✨ Nora Tindall  🪐

nerdsnipe for the evening: they've discovered a Universal Scalar - a single variable whose value is consistent throughout the universe at a given time - and built a machine that can modify and detect its value. how do you turn this into a usable communications system?

how many bits wide is it

Many (like, say, velocity or mass), but it gets more expensive to detect it's value to a higher precision, like measuring a voltage very precisely

I guess we can't set a subset of bits only?

It's an analog value, not a digital one.

any analog value can be digital if you modulate it fast enough

speaking of which, how fast can i modulate it