X-Message-Number: 12307 From: Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 17:10:27 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #12297 Queen Victoria's BBC << But lets look at Queen Victoria's attempt to produce BBC TV again. The money she pumps in, in 1850 or thereabouts, would have to be spent on projects that are compatible with existing technology. >> With present day knowledge, Queen Victoria could have got radio Morse code transmissions with spark generators. Mercury pump and glass work could have produced diode and triode radio valves and so voice radio. The same technology would creates CRT... I think that could have been done 1900 years before, in Caesar's time. In the same way, we could use black magic: Copy a quantum system into a quantum computer, submit it at what physical laws we want to build in the system and then copy back the result in the real world. Some have the knowledge, other have the money, nobody has both. Yvan Bozzonetti. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12307