Negative Time Reconnaissance (NTR) - Definition
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
We have coined the term, Negative Time Reconnaissance (NTR), to describe the military capability of receiving intel from the future. Currently regarded as strictly science fiction, there are developments in quantum physics that portend this as a serious possibility. We have chosen this term to be consonant with the modern ideal of realtime reconnaissance. Before the invention of satellites, reconnaissance delays were typically days to weeks. Realtime reconnaissance is the holy grail of reducing the delay between when an adversary does something, and when we find out about it, to zero. NTR is simply the idea of continuing this “shortening” past zero, to negative times.
If it ever becomes possible to send information at faster-than-light (FTL) speeds, then NTR becomes conceivable. FTL communications (also called superluminal signaling) requires that physics support spacelike causality.
The conventional wisdom is that quantum nonlocality cannot be used for superluminal communications [REF-Eberhard]. Most impossibility proofs that are eventually overturned are overturned not because of technical flaws, but because of a lack of imagination. To show that Eberard’s objection to quantum based superluminal signaling may suffer from this defect, we will be exploring a game based on quantum principles that show how backwards-in-time causality can be paradox free. That game is Quantum Tic-Tac-Toe.
