I believe that we are looking at a wireless solution here, and the justification
for building alternate dimension networks could be difficult to justify unless
we have an overcrowding problem on earth. That in turn would open up all sorts
of other possibilities. You can see the advertisements now :
"Moving into a different reality, don't end up in the Dungeon Dimensions, Talk
to John Doe, you friendly neighbourhood inter-dimentional Realtor"
However the Network Engineers that implemented it, would make a killing, They
would be on the clock in several dimensions simultaneously, especially if you
think that you can have different dimensions occupying the same physical space.
this scenario presents interesting opportunities :
1. you could carry out a full days work by doing 1 hour in each of 8 realities,
OR
really bust the budget and
2. by working 8 hours in 8 different realities simultaneously, therefore
achieving 64 hours work in one work day (8 hours)
(1/3 of the time it takes for an orbital rotation of earth, assuming 24 hours is
the time it takes,( I believe the completely accurate time is 23h 56m to one
rotation))
and lets be honest here, how many Engineers do you know that work 8 hour days ?
3. based on the standard working model, in the course of one "normal" working
day (8 hours), you could do your standard 40 hour week plus 24 hours overtime
and take the rest of the week off to go hiking in the mountains.
The added double whammy is that in the state of California, anything over 40
hours is time and a half, so the bank balance looks healthy too. The only
possible problem is whether you can be considered to be in California and
simultaneously in 7 other dimensions and still charge time and a half.
The lawyers and politicians are going to have fun making a law for this work
ethic.
ah... Mr. President, welcome to quantum physics 101 ;->
Jim
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Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu on 04/08/2000 05:58:52
Sent by: Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu
To: Jim Stephenson-Dunn/C/HQ/3Com
cc: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 16:52:25 PDT, Jim_Stephenson-Dunn(_at_)3com(_dot_)com said:
why not consider all the dimentions, ever heard of polyfractal space ?
Fabricating the router connections would be interesting.... WHat sort of
crimping tool would it take to make a 2.75D connector stay on the cable? ;)
att1.unk
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