My very limited understanding is that wormholes only make logical sense with two endpoints. They are, quite literally, a topological feature of space that is a hole in the same sense as a donut has a hole. Except that the donut only has a two dimensional surface, unlike spacetime.
My mostly unfounded assumption is that other time traveling schemes are likely to be similar.
How do you plan to answer the question “did it work?” with an error rate lower than, say, 2^-100? What happens if you accidentally hit the wrong button? No one has ever tested a machine of any sort to that standard of reliability, or even terribly close. And even if you did, you still haven’t done well enough to send a 126 bit message, such as “Do not mess with time” with any reliability.
My very limited understanding is that wormholes only make logical sense with two endpoints. They are, quite literally, a topological feature of space that is a hole in the same sense as a donut has a hole. Except that the donut only has a two dimensional surface, unlike spacetime.
My mostly unfounded assumption is that other time traveling schemes are likely to be similar.
How do you plan to answer the question “did it work?” with an error rate lower than, say, 2^-100? What happens if you accidentally hit the wrong button? No one has ever tested a machine of any sort to that standard of reliability, or even terribly close. And even if you did, you still haven’t done well enough to send a 126 bit message, such as “Do not mess with time” with any reliability.
I ask the future how they will did it.
I was going to say “bootstraps don’t work that way”, but since the validation happens on the future end, this might actually work.