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http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
StarGates: Theory & Practice
John Ashmead
http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
chevron 7 engage
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chevron 7 engage• Wormhole
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chevron 7 engage• Wormhole
• Occasional real physics, i.e. time dilation effects
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chevron 7 engage• Wormhole
• Occasional real physics, i.e. time dilation effects
• What’s behind the curtain?
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The Fall of Hyperion
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Beware of unexpected doors!
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Beware of unexpected doors!
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Beware of unexpected doors!
http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
Beware of unexpected doors!
http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
Beware of unexpected doors!
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Beware of unexpected doors!
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Beware of unexpected doors!
http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
Beware of unexpected doors!
http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
Beware of unexpected doors!
http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
Beware of unexpected doors!
http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
Beware of unexpected doors!
http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
Beware of unexpected doors!
http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
Beware of unexpected doors!
http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
Beware of unexpected doors!
http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
Beware of unexpected doors!
http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
Beware of unexpected doors!
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Beware of unexpected doors!
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Steampunk Portal
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Making contact with the science
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What do we mean by a StarGate
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What do we mean by a StarGate
• Any instantaneous transport
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What do we mean by a StarGate
• Any instantaneous transport
• Usually associated with a gate or a tube (slime trails in space)
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What do we mean by a StarGate
• Any instantaneous transport
• Usually associated with a gate or a tube (slime trails in space)
• View from the backside? stargates & the continuum
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What do we mean by a StarGate
• Any instantaneous transport
• Usually associated with a gate or a tube (slime trails in space)
• View from the backside? stargates & the continuum
• StarGates & Faster-than-light travel (i.e. Instant!)
http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
What do we mean by a StarGate
• Any instantaneous transport
• Usually associated with a gate or a tube (slime trails in space)
• View from the backside? stargates & the continuum
• StarGates & Faster-than-light travel (i.e. Instant!)
• StarGates & Parallel universes (don’t go there)
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FTL = Time Travel
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FTL = Time Travel
• Instant from A to B (from A’s perspective)
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FTL = Time Travel
• Instant from A to B (from A’s perspective)
• Instant from B to A (from B’s perspective)
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FTL = Time Travel
• Instant from A to B (from A’s perspective)
• Instant from B to A (from B’s perspective)
• Backwards in time to A
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FTL = Time Travel
• Instant from A to B (from A’s perspective)
• Instant from B to A (from B’s perspective)
• Backwards in time to A
• Watch out for paradox noise
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StarGates in Science
• Quantum Teleportation (EPR)
• ER Wormholes: Einstein-Rosen Bridges (ER)
• Quantum entangled wormholes (ER = EPR)
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Spooky action at a distance
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Spooky action at a distance
• Mysterious connection
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Spooky action at a distance
• Mysterious connection
• Newton disapproves
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Spooky action at a distance
• Mysterious connection
• Newton disapproves
• Einstein disapproves
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Spooky action at a distance
• Mysterious connection
• Newton disapproves
• Einstein disapproves
• Bell confirms
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FLASH
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FLASH
• Use EPR to send information faster than light
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FLASH
• Use EPR to send information faster than light
• Nick Herbert
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FLASH
• Use EPR to send information faster than light
• Nick Herbert
• 1982!
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No cloning
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No cloning• No-cloning
discovered by from FLASH!
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No cloning• No-cloning
discovered by from FLASH!
• Information conserved
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No cloning• No-cloning
discovered by from FLASH!
• Information conserved
• Deep & imperfectly understood
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Quantum teleportation
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Quantum teleportation
• Moving quantum information
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Quantum teleportation
• Moving quantum information
• Like transferring pod people
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Quantum teleportation
• Moving quantum information
• Like transferring pod people
• Except that the original is lost!
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Wormholes
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Wormholes
• Embedding
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Wormholes
• Embedding
• Vortices
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Wormholes
• Embedding
• Vortices
• Negative energy
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Wormholes
• Embedding
• Vortices
• Negative energy
• Quantum Banking
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Wormholes
• Embedding
• Vortices
• Negative energy
• Quantum Banking
• Seeing the invisible
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Wormholes
• Embedding
• Vortices
• Negative energy
• Quantum Banking
• Seeing the invisible
• Spaghettification
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Embedding
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Embedding
• Like pages of a book
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Embedding
• Like pages of a book
• Black hole glue
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Embedding
• Like pages of a book
• Black hole glue
• Then large rollers to flatten out on each side
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Negative Energy
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Negative Energy• Lots of
positive energy required
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Negative Energy• Lots of
positive energy required
• Also, negative energy
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Negative Energy• Lots of
positive energy required
• Also, negative energy
• Constant feature of all wormholes
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Quantum Banking
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Quantum Banking
• Longer the pulse, the weaker
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Quantum Banking
• Longer the pulse, the weaker
• Pay-back ensues
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Quantum Banking
• Longer the pulse, the weaker
• Pay-back ensues
• And interest
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vortices
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vortices• Strong association
between vortices & stargates
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vortices• Strong association
between vortices & stargates
• Framedragging
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vortices• Strong association
between vortices & stargates
• Framedragging
• May be hard to keep the wormhole mouth open without something spinning.
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Seeing the invisible
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Seeing the invisible
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Spaghettification
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Spaghettification
• Tendex lines
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Spaghettification
• Tendex lines
• Blue is squeeze
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Spaghettification
• Tendex lines
• Blue is squeeze
• Red is stretch
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Spaghettification
• Tendex lines
• Blue is squeeze
• Red is stretch
• Oil is found
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Creating a Bridge between Quantum Mechanics & General
Relativity
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Creating a Bridge between Quantum Mechanics & General
Relativity
• Maldacena & Susskind (2014)
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Creating a Bridge between Quantum Mechanics & General
Relativity
• Maldacena & Susskind (2014)
• Einstein thought of earlier
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Creating a Bridge between Quantum Mechanics & General
Relativity
• Maldacena & Susskind (2014)
• Einstein thought of earlier
• Solves some problems with black holes
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Information paradox
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But Black Holes “eat” information
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Hawking Radiation
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Hawking Radiation
• Virtual pairs form all the time
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Hawking Radiation
• Virtual pairs form all the time
• Sometimes one captured, other escapes
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Hawking Radiation
• Virtual pairs form all the time
• Sometimes one captured, other escapes
• Carrying energy with it
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Hey dude, where’s my Qbits?
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ER = EPR
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ER = EPR• Catchy name: Einstein-
Rosen = Einstein-Podolski-Rosen
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ER = EPR• Catchy name: Einstein-
Rosen = Einstein-Podolski-Rosen
• Wormholes & entangled particles: opposite ends of size spectrum
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ER = EPR• Catchy name: Einstein-
Rosen = Einstein-Podolski-Rosen
• Wormholes & entangled particles: opposite ends of size spectrum
• Solves some technical problems
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Lots of tub-y things
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Lots of tub-y things• Stuff falls into
Black Hole
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Lots of tub-y things• Stuff falls into
Black Hole
• Hawking radiation escapes
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Lots of tub-y things• Stuff falls into
Black Hole
• Hawking radiation escapes
• But mysterious connection causes information to be preserved
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Quantum Monogamy
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Quantum Monogamy
• Except now the stuff falling in is connected to lots of stuff escaping out, violating monogamy!
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But is it Crazy enough to be True?
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But is it Crazy enough to be True?
• Negative energy
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But is it Crazy enough to be True?
• Negative energy
• Entropy and the direction of time
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But is it Crazy enough to be True?
• Negative energy
• Entropy and the direction of time
• Meaning of space time
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Are we positive about energy?
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Are we positive about energy?
• Average Weak Energy condition: energy mostly positive
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Are we positive about energy?
• Average Weak Energy condition: energy mostly positive
• Requirement from quantum field theory
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Are we positive about energy?
• Average Weak Energy condition: energy mostly positive
• Requirement from quantum field theory
• But may not be fundamental
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Entropy & the direction of time
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Entropy & the direction of time
• “Deepest humiliation”
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Entropy & the direction of time
• “Deepest humiliation”
• Entropy or bust
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Entropy & the direction of time
• “Deepest humiliation”
• Entropy or bust
• But …
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Fabric of spacetime
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Fabric of spacetime• Discontinuity
in space & time
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Fabric of spacetime• Discontinuity
in space & time
• Thru space?
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Fabric of spacetime• Discontinuity
in space & time
• Thru space?
• Around in the bulk?
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Fabric of spacetime• Discontinuity
in space & time
• Thru space?
• Around in the bulk?
• Shared via quantum interference?
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Uses of StarGates
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Uses of StarGates• Fill in plot holes,
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Uses of StarGates• Fill in plot holes,
• Give us deeper understanding of our theories & our universe,
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Uses of StarGates• Fill in plot holes,
• Give us deeper understanding of our theories & our universe,
• Maybe, even, help get the human race a bit of badly needed breathing room,
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Uses of StarGates• Fill in plot holes,
• Give us deeper understanding of our theories & our universe,
• Maybe, even, help get the human race a bit of badly needed breathing room,
• And lots of fun!
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references
• Lorentzian Wormholes- Visser
• Physics of Stargates - Rodrigo
• From Eternity to Here - Carroll
• Science of Interstellar - Thorne
• Time Travel & Warp Drives - Everett & Roman
• The Physics of Time - Muller