"Greg Egan - The Planck Drive" - читать интересную книгу автора (Egan Greg)

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In "empty" spacetime, interactions with virtual particles Information
caused each componentтАЩs phase to rotate constantly, like
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the hand of a clock. But the time measured by any kind
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of clock traveling between two events in flat spacetime
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was greatest when the route taken was a straight
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lineтАУany detours caused time dilation, shortening the
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tripтАУand so a plot of phase shift versus detour size also
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reached its peak for a straight line. Since this peak was
smooth and flat, a group of nearly straight paths
clustered around it all had similar phase shifts, and these
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paths allowed many more components to arrive in phase
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with each other, reinforcing each other, than any
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equivalent group on the slopes. Three straight lines,
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glowing red through the center of each "bundle of straw,"
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illustrated the result: the classical paths, the paths of
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highest probability, were straight lines.
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In the presence of matter, all the same processes became
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slightly skewed. Gisela added a couple of nanograms of
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lead to the modelтАУa few trillion atoms, their world lines
running vertically through the center of the triangle, the Machine
sprouting their own thicket of virtual particles. Atoms Michael
were neutral in charge and color, but their individual Swanwick:
electrons and quarks still scattered virtual photons and Wild Minds
gluons. Every kind of matter interfered with some part of
the virtual swarm, and the initial disturbance spread out
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through spacetime by scattering virtual particles itself,
rapidly obliterating any difference between the effect of a