{"id":368,"date":"2007-02-12T10:02:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T18:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2007-02-24T10:26:49","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T18:26:49","slug":"ps2-note-borderlands-mission-north-beach-chinatown-teleportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/12\/ps2-note-borderlands-mission-north-beach-chinatown-teleportation\/","title":{"rendered":"PS2 Note #9:Borderlands, Mission, North Beach, Chinatown, Teleportation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was up in San Francisco with Sylvia this weekend. Here are some pix and notes, with a few more remarks about teleportation mixed in for filler.<\/p>\n

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I gave a reading at Borderlands Books, always one of my favorite venues. A good crowd, a lot of sales. I forgot to bring along my tape recorder for podcasting purposes, but my old friend Faustin Bray of Sound Photosynthesis <\/a>was there to videotape the event. When will this video be obtainable? \u201d\u009dSoon come,\u201d\u009d as they say in the islands…<\/p>\n

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Always nice to be on magical Valencia Street.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow does teleportation work?\u201d\u009d Thuy asked Ond. <\/p>\n

\u201cTeleportation works by getting mixed up about where you really are,\u201d\u009d said Ond. \u201cIn quantum computation, we use the word \u201d\u02dccoherent\u2019 to mean mixed up. The usage is opposite of what you might expect. It\u2019s like if you\u2019re sufficiently coherent you can\u2019t talk at all. If you\u2019re sufficiently coherent your whole body folds up into a single wave function. As if you were this one exceedingly complex electron.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not an electron,\u201d\u009d said Chu. \u201cI\u2019m a Higgs particle.\u201d\u009d He giggled and made pig noises. \u201cOink, squeal, wheenk<\/em>.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

\u201cAlright,\u201d\u009d said Ond. \u201cAnd I\u2019m a quark. Thuy can be the electron.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m dark matter,\u201d\u009d said Thuy, getting into the silly jabberwocky game. \u201cSo what\u2019s that ocean we see in between the worlds?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Planck frontier. Fall through it and the subbies eat you.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

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The colors in the Mission are so great. Especially in the rain. Viva Mexico! I\u2019m thinking for my two alien races in Hylozoic<\/em>, the Rull and the Kang might in some ways resemble the Mexicans and the Chinese. Note that we do use that same word \u201calien\u201d\u009d for immigrant…<\/p>\n

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The murals covering the Women\u2019s Building <\/a>on18th between Valencia and Guerrero are mind-boggling. I love this image of the woman artist. Note that she\u2019s reaching down through a layer of reality to paint. She\u2019s reaching into the subdimensional world. It\u2019s great that this image is also reflected onto the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

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Might teleporting bodies ever collide with each other? Or get merged, like the scientist and the fly in The Fly? I don\u2019t quite see that happening here as it\u2019s all about a single coherent wave function\u2019s behavior, and not about a signal through space.<\/p>\n

Generally, quantum mechanical state-function waves behave linearly and don\u2019t interact with each other. But I might suppose that in some situation we get a nonlinear interaction, a coupling, and we get The Fly<\/em>. The character is all, \u201cBuzz, slobber, <\/em>hi guys!\u201d\u009d Maybe do this to a bad character. Dick Too Dibbs.<\/p>\n

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We were staying at Hotel Boheme <\/a>, a little place I like in North Beach, right by the Stella Caffe and Bakery, with their cozy (non-blinking) neon sign near our window. The pastries in North Beach…ah.<\/p>\n

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I had my scrap of paper with me, working on the first chapter of Hylozoic<\/em> — I like to print out what I have, carry it folded in four in my butt pocket, then get it out and mark it up in cafes. Always more interesting for me than the newspapers.<\/p>\n

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Nice to be doing the writer thing in an actual beatnik cafe, the Caffe Trieste, with guys even wearing berets. I missed a trick and left my own beret at home. But I got in some good scribbling.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s this funny tradition about brass bands for Chinese funerals. When Hong Kong was a British colony, the Chinese saw the British marching bands and decided this was just the thing for a fancy cortege. So the Green Street Funeral Home has a marching band, and just about every Saturday and Sunday morning, they\u2019re out there playing these great old hymns and then leading a hearse down Stockton Street.<\/p>\n

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The procession goes right past the Tang Fat Hotel, which I spotted about two years ago<\/a>, and ended up working into Mathematicians in Love<\/em>, as I like the name of it so much, also it\u2019s handy to the Vallejo Street Garage where my characters have their getaway car.<\/p>\n

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As it happened, this weekend they had a Chinese New Years fair on Grant Street, which was cool. I like the line of the tents\u2019 tops, it reminded me of Bruegel\u2019s painting of the two dancers at the fair.<\/p>\n

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Using Occam\u2019s Razor, I\u2019d do best to suppose that the aliens\u2014the Kang and the Rull\u2014use a telepathic teleportation method for their intergalactic travel. A catch is that they need to be able to visualize the target. But aha<\/em>, it\u2019s precisely due to the awakened Earth\u2019s telepathic emanations that the Kang can come to us! Like if you light a cigarette, the sniper can aim at your flame. They couldn\u2019t teleport here until we became telepathic.<\/p>\n

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[DJs doing a live broadcast for of a Chinese radio station<\/a>. ]<\/p>\n

Perhaps an individual needs help from his or her peers in order to teleport a long distance. We might suppose that a single unaided person only has the power to teleport themselves from one side of the planet to the other, and that they need to get others to help push them for the longer jumps. However I wouldn\u2019t want the requirement to be linear, as then I\u2019d need so very many people to help me jump a distance of many light years. Maybe it only take about seven helpers to get you up into the light-year-jump zone, and when you\u2019re in that zone you can jump as far as you like in our space.<\/p>\n

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I think I\u2019d like to allow third party teleportation. So our psychic power of teleportation can be used not only as a point-to-point travel method, but also as a kind of aethereal hand by which we can reach out and move distant objects around.<\/p>\n

How would third party teleportation work? Suppose that, sitting in my living-room, I want to teleport an apple from my fridge to the top of the table at my side. How do I proceed? I visualize the source and target locations as when doing personal teleportation, that is, I visualize the fridge drawer and the tabletop in the living room. But now, rather than doing a cohere\/collapse number on my body, I need to do it on the apple. I teep into the apple and coax the apple\u2019s state function into doing the cohere\/collapse. I become the apple for a moment, I merge with it, I cohere it\u2019s state function to produce locational uncertainty, and then I collapse the apple\u2019s wave function into the apple-on-table eigenstate.<\/p>\n

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We saw some boys doing a lion dance; two of them per lion. It was great.<\/p>\n

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Always good to be in San Francisco, with so much to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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