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"The point sticks in your head: physics rules. Virtue does not triumph unless the physics allows it."
- Larry Niven
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| Instantaneous Communication | ||
| Communication over interplanetary distances faster than radio signals. |
An early description of the idea that communication over tens of millions of miles can happen instantaneously, in this case, from Mars to Earth with no time delay.
| I know there are many puzzling questions that scientists will think of, not the least of which is how the Martian is able to so closely control his robot when there is a vast gulf of millions of miles between them. Light takes an appreciable time to cross that distance. How then could the robots dodge the bombs in that aerial attack, when the very impulse from Mars, if it traveled at the speed of light (which is the fastest thing we know of) would take minutes to get here? X intimates, although it is not clear to me, that his controlling impulses, and the return impulses (of eyesight and hearing), travel instantaneously by means of some bizarre higher physics of which earthly science knows nothing. |
| Technovelgy from The Robot Aliens,
by Otis Adelbert Kline. Published by Wonder Stories in 1935 Additional resources -
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Compare to ultrawave from Triplanetary by EE 'Doc Smith, as well as these explicitly faster than light communication technovelgies:
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