The black box
Have you ever wondered what it means that a TV is full HD? What does this actually mean?
Well, Full HD is a way of naming a resolution, a full HD TV has 1920 pixels by 1080 pixels (Picture 1). A pixel is a physical spot of light, if you take a magnifying glass and you take a look a your TV you will see little blocks with 3 colours (Picture 2). Each block is what we call a pixel and it’s possible to control the brightness of each individual colour of each pixel. To control each pixel, you can send a value that adjust the brightness of each colour. These three blocs are indistinguishable with naked eyes, you will only see a small spot with a unique colour that is the combination of the three.
In a normal TV, theses 3 values are limited and each colour can take a value from 0 to 255. So, for example, if you want to paint a pixel in your screen red you need to send to that pixel 3 values which will define the colour, in this case Red=255, Green=0, Blue=0. If you want white, you have to send Red=255, Green=255 and Blue =255, black is red, green and blue set to 0, and so on. If you want you can play with this link and see how each colour has a specific RGB combination.
Now think about this: how many colours can we represent with the combination of these 3? All of them? Not even close. We can only represent a limited amount, around 16 million of them, 16 times more than what an average human can distinguish.
So now that we know that the number of colours a Full HD TV can show are limited, we can conclude that the amount of different images that this TV can show is also limited.
Then the question is, how many different images can that TV show? A Full HD TV has around 2 Megapixel). So the number of images that you can represent are 16 million to 2 million and that is around 1e14981179 (a 1 followed by almost 15 million zeros). Is that a big number? It is estimated that the there are between 10^78 to 10^82 atoms in the known, observable universe (10 followed by 82 zeros), so yes, it is an insanely big number but it’s not infinite.
Does this mean anything to you? If not, think about a movie. A movie is a collection of images changing fast enough for you to see it as a video, a 120-minute movie has around 216.000 different pictures. If you think about it, if we were able to create a program that generates all the possible images going one by one, you would then be able to generate all the possible images that a TV can represent. So in theory you would have in that list all the pictures of all the movies ever but not in a logical order, most of if will be noise like you can see in Picture 3.
Is this concept limited to movies? It’s not, and not only that, every possible picture will be there and with all the imaginable possible variations. All the pictures that you can ever see and show in that TV will be there as well. In that list of different pictures you could find millions of pictures of yourself from the moment you were born until the moment you die taken from different angles. You could also see alternative realities, where you take a different decision at some point and your life is completely different, if you were able to order the pictures you may be able see a video of your entire life through a TV. Every possibility will be in that list of pictures….
Mind-blowing, right? Is this actually possible? Can you actually generate these images? Well, in theory yes, it’s possible. A picture can be represented by a big number, you can just start counting from 0 to 1e14981179 and you would be able to generate the list. In practice, not so much. Even if you use all the computers in the world it would take more time than the age of the universe to generate it. Even if we are capable of doing that somehow, the vast majority of the pictures would not make much sense at all, most of the images will be just noise, or weird patterns (like Picture 3). The key is to know what to generate according to what you need.
We were able to find a way to generate a picture based on position, orientation and time, we call it the BLACK BOX. We can ask this black box to give us a picture of a specific place on earth with cm accuracy at any time in the past, present or future. Yes, we can see the future and the past.. How far? It’s a tricky question, we don't really know, the further we go the less accurate is the picture.
How does it work? This is quite simple to explain, we were able to access a big data base of pictures with positioning data (GPS location) and we fed all those images and their location into an AI. This AI was able to find the correlation between the index of the pictures on the list, position and time. The more time it runs and the more information that’s collected, the more accurate it becomes. We are able to extrapolate this by asking the AI to generate an index based on the correlation found only providing position and time. The results were mind blowing, it is actually possible to predict what will happen.
Imagine if a company is able to collect all the pictures and access the camera of every smartphone available. How good can the prediction be? How far will they be able to see? And what if the same companies are not only collecting data but also creating a quantum computer to improve the algorithm?
I am publishing this to let everyone know that this may be happening…
