Retroinformation: Information that can be communicated between
different eras and scales.
Wormhole Transport Protocol (WTP) an information
transport layer that extends HTTP to allow endpoint servers to be in different
eras or scale. HTTP with parameters for era and time domain. Information is
filtered via a CASER mechanism, which blocks information that is not
self-consistent. Channels may open up between scales, such as quantum and macro scales, or ants and their ant colony, or worms and their ecosystem.
Wormhole Transport Markup Language (WTML). A language used to describe the communication channel to communicate between endpoints using the WTP servers. This language protocol will start out simply, and evolve as the level of trust and consistency increases.
Era: a time domain, describing the time domain of the endpoints
of the WTP. Thus, eras may describe world lines that are related as "future" or
"past" of the same object, but not necessarily the same one. Jitter: the time
domain difference betweeen eras.
CASER: Causal Amplification through Stimulated
Emission of Retroinformation. A filter/resonate mechanism with ports connecting
different time domains. It allows information to be emitted only when
self-consistent. This filters retroinformation to only allow self-consistent
information to flow.
Causal Amplification: The ability for retro information to
increase or decrease some event within the probability distribution function of
another era. To the local observer, a causally amplified event seems like
something that happens "normally." To the remote observer (communicating via
WTP), this is way of bootstrapping their own present.
Inter-Era bootstrap: A mechanism by which one era is able to start up communication with another era.
If both endpoints are in the same world line, then the earlier era must open up
the WTP server port in order for the future era to download enrichment
information, increasing the retroinformative capacity of the channel. WTML 1.0 is the most primitive version of the language used, which may itself be bootstrapped to higher levels.
Retroinformative Capacity: (of a retroinformation channel) The state of the
channel, and degree to which an Inter-Era bootstrap process has begun.
Self-consistent future: a requirement of any retroinformative channel. Non-WTP
communication maintains self-consistency in a world line by restricting
requiring strict causality (all events are preceeded by their causes). As
retroinformation channels are added to an Era's domain, self-consistent future
is maintained by strict CASER filtering.
Hacking the CASER: If the CASER
mechanism is hacked, then the self-consistency of the worldlines of the affected
Eras may be lost.
Tools for maintaining self-consistency in retroinformation channels:
- Negation-free language. WTML does not allow the expression of negation. This precludes certain paradoxical expressions, such as "This sentence is false"
- Identity diffusion: WTML does not allow the identification of individual elements. This precludes going back and altering the behavior of one's grandparents. This inhibits self-referential paradoxes, as "This sentence is false" would be prohibited because "This" identity would be blocked.
- Scale diffusion. Channels may be opened between different scales, such as ants and their ant colony. In this case, the identity of the individual ants would be diffused over the scale jitter.
