Cross-posted from my Google+
I had the most random thought on the train while reading the preface to Godel, Escher & Bach:
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If a pattern is consistent with itself, that is, if it is true in such a way that you could pick any point along the pattern and thus accurately and instantly determine the variables to arrive at such a point, then once the pattern is known it should be trivial to skip to any point along the pattern that you desire without having to determine the intervening values.
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Dudes. String-theory Teleportation.
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I'm getting ahead of myself when I call it "string-theory" teleportation. Initially, that said "Quantum teleportation," but it would hold true as a string-theory teleportation in that string theory asserts that particles (electrons, quarks, I can't recall at this moment) all exist simultaneously in all points in space in all times in long "strings"- string-theory teleportation itself would just be jumping further along the string without traveling the intervening distance.
Then again, a string in a string-theory is theoretically consistent along all points of itself. Theoretically.
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If a pattern is consistent with itself, that is, if it is true in such a way that you could pick any point along the pattern and thus accurately and instantly determine the variables to arrive at such a point, then once the pattern is known it should be trivial to skip to any point along the pattern that you desire without having to determine the intervening values.
...
Dudes. String-theory Teleportation.
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I'm getting ahead of myself when I call it "string-theory" teleportation. Initially, that said "Quantum teleportation," but it would hold true as a string-theory teleportation in that string theory asserts that particles (electrons, quarks, I can't recall at this moment) all exist simultaneously in all points in space in all times in long "strings"- string-theory teleportation itself would just be jumping further along the string without traveling the intervening distance.
Then again, a string in a string-theory is theoretically consistent along all points of itself. Theoretically.