The queltron machine

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The queltron machine

"once an event is earlier than another event, is it earlier at all times?"

"What kind of physical description is provided by the retarded, advanced and symmetric versions of the Schrödinger equation?"

"As a natural consequence of this, if there is not a precise static instant in time underlying a dynamical physical process, there is no physical progression or flow of time, as without a continuous and chronological progression through definite indivisible instants of time over an extended interval in time, there can be no progression. This may seem somewhat counter-intuitive, but it is exactly what is required by nature to enable time (relative interval as indicated by a clock), motion and the continuity of a physical process to be possible."



"Minkowski space-time also illustrates time to be a derivative notion, not actually flowing as our subjective conscious perceptions often seem to suggest."

"The wave function does not react instantaneously to the external action, but reacts after an interval of time which is characteristic of the described system. That Earth-3100 visitors to Earth-1964 could be detected, measured, and seen, simply means those visitors from the future belong to a specific type of systems: those systems in which the functioning of the queltron machine has been learned"



Civilization and Description

Type I
They ignore it exists

Type II
They could have discovered it, but they didn't

Type III
They discovered it, but they didn't understand it

Type IV
They did understand it, but they didn't know how to build it

Type V
They built it, but didn't know how to use it

Type VI
They learned how to use it, they use it, and now they are here

Moving in the jerky way implied by the conjunction of continuous space and discrete time, instead, only requires being at a place at one chronon and at a different place at the immediately subsequent chronon. Moving this way is surely not incompatible with the staccato run, but it does not entail it either, so our observer may not see any jerky motion of the latter kind. What she will certainly see, on the other hand, is teleportation.

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