How To Do Quantumz

* See also Quantum_Hokem
* See also Real World and Real_Physics
* See also Lutece
* See also Quantum_Particles_Can_Do_Anything
* See also Constants_and_VariablesWhat Idiot/Hack insisted on saying "Constants_and_Variables" ??? Real Quantum Physics is 'ALL ABOUT Probability, NOT Constants.
* See also True_Infinites
* See also Infinite REDO
QUANTUMZ - LETS LOOK AT THE SITUATION - ADDING SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF REALITY :
AN ATTEMPT TO SCI-FI RECONSTITUTE QUANTUM TECH FOR A INFINITE BS REDO
The_Quantum_Revolution overlap - fix
IF you are 'going to use it' - at least reduce the utter Fantasy Crap ( less 'open ended' shit employed as a story Crutch ), and make it MESH with the Contemporary state of EVERYTHING ELSE ( around that time in the World ), and use it in ways people WOULD use it for BETTER World Building.
OR MAXIMIZE ITS USE and have a "Jetsons" complete revamping/change of the way people lived ( every aspect of their lives ) - and even how it had changed the "World Below" (since 1893).
That's even if Quantum Tears are not replicatable, which likely would eventually happen ( 100 existing brilliant minds would find it as Rosalind Lutece had, and perhaps do it far better improving/expanding it ).
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Multiple Projects/Accomplishments are Involved for the Luteces To Create :
Required : NOT just one significant 'Break Through' for the Luteces, but a WHOLE bunch/slew of them :
* Observing a 'Quantum' Particle ( of whatever type ). After the initial Discovery, there would need to be further devices creating/demonstrating the effects working - then Inventing of a way to Control and Manipulate and Employ the abilities. 
* Signals sent by manipulating the particles which linked (at least) two dimensions/universes. Observation of someone else manipulating the same 'Particle'. Communication thru the Particle(s) Across Dimensions ( 2-way ) - Creating/using the mechanism itself to do so - Stimulating movement/vibrations on a cross-dimensional 'Entangled' Complementary Particle repeatedly and consistently ( somehow transmitting the action across infinite or finite dimensions ), and being able to sense/detect movements on a "Particle". Kinetic Energy being transmitted. (( Add backstory of how Rosalind and Robert happened to notice it and then make the connection ... And funny/clever things like WHAT their first messages were ... ))
* For Repeated Communications : "Locking On" to ONE (the same) reality on the other side - otherwise you get garbled /mixed-up answers from "Infinite" of 'the other side'. Searching out one ( out of Infinite ) with someone able to communicate with ... How long did that take ? - Each one would have to be 'listened to' sufficiently to detect an 'intelligence' on the other side ( and THEN reply ... )
* Creating the Looking-Glass Portal device, with the ability to pass a flow of Photons cohesively thru a '2D' ( plane ) - Control of the View ( Its 'other side' Position in Space, its Orientation there, and which 'Dimension' is being looked at -- and later adjusting the Time viewed). Presumably, also with a way to shift these View settings. Recording the settings for subsequent access/reuse of "The Connection" (?)
* A Transit Portal device to allow Robert Lutece to 'cross over' into Rosalind's dimension ( Apparently without 'Merging', even when they are the same person 'Face to Face' ).
* Time Travel Views ?? How else could Comstock's Prophesy have worked ? Or is it just some dimensions with an offset 'timeline' ( With so many "Infinite" ones all vastly different to look thru - How do you pick the 'right' one ? ) Later traveling to and from that different time would be done. (( Possibly, the Luteces could not do the 'Timetravel Transit'(Travel) thing with their Tear Machine The Luteces not doing "Time Travel" Passage - Time Travel perhaps being left to 'the Dimension god' that the story created/contrived. ))
* Issue : Crossing THERE AND BACK - What Comstock & Robert did to fetch baby Anna/Elizabeth ( Could there be !!! Infinite Universes where the "Pinky Effect" on Robert's/Comstock's dandruff made them into 'gods' too ?? And countless others with such powers ... )
* The Floating ... Float/Movement/Control/Powering-it ( At what Point in the Timeline for this to be starting/overlapping ??? )
* Control of Elizabeth Quantum Siphoning ?? Device specifically designed to limit the extent of Elizabeth's powers, acting as an inhibitor to keep her 'under control'. ( That is some Quantum Tech also. )
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We might assume that Rosalind and Robert originally had no 'god' powers to assist their original work, or in operating their machines. ( AND Please Let's not add 'Psi' interface/manipulation to the Lutece 'tech developments' ) Consider though that THEY later are also some kind of "Quantum gods", which allegedly supersedes Time and Dimensions in influencing things. (( As usual, Open-Ended story crutches logically go beyond the control/consideration of the story's writers. )) SO becoming interdimensional gods, they can go back in time and help themselves, No ?
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NOTE - Within the Real Multiverse M-Worlds Scientific Hypothesis, dimension transiting properties/effects DO NOT EXIST. But FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT : Lets assume they do ... 
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 'Quantum' Mechanisms would have to be developed do DO ALL the Operations Described Above.
So what Tools ( Apparatus to interface Human to "Particle" ) did Rosalind ( and apparently Robert also ) use to detect and manipulate these Dimension crossing 'Particles' ? Scientists do not exist in a vacuum, but build ontop of current theory, and various mechanisms needed for experimentation. Presumably there was magnetic actions involved. Pre-1893 such technologies were still very primitive/crude, and did not even have electronic amplification to assist in the operation ( "Particles" are really really tiny ... ). Remember, you cannot grab technology to help you 'From the Future' TIL you have your machines themselves usable to access the Particles/Tears/whatever.
UNLESS : Sub-Atomic science elsewhere in THAT (not our) game universe was many decades ahead of Our Universe's history ( Ex - here the 'Electron' was not scientifically proven until 1897 ). Of course the caveat is : Existence of such science would impact that timeline of all our World's expected scientific history and technical advancements ( and all the effects those changes would have on any Society/History WE would recognize ). Consider : If such technology advancements existed, then many OTHER of the World's scientists would be experimenting with them as well. No evidence is given in-game suggesting this 'parallel galaxy far far away' idea.
ANOTHER Possibility : was that significant Knowledge and Tools came from some other Dimension Traveler thru a Free -or- partially mechanized Tear. Who that was ? - Other Luteces ?? Aliens ?? Makers of the Vita Chamber in Rapture ?? (( Heh, that would make RAPTURE then Infinite's story origins, instead of that stuff in Burial At Sea ))
Rosalind Lutece could have invented/perfected specific Tools to manipulate her particular Quantum things. Robert may have done some of it also. ( Some significant amount on BOTH sides ... possibly combined ). How long did it take ? What resources did she/he need - $$$ especially. ( Ex- In our World, huge amounts of Electric Power are required for the machinery which create and manipulate 'Particles' Custom built machinery or the parts for them are horribly expensive - especially if they don't exist and have to themselves be developed ). Such project efforts most-usually take the incremental collaboration of dozens of talented/skilled individuals over the space of MANY years.
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Interdimensional Portaling ( From Particles to Planes ) : 
So 'Particles' - And now you need something FAR HARDER : Making these lab experiments work to do something useful ( more than a Morse Code inter-dimensional telegraph ). A 'Portal' would be needed to bring Robert through to Rosalind's dimension. 
Once we progress further We would assume that you could LOOK through the "Portal" at some point. Could sound be heard through it ? (( At least they did not call it "Quantum Tunneling" !!!! Quantum Tunneling : Another frequently misused concept - https://brilliant.org/wiki/quantum-tunneling/ ))
One would need to be such a great Polyglot Genius ... Engineering of devices is a whole different skill set. A whole raft of 'making it work' efforts. Did Rosalind and Robert do this all by themselves ? No ? Did they require use of someone else ( or many ) who had the technical skills they lacked ? If so, What happened to them ?? ( Was never mentioned in the game. ) 
What Resources were needed ? This "Seeing Portal" was needed pretty early if Comstock was to be a source of funding of further functionality ( via his prophesying scams ). Seeing the Future ...
Later, having this Portal be made with the ability for someone to try to go thru it, and it be stable enough - that too would take much experimenting and work and time and effort. What other objects were pushed thru in this transit portal work ? Living things like white mice, a dog ? What accidents happened ? Were they lucky that some unknown fatal virus or bacteria did NOT come thru the other way ? Who else in the infinite universe perhaps 'tapped into' the same 'particle' on the Infinite Partyline whom might 'step thru' ??
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Incremental Development : Example - The Edison Effect (discovered 1880), the Tube Diode (1904), and Valve (1906), and actual working vacuum tube radios being mass-produced (in 1920) ( Many scientists/engineers/craftsment/toolmakers/AND_INVESTORS were required to achieve this transition. ) https://www.thoughtco.com/the-history-of-vacuum-tubes-1992595
SO How long did all this Tear 'discovering' and 'developing' take ? Comstock's timeline is absurdly tight. The Luteces had to have that 'Seeing Portal' working to allow Comstock's meteoric rise in fame and influence soon after Dec 1890 ( Battle of "Wounded Knee" ) to be able to get to Floating Columbia by 1893. 
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Floating Particles -"Simply Not Falling" ?? PRACTICALITIES 
OK, Lets Assume This Floating Particle Works. How much attachable force/weight can be applied to 'it' and still have it 'not fall' ?
You need to fasten something to these "floating" particles - OR is somehow the whole floating object converted to be this 'Not Falling' matter ?? We would assume then that other things ( people ... ) can be put upon such 'floating supports/platforms'. The Girders of the buildings/structures ? Are there Masses of the 'particle' substance filling those foundation blocks they have below ?? 
Structural limitations ? Balancing the things ? Top heavy buildings HAVE to have Floatyshit INSIDE them to keep them ( drag/vector them) upright ? At some point, the Fantasy bit has to end and Real Physics needs to take over. The Bricks can't be 'Floaties', or all that wreckage we saw would be floating away by itself. So there is all THESE ISSUES left unexplained - with countless problems which WOULD HAVE TO BE resolved.
Adjustable ... Controllable ... Recall, that Columbia was not limited to a fixed altitude. ( The 'barges' certainly shift, and there are those building we see bobbing up and down ... ). So, however it worked, it requires ability to change altitude and stabilize - precise buoyancy/positioning control ( The gamewriters likewise had general ignorance of the concept of neutral buoyancy for the Bathyspheres in BS1 ). We see those independent adjacent building chunks bobbing up and down in the game - SO some kind of LOCAL/Independant/Coordinated control HAS TO exist. Such things need to be coordinated for all the City to move/travel together ( as that route map seen in-game implies happens ). 
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Getting COLUMBIA Floating :
No doubt much time/effort was required to develop and perfect (enuf of) these REQUIRED 'float' mechanisms ( !!! Infinite Rosalinds - Perhaps we just saw the one who did not die fatally or cause the implosion of her universe, or other such catastrophic mishaps, or the dimensions THAT Rosalind just 'gave up' in ... )
Engineering a scientific Discovery into a WORKING mechanism is a major feat ( often FAR more difficult a task than the initial Discovery ). Infinitely unlikely Rosalind/Robert did ALL this themselves ... Work FAR MORE than just some simple construction being 'touched' by this magic stuff was required. 
Most likely : The US Government did the engineering to have Columbia Float ( Like the Design of 'the rest' of Columbia to meet the 'Show City' requirements of the project - everything that would make it a 'city'. ) THEY collected/produced the materials, assembled the work force, coordinated and built the 'quantum' machinery piece by piece. (( The gamemakers mention "The Devil In The White City" (book) which goes into details about how the 1893 Columbian Exposition was achieved. The efforts to build Columbia would be similar. ))
US Government ( the 'bureaucrats' the writers ignore ) would have hired experts who were qualified architects and engineers and whatever, and the ( SO MANY ) required technologists/manufacturers contracted. There MUST have been many other great minds involved in this project, and hundreds directly involved. (( NOTE - Most would NOT want to go live on a "Flying Propaganda Show" -- As if they would all 'fit' anyway )). Many problems would be encountered and would have to be solved in scaling this 'floating' technology to 'city-sized' (( Rosalind and her floating 'quantum' model would be like proposing building a Battleship by presenting a Toy Boat )). 
A BIG Government Project. So guess what ? It would NOT really be a secret to the Rest of the World. Missing details would be found by many others. Think what THEY ALL might do with this new wondrous technology. Quite Hard to keep it all a Secret when the evidence floats in plain view at a World's Fair. 
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Particles is Particles :
Vibrating a Particle - How does that work again ?? Inducing a vibration with what - How ? Electromagnetism ? So the 'particles had to have charge ? Perhaps they WEREN'T 'Particles', but something else ? But real Quantums have to be Particles to act as they do. (( But this is Fantasy Physics, So why not tiny "Schrodingers Cats" ??? Nah ... ))
How do you even hold a 'Particle' in place to do experiments on it ?? ( You don't manipulate 'Particles' with ordinary Tweezers. "Quantum Tweezers" - we must remember that for the Infinite REDO. )
Infintesimally small objects : How do you see/detect it ( or make changes in it ) ?? How to combine/attach them into some larger 'chunk' which IS manipulatable ?? ( To Fasten/Combine them ).
What were the mysterious properties of these new "Particles" to make them different from all the normal ones ( Electrons, Photons, Neutrons, Protons, etc ... ) ? The first particles detected were due to them having 'Charge' ( Magnets manipulate them - steer them - their path - even if you cannot directly see them ).
* Connection to another particle in another dimension ( the way which Rosalind contacted Robert ... ) Presumably parallel association between different versions of themselves. With Infinite Universes shouldn't there be Infinite of them on THAT party-line ? "Connected" ??? ( That abused buzzword term "Entangled" ??? ) Some limiting factor is needed here. 
* Forming of a Portal hole connection to Another Dimension - another 'side' - a Hole-to-Elsewhere : a 2D 'Plane' is required ( "Particles" are 'points', with no dimensionality ) ?? How now is THIS Point --> Plane achieved ? TV cameras and CRT 'scan a beam'. Might it be something like that ?? ( 1890 Discovery of beam of electron magnetic deflection ...)
* PORTAL : Light Transmission - an image ( and Sound - being vibrations and passage of normal matter ), and later actual matter object movement passage through into another dimension ( and to come back like Comstock/Robert did ). You also can be on both sides at once ( ala le pinky )
* Time Travel is supposedly done in the story - but that might just be a different ( but very similar ) parallel dimension where time is skewed being passed into. Controlling THIS factor would be further 'fun'.
* "Tear" portals ( viewable and passable ) seem able to be controlled via a Machine. They apparently don't require a machine for the opening on the other side ( else Comstock's 'Prophesying' and Fink's 'Peeking' would not work ).
* Other Tears (in-game) just appear (some appear to be Random) Without Machines on This Side - Are those 'the other side' from a machine somewhere else ( not just Machine to Machine ) ??? THINK : There are infinite 'dimensions' of portal machines 'doing shit'. )
* Disassociation of that Parallel Linkage ( to be able 'Scan Around' for the view in different places in that other universe so 'to make prophesy' ) - the view is not statically positioned ? ( Just Resetting the machine over and over a million times would get really cumbersome and time consuming. ) Presumably the same location can be 'found again' ( Fink talked to Suchong over the space of Weeks - Was it just 'left open' that whole time ? ).
* Float (the Anti-Gravity property) Original concept idea was : They were 'frozen in time', and thus could not fall. EXCEPT being "Fixed/UnMoveable in Space" cannot work - The Rest of the Universe DOES move. At least 6 different relative motions of the rest of the universe would have them shooting off at many thousands of miles an hour ... "Not fall" ( the up down vector), but the demonstrated freedom to move side-to-side is something else we do see - Must this 'height' be some convenient offset separation from the Center of the Earth ?? The Moon and Sun ( other nearby sources of strong Gravity ) though seem not to affect that much, even though they have a massive Gravitational MASS effect themselves. ) ??? A 'MOTHER' PARTICLE at the Center of the Earth ? ( Center of mass of the Real Earth actually shifts - that might do VERY interesting things to any potentially Graviton-referenced "Particles" ... )
* "Floating" Particles - If they simply Don't Fall ("Fail To Fall"), they then stay at the same altitude, but then how did Columbia ever 'lift-off-the-ground' ?? - Thus they have a CHANGING/changeable altitude ( with controlability ), and an ability to RISE up to may thousands of feet, and STAY at that altitude. ( SO : NOT FIXED IN PLACE - a whole lot more complicated than 'Not Falling'. )
* Are the Particles powered ??? ( Is THAT how they can be controlled/adjusted ? ) Blue Glowey orby things - WTF are those ??? ( Some of THOSE things are ShockJockey powered ??? ... However THAT works. OOPS COMPLICATIONS --- ShockJockey is ADAM Plasmid-powered - You can't have that preexist without Timetravel and Obtaining it from Rapture and Finky interfacing with Suchong etc etc etc ... ) 
* 'Q' Particles linked/fastened to other 'Q' Particles ( allowing bigger constructs ... ) ???
* "Observation" does not seem to disrupt this 'quantum' stuff -- That basic thing about things in a quantum state that 'Observation' makes them 'Decohere' - to no longer be in a Quantum State ( BTW - "Observation" is actually ANY kind of significant interaction a fragile quantum object is subjected to - within the actual Real World quantum science ).
* Ordinary matter is supposedly being connected to these special Particles ( so to lift them into the sky ). How much baggage (loading) weight can one or more Floaty 'Particle' carry ( is ALL of Columbia made of these Particles ? ) - Is it Safe to step on it ( Quantum Burns !! ). Are the People also made of 'Particles' ( ingested/a-lotion/their-clothing ) ? Oops, then they might 'float away' ...
* The 'Particles' apparently can have motion imparted to them ( and many linked at once in a concerted action ). The driving force does NOT have to be quantum based ( those huge propellers we see in game ? ).
All Such Complexity was obviously conveniently ignored for this whole Fantasy. 
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How Was All this Wondrous Science and Technology Achieved by One/Two People ??? Alternate Possibilities : 
* ? Some Alien from the future actually showed Rosalind how, or supplied the critical bits of her mechanisms ? ( After all, Fink/Suchong in BaSx effectively peeked at each other through Tears to do all their shit in THAT story. ) This is just someone else 'On the Other Side' passing the stuff thru via THEIR working Tear machines. OTHER more advanced Rosalind/Roberts passing on THEIR work ? ( Whoever it is - Do they ask 'A Price' ??? GIVE US YOUR CATS !!!!)
* Columbia is Suspended by Belief ? Praying to whatever Deity ( Ain't the Christian god - That's for certain. )
* Perhaps Rosalind (and Robert) ALREADY WERE 'dimension gods' quite early ( Dandruff thru portals existing in other dimensions ... similar to Elizabeth's pinky god-dom ). Just snap the finger to get things done the way the game has Elizabeth do ... "Wish Fulfillment" ... ? ! ? ! ? 
* Remember : Rosalind then advanced from 'Particles' (which crossed dimensions) to whole open Portals crossing them. Elizabeth later was dragging tons of shit through 'with the power of her mind' - How f*cking amazing that is. 
* Elizabeth then Sifting and Sorting for 'Merging' - Picking the right bits across dimensions. ( No machinery required - just 'god' powers. Seeing thru ALL the Infinite possibilities - that's like wow ... cool. <ref>'god' Elizabeth ... Perhaps She Can Explain The "Blue Line Rules" For Ice Hockey Now Too ...<ref> )
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SO Many Question Never Answered. 
So Vague on Details and even Concepts. 
So many apparent Contradictions NOT addressed ... 
So much just plain bad "Wave Of The Hand" Fantasy for a 'game' while loudly claiming/implying it was 'science'. 
Bad is having Deus Ex Machina to make a Story work. 
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Splicers For Columbia (Concept) - Perhaps For The REDO :
"The Merged" Caused by the Use of Quantum Technology in Columbia - An Idea of Something to parallel the "Shock" of the "Bio" in the earlier games.
All of Columbia Floated - presumably with "Particles" being 'stuck' connected/'entangled' with other cross-dimensional particles.
That would then start affecting the People in Columbia - 'messing them up' with their inter-dimensional counterparts - presumably driving many inhabitants insane (and violent). 
Then you would, as the Player, have a reason to slaughter them, and Columbia itself having its Police to handle that problem as well ( and also be a Player's target ).
Whether it would be the 'shifting scenes' of more than just people as we saw in the earlier Trailers - possibly accentuated by Booker #122 and Elizabeth's odd dimension-crossing existence causing far more strangeness FOR THEM.
(( Have at LEAST that "NO GODS" thing Ryan is always saying ... ))
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==IF ALL ELSE FAILS : Infinite-All_A_Dream== 
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== HOW *NOT* TO DO QUANTUMZ : ==
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