don@allegra.UUCP (D. Mitchell) (04/23/84)
Thank you for the 1200-line note on Jack Sarfatti's work. Guilded Missiles, ESP, communication with intelligent beings in the future and best of all, the equation (2) for "The Force" of Star Wars make Jack's work of such importance that I do not feel worthy to judge its merit. THIS IS A JOB FOR SCHROEDINGER'S CAT: I therefore propose the following gadankenexperiment. Consider a system, S, consisting of a tightly sealed box containing a cat, C, and a copy of Jack Sarfatti's paper on Faster Than Light Communication. After some time, T, the state of the system is a quantum mechanical superposition of two basis states. One state, |p>, in which the cat has pissed on the paper, and another state, |d> in which the box is dry. Upon opening the box, the wave function undergoes an instantaneous collapse and the discriminating cat's choice is made known. The results of this experiment are then placed in an aluminum time capsule so that intelligent beings in the future can send telepathic signals to the cat, thus creating a feedback loop which will amplify the probability, P, of the cat making the correct choice until it is virtually certain of being true!