Originally posted by Lestov16As it so happens...
What if someone gained the ability to perceive quantum wave function superpositions and choose the eigenstate which the wave function collapses to. What are the potential applications of this power?
A few of my scifi stories have involved this premise. I had noticed that 'psi' was used not only by parapsychologists to denote what they study, but also by quantum physicists to denote the wavefunction. Hence: 'psiconsciousness'. 'Psiconscious' is now in the Urban Dictionary.
In old posts I used psiconsciousness to explain superpowers in general. As I conceive it, low-end application gives us things like telepathy or telekinesis; high-end would be reality warping (I should also mention, I don't ascribe to the Copenhagen interpretation, involving wavefunction collapse. I prefer the simpler, yet mind-boggling many-worlds interpretation).
Yeah, this is one of my favorite things to play with.
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Re: How powerful would this person be?
Originally posted by Lestov16
What if someone gained the ability to perceive quantum wave function superpositions and choose the eigenstate which the wave function collapses to. What are the potential applications of this power?
It's called yoctorobotics, technologies a thousand years ahead of our time. Able to manipulate what is currently known as quantum particles. Imagine reshaping matter, turning any mass sitting around (I.E. a large hunk of granite) into a microwave, given it has equal total mass to the microwave.
Originally posted by Lestov16Remember, I'm not a Copenhagen fan. In the many-worlds model, there is no wavefunction collapse, just new realities blossoming into being every time the universe does one thing instead of another.
How do you get telepathy out of wavefunction collapse?
The thing with quantum stuff is, one has to stop thinking about energy in the usual classical, Newtonian sense, like a beam of light, or sound waves or a lightning bolt going from point A to point B. There is no telepathic energy, per se. One of the best ways to grasp this is the diner scene in the movie, "Groundhog Day."
This is the scene where Phil (Bill Murray) is telling Rita (Andie MacDowell) everything he knows: when certain events are going to happen (eg, dropped dishes), or vital info about complete strangers (eg, she makes sounds like a chipmunk). To Rita and everyone else, it seems like Phil is precognitive and telepathic, but in reality, there is an altogether different, underlying mechanism responsible for both "powers": he is experiencing another reality where he is privy to this information (via conventional means yet).
From my immediate reality, psiconsciously I might find the one where my best friend Joe Schmo tells me his Social Security #. I now have this information I can use in my immediate reality where Mr. Schmo is my sworn enemy. I can even say to him, "Wanna see me read your mind?"
^To a Type Zero Civilization like us...this ability entails omnipotence.
With all powers, telepathy, matter manipulation, and many things we cannot imagine so easily if at all. The total implication is truly ungraspable from any human perspective. It's posthuman stuff.
Groundhog Day, huh?
I have a trivia for you Mindtrip, in that movie there were two body gaurds, one named Muse, my middle is the same as the other's first. What was his name? It starts with a R.
I could pose as Jesus with this power.
I could snap my finger and every single maimed or injured sould on this planet would be healed. Or I could clap my hands and every single edlerly person would be kids again. Or I could go to the weight room, take a bar bell, slap every 100 pound plate that will fit onto each side, and pick it up with my left and and start running around the gym twirling it in my palm creating enough centriphical force to generate hurricane winds. I could jump, land, and balance atop the spire of the Sears/Willis Tower.
I could break the sound barrier with a sprint. I could make people fall in love with me without dominating their free will. I could blink and ever person who ever died on this planet would be ressurected as their youths, in perfect form...then turn the planet into a golden garden city with a perfect climate deep within majestic mountain ranges that dwarf the tallest mounatins and volcanos on the martian surface...so that there would be a hundred billion perfect people with IQs over a thousand living in a paradise.
Originally posted by Dolos😐
I have a trivia for you Mindtrip, in that movie there were two body guards, one named Muse, my middle is the same as the other's first. What was his name? It starts with a R.
I have no idea.
Originally posted by DolosAble to pull remote probabilities from complex wavefunctions. Nice.
I could snap my finger and every single maimed or injured sould on this planet would be healed. Or I could clap my hands and every single edlerly person would be kids again. Or I could go to the weight room, take a bar bell, slap every 100 pound plate that will fit onto each side, and pick it up with my left and and start running around the gym twirling it in my palm creating enough centriphical force to generate hurricane winds. I could jump, land, and balance atop the spire of the Sears/Willis Tower.I could break the sound barrier with a sprint. I could make people fall in love with me without dominating their free will. I could blink and ever person who ever died on this planet would be ressurected as their youths, in perfect form...then turn the planet into a golden garden city with a perfect climate deep within majestic mountain ranges that dwarf the tallest mounatins and volcanos on the martian surface...so that there would be a hundred billion perfect people with IQs over a thousand living in a paradise.
Originally posted by Dolos
I could pose as Jesus with this power.I could snap my finger and every single maimed or injured sould on this planet would be healed. Or I could clap my hands and every single edlerly person would be kids again. Or I could go to the weight room, take a bar bell, slap every 100 pound plate that will fit onto each side, and pick it up with my left and and start running around the gym twirling it in my palm creating enough centriphical force to generate hurricane winds. I could jump, land, and balance atop the spire of the Sears/Willis Tower.
I could break the sound barrier with a sprint. I could make people fall in love with me without dominating their free will. I could blink and ever person who ever died on this planet would be ressurected as their youths, in perfect form...then turn the planet into a golden garden city with a perfect climate deep within majestic mountain ranges that dwarf the tallest mounatins and volcanos on the martian surface...so that there would be a hundred billion perfect people with IQs over a thousand living in a paradise.
Sounds like paradise