Cosmic Internet - The Universe as your 'provider'
CategoriesAs we struggle with electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones and other communications applications, a new development is quietly making its way into reality. Hartmut Mueller and his Leonard Euler Space-Energy-Research Institute are developing a communication technology that is not based on pushing out and receiving signals carried by electromagnetic radiation.
Mueller has pioneered a method of transmitting information through the medium of gravitation. Standing waves in logarithmic space, for those interested in the more technical aspects, which are described in an earlier article - A Universe of Scale.
Just a week from now, on 21 February 2004, Mueller will demonstrate the new technology at the Technical University in Berlin. Announcement of the event on this page and a bit of background to put things into perspective here.
Update April 2004:
According to a report on the German alt.energy publication Net-Journal, the demonstration in Berlin did not fulfill the high strung expectations of the announcement. It was planned to demonstrate the technology by having one laptop immersed in a large tank of water communicate with another outside of the tank. The idea was that the watertank would insulate the computer from receiving any kind of electromagnetic signal. As it turned out, that was an assumption that did not hold up to the practical test: Immersing a mobile phone into the water tank inside a sealed container, it was still possible to call the phone, so the demo inside the watertank was called off.
What was demonstrated was, that the random number generator of an intel Pentium or an AMD Athlon XP processor in a laptop computer can filter out a number sequence from the ubiquitous background noise, and that two computers - even though they are not connected in any traditional way - can syncronously filter out the same number sequence. This had been demonstrated previously in tests where the computers were located in different cities, but the open question is, whether the computers are exchanging information or whether they both obtain their information from a central, unknown source.
According to Adolf Schneider of the Net-Journal, a request from one of the participants to test whether one of the computers could generate a number that had previously been typed in on the second one, was said to be "not possible at this stage of development of the technology".
Another limitation of this method is the slow rate of "data transfer" or rather generation of synchronised output - only about 16 bit per second.
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Friday February 13 2004
updated on Saturday September 24 2005URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/02/13/cosmic_internet_the_universe_as_your_provider.htm
