Timeline for Is it possible to encode a message in such a way that can only be read by someone or something capable of seeing into the very near future?
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| Sep 19, 2019 at 4:12 | comment | added | HA Harvey | @DoctorJerk the ink method does rely on simultaneously seeing present and future, but it A) can truely only be read by your time spies, B) includes a glyph system that means only those privy to the glyph and its meaning (especially if it is something otherwise innocuous) know to look for a message, C) must have the counterpoint chemical to reactivate the writing, D) must be paying attention as the solution is applied so they can see the message from the angle of the writer. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 4:00 | comment | added | HA Harvey | @AlexP not sure what your point is. The only time I mention coding is in the thieve's cant section, and that basically specifying that the above method would be encoded, as you explain, but not secret. The OP is essentially looking for an encryption method for his/her "temporal spies" to use that will allow them to keep their messages secret. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 3:36 | comment | added | AlexP | Encoding does not provide secrecy, quite the contrary: a common encoding is essential for successful communication. For example, this comment is encoded in ASCII. My computer knows ASCII, and thus the first letter of this comment, "E", is to be represented and sent over the network as numerical value 69. Your computer knows ASCII, and thus knows that the numerical value 69 received from the network represents the letter "E". | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 3:20 | comment | added | DoctorJerk | Okay, I understand what you mean, then. If I'm interpreting correctly, this could work, if one had a substance whose atoms interfered with only the light bouncing off their past selves, the gaseous state working as a sort of polarized lens for its previous liquid state AND the superpowered observer was capable of seeing both the present and the future at the same time. My original question didn't include the observer being able to see two temporal frames of reference at once, but this might be a workable solution. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 3:09 | comment | added | HA Harvey | @DoctorJerk it is a theoretical interaction for a theoretical sense. IOW, we "normies" could never discover that such a substance even exists. However, those with temporal perception would have little difficulty seeing the interaction, as they can see the present and the future like overlapping slides. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 3:03 | comment | added | DoctorJerk | In the example with the invisible ink, I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. How would seeing an invisible evaporation of invisible ink produce a visible hue? Also, to clarify, the reader and writer could only see either the present or the future at any given moment, and only a very short distance into the future, 0.1 seconds at most. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 2:37 | history | answered | HA Harvey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |