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What Sci-Fi phenomena is the most likely to be possible in the future?
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Lupingosei
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Interstellar travel, but it either will be with cryogenic sleep or generation ships
VlaudTheImpaler
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SantaC
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BlackOlivesMatter
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Saw this article recently, and I think we just don't know as much as we think we know about how space actually works. We are so dead set on the speed of light being a barrier to interstellar flight that it's holding us back from actually figuring out the secrets of real space flight. This autobahn theory is a step in the right direction. There's so much more to learn though.
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A newfound "celestial autobahn" could lead to faster space travel in the future
A novel network of manifolds has been discovered that could provide relatively short travel times for long distance
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SantaC
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Yes thats why i also put past in there.
Shadowplay1979
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You should add more to the poll....AI, Transhumanism/singularity, replicators, tricorder medical devices which can cure cancer, T rexes in central park
Given enough time all things are possible
we wont be going the speed of light not because of lack of ability but because its pointless since of relativity and time.....we will find ways to bend space though
Ai will come first followed by singularity long before we leave the solar system unless we are given a hand up
replicators come next, they are more a matter of energy source /requirements...actually most things are
cancer prob no longer matters if we reach singularity
Given enough time all things are possible
we wont be going the speed of light not because of lack of ability but because its pointless since of relativity and time.....we will find ways to bend space though
Ai will come first followed by singularity long before we leave the solar system unless we are given a hand up
replicators come next, they are more a matter of energy source /requirements...actually most things are
cancer prob no longer matters if we reach singularity
INC
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What about quantum teleportation? That's already been achieved
Thurible
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I think none of those will ever happen realistically, that being said interstellar travel is more realistic than teleportation or time travel as we certainly can bring things into interstellar space (see voyager). However, I don't think we will ever bring a live human outside of the solar system.
Romulus
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I will never say certain things will never be possible. Just things we're doing now would blow people's minds a measly 100 years ago, and everyone would say they were impossible then. And those same things would drive people to insanity or outright kill someone 400 years ago just by witnessing the sheer power. So don't tell me anything is impossible in 400, 4000, or 40,000 years from now. And it's not insane to imagine our species could survive for millions of years into the future either if we're able to spread and colonize other planets. Imagine technology in a million years with the advancements seen in only 100 years. It would literally overload your mind to the point of instant insanity beyond what our greatest scifi authors could imagine. It's just too far ahead to comprehend, even for the most intelligent minds. We're too low on the building blocks of the foundation to see the roof.
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MetalAlien
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Time travel is a joke we'd have seen it already. Teleportation is a joke just change the name to murder machine. Interstellar travel is a joke the whole universe is bathed in deadly radiation. This one little ball is all we get.
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bitbydeath
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Stiflers Mom
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You mean via entanglement?
I think that's something completely different to actual teleportation.
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Deleted member 801069
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If people could time travel wouldn’t we encounter visitors from the future?
We would encounter murderers from the future there'd be endless terminator 2 plots going on thats why I think its not possible
teezzy
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Just you wait pal, I'm still working on this whole time travel thing.
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Airola
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It's death. Can't teleport consciousness IMO.
We havent done it yet to know but if its an exact copy down to the atoms then it has all the info for your consciousness, no?
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Deleted member 801069
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Not necessarily
Mind–body dualism - Wikipedia
even if it is all physical, which hasn’t been established, you’d be making a copy of yourself and destroying the original
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Nice if you believe that but its not hard scienceNot necessarily
Mind–body dualism - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
even if it is all physical, which hasn’t been established, you’d be making a copy of yourself and destroying the original
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Deleted member 801069
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That’s the point, it hasn’t been established whether conciousness is reducible to physics
see: Howard Robinson or David Chalmers
If you disagree, I’d love for you to try to establish that conciousness isn’t irreducible to physics
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christ right here on the neogaf discussion board? Ok, give me a few days to type up my nobel prize winning reply
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David Chalmers is a Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science at NYU as well as co-director of NYU's Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness.
He is a strong advocate of dualism.
I’m sure NYU would be willing to pay you some serious $$$ if you can establish this as they’re one of the leading universities on the subject as this would turn their department on its head.
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combining philosophy and hard science in theory, two great tastes that dont taste great together imo. I need paper in my hand facts, show your work
INC
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The film, the prestige would disagree
Stiflers Mom
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I think this is one of the hardest to solve philosophical questions.
There will also never be an answer on it, since your clone will always think and feel the experiment succeeded, regardless if the original still exists nor not.
The Hamburglar
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Hilarious none of you picked teleporting.
scientists have already managed to teleport particles/energy.
interstellar travel faster than the speed of light is a pipe dream
scientists have already managed to teleport particles/energy.
interstellar travel faster than the speed of light is a pipe dream
borborygmus
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The premise in quantum physics of "true" probability is probably wrong. Randomness and probability has always only ever been a substitute for things we fail to model deterministically. The flip of a coin depends on the coin's initial position and rotation and the infinite factors in the mind and body of the coin flipper. These factors are mitigated by increasing the sample size so we are left with a pure model with a 50-50 split given an ideal flip from alternating starting positions.
When an atom can be known to be in 2 possible places, naturally we only find out upon observing which of the 2 places it really was in. This has been modeled as "it exists in both places until the act of observation, at which point reality actual manifests" but there is no compelling reason to believe that reality hadn't already manifested prior to the observation. QM has the prior state as "undefined" but there's no reason to believe that it really is so in reality.
Einstein was right. We are probably just hitting a limit of understanding and found it expedient to use a probabilistic model. But to say that the underlying reality is probabilistic is a leap of faith.
Therefore, I wouldn't expect very much magic from quantum physics.
The most plausible would be interstellar travel, but I don't think humans would ever be able to make it without quantum magic, and imho quantum magic doesn't exist.
When an atom can be known to be in 2 possible places, naturally we only find out upon observing which of the 2 places it really was in. This has been modeled as "it exists in both places until the act of observation, at which point reality actual manifests" but there is no compelling reason to believe that reality hadn't already manifested prior to the observation. QM has the prior state as "undefined" but there's no reason to believe that it really is so in reality.
Einstein was right. We are probably just hitting a limit of understanding and found it expedient to use a probabilistic model. But to say that the underlying reality is probabilistic is a leap of faith.
Therefore, I wouldn't expect very much magic from quantum physics.
The most plausible would be interstellar travel, but I don't think humans would ever be able to make it without quantum magic, and imho quantum magic doesn't exist.
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Honestly right now I'd be ok with that.
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Hypnosekroete
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We have no future, humanity will be wiped out by a virus with a 99,x% survivalrate
AquaticSquirrel
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Gattaca future most likely, but that is after we get some good old fashioned corporate controlled semi communist totalitarian dystopia, this one is first on the list and in the process of being fermented right now.
eot
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It's not a leap of faith, it's been proven. You don't even have to assume anything about quantum mechanics to prove it, you can show that any theory which is locally real (this basically means that it is in principle possible to predict the outcomes of measurements) has to satisfy certain measurable constraints. Specifically, there are bounds on the strength of correlations between different measurements. This is known as Bell's Theorem, which was first shown in the 60s and has been tested experimentally over and over again. It is a very powerful test; when we do these experiments we don't have to know anything about quantum mechanics, the results by themselves tell you that nature cannot be locally real, independently of what the correct description of nature is. Conveniently though, QM perfectly describes the outcome of these experiments.
John2290
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None, they're all about as likely as tech that'll side step the laws of physics and allow you to walk through walls but interstellar travel is the most likely cause right now, it's possible, it'd just take a very long time. If we can create a ship that would allow us to survive being away from Earth, The sun, the electromagnetic fields protection etc We could send humans to another star and in, oooooh, a few hundred generations they'd get a go at seeing if anything around Aplha Centuri or Proxima is habitable. Massive gamble but it's doable. The other two, while in the same category themselves seem extremely unlikely and something we would likely end our existence attempting to pursue.
LaughingStock
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Maybe we can create an IA to do these things. But we, the homo sapiens, we're fucked.
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