It can be achieved. The Chinese just put a satellite in orbit reliant on quantum entanglement as the first step of their new milcom network. Apparently the bloody thing works.

I think the sequence is just the message. Needs a means of transmission first.

I think you solved a part of the puzzle.

Let's not jump to conclusions, I'm just a dumbass brainstorming :p

I'm still not sure how entanglement is achieved, or utilized in this situation. I found it interesting that the breakthrough comes as a result of modifying the reactor "fuel mix." Formerly consisting of hydrogen and deuterium, now hydrogen/deuterium/helium 3.

It reminded me of the times Reptiliandude mentioned the life cycles of stars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Evolved_star_fusion_shells.svg/550px-Evolved_star_fusion_shells.svg.png

They're mixed drinks too. Wonder if that has anything to do with it.

I wonder if the radio-frequency heating mentioned in this article is the way to "pluck the strings" hinted at 'round these parts.

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-china-artificial-sun-world-steady-state.html

If you can, tell me more about the other cultures in our galactic neighborhood, and elsewhere. You've spoken at length about the Ael'Kayeen, enough to get a feel for them, and a bit about the Ael'Naigaje (wish you'd tell us more) but I'd like to hear more about the Ba'alaket (hope I didn't mangle the spelling) and other kinds of people we might encounter out there someday. Tell me about their arts, their culture, their great works, their conflicts.

Think I dig. Ample food for thought, and a big meal to dig into.

Should I, in my travels, happen upon some folks who keep their lights in jars, I'll pass along what I've dug up here. Who knows what kind of people a wandering writer might meet - maybe they'll even have a ball to play with too.

One step at a time, then ;)

I hope you don't mind me bouncing these random thoughts off you. Bouncing a ball off a solid surface won't tell you the chemical composition of that surface, but the sound might tell you whether it's wood, or concrete, or steel. And if you don't hear it bounce off anything, well... you've gone and thrown it down a hole, haven't you?

Lambda... wavelength... something to do with the collimator? Is that how we "aim" the reply?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonant_magnetic_perturbations

And might this have something to do with how we "tune" the reply?

I keep coming back to this sub. Something about it fascinates.

So let's see if I have a rough grasp of what needs to be done.

Atoms are entangled by imparting a specific spin characteristic upon them via magnetic fields. Some fusion reactors employ magnetic fields to confine a stream of plasma. Can this magnetic confinement lead to entanglement in the plasma stream? How do we "tap" messages into the noise without destabilizing the reaction? Apparently, the consequences of fiddling with a stable plasma stream can be energetic, and unpleasant:

http://w3fusion.ph.utexas.edu/bpsworkshop/topical/Disruption_in_BPS_Expts_v1.pdf

If we start "tapping" the Fibonacci sequence into a stable plasma stream, aren't we introducing a "resonance cascade" of sorts, to borrow Half Life terminology, and guaranteeing its potentially violent collapse?

Interesting...

In Eve Online, we had a little-noticed event happen. A new star appeared in the sky, simultaneously visible to all sectors of the game, regardless of how many light years apart they were. Caroline's Star, we called it.

This, of course, was considered physically impossible - the light from that star would have had to have traveled from point of origin, to our points of observation, just as the light from all the other stars we've observed had traveled to us. It wouldn't have arrived all at once.

We Eve players didn't consider the possibility that something close to us was blocking sight of this new star... that it was always shining, always emitting its light, and whatever it was that prevented us from seeing it, ceased to function suddenly.

Very interesting. Another parallel found between this subreddit, and the story of Eve.

You aren't the only ones disputing the attribution of Wow to a comet:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/comments/6ggmpq/no_the_paper_about_the_wow_signal_coming_from/

It's interesting. I started reading about the Wow signal three days ago, largely due to this sub. Didn't find any mention of comets. Within the last 24 hours, a ton of new articles have popped up online, saying it was a comet wot did it. Equally interesting is that there are articles seemingly from 2014 on the matter, when I didn't see any on my first pass three days ago.

I am not a scientist, nor have I heard it all along. I don't care who disputed what. I want to learn for myself.

Can you put it in words I'd understand?

We know it was a message via excited hydrogen.

How? This bit is especially important to me.

Explain it like you would to a child.

I think I get bits of this, but my mind is very primitive. I will require further explanation.

Our planet looks like this: O

We've got a big receiver on that planet, that only receives in a certain direction, based on its rotation, that looks like this: O<

Somewhere far away is another planet that emitted a signal in a general direction toward us, that looks like this: >O or maybe this: -O

Somehow, our < caught their > or -

If we can determine the exact time their > or - arrived, and couple it with the position of our < at that time, we can establish their position relative to us at that moment.

Am I talking out of my back hole here?

There never was a Christine. I made her up to determine whether you're a cold-reader. ;)