In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sat, 15 Feb 2014 13:44:55 -0800: Hi, [snip] >On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 1:30 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > >...so FTL communication via electric field should be possible provided that >> it >> doesn't rely upon energy transfer. IOW the receiver itself needs to supply >> the >> energy required to interpret the signal. >> > >What is your sense of the plausibility of this line of reasoning, i.e., the >rigid propagation of electric fields in charged currents? > >Eric I'm not sure that I even understand what it meant by the phrase. However If looking for a means of building an FTL receiver, I would suggest something that relies upon tunneling, e.g. a Josephson junction, provided that some aspect of the chance of tunneling is influenced by the electric potential.
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