From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 21:26:25 MST
Hi Folks Replication is the first principle of producing a meme.
The principle here is one which would allow a copy to breed, and
to have selection of the result in such a way that "successful"
copies can reproduce at a rate different (faster, more numerous,
more faithfully) than "unsuccessful" copies. Teleportation is an
interesting case. The "beam me up Scottie" devices would seem to
operate on a similar principle. For instance, a body is scanned, the
information is "beamed", and reassembled at its location. Such a
device has been called a "murdering twin-maker" - and it is
assumed that the original copy is disassembled in the scanning
process, with an identical copy being made elsewhere. For a long
time it has been assumed that such a replicator was impossible
due to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. To make an accurate
copy would be a requirement to know both position and
momentum of a particle at once, a violation of one of the most
fundamental laws of Quantum Physics. But now a way has been
found around the problem. In the 1930's Einstein proposed with
Rosen and Polsudsky the ERP Theorem which seemed to violate
the uncertainty principle. It proposed two interacting particles
which separate. Once separate, measuring the momentum of one
and the position of the other, should enable momentum AND
position of BOTH to be inferred (hereby violating the Uncertainty
Principle). Bell's theorem in the 1960s and Alain Aspect's
experiment in the 1980s of the ERP Paradox, showed that the
Hiesenberg Principle was maintained. This seems to suggest that
when the position of particle A is measured, it communicates
instantaneously ("faster than light"!) with particle B informing it
that its momentum cannot be measured. Scientists at Bell Labs
have found out a way to use this effect to create a teleportation
process. Thus two interacting particles A and B separate, Particle
A meets a third particle (C) which is to be copied and
translocated. It is scanned and information on its position is
beamed using the FTL (faster than light) ERP effect to the other
particle. If position is beamed the ERP would carry the remaining
(uncertainty) information to position D (a point on the trajectory
of particle B. At point D particle A (the one to be trasported) is
reassembled. Ergo - translocation and a new replicator is born.
This new replicator is effect has now been confirmed. While
translating large objects (eg Captain Kirk) has not occurred (the
technology currently only transports atomic and sub-atomic
particles at the moment), there is nothing in the approach that
would make such a transportation system impossible (just the
difficulty of scaling it up to large sizes). Not only does this
discovery make the building of Quantum Computers a lot more
closer, it also makes possible the reality of time travel (i.e.
because the transport of information is FLT, in fact the ERP effect
can send the information backwards in time, before the
"disassembly" occurred. It brings Time Travel a whole lot closer -
and I do not need to raise the point what can of worms that can
open up. We could by this means send memes backwards in time
to a time before they existed! Regards John Croft
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