We already do, I send a packet of data and some time in the future it arrives, it's called latency.
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Yes, you can make a post and then I can read it later. If you're talking about reverse time like I read your post and then you make it, no. For that to happen, you'd need to send the data faster than the speed of light and our current understanding of physics deems that impossible.
Why would you post this shit in two separate places? jfc mate.
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Brave of you to karmawhore with sheer stupidity.
that's what karmawhoring is all about, isn't it?
Dude, I will already tell you last week that it's impossible.
Clarification: data can be sent at c, but electronic data canβt. Electrons have mass and canβt move at the speed of light; the electromagnetic waves they carry can move at the speed of light in the medium through which the electrons are conducted, which is still slower than c. Photons, on the other hand, can transmit optical data at c (which still doesnβt do anything unexpected with respect to time).
From the photon's perspective data arrives at it's destination the same instant it is transmitted, but that's true of all photons.