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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 5698033" data-attributes="member: 710"><p>They apparantly have a way to communicate back to our Earth. </p><p></p><p>Well, it's TV logic, not real physics, but I have to wonder: </p><p>How can you send radio signals back, but not anything else, when it works fine for both in the other direction?</p><p></p><p>If they are in the same timestream, they might be using something like that probe to communicate. That means the message is waiting around for million of years. Of course, this poses all kinds of questions on how they avoid paradoxes. Maybe that is some kind of Quantum-Mechanical thing - the message cannot be physically retrieved before the target date is reached, meaning that the timestream has to be internally consistent. Still doesn't explain how the colonists themselves manage to avoid any parodoxes. (And they colony would have to break down before they reach anywhere close to human history.)</p><p>Of course, time paradoxes are also not a problem if there is no free-will.</p><p> </p><p>If they are not in the same timestream - it appears there is a way they can send signals back, and there might be a way to use this connection for more. They might just not use it, or they might not be able to use it yet, e.g. they have to create some kind of apparatus to faciliate the process of matter transportation through the space-time rift. They couldn't build that part on the other side yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 5698033, member: 710"] They apparantly have a way to communicate back to our Earth. Well, it's TV logic, not real physics, but I have to wonder: How can you send radio signals back, but not anything else, when it works fine for both in the other direction? If they are in the same timestream, they might be using something like that probe to communicate. That means the message is waiting around for million of years. Of course, this poses all kinds of questions on how they avoid paradoxes. Maybe that is some kind of Quantum-Mechanical thing - the message cannot be physically retrieved before the target date is reached, meaning that the timestream has to be internally consistent. Still doesn't explain how the colonists themselves manage to avoid any parodoxes. (And they colony would have to break down before they reach anywhere close to human history.) Of course, time paradoxes are also not a problem if there is no free-will. If they are not in the same timestream - it appears there is a way they can send signals back, and there might be a way to use this connection for more. They might just not use it, or they might not be able to use it yet, e.g. they have to create some kind of apparatus to faciliate the process of matter transportation through the space-time rift. They couldn't build that part on the other side yet. [/QUOTE]
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