Faster Than Light Cheat
Ariano Waiker
FTL: Faster THan Light is a 2012 rouge-like strategy game in a science fiction setting.You command a crew of a ship tasked with outrunning a rebel military fleet and deliveringa warning message to headquarters on the other side of the galaxy. Your movement betweenthe stars is facilitated by the FTL drive, a science fiction device that allows fasterthan light travel.
Here we can see the fuel being decremented by one in the instruction sub DWORD PTR [rdi+0x700], 0x1. I repeated the same steps to find functions that change the other resources (scrap metal,missiles, drones).
Now that I have the data structure figured out and a pointer to it in memory, I can start to figure out a good way to make changes to the running applications. I was originally going to write a C program that used ptrace to attach and modify the structure, but I took a shortcutand wrote a gdb script.
I was given the usual instructions for split-dose bowel prep: 1) Clear liquids only the entire day prior to the procedure; 2) Take the first dose of prep at 5 PM and the second dose of prep 5 hours before the procedure start time; 3) Nothing to eat or drink after the second dose of prep. Pretty standard stuff, these are the instructions I usually give to my patients. Following this will lead to a good or excellent bowel prep in the vast majority of people. But what if I told you that I did something different but still achieved an excellent clean-out?
The next morning, I woke up at my usual time of 5AM. I drank 2 cups of black coffee as soon as I woke up. This was followed by another 16 oz. of Suprep over the next 45 minutes. I would gulp down about 4 oz. at a time, then rest for 10-15 minutes and repeat until done. This time, the bowel movements started immediately after taking the first bit of the prep and were mainly yellowish water. Another 32 oz. of Gatorade down the hatch and the process was complete. The last 2-3 bowel movements were literally clear water, like as clear as the water that comes out of the faucet. Cool, I did it!
Now would be a good time to talk about a study from a few years back. Thinking that improving the tolerance of the prep would remove one of the classic barriers for some people to do colonoscopy as well as decrease the number of broken appointments and inadequate preps, researchers randomized patients into two groups: One group received a clear liquid diet the entire day prior, and the other was able to eat a light breakfast and lunch with several food restrictions the day prior. Both groups then completed the standard bowel prep. The study showed exactly what we would expect: The people who starved all day were miserable, the people who ate a little were less miserable, and the quality of the bowel preps achieved were the same between the groups! The most interesting finding was that the group of patients who were restricted to only having clear liquids cancelled their appointments more than twice as frequently as the patients that were allowed to eat just a little. Hunger is a powerful force to compete with!
As you approach the speed of light, your mass balloons up to infinity. The closer you get to the speed of light, the more out of control your mass becomes. With higher masses, you must push yourself harder to accelerate, and you quickly find yourself in a position where it would take an infinite amount of energy to overcome light speed.
That said, there are proposals out there for designing specialized devices that could supposedly overcome this limit without outright breaking relativity. These concepts work because special relativity is a law of local physics: It tells you that you can never measure nearby motion going faster than light speed.
The speed of light limit is baked into the most fundamental relationship in the universe: the relationship between space and time as expressed through special relativity. Every single time we test that theory, we are also testing every other aspect of the theory, including its limitations of light speed. And special relativity is perhaps one of the most well-tested theories in all of science. For over a century, it has stood strong.
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One of the most fundamental rules of physics, undisputed since Einstein first laid it out in 1905, is that no information-carrying signal of any type can travel through the Universe faster than the speed of light. Particles, either massive or massless, are required for transmitting information from one location to another, and those particles are mandated to travel either below (for massive) or at (for massless) the speed of light, as governed by the rules of relativity.
Since the development of quantum mechanics, however, many have sought to leverage the power of quantum entanglement to subvert this rule, devising clever schemes to attempt to transmit information to "cheat" relativity and communicate faster-than-light after all. Although it's an admirable attempt to work around the rules of our Universe, faster-than-light communication is still an impossibility. Here's the science of why.
Conceptually, quantum entanglement is a simple idea. You can start by imagining the classical Universe and one of the simplest "random" experiments you could perform: conducting a coin flip. If you and I each have a fair coin and flip it, we'd each expect that there's a 50/50 chance of each of us getting heads and a 50/50 chance that each of us would get tails. Your results and my results should not only be random, they should be independent and uncorrelated: whether I get heads or tails should still have 50/50 odds irrespective of what you get with your flip.
But if this isn't a classical system after all, and a quantum one instead, it's possible that your coin and my coin will be entangled. We might each still have a 50/50 chance of getting heads or tails, but if you flip your coin and measure heads, you'll instantly be able to statistically predict to better than 50/50 accuracy whether my coin was likely to land on either heads or tails.
This isn't mere theoretical work, either. We've created pairs of entangled quanta (photons, to be specific) that are then carried away from one another until they're separated by large distances, then we have two independent measurement apparatuses that tell us what the quantum state of each particle is. We make those measurements as close to simultaneously as possible, and then get together to compare our results.
What we find, perhaps surprisingly, is that your results and my results are correlated! We've separated two photons by distances of hundreds of kilometers before making those measurements, and then measuring their quantum states within nanoseconds of one another. If one of those photons has spin +1, the other one's state can be predicted to about a 75% accuracy, rather than the standard 50%.
Moreover, we can "know" that information instantaneously, rather than waiting for the other measurement apparatus to send us the results of that signal, which would take about a millisecond. It seems, on the surface, that we can know some information about what's going on at the other end of the entangled experiment not only faster than light, but tens of thousands of times faster than the speed of light could ever transmit information.
This seems like a great setup for enabling faster-than-light communication. All you need is a sufficiently prepared system of entangled quantum particles, an agreed-upon system for what the various signals will mean when you make your measurements, and a pre-determined time at which you'll make those critical measurements. From even light-years away, you can instantly learn about what was measured at a destination by observing the particles you've had with you all along.
It's an extremely clever scheme, but one that won't pay off at all. When you, at the original source, go to make these critical measurements, you'll discover something extremely disappointing: your results simply show 50/50 odds of being in the +1 or -1 state. It's as though there's never been any entanglement at all.
The only way that this problem could be circumvented is if there were some way of making a quantum measurement to force a particular outcome. (Note: this is not something permitted by the laws of physics.)
Quantum entanglement can only be used to gain information about one component of a quantum system by measuring the other component so long as the entanglement remains intact. What you cannot do is create information at one end of an entangled system and somehow send it over to the other end. If you could somehow make identical copies of your quantum state, faster-than-light communication would be possible after all, but this, too, is forbidden by the laws of physics.
There are a lot of subtleties associated with how quantum entanglement actually works in practice, but the key takeaway is this: there is no measurement procedure you can undertake to force a particular outcome while maintaining the entanglement between particles. The result of any quantum measurement is unavoidably random, negating this possibility. As it turns out, God really does play dice with the Universe, and that's a good thing. No information can be sent faster-than-light, allowing causality to still be maintained for our Universe.
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