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by rebill |
2014-04-07 19:03:27 |
I have a friend that likes to talk with me about the current scientific breakthrough/discovery of the day. This happens on a fairly regular basis - and usually involves some field of study that I neither understand nor have the time to research properly.
One of those conversations regarding using quantum entanglement as a long distances communication medium. The general idea is that if the spin of a particle can be tightly bound to the spin of another similar particle, and remain intact at long distances, then the communicate industry would be absolutely revolutionized. Instant communications, at an intergalactic scale, anyone?
Neutrinos were being discussed, and I had a vague memory of neutrinos actually travelling in time in the opposite direction of our perception.
Rodney's comment was that if the one could be held here, but the entangled one could be sent back in time, we could arrange communication back into the past or forward into the future, and what a great Sci-Fi story it would be.
I countered with the thought that it would likely be turned into a horror story. The poor person on the receiving end of transmissions from the current time would be deemed insane ("hearing voices"), and would be locked away in a mental institution.
Rodney countered with his version - sending a warning back to the past based on the major tragedies that we know about in the present.
Ever since that conversation, I have been wondering just how many genres of literature can have a story where the key factor is communication across long distances or even time.
We've already states Sci-Fi and Horror. Love stories across time have precedents, so that one is easy. Action/Adventure and Spy thrillers would be pretty easy, too.
A detective story gets a little more difficult, until the forensic wizard figures out that the only witness to the crime is an entangled particle ... and the race is on to find the other end so that the criminal can be revealed.
Equally, the criminal drama where the bad guys use long-distance entanglement to get any combination that they ever want.
I am struggling with how to write a "how the west was won" story - the whole sixguns and cowboy story could take a back seat to the modern day researcher that is spying on Bily the Kid's gun ... or something.
The real trick is I want someplace semi public to record the ideas that pop into my head. This diary may just be it.
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