Given the fact that data is an electric circuit of ones and zeros, flowing at the speed of light, could we technically send information across time?

  • farquadsquads
    link
    fedilink
    4011 months ago

    We already do, I send a packet of data and some time in the future it arrives, it’s called latency.

    • adONisOP
      link
      011 months ago

      lmao 😂

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    611 months ago

    Yes, you can make a post and then I can read it later. If you’re talking about reverse time like I read your post and then you make it, no. For that to happen, you’d need to send the data faster than the speed of light and our current understanding of physics deems that impossible.

  • @AbouBenAdhem
    link
    English
    6
    edit-2
    11 months ago

    Clarification: data can be sent at c, but electronic data can’t. Electrons have mass and can’t move at the speed of light; the electromagnetic waves they carry can move at the speed of light in the medium through which the electrons are conducted, which is still slower than c. Photons, on the other hand, can transmit optical data at c (which still doesn’t do anything unexpected with respect to time).

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      411 months ago

      From the photon’s perspective data arrives at it’s destination the same instant it is transmitted, but that’s true of all photons.