Quantum leap

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by DarkFish

Not good... in that case tomorrows beer would be three days old

No because it ages backwards during transmission. Like Merlin. Because of all the quantum magicks, and stuff.

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

No because it ages backwards during transmission. Like Merlin. Because of all the quantum magicks, and stuff.

Wouldn't that mean that the beer would be aged to near-perfection, and not quite ready? In that case it would be better to wait until the day after tomorrow to download the beer, then warp one day back in time.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by krashkart

In that case it would be better to wait until the day after tomorrow to download the beer

The day after tomorrow won't work, obviously all the quantums will be froze over by then.

[krashkart]

Well dammit, I hadn't thought of that. If that's true, we'll only have one day to download beer and enjoy it before everything goes to hell. Imagine that hangover.

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

No because it ages backwards during transmission. Like Merlin. Because of all the quantum magicks, and stuff.

In that case it wouldn't matter a thing. If you'd get tomorrow's beer today, it would be a day younger than today's. But in the time it takes to become tomorrow's beer, it would grow a day older. 1-1=0 so there would be no difference.

[Sailor Steve]

Give it up, Frau Brau. These luddites have no understanding of technology.

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Give it up, Frau Brau. These luddites have no understanding of technology.

yeah, that's why I'm studying Electrical Engineering
I hope you do understand it will be me and my colleagues who'd develop such a teleporting application?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by DarkFish

yeah, that's why I'm studying Electrical Engineering
I hope you do understand it will be me and my colleagues who'd develop such a teleporting application?

Of course. I can pretty much guarantee that anybody here understands the technology better than I do. I was just adding to the beer jokes and Frau K's comment on "Magicks".

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Of course. I can pretty much guarantee that anybody here understands the technology better than I do. I was just adding to the beer jokes and Frau K's comment on "Magicks".

I know, I know

I guess the overly extensive mathematics lessons I get at uni have degenerated my brain to an extent where I can only see things in formulas... No more "Magicks" for me...

But still, if you take a function f(t) for the age of beer, and differentiate it on the interval [0,t], and once more on the interval [-t,0], you'll find that both are first-degree functions, and that f'(t) equals f'(-t) (as f(t) is a continuous function). From this you can conclude that beer traveling backwards in time loses age exactly as fast as beer traveling forward in time gains age.
So:

∀t∈ℝ, ∂f∈ℕ, 0 ≤ ∂f ≤ 2: f'(t)=-f'(-t) ⇒ f'(t)+f'(-t)=0 ⇒ ∫[0,t]f'(t)dt+f(t)+∫[-t,0]f'(t)dt=f(t)

Wherein f(t) is the age of beer and f'(t) is the aging speed.

Q.E.D.


Now try to prove me wrong

[frau kaleun]

So:

∀t∈ℝ, ∂f∈ℕ, 0 ≤ ∂f ≤ 2: f'(t)=-f'(-t) ⇒ f'(t)+f'(-t)=0 ⇒ ∫[0,t]f'(t)dt+f(t)+∫[-t,0]f'(t)dt=f(t)

Wherein f(t) is the age of beer and f'(t) is the aging speed.

Q.E.D.


Now try to prove me wrong

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by DarkFish

So:

∀t∈ℝ, ∂f∈ℕ, 0 ≤ ∂f ≤ 2: f'(t)=-f'(-t) ⇒ f'(t)+f'(-t)=0 ⇒ ∫[0,t]f'(t)dt+f(t)+∫[-t,0]f'(t)dt=f(t)

Wherein f(t) is the age of beer and f'(t) is the aging speed.

Q.E.D.


Now try to prove me wrong

"I hate temporal mechanics!" - Miles O'Brien, past and future copies

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by DarkFish

So:

∀t∈ℝ, ∂f∈ℕ, 0 ≤ ∂f ≤ 2: f'(t)=-f'(-t) ⇒ f'(t)+f'(-t)=0 ⇒ ∫[0,t]f'(t)dt+f(t)+∫[-t,0]f'(t)dt=f(t)

Wherein f(t) is the age of beer and f'(t) is the aging speed.

Q.E.D.


Now try to prove me wrong

I've got the bugga drunk before you can convince anyone those details/figures makes sense.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by DarkFish

Now try to prove me wrong

I've shown you logic and you refuse to see it.

I've shown you facts and you've turned a blind eye.

I've shown you reason and you continually refuse to listen.

I'm right and you're stupid.

So there.

See, I learned to argue on the internet. I cannot be defeated.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by DarkFish

yeah, that's why I'm studying Electrical Engineering
I hope you do understand it will be me and my colleagues who'd develop such a teleporting application?

Well, at the very least you'll do most of the wiring and help with the testing. We'll need to beam a few guys in red shirts through the system to make sure all the kinks are worked out before we put anyone's beer at risk.

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Well, at the very least you'll do most of the wiring and help with the testing. We'll need to beam a few guys in red shirts through the system to make sure all the kinks are worked out before we put anyone's beer at risk.

Sorry, I won't volunteer for that. Suppose it goes wrong and I end up someplace/sometime where they haven't got beer?
That would be horrible