low commotion

A "hushed hullabaloo" response from a crowd of amazed onlookers when witnessing da movement of a creature or machine from one locale to another.

Maybe a group of observers watching a newly-unveiled conveyance-contraption proceeding forwards and/or backwards would indeed start out responding with merely a "low commotion", but soon they would likely give a rousing cheer and really start noisily jumping up and down in gleeful excitement.

by QuacksO March 14, 2024

DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS

Digital Communications qualification anyone with this skill can use

Anyone with digital communications technologies is allowed to use these skills for personal use or business use digital communications qualification

by 201HH April 8, 2024

DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS

It's a type of skill that relates to what's used on your phone and computer DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS 25662 can be used for Personal or Business Use on various Patforms online if you got this qualification its good for various skills online it's like a layer of protection for you to advance in the Future Through certain rolls in the workforce use these Skills for good not bad doings

DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS is a skill I got

by 201HH April 8, 2024

a communication error has occurred

when the nintendo game your playing has bad online netcode. you'll see this message pop up alot

*plays a nintendo game, probably smash bros or splatoon, idk*
*internet goes shiet*
nintendo: "a communication error has occurred."

by koiyune June 7, 2024

Relativistic Communication

Any method of sending information that has to account for the freaky rules of Einstein's relativity, where the order of events can be subjective and nothing can outrace light. It's not about FTL; it's about dealing with the mind-bending fact that due to time dilation and the relativity of simultaneity, "now" for you isn't "now" for someone moving at a different speed. This makes syncing up conversations across interstellar distances or near light-speed ships a total headache.

*Example: You're on a generation ship cruising at 90% light speed to Alpha Centauri. You send a video message back to Earth. For you, the trip takes a few years. But due to time dilation, decades pass on Earth before they receive it. Their reply takes decades to catch up to your moving ship. You might be dead by the time you get a response. The entire conversation is less a chat and more like sending cosmic voicemails into a time-warped void. GPS satellites already do baby versions of this, correcting their clocks for relativistic effects so your "Turn left" command isn't based on a skewed time signal.* It's relativistic communication.

by Abzugal January 24, 2026

Spacetime Communication

The hypothetical (and probably impossible) idea of sending information using or through the fabric of spacetime itself, rather than through it. This includes notions like wormhole comms, quantum entanglement "spooky action" that somehow transmits data, or manipulating gravity waves to carry a signal. It's the dream of instant, non-local chat across the universe, violating the standard light-speed limit by treating space and time as a manipulable medium.

Example: In sci-fi, this is the ansible. A more "physics-y" but still speculative example might be creating and stabilizing two entangled quantum wormholes (Einstein-Rosen bridges), one kept on Earth and one sent to a colony ship. Modulating the quantum state of one instantly affects the other, in theory allowing for faster-than-light messaging. In reality, it's probably a pipe dream that breaks causality, but it's the go-to concept for any story that needs galactic empires to have a functioning internet. It's Spacetime Communication.

by Abzugal January 24, 2026

Noetherian Communication

A method of transmitting information where the message itself is encoded as a conserved quantity within a pre-established symmetric system between sender and receiver. Instead of sending photons or radio waves, you perform a local symmetry operation (like a rotation or phase shift) that, due to the entangled or linked nature of the system, forces a corresponding change at the distant receiver. The signal isn't a traveling particle; it's the instantaneous enforcement of a conservation law across a gap.

*Example: Two quantum-entangled crystals, each with a fixed total "color charge" (a fictional conserved property). To send the bit "1," you locally rotate your crystal's color symmetry. To conserve the total charge of the entangled system, the distant crystal must instantly undergo a compensating rotation in the opposite direction. Your friend observes this mandated rotation and decodes the bit. It's not faster-than-light transmission; it's the exploitation of a pre-existing symmetric link where influencing your part necessarily and instantly reconfigures the other to keep the cosmic books balanced.* Noetherian Communication.

by Dumuabzu January 24, 2026