How to Build a Teleporter with Aliens
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Suppose we’re working with aliens who live near Alpha Centauri to build a wormhole teleporterso we can go visit them - for dinner, or interstellar diplomacy, or whatever. Of course we’llneed to be able to talk with them about what to make each side of the portal out of, howbig to make the various pieces, and so on. But since we’ve never been to Alpha Centauri,and they’ve never been here, this is tricky – I mean, if you tell me to make you anarc that’s 300 cubits long, and I don’t know what a cubit is, you’ll probably getan arc that’s not exactly what you were hoping for .So we’ll have to build, from the ground up, an easily sharable way of communicatingabout the universe, where distances and such are based on ideas, rather than specific artifacts....
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Suppose we’re working with aliens who live near Alpha Centauri to build a wormhole teleporterso we can go visit them - for dinner, or interstellar diplomacy, or whatever. Of course we’llneed to be able to talk with them about what to make each side of the portal out of, howbig to make the various pieces, and so on. But since we’ve never been to Alpha Centauri,and they’ve never been here, this is tricky – I mean, if you tell me to make you anarc that’s 300 cubits long, and I don’t know what a cubit is, you’ll probably getan arc that’s not exactly what you were hoping for .So we’ll have to build, from the ground up, an easily sharable way of communicatingabout the universe, where distances and such are based on ideas, rather than specific artifacts....
