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     Zunite Oswald |
Excerpt from the scientific and technical data sent through the Xanadu Catapult to Earth: "An Instantaneous Form of Communications" Submission to the Starfleet Journal of Engineering Commander Zunite Oswald, U.S.S. Coronado {{Journal editors note-All mathematical formulas, proofs and experimental numbers have been removed for a more publicly readable}} Scientific Article Posted by Commander Zunite Oswald, CEO on the USS Coronado to the Starfleet Continuum on Scientific Findings in the M64 Galaxy – to be futher submitted to the appropriate authorities in the Ansible concepts, use, and applications Abstract: Introduced into our technological database earlier this year, the ansible has proven an expeditious method of communication, giving the fleet the ability to communicate with all ships in real time regardless of their distance. Little, up till now, has been known of the workings of this valuable tool of communication, and thus no other applications for this technology have come up. My departments research into the ansible has proven a valuable sum of both the workings of the ansible and the implications of those workings. Main Article: The Ansible is a device that allows the instantaneous communication between two points in the universe by use of split mesons suspended in powerful magnetic fields. The basics of this technology has been known to Starfleet for many years, on Earth the first inklings of the concepts behind this technology came forth in the early 21st century – with the research into quantum physics and the bindings and entanglement of qubits. The ansible takes these ideas further. Philotic twinings make the ansible possible. The essence of the twinings is that a whole is created by parts that are connected through links that let the parts respond as that whole. Normally when a whole is split into parts the twinings of each part is shifted and forms new twinings – the time it takes these twinings to shift is dependent on the size of the particle. When the meson particle is split the halves of the meson do not realize that they are not part of the original structure for a period to long to measure in the laboratory and possibly indefinitely. Therefore the halves of the meson do not shift to new twinings and the twining with the other half of the meson remains. This allows the halves of the meson to act as one – thus the two fragments move together, instantaneously. By manipulating one fragment of the meson we are able to communicate between two points instantaneously by reading the position of the fragment at the other site. Communication is instantaneous and two ways. How the fragments are able to relate to each other instantaneously takes some complex geometric visions of what our universe is like. The twinings obviously do not see the universe in the same way we do, nor do they obey the commonly held laws of physics. To form some vision of what might be going on suppose that the twinings hold that all points are equal. This means that they must step outside our concept of the universe to a place where everywhere is the same point, an outer universe. Exiting our universe at one point and entering at the same place in the outer universe but at a different point in our universe means that the twinings can communicate from one point to another in no time. The implications of this are enormous. If there is away to send objects through this outer universe, it would be possible to travel to any point in the universe instantaneously. However this would also be extremely difficult to implement even if there was a way to do it. Theoretically, having no difference in points in the other universe would make it an extremely difficult task to come out of the outer universe at the point you wanted, instead you might come out at a point across the universe, and quite possibly in a star. There are however far more useful applications of this technology that are not being currently used. The instantaneous communication preformed by the mesons allows for smaller computers to be carried on board starships. All computer functions can now be done at a secure location off site. Also linking the ansibles to the computers it connects allows for more storage area and thus more chances of development of artifical intelligences, like Savant. The research into this technology has barely begun and is sure to turn up even more applications that we can not even imagine now that will occur as the need or genius arises. ((Definitely ideas, quite possibly fragments of sentences (that I couldn’t see any other way to say) taken from Orson Scott Card’s Xenocide, which is the third in the Ender’s Game series. I could site pages, but I won’t for the convenience of all, but you could always ask. –Sonya)) |