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by **A J Irving** » Jun 3rd, '10, 10:10

http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=2008281766A1&KC=A1&FT=D&date=20081113&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_gb

This is just so awesome, I really wish it was true. Here are some choice quotes:

A method and system for creating human robots with psychic abilities, as well as enabling a human robot to access information in a time machine to predict the future accurately and realistically. The present invention provides a robot with the ability to accomplish tasks quickly and accurately without using any time. This permits a robot to cure cancer, fight a war, write software, read a book, learn to drive a car, draw a picture or solve a complex math problem in less than one second.

Imagine that a robot is given an assignment to find a cure for cancer and to write a book about how the cure is developed. In less than one second the robot is able to find a cure for cancer. No physical work has been done to find a cure. Within this one second the robot has a pdf file in his home computer that outlines the cure for cancer. The entire human race for the last 100 years can't find a cure for cancer and yet this machine was able to find a cure in less than 1 second.

The key to this form of intelligence is predicting the future. The robot is able to predict the future (or the past) with pinpoint accuracy and extract relevant data from its future predictions. The relevant data from its future predictions will be activated in the robot's mind. This results in psychic abilities.

Although he has gone into a lot of detail as to how the robot will achieve all these things, he's neglected to include how you go about building the robot and the necessary software in the first place.

by **Tomo** » Jun 3rd, '10, 10:19

That's a shame. I could do with a robot with psychic abilities.

by **Mr_Grue** » Jun 3rd, '10, 10:35

If we ever do master time travel, I suspect we will only be able to send data into the past. I'm sure quantum entanglement at a distance will eventually be able to do this. Won't be any use though, save for removing lag from communications networks.

Oh, and I have a working method for sending data into the future. In fact I'm using it right now. Hello the future.

by **Serendipity** » Jun 3rd, '10, 10:48

Personally I'm very excited about a robot that can predict the future AND the past. I mean, sure it's cool to know what will happen tomorrow, but just imagine being able to know what happened YESTERDAY. The mind boggles.

by **Tomo** » Jun 3rd, '10, 12:02

Mr_Grue wrote:If we ever do master time travel, I suspect we will only be able to send data into the past. I'm sure quantum entanglement at a distance will eventually be able to do this. Won't be any use though, save for removing lag from communications networks.

Oh, and I have a working method for sending data into the future. In fact I'm using it right now. Hello the future.

Message received! It works! You're a genius!

Information, energy and mass are treated as the same thing. You can neither create nor destroy them. Sending stuff back in time violates this principle, so it's not physically possible - but only if you attempt to send it back in the same universe. If you send it sideways to a parallel universe in which it has already gone back in time you're good to go. First, you need to find the right parallel universe...

by **Mr_Grue** » Jun 3rd, '10, 12:12

This hurts my head a little, but I was thinking in terms of using QE to allow for FTL data transfer. I guess this wouldn't be time travel in any real sense, but would mean that the message is received before it is apparently sent. Because of relativity or something.

by **Mr_Grue** » Jun 3rd, '10, 12:19

Tomo wrote:Message received! It works! You're a genius!

And it's instantaneous too!

by **Tomo** » Jun 3rd, '10, 12:21

Mr_Grue wrote:This hurts my head a little, but I was thinking in terms of using QE to allow for FTL data transfer. I guess this wouldn't be time travel in any real sense, but would mean that the message is received before it is apparently sent. Because of relativity or something.

Ah, another problem. Special Relativity shows that the faster you want to go, the more energy you need, which is fair enough. However, the faster you try to go, the more mass you gain - not speed. That's yer actual e=mc^2, that is. It was this realisation that led directly to the development of the atomic bomb.

I think I'm right in saying that sending information via QE still takes time. I'd have to look it up, though.

by **Mr_Grue** » Jun 3rd, '10, 12:26

Tomo wrote:I think I'm right in saying that sending information via QE still takes time.

Not according to the His Dark Materials trilogy it doesn't!

by **Tomo** » Jun 3rd, '10, 13:07

Mr_Grue wrote:
Tomo wrote:I think I'm right in saying that sending information via QE still takes time.

Not according to the His Dark Materials trilogy it doesn't!

Excellent books, those. It's just a pity they're not making the rest of the trilogy into films. The first was EXACTLY like I imagined Lyra's world.

by **Randy** » Jun 3rd, '10, 20:18

I'd imagine that the time travel would only allow you to send something like a few mins forward or backward in time.

Imagine how disappointing that would be. :lol:

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