Transdimensional Jump Drive Project

Transdimensional Jump Drive Project

I. Overview of the big experiment

II. How would Jump Drive Work.

III. Odyssey Space Habitat Science and Engineering Department Report

V. Quantum Entanglement Teleport & Trans-Dimensional Jump Drive

VI. OSH Weekly Update July 5th 2528, updated

I. Overview of the big experiment

Gravity (and gravity waves) are the only energy that can cross between branes. The distance between two branes (dimensions or continuum) is not equidistant at all points. If two very similar branes were equidistant at all point, the net gravity would be dramatically increased. For example, the relatively close proximity of the Norma Continuum which draws the over 100,000 galaxies to the Great Attractor, where there are no major solar masses to cause said gravitational attraction.

It is these variances in gravity and gravity waves is how we can detect how far the 'nearest convenient parallel dimension' is.

In the case of wormholes which span between branes, such as the one between Fergus and Tamor (no relation) and the one between Moortic and Vae Kolar, the distance at the point of the wormhole is only a couple hundred meters.

Our plan is to use that wormhole as a sign post marking for navigation.

The biggest obstacle is that no energy besides gravity can cross between branes. Gravitic sensors need to be large and starships are small. This makes navigation once in hyperspace virtually impossible, and communications more so.

To get around the comms obstacle, we are using the entangled-qubit ansible to communicate. While in hyperspace, the ship will be essentially blind and deaf, unable to hear or see or have any reasonable sensors to navigate. The entangled-qubit ansible, the ship will at least be able to communicate back and forth with us.

While the ship itself cannot use any sensors to navigate, the Gravitational Wave Antenna Array can actually detect variances in gravitational waves enough for us to obtain useful navigational data and then use the entangled-qubit ansible to relay that information to the jump ship.

Using the Koshallian’s Illudium-36B Explosive Space Modulators, we will detonate twin-pairs of 250 kilogram Rydberg State Ultra Condensed Anti-Cobalt Hypermatter while in hyperspace and use the gravitational waves that result as a kind of gravitational wave radar/sonar to get the navigational data we can detect at the Gravitational Wave Antenna Array.

Using the navigational array data relayed via ansible, the jump ship can then enter to the Vae Kolar Brane. The ansible can be used to have normal communications between our two branes.

My personal recommendation is to send the ship with as many automated sensors as it can and send back to us via the ansible the data, and then let Sanaia make her best decisions about contacting via the ship’s normal comms capabilities.

Even if the ship is intercepted at Vae Kolar Brane, and we lose control of it, there is no proprietary technology that we would lose. It is for now a one way trip. After we establish comms with the Orion Confederation, we can see about them constructing the technology to make a two way trip.

Alternate Option 1: It was not my intention to have this be a manned mission, but it is an option if someone is desperate enough to return to Vae Kolar. Even if we go the extra effort to be ultra confident about the untested technology, the passenger would be travelling to a place that is currently possibly very dangerous.

Alternate Option 2: We can use a massive amount of our entangled-qubit ansible, and teleport a person from Moortic to Vae Kolar once the jump is complete. I have mentioned my philosophical issues with teleportation technology, but many people are comfortable with it. It is remarkably expensive expenditure of the entangled-qubits. To give you a comparison one-nanogram of entangled qubits could handle the typical telecom and broadcast needs of a billion people for a year. One hundred million times that amount is the data requirement for teleporting per kilogram of living matter. We would need to obtain a lot more entangled qubits, but if they are anxious enough, it is an option.

II. How would Jump Drive Work?

1. Kalusa-Klein Theory and the birth of extra dimensions.

2. The Casimir Effect and the first possible evidence of the fifth dimension.

3. How to use the Casimir Effect to access the Fifth Dimension

4. Subspace, hyperspace and slipstream.

1. Kalusa-Klein Theory and the birth of extra dimensions.

The universe may be less than a millimeter across in directions (dimensions) we are not yet able to perceive, possibly curled up smaller than nanoscopic scale.

Modern notions about extended spatial dimensions and alternate dimensions was created by Theodor Kalusa.

When General Relativity was just emerging as the standard theory of gravity, Theodor Kalusa demonstrated how by adding a 5th dimension to General Relativity, Maxwell's formulation of Electromagnetism could be incorporated into the theoretical framework of General Relativity.

According to the Kalusa-Klein Theory, what we call electric charge is actually motion in a tiny fifth dimension. A charged particle is travelling repeatedly around the Kalusa-Klein loop, even if it is at rest as viewed in the 3+1 dimensional 'normal' space. If the charged particle moves clockwise around the loop then it has a positive charge, while counterclockwise motion gives it a negative charge. Motion completely around a Kalusa-Klein loop brings you back to where you started, and this analogously leads to quantization of electric charge. The size of the unit charge and the strength of the electric force are inversely proportional to the distance around the loop: the smaller the loop, the larger is a unit charge.

Electron rotate in tiny loops of the Kalusa-Klein 5th dimension, and no one much notices, except for the net effect of the electric charge and its polarity.

Modern Kalusa-Klein Theory is more ambitious; seeking to incorporate not only the electromagnetic force but also the weak and strong forces into the framework of General Relativity. This is done by adding enough extra dimensions to take care of all known forces. Quark properties like flavor and color become orbital dances in multi-dimensional Kalusa-Klein loops. This is not a simple change to Kalusa-Klein Theory because the weak and strong forces are more complicated than electromagnetism. While electromagnetism can be viewed as the exchange (swapping) of a single particle (the photon), the weak interaction needs three different exchanged particles (W+, W-, and Zo) and the strong interaction requires eight different exchanged particles (gluons). One might suspect that twelve extra Kalusa-Klein dimensions (1+3+8) were needed, but careful analysis shows that only seven Kalusa-Klein Dimensions plus normal 3+1 space-time can accommodate all of the known natural forces. It is still freakishly complex.

Then it got even more complex with string theory. I am not even going to try to go there today. The number of dimensions runs from 19 up to 88, with no consensus and no small number of arguments, but no experimental falsifiable predictions.

Aside from the elegance of the mathematics, for decades there was no physical evidence for Kalusa's theorized extra dimension. The reasoning was that if we really live in 5-dimensional space-time, we should have noticed this already. Shrugs and 'ah wells', and thus it lingered in obscurity for decades.

2. The Casimir Effect and the first possible evidence of the fifth dimension.

Two parallel uncharged conductive plates if held nanometres apart in a vacuum, produces a net force from the difference in the virtual particles hitting the inside and outside of the plates.

A 10-nanometre gap produces a net pressure of 1 atmosphere from virtual particles from the quantum foam, the zero-point energy.

On a submicron scale, the net force from the Casimir Effect becomes the dominant force between uncharged conductors.

The scale of the Casimir Effect scales by the inverse 4th power of the distance, 1/r^4; if you halve the distance you increase the effect 16 fold.

Photons from the sun or any given light source scales by the inverse 2nd power of the distance, 1/r^2; if you halve the distance you increase the effect (luminosity) four fold.

The reason light intensity scales by the second power is that it is spreading out thru three dimensions. The Casimir Effect scales by the fourth power, is because it would be spreading out thru FIVE dimensions.

The Casimir Effect is the first measurable evidence of the fifth dimension needed to give credence to the Kalusa-Klein Theory.

3. How to use the Casimir Effect to access the Fifth Dimension

Every charged particle enters into the fifth dimension quite frequently, just not at the same time. We would need to figure out how to synch them all up so that all of our charged particles and the rest of the stuff anchored to them moves into it at the same time.

The fabrication of Casimir Plates presents an engineering issue. We need to build Casimir Plates close enough on the nanoscopic or sub-nanoscopic scale and have that be parallel over macroscopic distances, 0.1 millimetres or greater.

The closest we can manage is the internal diameter of a carbon nanotube, about 0.4 nanometers, about 4 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom. The maximum we can keep that diameter is about 5.77 centimetres (about 2.25 inches).

Two parallel uncharged conductive plates held 0.4 nanometres apart will produce a Casimir Effect of about 390,625 atmospheres pressure, is thankfully 40% of the tensile strength of the Carbon Nanotube, but still about 0.8% of the pressure needed to fuse hydrogen. The net 40 GPa pressure is about the detonation pressure of the most powerful mass produced conventional (non-nuclear) explosive.

By inserting a non-conducting plate between the two conducting Casimir Effect plates, the force changes from being attracting to repulsive.

This non-conducting plate can also be done using a non-conducting fluid such as hydrogen or helium. If a non-conducting fluid is inserted between the conducting Casimir Effect plates with pressure greater than the net Casimir Effect caused by the Casimir Effect plates, then they would push the net force back into the fifth dimension. Action = Reaction, this moves the effect in the direction of the fifth dimension even though we cannot directly perceive it, and also moves the pair of Casimir plates assuming the net pressure does not break them.

The conclusion to take away from this is that by building casimir channels into the hull, and then pushing a high pressure hydrogen plasma thru them, we can actually direct said hull towards the hyperspace dimension.

4. Subspace, hyperspace and slipstream.

Jump Gates, Slipsteam, Jump Drive, Hyperspace, etc, all basically use the same principles. The difference is only in the hardware. Slipsteam, Jump Drive and Hyperspace are both contained within the ship and launch a single use wormhole which the ship travels thru. It saves on the containment of the wormholes themselves, disposed of after use. Jump Gates are fixes wormholes, which either you travel thru whole or you teleport thru using the Quantum Entanglement Teleport methodology. The Quantum Entanglement Teleport methodology has the advantage that you don’t have the balancing masses backdraft issue, but you will have to make serious decisions about the nature of the soul.

There are two theories about how Federationalist zone warp drive works. The primary is the actual warping of space-time, strongly implied by the name, which is strongly supported by well thought out theory and even some experimental evidence. The earliest theory about Federationalist Zone Warp Drive is the idea of some wholly contiguous sub-dimension of space which allows travel faster than in normal space, which is strongly implied by the dialog.

In 1919 German physicist and mathematician Theodor Kaluza noticed that when he solved Einstein's equations for general relativity using five dimensions instead of four, Maxwell's electromagnetic equations popped right out. The extra dimension added the electromagnetic force to the standard theory of gravity. In 1926, Oskar Klein pointed out that if this dimension was “rolled up” connected back on itself on a beyond nanoscopic scale, it would be invisible, yet could provide electromagnetism. This Klein-Kaluza notion of hidden dimensions “rolled up” connected back on itself on a beyond nanoscopic scale has more recently been used by string theorist to describe not only the electromagnetic force, but also the strong and weak forces and attempts to describes all particles, forces, and interactions in the same framework.

One “side effect” of such hidden dimensions is the possibility of shadow matter (sometimes called mirror matter), an additional type of matter that would interact normally with its own matter-type but would “ignore” ordinary matter, interacting with it only through the gravitational interaction. Such extra “hidden” dimensions may allow the existence of parallel universes to which one can “teleport”. Changing normal matter to shadow matter looks like teleportation between parallel universes.

Subspace and hyperspace would be said parallel dimensions.

Using a standard Large Hadron Collider, one can perform a relatively simple experiment to show that there are parallel dimensions. The experiment involves colliding particles at high relativistic speeds and then observing the results, calculating the energy content before and after. If the energy content is less after than before the collision, that means that the energy would have shunted into another dimension.

That lost energy goes to the ‘nearest convenient parallel dimension’; scientists refer to this as hyperspace.

It is expected that at the lowest level of this would result in boosting gravity effects. Larger amounts would penetrate the ‘brane’ and be able to affect things in these parallel dimensions.

One of the difficult aspects is that most particle colliders are amazingly inefficient, on the scale of 1 collision per billion particles per pass.

Flux capacitors efficiently force energy to penetrate the ‘brane’ so that it is able to affect things in these parallel dimensions known as hyperspace. Thus reducing the amount of power required to be that of some reactor grade plutonium or a Mr. Fusion reactor instead of a 9 kilometre diameter particle collider. A nice one second 1.2 gigawatt burst of energy.

Some modern variants of string theory describe our universe as a 3+1-dimensional space-time “brane,” essentially a thin 4-dimensional membrane embedded in a higher-dimensional space. Almost all of the known particles (electrons, quarks, photons) are restricted to this 4-brane and can move only within it. The three strongest forces (strong, weak, and electromagnetic) are allowed to act only within the brane. For most purposes the 3+1 dimensional brane is the only relevant universe, since almost nothing can go outside it.

According to some (most) models, the force of gravity gets special treatment in extra dimensions. Gravity is free to leave the brane and spread out into the large extra dimensions in which the brane is embedded. This provides an explanation of why the force of gravity is so weak compared to the other forces: the lines of force for gravity can spread out into the other dimensions, leaving fewer force lines and reduced force strength on the brane itself.

Building on this basic scenario, theoretical physicists H. Päs and S. Pakvasa of the University of Hawaii, and T. J. Weiler of Vanderbilt University (PPW for shorthand) constructed a scheme for using the brane for superluminal communication. The starting point of their scheme is to examine the relativistic “enforcement rules” that normally prevent superluminal communication. These rules are the Lorentz transformations, devised to describe how space and time behave when the observer or the object observed is moving near the speed of light. Within these base rules, there is no possibility of superluminal communication.

PPW demonstrate that it is relatively easy to describe an extended universe in which the Lorentz transformations are strictly observed on the brane, but not in the outside “bulk” (hyperspace) occupied by the extra dimensions. In particular, within the hyperspace’ volume of the extra dimensions the limiting speed (i.e., the speed of light) may be different from its value on the brane. The space-time metric in the off-brane limiting speed is superluminal and grows quadratically with distance from the brane. This “asymmetrically warped brane universe” is rather like an onion, with each “onion layer” in the bulk having its own limiting speed and its own Lorentz transformations. In such a universe, trajectories that cut across such onion layers are not “Lorentz invariant,” i.e., they can break the local speed limits. This was the earliest description of how Federationalist Warp Speed worked, each ‘onion layer’ was a distinct layer of subspace.

Having found a space-time metric to describe a plausible brane universe, PPW consider a path that leaves the brane, travels some distance in the extra-dimensional hyperspace outside, and then re-enters the brane. They show that such a path, while it may facilitate moving from one point in space to another at the equivalent of a faster-than-light speed, would not in itself represent backwards-in-time signaling (referred to as a “closed timelike curve”).

General relativists (not a military rank) have devised several ways of evaluating the merit of calculations of this kind. Such evaluations are based on how well a calculation satisfies various energy conditions that have been suggested as possible “rules of the game” for what our universe will allow. The PPW scheme for producing a timelike loop does well with these energy conditions, satisfying the null, weak, and dominant energy conditions on the brane and violating only the strong energy condition. Note that the strong energy condition is violated by some well-known quantum processes.

The conclusion to take away from this is that the speed of which travel happens in Hyperspace is the square of the velocity. For example, travelling thru hyperspace at 13 times the speed of light one nets 169 times the speed of light, Jump 1. All the way up to 32 times the speed of light one nets 1024 times the speed of light, Jump 6.

Thus, using something akin to warp drive, travelling between Federationalist Zone Warp 2 and Warp 3, one can travel thru Hyperspace with the net speed of Jump 1 thru Jump 6. This is extremely similar to Federationalist Zone Transwarp, and the energy costs are about similar. It should also be noted that Federationalist Zone Warp 3 was the fastest warp using fusion power.

The Elite Dangerous Frameshift Drive appears to extend this beyond Warp 3, it is very much akin to Federationalist Zone Transwarp Drive.

 

III. Odyssey Space Habitat Science and Engineering Department Report

1. We were able to trade Energon and Araxes Desert Spice for quantities of Sirillium from Fnordian Traders who obtained it from the Azure Nebula. We also traded Araxes Desert Spice for quantities of Tibanna Gas from Bespin traders. Tibanna Gas is the same thing as Sirillium. We are saving the Sirillium/Tibanna Gas for the Jump Ship experiments.

2. We traded a shipment of live Araxes Arthropods to a charming (just ask him) Ferengi Free Trader named Zaphaniah Brannibroxxe, who obtained the Tholian Silk (graphene thread) and 8 Crates of high end Breen Magneto-Hydrodynamic Containment Units. The Tholian Silk is being used for the backing of the magnets upgrades we want for the Gravity Wave Antenna Array - Receiver and Transmitter. The Magneto-Hydrodynamic Containment Units are being used for the long term storage of the Rydberg State Ultra Condensed Anti-Cobalt Hypermatter. Magneto-Hydrodynamic Containment Units we are manufacturing using the habitat shops are also going to be used for a less extreme condensing of the Sirillium to a density of nearly 16 tons per cubic meter, which will further boost the jump drive.

3. I had to trade some mineral rights to the Elvian Dominion of planets to get some of the Nano-composite laminate rare-earth metal magnetic materials that we needed for our project and a quantity Professor Serendipity required for his dropship.

4. For assistance with Professor Serendipity with a Jovian Dropship expedition, we obtained a quantity of metallic hydrogen.

5. You might not recall (or read) my research abstract about how Jump Drive and Hyperspace related technologies work, as it is still not published in the academic journals. (I am woefully behind in publishing) If you had, you would maybe note how the hull is not just something to keep the air and crew in the ship, but it is actually an integral part of the jump drive. Thus, finding even J-1 jump drive enabled ships on salvage was not practical, as most jump derelicts usually have damaged hulls. Zoe Verde has provided us with two 100-tonnage J-2 jumpships in exchange for us helping her with a couple of projects. It had become evident that Sanaia was probably not wanting to pay out over 4 million credits to obtain the ships herself.

6. I have not published my research about inertial dampening and gravity shielding, so you can be forgiven for not reading it even though it is being circulated on certain back alley academic circles. Mach’s principle about inertia combined with the still quite nebulous and woefully incomplete quantum theory of gravity which states that gravity and inertia are non-local, are the underlying theory behind the Woodward Effect, which uses high frequency mass-varying capacitors banks to take advantage of said non-locality. To be honest, it is not yet intellectually satisfying, but nearly everyone uses Inertial Dampeners, this is how they work. Building on this understanding of the mechanism of Inertial Dampening, we have worked out a way to safely cross the massive gravitic shearing effects of crossing the caustic transition zone of the wormhole and other similar effects.

7. To this end, we have obtained a source of stable naturally occurring Cavorite, which is the key material in said mass-varying capacitor banks, from a group of Caledonian Neko’s. We had to develop a line of Artisanal Non-GMO catnip lager (Knippenbrau) as payment. Apparently, people want things more than money.

8. We have sponsored a few survey expeditions and have made a long term cache plan for storing the Rydberg State Ultra Condensed Anti-Cobalt Hypermatter that we are transferring into individual 250-kilogram storage units using the Magneto-Hydrodynamic Containment Units. The individual caches will be in the outer scattering disk of low resource low traffic unoccupied star systems that are still reasonably accessible to Moortic and Tamor (no relation). We are considering other locations, but that will have to wait until later survey expeditions. Note: 250-kilograms is the minimum practical usage amount of the anti-cobalt hypermatter for the purpose of black hole manufacture, and used for Jovian Stellification.

9. We have obtained a secure location to act as the staging area for the transfer of our Hypermatter to the long term storage and then deployment to the long term storage in the various outer scattering disk locations.

10. We have negotiated with the Koshallians to obtain a supply of Illudium-36B Explosive Space Modulators, which are used to precisely time to detonation of the anti-cobalt hypermatter.

11. We obtained a supply of entangled-qubits that we can use for instant comms between the ships, even after the two ships are in different continuum (brane), or one or more is in the hyperspace bulk between branes (continuums)

12. We are nearly complete with the upgrades to the Gravitational Wave Antenna Array. It will be functioning sufficient for our purposes any time now, pending deployment and calibration.

13. We are retrofitting the Jump Ships to make use of the materials we have obtained. We will be using ultra condensed Sirillium instead of regular refined deuterium. We will be installing an entangled-qubit ansible comms for communications and navigation. The ansible will also make for responsive controls with no time delay, so the ship can be operated via remote control from Moortic.

IV. Quantum Entanglement Teleport & Trans-Dimensional Jump Drive

Contents:

1. Quantum Teleport using Entangled Particles

2. Trans-Dimensional Teleport Alternative using Jump Drive and external navigational assistance

1. Quantum Teleportation using Entangled Particles

Historically, the murky counter-intuitive mysterious bizarre confusing world of quantum mechanics has caused many of the greatest physicists to get migraines, and probably instigated at least a similar amount of heated arguments in physics bars.

Quantum Mechanics is the one aspect of science that baffles amateurs and professionals equally. If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t know enough about it.

There are many restrictions in Quantum Mechanics, among them:

The act of measurement changes the system measured.

 The uncertainty principle prevents simultaneous measurement of “conjugate quantities” (such as position and momentum) derived from various conservation laws.

 Another quantum rule prevents "cloning" multiple copies of a quantum system.

Since you cannot measure the quantum states of the system (particle) without altering it, and you cannot clone it, therefore you must destroy the original in order to reproduce it directly. Destruction of the original is the only work-around to the measurement, uncertainty and no-cloning limitations.

You cannot teleport the original particle, you can only teleport its quantum states. You can’t measure the quantum states without changing them, the quantum states are also uncertain because of the nature of conjugate quantities in Quantum Mechanics. Thus you can teleport the quantum states only be getting around the measurement issues by destroying the original in the process.

If a particle could be cloned without altering its state, you would be able to send information INSTANTLY via any distance (obviously at a speed greater than light).

Suppose Tamaris and Anoch are 10 light years apart and their clocks were synchronized, further they each have an entangled particle from Einstein Podensky Rosen (EPR) experiment.

Suppose Anoch wants to send information in binary form to Tamaris. 1 means Anoch did measure the spin, 0 means Anoch did not measure the spin. All this had been pre-decided between Anoch and Tamaris.

Let’s see hypothetically what would happen if Tamaris had a machine which could clone the entangled particle. At a pre-decided time (synchronized clocks), Anoch measures (or does not measure) the spin of her entangled particle. At the same time, Tamaris clones her entangled particle, make 10 million copies of it and measures spin of all of them.

If Anoch measured the spin at her end, suppose down, then Tamaris will find all 10 million particles have spin up thus understanding that Anoch wanted to send '1'. If Anoch doesn't measure, statistically, Tamaris will notice that approximately 5 million particles have spin up, thus understanding that Anoch wanted to send a '0'.

If such cloning were allowed, it would violate the prohibition about information travelling faster than the speed of light. This is one such thought experiment about how the no-cloning prohibition upholds the no-FTL information transfer rule.

This does not mean that we absolutely cannot use quantum entanglement to transmit information faster than light, just not in the way everyone keeps asking.

While we demonstrated that we cannot use entangled particles to transmit the information faster than light using cloning, we can using teleportation, however that means that the original must be destroyed.

The problem that no one sees the workaround is that they are trying to have their spicecake and eat it too. Let’s take the same experiment and this time Tamaris and Anoch wish to send information to each other from Tamor (no relation) to Moortic. They have their entangled particles, but this time Anoch teleports the quantum states of her entangled particle to Tamaris at Tamor (no relation), thus destroying Anoch’s original particle.

It works, but the original entangled particle is destroyed in the process.….we should have entangled more than one particle. Make a note.

Think like a calling card that links two localities. We only have enough entangled particles to allow so many gigabytes of information such as voice, text, pictures, funny dog and cat videos, etc. Once we run out, we have to get more shipped over.

Entangled particles for FTL comms, I am sure there is a market for it. One gram of entangled electrons would provide ultra high broadband (1GB per second) for 125 million people for one year, a million times Class-5 (Gallifrey Civ Scale) world internet usage. I would imagine that they would probably use a lot more for redundancy reasons.

A similar process could be used to teleport things. The same one gram of entangled electrons would allow you to teleport 60 kilograms of matter. Again, I would imagine that they would probably use a lot more for redundancy reasons.

The energy content of 8 grams of entangled electrons would be almost exactly the energy cost of Federation Teleporters, about the fusion of 4.5 kilograms of deuterium. Maybe 8x is how much redundancy they use.

I won’t use it on my person. It depends on what your feelings are about the persistence of the human soul and the continuity of the subjective experience, and if it would follow along with your teleported quantum states. Place your bets take your chances. If you subscribe to the quantum mind and quantum soul theory, then no problem. I would not be so quick to volunteer.

Storage of those electrons becomes the tricky part. The highest density electron storage is about 25 megajoules per kilogram using superconducting batteries. 6.24 Billion Billion Electrons per joule.

You would need 7.2 tons of entangled electron storage that to deliver 1 gram of entangled electrons to teleport 1 person (or 60 kilograms of something) back to source. I am sure if I can put my mind to it, I can come up with a more efficient substrate, but for right now, 7.2 tons of substrate to teleport 60 kilograms. Ideally, I would like to figure out a way to get the mass of the substrate to be less than 30 kilograms, then we can bootstrap the entire teleport system.

Clearly more practical for communications.

The entangled particles only go to where their twinned entangled particles are. I imagine a kind of switchboard hub which then directs it to other locations where they have other entangled particles, then just regular telephonics to the target. I would call such a network……….THE CORTEX.

This overall explains why there are sometimes given relativistic distances that they have regular time delay for communications and sometimes they have instant comms at long distances where there should be a substantial delay. The discrepancy is there are times when they are hooked up with a Cortex Node (entangled particles) and sometimes they are not. When they are hooked up, they have a cortex node and a limited supply of entangled particles to that location.

Switching charges I imagine are extra. Say I have Cortex Node to Tamor (no relation). Calling Tamor (no relation) from wherever would have only one node. If I did not have a node to Moortic, I could call it via Tamor (no relation), but would be charged extra for the switch to Moortic. Another switch to Araxes maybe, and so on. 1 switch, 2x cost; 2 switches, 3x; 3 switches, 4x; etc.

Quantum teleportation requires the following steps:

(a) Create a pair of “blank” quantum systems that are “entangled”, i.e., separated but linked through one of the various conservation laws;

(b) Intermingle the “teleportee” with one of these entangled states and make a number of measurements on the mixed system;

(c) Transmit the measurement results by a normal communication channel to the location of the entangled twin system;

(d) Perform a set of transformations on the entangled twin system based on the received measurement results.

If this procedure is carried out correctly, you should have produced an exact duplicate of the original quantum state in the new location. Note that the intermingling and measuring has destroyed the original system.

Using Nature’s private entanglement channel to send most of the information needed to reproduce the original system. The number of measurements needed for such teleportation is the logarithm of the degree of system complexity, which keeps the needed number of measurements fairly small. For example, to teleport a quantum system consisting of 10,000 moles of atoms (approximately one 60 kilogram person equivalent) to an identical state somewhere else, you would need to do nearly 200 measurements or so, on the mixed system. Doable.

In order to get around the no-quantum-measurement and no-quantum-cloning requirements, the original is destroyed in the process. I am going to keep repeating it, because people keep forgetting or ignoring it. Viable options:

1. You subscribe to the quantum mind and quantum soul theory, and you believe that your 'soul' and the continuity of the your subjective experience follows your collective quantum states, so you have no issues with your original particles being destroyed, because the 'you' that is being teleported is attached to the quantum states.

2. You really don’t care, so long as someone identical to you on the quantum scale is doing what you intended.

3. You just make up something that sounds sciencey, so you can ignore the horrible truth that your original physical self has been destroyed.

I personally would like to believe that the quantum mind theory is correct and that the continuity of my subjective follows my collective quantum states, I just don’t feel that reassured about it. Billions of people do it, but I am just not as easily convinced.

There are many seeming contradictions in the literature about Federationalist Transporters. I suspect a lot of it is purposely misleading so that people do not think too deeply about or examine too carefully what the exact process is.

For example, the only way a Heisenberg Compensator could work is if the original were destroyed; it is just more comforting to call it a Heisenberg Compensator and not talk about the actual details of its actual function. Similarly the molecular imaging scanner is responsible for creating the data matrix that describes every particle of the transport subject, dematerializing the subject in the process. These all point the destroying the original subject, but using less disturbing terminology.

Technically, the original entanglement transmitter and receiver particles must move at slower than or equal to the speed of light and so must the signal. There are a few ways around that, using wormholes and other acceptable workarounds. Regardless, once the transmitter and receiver particles have been delivered to their respective destination, the slower than light requirement has been satisfied and the teleport between them can be instantaneous regardless of the distance without violation of the laws of physics.

The teleportation is single use for each set of entangled particles. Used for information transfer, the information density is quite high. 1 gram of entangled electrons held in a 7 tons storage substrate can provide 16 MegaBytes per second FTL comms for eight billion people for one year. One microgram could provide the equivalent of Class-5 (early 21st Century Earth, Gallifrey Civ Scale, TL8.25 Imperium Scale) total world bandwidth for a year.

This is the most secure form of communications, as the information does not travel between any of the space between the transmitter and receiver, there is no way to intercept the signal except at the transmitter or receiver locations.

Federationalist Zone Teleportation appears to work by a different principle, but this entangled particle quantum teleportation has an advantage that the Federationalist Zone Teleportation does not, it can work across almost any distance where you have the entangled particles already set up. Let’s say we have Teleport Pad A located at the Odyssey Station in Tamor (no relation). We can then manually transport the other grams of entangled particles (Teleport Pad B) thru the wormhole and then all the way to Fergus and to N’Lynn’s bungalow. Even though it is hundreds of light-years away, thousands of temporal years apart, and in a completely different space-time continuum, the teleport will work just fine. The only difficult part is that it works on charges, and you are limited by how many grams of the entangled particles you manually transported.

If you were comfortable with the quantum teleportation process, you can just send someone in a ship with the entangled photons and fly to the destination and then when it is ready, just teleport over. Whether it is 100 metres, 100 kilometres, 100 light-seconds, 100 AU, or 100 light-years, it makes no difference. Only need a nanogram to maintain the comms to let you know when the teleport is ready. A microgram to set up a live holo-conference. One gram to actually be there.

Non-Living cargo does not need to have its exact quantum states intact, and hence consumes fewer entangled particles, and consumes less energy. If you want your memories and mental states (that continuity of the subjective experience) to be intact, you will need the exact quantum state destructive scan level. Without that exact quantum state destructive scan level, what will come out on the other side will not have active cellular processes, the living being would show up on the other side as mere non-living meat. Most references I find say about 20%, but seem to indicate 10%, but I have not been able to figure out the derivation of that number.

2. Trans-Dimensional Teleport Alternative using Jump Drive and external navigational assistance.

With high enough energy, and sufficient accuracy, one can push physical matter thru the brane into hyperspace. This is the basic principle behind jump drive, and incidentally the only credible way to create artificial gravity (but that is another story for another time).

With Jump Drive, you push the physical matter thru the brane into hyperspace, and it moves quadradically (means squared) faster, then when the drive is released, it pops back thru the brane into the familiar 3+1 dimensional space-time we call home, but typically further away.

There are somewhere between 0 and 10^800 other space-time continuums, no way to count how many. These other space-time continuums are not equidistant from each other or us. There are some places where they are closer, and some places where they are further; mostly further. Locations where the distance between two space-time continuums is referred to colloquially as a 'thinnie'. Depending on the context or intended application, a 'thinnie' to the 'nearest convenient parallel dimension' can be anywhere from a Planck-Length to about 40,000 kilometres. Anything more than 2.28 ly, is not considered a 'thinnie' or even a 'nearby convenient parallel dimension', usually only distances less than 40,000 kilometres.

If one were to use Jump drive in the proximity to one of these 'thinnies', instead of pushing into the brane into the hyperspace and then popping back out, one could push THRU the brane into hyperspace and the push THRU the brane into a different continuum. This doubles the energy cost, but fortunately only requires a Jump-1 ship, just twice as much fuel.

Navigation is the major obstacle. Fortunately, the wormhole between Moortic and Vae Kolar is technically a 'thinnie' of about a tenth of a millimeter. With the upgrades to the Gravitational Wave Antenna Array, we can monitor thru the 'thinnie' into the Vae Kolar continuum and be able to act as navigation for the jump ship.

Anything using warp drive or jump drive shows up on the Gravitational Wave Antenna Array. By the way, the Deep Underground Neutrino Explorer (D.U.N.E.) would also allow us to have a secondary means to provide navigation for the Transdimensional Jump Drive.

The ship itself can’t operate the Gravitational Wave Antenna Array, so we will have to do so and then simply relay the data to the jump ship to let them know to jump thru the second brane.

The way to communicate with the jump ship would to use the teleported entangled particles as comms from the first section.

This is a bit involved, but has the distinct advantage that it uses technology we already have access to and does not involved destructive scanning of sentient beings.

The other major advantage, is that we completely circumvent the need to open the wormhole, we just take advantage of it as something that pins the distance between the two continuums' 'thinnies' together at a fixed distance which drastically reduces (but not eliminates) navigational difficulties

V. OSH Weekly Update July 5th 2528, updated

1. Gravitational-Wave Antennae Array upgrade.

2. Physically forcing open the wormhole.

3. Hypermatter Matters.

4. Gagh Farming.

5. Personnel update.

6. Offworld Logistical Matters

1. Gravitational-Wave Antennae Array upgrade.

We refined the figures for the updated magnetic solenoids for the Antenna Array.

Using the Tholian silk, we should be able to create a solenoid with an internal magnetic flux of 570 Teslas, roughly 400 times the magnetic flux used in Magnetic Resonant Imaging machines or about a hundred times more than would cause cardiac pacemakers to stop working.

570 Tesla’s is the physical limit for highest magflux we can get using non-exotic matter held together by chemical bonds can withstand; no other energy storage device that relies on chemical bonds for energy or support can exceed the specific energy of a graphene-backed superconductive toroidal solenoid.

This is 4.5 times the magnetic flux we were able to manage before using more ordinary off the shelf materials that can be nanofactured or replicated.

However, that is not the only advantage of the Tholian Silk. Because the Tholian Silk has the longest defect free length, we can have more coilings around the solenoid, close to 15 billion coils. This is many orders of magnitudes more layers of coiling than we had before, which will dramatically increase our signal quality and error free signal rate.

This dramatic increase in the number of layers of coils, we can dramatically increase the sensitivity of the Gravitational-Wave Antenna Array. I have only just worked out the final numbers for the magnetic flux and the number or layers of the coil, but I am feeling optimistic that we can get the error-free signal transmission rate such that we should be able to use a transporter beam.

Anoch has been working on preparing for the redeployment of the antenna array. The array will have a tractor pod attached to tow it into position, from there we can position it and activate, possibly E.V.A. if necessary.

2. Physically forcing open the wormhole.

There is less good news on this front. As you may have seen from one of my previous papers, it is just not possible using current technologies to use beams to creates the energy densities needed to force open the wormhole. Using about 500 kilograms of hypermatter, we could physically force open the wormhole mouth, on our side only, for about 4.43 seconds. As is, that is possibly not an especially practical solution, but it is within our capabilities and we can have a test ready in as little as 3.5 weeks.

Sanaia gave me some tricorder readings on a space-time metric gateway device known as the Eye of Hastur. I think the device utilizes an accumulated Casimir Force to create the negative energy needed to keep open a wormhole mouth. While the picoscale and possibly femtoscale engineering needed to accomplish such a thing is several orders of magnitude more precise than your highest end replicators, it is possible that we can modify one of these devices for our purposes.

Professor Serendipity has a special scanning device known as the Elitzur-Vaidmann Quantum Imager (EVQI) with Mach-Zender Polarization Interferometer on a similar device known as the KBH Doorway which is currently in Class-5 containment. I have reached out to Professor Serendipity to see if he would be willing to use his EVQI to scan the Eye of Hastur or reprise his analysis of the KBH Doorway. I have already previously forwarded to you the report he gave on the use of the EVQI on the KBH Doorway.

That being said, I have no idea how we might obtain said objects or how we might be able to modify them. First we need the data, and then we shall explore the feasibility.

3. Hypermatter Matters.

I do not have exact numbers for how much of the hypermatter we have processed. We are concentrating on increasing the rate at which we can process it into more conveniently usable quantities.

Using the example of Stellification Engines, we determined that about 240 kilograms, broken down into 12 20-kilogram batches is probably ideal.

Using our current methods, a 1-centimeter coherent matter atom-laser and using sub-resonant lasers to cool the condensate to submicrokelvin temperatures under gigapascals of pressure, we only process about 20 kilograms per day. At this rate, it will take us about 43 years.

The process is known as Bose-Einstein Condensate, taking advantage of the grouplike-philia of bosons to convert them into a low energy Rydberg State whereby sharing the same quantum state (in the way that lasers do), the bosons can occupy the same physical space.

Traditional methods of cooling atoms into condensates is slow and inefficient, and more than 99 percent of the atoms in the original cloud are lost in the process. Thus it is a slow and laborious reiterative process, repeating the same process 70 times to process half of a batch.

We are experimenting with new processes to cool atoms into condensates, which is faster than the conventional method and conserves a large fraction of the original atoms. The laser cooling to cool a cloud of the hypermatter atoms all the way from room temperature to 1 microkelvin, or less than one-millionth of a degree above absolute zero.

With this technique, we can generate a condensate of 70 percent of the original cloud, instead of only 1%.

Scientists have conventionally created Bose-Einstein condensates through a combination of laser cooling and evaporative cooling. Generally shining laser beams from several directions on a cloud of atoms. The photons in the beam are tiny particles which, bounce off much larger atoms, restricting their movements and slowing them down a little in each collision.

The laser’s photons also act to compress the cloud of atoms, limiting their motion and cooling them in the process. But there’s a limit to how much a laser can cool atoms. The more dense a cloud becomes, the less room there is for photons to scatter; instead they start to generate heat.

At this point in the process, scientists typically turn off the lasers and switch to evaporative cooling, which we just wait for the hottest atoms to escape. But this is a slow process that ultimately removes more than 99 percent of the original atoms in order to retain the atoms that are cold enough to turn into Bose-Einstein condensates.

In the end, you have to start with more than 1 million atoms to get a condensate consisting of only 10,000 atoms.

To get around the traditional limitations of laser cooling, to cool atoms into condensates using laser light from start to finish — a much faster, atom-conserving approach, which also work well at high atomic densities.

We employ conventional laser cooling techniques to cool a cloud of atoms down to just above the point at which atoms become so compressed that photons start to heat up the sample. Then switch over to a method known as Raman cooling, in which a set of two laser beams to cool the atoms further. They tuned the first beam so that its photons, when absorbed by atoms, turns the atoms’ kinetic energy into magnetic energy. The atoms, in response, slowed down and cooled further, while still maintaining their original total energy.

A second laser is then aimed at the much-compressed cloud, which was tuned in such a way that the photons, when absorbed by the slower atoms, removed the atoms’ total energy, cooling them even further.

The photons take away the energy of the system in a two-step process. In one step, you remove kinetic energy, and in the second step, you remove the total energy and reduce the disorder, meaning we’ve cooled it.

By removing the atoms’ kinetic energy, one is essentially doing away with their random motions and transitioning the atoms into more of a uniform, quantum behavior resembling Bose-Einstein condensates. These condensates can ultimately take form when the atoms have lost their total energy and cooled sufficiently to reside in their lowest quantum states.

To reach this point, we have to go one step further to completely cool the atoms into condensates. To do so, we tune the lasers away from atomic resonance, meaning that the light could more easily escape from the atoms without pushing them around and heating them. Using the frequency tuning, the atoms become almost transparent to the photons.

This means incoming photons are less likely to be absorbed by atoms, triggering vibrations and heat. Instead, every photon bounces off just one atom.

Before, when a photon came in, it was scattered by, say, 10 atoms before it came out, so it made 10 atoms jitter. By tuning the laser away from resonance, now the photon has a good chance of escaping before hitting any other atom. It turns out by increasing the laser power using the tuning, we can bring back the original cooling rate.

Using this laser cooling technique, we can cool atoms from 200 microkelvin to 1 microkelvin in just 0.1 seconds, in a process that is 100 times faster than the conventional method. The final sample of Bose-Einstein condensates contained 70% of the original atoms, 70 times more than the existing methods.

Thus, we have increased production over traditional methods by a factor of 7000. Thus, a single unit can produce, as I mentioned, about 20 kilograms per day, compared to the 3 grams per day using the laser/evaporative method.

As you might recall from Engineer Anoch Sgaithan’s lab version, the original laser/evaporative method was not just slow and laborious, but also bulky. By eliminating the evaporative aspect of the processing, we are hoping to make a more compact unit.

Pending whether Sgaithan’s more compact Raman Cooling can be more fully automated, our plan is to hopefully expedite the moving out of the hypermatter into 33 separate unoccupied star systems for long term storage, and have the processing completed in situ in the target star systems. Each one would have a total of 9.6 tons, which over the course of 18 months, would be converted into batches of 240 kilograms caches. We are working out the logistics presently.

The Raman Cooling are not especially expensive, nor are the atom-lasers, although the units we are anticipating have to be solid state, rugged and robust, because they will be operating on their own in remote systems. We will be ordering some of these. They are not dangerous.

I would like to add that the Raman Cooling Units has another convenient application, making high-density deuterium or even high-density antideuterium. Which we do not have the capacity to make anti-cobalt, we can use these Raman Cooling Units (RCU) to compress deuterium or anti-deuterium by about a factor of 170. A cubic meter storage cube could hold 20 tons of condensed deuterium or condensed anti-deuterium, which normally requires over 140 cubic meters.

These would not be as compressed as the hypermatter we are working with now, which is compressed 900,000 to 1, but with the same units we can produce close to 100 tons per day. Compressed Deuterium is 170 times easier to fuse as the nuclei are already 5.5 times closer together. I am going to discuss with Anoch whether we should consider retrofitting the habitat’s fusion reactors to be able to work with the compressed deuterium.

We will need to obtain some magneto-hydrodynamic equipment to store the condensed deuterium, but they are not higher end than what is used to store antimatter.

4. Gagh Farming.

It turns out my attempt at Gagh farming has not gone well, apparently Gagh need to feed on blood to be healthy. I am having to scale back our stocks. I will be cancelling Gagh Taco Tuesday for the time being. Crew and staff are being very supportive, there were no complaints.

We are planning to arrange a meeting with Selina at the OSH to discuss our biodome agricultural projects.

5. Personnel update.

We are bringing in Kouzuki to work with Anoch and I on our collective projects.

We are planning on Tamera (no relation) and AmazonLily, for cargo work between Tamor (no relation) and other destinations, but particularly for the Hypematter logistics. SaltWaterJack will also be ferrying cargo to and from Tamor (no relation) and Araxes for me.

We are planning to arrange a meeting with Selina at the OSH to discuss our biodome agricultural projects.

Please let the security person know.

6. Offworld Logistical Matters

I am negotiating with the Comtesse Commodore Doctor Patricia de Chenier of the Gliese Moiety of Worlds regarding using Glise 581 as a safe port of call for the purpose of deploying caches in the surrounding sectors of Gliese 581 which are unoccupied and have minimal exploitable resource potential.

I am also speaking with Doctor de Chenier regarding the pilot deceleration chamber project.

I am also picking up some Enerugon and Class-C Refined Spice which we will hopefully trade with the people from Xin Caodi for the Sirillium.

I am also meeting with an Elvian by the name of Tsila Ayali with the Elvian Mining Corps, and is currently located at the Elvian Aerie Station in Mu Draconis Beta. Elvians are difficult to negotiate with, and I am hoping to obtain a usable amount of their Elvianite Nano-Composite Rare-Earth Metal Magnets. Combining magnetic nano-composite rare-earth metals with the Elvians extremely precise crysyal-engineering, higher magnetic fluxes within the crystals are possible. Nano-composite laminate rare-earth metal magnetic material and laminated between 15 and 20 atoms thick creating a narrow 1-3 atom thick corridor with substantially higher magnetic flux which allows certain technological effects, such as the directing of antimatter and protons. This increases the magnetic flux up to 20 fold and dramatically increases the precision effects. The net result is Permanent (non-electromagnet) magnets made from nano-composite rare-earth metal with net internal magnetic field flux of 900-Tesla and superconducting nano-composite rare-earth metal magnets with net internal magnetic field flux of 14,600-Tesla. However, as I mentioned, they are difficult to negotiate with. They are frustratingly patient.

If Sanaia can arrange another expedition to the Eye of Hastur, then I will see if I can linger for that. Otherwise, I will be meeting with Professor Serendipity regarding using his Elitzur-Vaidmann Quantum Imager (EVQI). Also to discuss other matters.

I would like to make some arrangements to examine the KBH Doorway, and perhaps with Professor Serendipity’s Elitzur-Vaidmann Quantum Imager (EVQI), make a more detailed study; but I think we might want to wait until after we get some data from the Eye of Hastur, which is an active space-time metric gateway device.

I will check on the Gravitational Wave Antennae Array in Moortic on my return back to Tamor (no relation).