter the distance.
We have all read and dreamed about humanity spreading throughout the universe, presumably starting with the solar system (pending), next reaching closest habitable planets cf. Heinlein’s “Farmers in the Sky” and “Time for the stars“, after fast progressing discovery of exo-planets. Next phase would see a second wave, as described by Asimov in the “Foundation and Empire” series and by Vance with his ‘gaean reach‘ and by other authors.
Back to instant communication, and leaving aside for now the telepathic option of “Time for the stars“, the scientific issue has lately been shaken by the experimental results of what is usually summarized as “EPR experiments“, as initiated by Aspect in the 70s.
These experiments and their followers have established the “non-local” character of quantum entanglement. Aspect himself concluded that we should get rid of “local realism”, yet not of a realism [1] of which the characterization has, however, been the goal of many [2].
Some conclusions from these experiments range from “Bohr vs. Einstein, Bohr wins”, or sometimes “Bohr 1, Einstein 0” to “faster than light”. Penrose answers, in his compendium on reality [2], by showing that entanglement actually does not carry – in that case instantaneously – information; this apparently suggesting that instantaneous communication is impossible.
Penrose being right, either by definition or as a theoretical statement, yet refutable, the case could be settled by concluding from the impossibility of any instantaneous transfer of information to the abandon of the hope of any efficient communication.
Unless we find a practical way to distinguish the respective operations of communication and of transfer of information.
The theory
So we wish to be able to communicate faster than light, in fact instantaneously, yet under the constraint that we cannot transfer information faster than light.
The solution is that information need not travel because it is already there: in other words spaceships and remotely inhabited planets will share a common in-formation, that is to say commonly informed material at time of entanglement, then spread among them and out of which effective communication will appropriately be disentangled to be shared.
Now this EPR, now experimentally well proven fact, does indeed not allow anything faster than light but rather derives from a universe, such as implied and describable by our Fourfold Co-necessity Principle (FCP) universe, or reality, in which spatiality itself is relative, with a spatial dimension going between 0 to 1, for one Planck cell dimension universe or to finite quantity, such as the radius of the universe, or infinite for a universe or some of the spatial dimensions of the universe being infinite, depending the phenomenologies involved.
For it is obvious that for a phenomenon or rather phenomenology – taken as a real class, as precised in next blogs – for which the spatial dimensionality is one Planck cell, any communication with the other edge of the corresponding universe is instantaneous and yet not faster than light.
Features of such universes or edges of our universe are already proposed by cosmologists as wormholes, the FCP merely implying universality.
As a conclusion the issue only arises from the common perspective according to which ‘the’ universe should primarily, intrinsically and solely be four dimensional (1, 3) with three spatial dimensions.
The related device may have already been tested although we are not aware of this, otherwise it could be quite easily realized and tested when needed.
[1] Private discussion
[2] Starting with Plato’s ideal realism, which was clearly distinct from Aristotle’s although we may interpret Kant – whom refers to them – as reconciling these perspectives within his proposed equivalence between transcendental idealism and empirical realism and lately such as d’Espagnat, and Penrose’s “Road to reality” (A.E. Knopf – 2004)
Comprehensive Universe 