kalkulat@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 years agoLight-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Homewww.iflscience.comexternal-linkmessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up1169arrow-down128file-text
arrow-up1141arrow-down1external-linkLight-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Homewww.iflscience.comkalkulat@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 years agomessage-square51linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDeebster@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down2·edit-22 years agoMost people have missed the bit about time dilation messing up the clocks used in signalling, which I thought was interesting at first. However, surely the fix is just as simple as including a timing signal with the transmissions?
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoIf nothing else, you discovered a way to gloss over the impossible thing in a bad scifi movie. “No it works because we added a timing signal!”
Most people have missed the bit about time dilation messing up the clocks used in signalling, which I thought was interesting at first. However, surely the fix is just as simple as including a timing signal with the transmissions?
If nothing else, you discovered a way to gloss over the impossible thing in a bad scifi movie. “No it works because we added a timing signal!”