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[erekose]

It would be my guess that a wormhole (technically, Einstien-Rosen bridge)
would be used to transport matter between the two worlds. Unfortunately, while this is probably theoretically possible, it requires some rather large scale projects (like a particle accelerator the size of earths orbit around the sun) as well as something called negative energy (not to be confused with dark energy) that is rather hard to replicate practically with an earth based civilisation. There is also the issue of navigation to consider, although given that they already have contact with earth, that problem is probably solved.

As for how they currently communicating with us, I would suggest some form of quantum entanglement between two particles from seperate universes. by changing a property called 'spin' of one particle from up to down, the spin of the other particle instatly changes from down to up, no matter how far seperated the two objects are. By setting a value of 1 to 'up' spin and 0 to 'down' spin and continually changing them you could set up a binary communication system.

For anyone who finds this post utterly incomprehensible, I would recommend the book Hyperspace by Michio Kaku.

[Violet]

You guys definitely have to help me out a little with things like this, (I know very little about this sort of thing) but if they have access to a wormhole of some sort, wouldn't it be a two-way thing? Plus, I'm not sure how easy it is to hide such time-space portals, if the Academy were covering-up something.

first I overdose of inverted commas, then yanka gets liberal with the smilies, now I'm hyphen-mad (ohmigod I just can't stop!!!)

[Seej]

I'm not even gonna start the physics speculation (for you non-physics types out there, Hyperspace is very readable - Kaku is great at communicating theoretical physics to people who don't know about it). However, aren't quantum computers supposed to work by doing all possible calculations at the same time in parallel realities. I really can't be bothered googling for a more exact description of this, so flame me if I'm wrong.

Oh, and the article says 'Mediterranean Ocean' - I take it that it used to say 'Med Ocean' judging from people's posts earlier in this thread - isn't it great to have an eagle eyed team of free proof-readers? Of course, as we all know, it's a sea not an ocean .

EDIT: Ooops, I was trouting

[Guest]

Cause the Urn is the only alternative she would preffer if they cant scatter her ashes in our non existent Med Ocean!

I like the Virtual World theory - Perplex City could exist within our cyberspace - there has been some cool stories in Wired about "Bots" - programs that roam around the web for a specific programed purpose, but then can update their program on meeting a better "Bot". So "life" could be existant in Cyberspace (but realistically I reckon it would be in a primeordeal state right now)

I also love the paired electon theory, as I used to fantacise about communication through this while in Physics A Level

And The Gravity Idea is cool - I watched a program on the theory of Superstrings being updated to a reality where our dimentional existance is more like breadcrusts?? (or mebranes) - and that mentioned the ability of gravity to seep through and distort each layer of parrallel dimensions..

I think its an inside job for sure, and they already have the technology...

[gjindancer]

OOps! I thought I logged in!

That "Guest" was me!!

[The First Speaker]

I'm a complete n00b to ARG's, but have been following the board since I got the firebox catalogue last week. Now I'm hooked!!

On the subject of communication between us and Perplex City, there's a good book by Gregory Bendford called Timescape, which features communication between different times. A future Earth sends messages back in time using some sort of quantum entanglement (can't remember exactly) to warn the present Earth of an impending ecological disaster.

Nice quote in the cover too:

"How is it possible to account for the difference between past and future when an examination of the laws of physics reveals only the symmetry of time? ...present-day physics makes no provision whatever for a flowing time, or for a moving present moment."
- P. C. W. Davies. The Physics of Time Asymmetry

[Mikeyj]

Hiya TFS,

Dont' forget to vote (see sig)!

[Mima]

I still love the theory that we are a sim in their world! Completely unfeasable with the current facts, but until we know for sure .....

Can you imagine trying to train Sims with puzzles to get them to find something when they all have truely independent minds! What a nightmare!

[firefox]

who said anything about independence?

i am programmed to be the ultimate love..r?

it is a cool spec tho isn't it? bit too obvious tho, a double inverted arg. ppc makes an arg-hunt for their own arg-gone-loose (us) to retrieve their cube, but their arg thinks that its creators are an arg within another arg, this of course cause a nexus hole to form (kinda like a black hole with x.. makes it sound sexier) and we all get sucked into a timeless eternity, where you can listen to mr. peabody and sherman argue pseudo-quantum mechanics vs the new notion of a cube shaped universe.

or we just find that the cube has been split up into 4-6 parts and buried across 4-6 countries/continents, at certain locations only accessible by first tracking down the thieves who hold the location of the separate pieces.

but heck, theres enough spec posts in this section of the forum to sink the titanic (figuratively speaking, word-berg) so i think i'll wait and see what unfolds.

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[JebJoya]

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everthing has a wave function -- it just gets less likely the greater the mass -- i did see once a calculation of the quantum wave packet (frequency) of the universe but i cant remember where

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