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Think that would actually work?

yeah, but probably better with nukes to make a bigger shock wave. I also saw his machine on a show. i think it was mythbusters.

You mean that resonant frequency seismic actuator/ shaky thing.

Yeah. They actually put it on a real bridge. But i think tesla's was more powerful.

I've seen his "Earthquake Box" on a documentary. He claimed it could bring down any object, and I believe him on that one.

Yeah, it's the Earthquake Box.
I'm sure Tesla was zealous when he developed it so it eould be very overpowered.

Couldn't it be recreated as a military weapon? It would be as simple as sneaking in, hiding divice on foundation, and leaving.

It could, bit nobody knows exactly how it worked. It could have dual pistons positioned at both the crest and trough of a resonant wave for the material at hand, possibly by use of a slide bar. This would greatly increase the effeciency of the device, but also add a self destructive torque. The addition of a third piston would prevent it from twisting itself apart prematurely, but would raise the problem of over deflection warping the device, prematurely disabling it. This can be solved by adding double joints between each piston. This would reduce the effeciency, mobility and success rate.

Earlier in this thread we talked about warp drive. In warp someone can't communicate because signals can't be sent out from the field. I think I have an answer to this problem.

If the communication device utilized some form of remote quantum entanglement we could, because the signal would never have to pass through the warp field. The digital signal would pass through a device that would entangle the electrons used to produce that signal with those in another similar device at the receiving end. The signal then carries on in it's new location and is received at it's new location.
An added bonus to this would be real time communication with almost 0 lag regardless of distance. Something that would be almost vital in an interstellar community.

While it would be much more involved and would require a more traditional signal being sent first, this also opens the possibility of teleportation of matter as being possible.

So it would be like they were touching even though they were lightyears and a reality apart? Any idea how to do this?

I thimk they need to be made at the same time. And supposedly everything is connected through the big bang.

So it would be like they were touching even though they were lightyears and a reality apart? Any idea how to do this?

So right now, we have the equivalent of the 8-bit computers that took up several rooms. Think we will ever reach the equivalent of high capacity micro processors?

So right now, we have the equivalent of the 8-bit computers that took up several rooms. Think we will ever reach the equivalent of high capacity micro processors?

Another breakthrough with the advancement of this is in a computers capability.

Quantum computers could potentially out preform event the fastest possible traditional computer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer

Do to this one breakthrough that's possible advancements in communication, transportation and computations if perfected.