Could a program still run if the computer ran slightly faster than light speed?
Could a program still run if the computer ran slightly faster than light speed?
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that's a meaningless question. Literally, it's a non sequitur.
Go away, this thread is for intelligent people
With our current understanding of physics, no. But scientists have been wrong before and there very well could be something that transmits data faster than light that we cant perceive or conceive of yet. We already know of circumstances where things can move faster than light over great distances, so I dont see it as impossible, just not probably before we evolve into some other species entirely or go completely extinct
>We already know of circumstances where things can move faster than light
Space expansion?
>nail your computer in the floor
>???
problem solved
neutrinos, for example, technically move slower than light but because they arent really effected by gravity like light they take more direct paths. But to really be at all useful you'd need to somehow make a supercomputer on a cosmic or at least galactic scale, and at that point I think light and neutrinos would both be moving way too slow to be useful.
You mean within a spaceship that travels faster than light? Yes, it would run normally, if you could muster the energy required to run that spaceship faster than light. But that amount of energy is impossible according to what we know.
If something (with mass) were to move faster than light, it would create it's own bubble universe and/or possibly fucking destroy our own. Our knowledge of this doesn't exist, you could say anything you want here.
No, I mean the computer would compute at a rate faster than the speed of light
Like FTL computers in Star Trek
What would happen to a normal program, running on it?
Computers basically operate by moving electrons around, so if you could move those electrons at FTL speeds without blowing up the planet/universe, it would behave normally, presumably.
Speed of light is distance per unit time.
Computational speed is operations per unit time.
You're straight up retarded.
It would probably be able to make an infinite number of computations in what we would perceive as instantly. It would essentially be a 4th or 5th dimensional computer
Even with the relativistic effect? Shouldn't a program run backwards?
That depends entirely on how this computer works.
The program/computer itself cannot function "faster than light" because the speed at which processor works is not speed in terms of velocity but in terms of time. "Speed of light" is not a part of the equation here.
But if you mean "can a computing be done by manipulating particles which move faster than light", well, there's quantum entanglement. It's not technically faster than light movement of anything, it's simply a phenomenon which ignores distance altogether - teleportation is a good way of thinking about it: there's not actual movement involved, therefore no "speed of light".
Faster than speed of light computing is a valid concept. What are you smoking?
I did mention quantum entanglement bro.
but even with quantum entanglement aren't you still sending the original commands to the entangled particles at light speed or less? Sure on its own the particles react instantly, but getting them to actually do stuff would still be constrained by light speed wouldn't it?
Well, as long as you mentioned quantum entanglement
Ok, are there any other ways to compute faster than light?
Yes, as an ideal Turing machine
Obviously you can't use our physics framework, it doesn't allow it
If you hold the assumption that a FTL particle must travel backwards in time, then the computer would be non functional, as when you turned it on, the electrons would be moved into the past. You'd also have to deal with the paradox somehow.
Accelerating electrons over C makes mathematically no sense, since they have mass. For the ones talking about neutrinos and quantum entanglement:
You are full of shit, and have absolutely no idea about what you are talking.
But if we ignore physics, a computer that had electrons who could exceed C, would work as any other computer, but if that means the logic gates stabilize instantly, you could overclock the processor at will.
>mfw we will never have processors running at 300 TiHz
>no face
That is one.
The effects of quantum entanglement are another.
They don't really transmit much in terms of useful information.
BUT, they are capable of influencing and moving things over great distances.
We might just not have thought of a good way to make use of it yet.
To say we will never is just naive. But to say we absolutely will is equally naive. We simply do not know all there is to know. We can't even explain fucking gravity properly.
There's nothing stating we can't, even newer theories still have this issue with FTL and even time reversal.
The energies required for potential warp got reduced considerably with more recent theories.
However, we are still speaking a "generation 3" fusion reactor, we're not even generation 0.5. We don't have stable containment for long periods yet.
Even newer theories state that as you go over lightspeed, time itself reverses.
So, in theory, that star up there in the night sky, you could travel to it more-or-less as it looked however many millions of years ago, besides the actual transit time, just like driving a car a few miles down a straight road to get from one side of town to the other.
Technically not. Not entirely.
Electrons move very very slowly through circuits. Takes fucking ages for them to move even a meter.
They move all at once because the voltage over the whole circuit acting instantly.
As a unit, they are pretty worthless for current computing.
Spintronics might introduce them as a useful unit, but that is still in development.
>But if we ignore physics
Then everything stops having any logical relation to anything else.
There is truly no better source of embarrassing technobabble than unintelligent but knowledgeable people.
>about what you are talking
>kiddos don't have a ftl computer when you get urge to wank at quantum speed
I was going to quickly explain you how the tension stabilization works on general transistors and why there is a physical speed limit, and how that's becoming a problem in the memory barrage. But then I noticed that in your reply to retard #2 you said that the expansion of the universe violates the causality speed, so I'm just going to call you a entitled brainlet.
I'm speaking relatively, brainlet.
A meter of EM radiation can be stretched faster than c.
But it is essentially useless unless you have a chain of blackholes to stretch space, or exotic matter to create a wormhole.
We've literally measured space compression and expansion: gravitational waves. It is now fact, not theory.