NeoArcadian

Have you ever though, what if some really crazy crap happened and what the conciquences would be? Like what if the earth was caught in a black hole or if we could go the speed of light.

Well I will try to answer all your questions.

1st: If the earth was caught in a black hole we wouldn't be able to tell until it was too late. Because of the way that the black hole would detort time and space, we would see where the black hole is and just see empty space because of the time delay. To us the black hole would be about a lightyear away. Even though time would be slowed down, we would act as if everything was just the same because time is relative to the human brain. However, anybody looking at the earth from outside the area of affect would see almost no movement at all.

2nd: If we could go the speed of light, we would theoretically all die. Acording to a widely accepted theory, matter would turn infinite once it hit the speed of light. With infinite mass comes infinite gravity.

3rd: I just came up with this one. Since the faster you go the more time slows down, just how slow are we going acording to the real actual time speed? Take the speed we travel on the planet plus the speed the planet turns plus the speed the earth revolves around the sun plus the spped our galaxy turns plus the speed the galaxy is traveling through the universe plus the speed at which the universe moves, if it moves at all, and you have the rate at which our time is slowed down acording to the real time of exsistance.

Crazy huh?

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beats

I was about to say that. And I'm just drunk.

Ah, but what do you think would happen if we could succesfully bind Man and Machine, think about it. An entire network, almost another completely "cyber" world, where we could manipulate everything, and at the same time, affect machinery and send messages in this one.

This guy is on the way of figuring it out, but it is still an interesting idea.

And what do you think would happen if we ever did discover A.Huxely's supposed "Soma"

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NeoArcadian

First off, I have read about that guy before, he seems to be a little (by little I mean way too much) smarter than the average person.

The central nervous system is what today's technicians are trying to copy microchips after. The problem there is that the nervous system is extremely complex. If you can imagine finding a needle in a hay stack, imagine finding a piece of hay that has been genetically altered but looks the same in a hay stack the size of mars. That is what finding out what the central nervous system is all about is like. It has so many facets and differences from person to person that we probably won't be able to fully understand it for hundreds of years.

If we could make a cybernetic human being that is by all means human but has the ability to connect to the technology that we use, that would be incredible. It would also be dangerous. If you could link to technology itself and manipulate it mentally (kind of like in the lawn mower man but to a greater extent) you could control the world, almost. Imagine hooking up to the web, literately traveling to another person's computer and forcing yourself onto it. If you got into the right people's computers, say the FBI's or the United States Defense computers, you could get vital information, launch rockets, mess up GPS and generally screw a lot of people over.

It could however be a very good thing. Imagine, sorry I use that word so much, that instead of having to grab a gun and risk your life at war you could hook yourself up to an advanced computer. That computer would control a very life like but stronger and more powerful human like robot. Every thought that you had would easily control it to a flawless degree. Armies of them could be destroyed instead of armies of humans. I personally would rather see billions of dollars of technology destroyed than even one person killed in battle.

BTW, who is this A. Huxley gut and what is this Soma?
I think I have heard of him but I can't place the name with a theory or a face.

MickityMike

We'd also need an infinite supply of energy to propell our infinite mass. What we need is a "massless" way of producing energy - a lot of energy.

The coolest way to think about time and space, or "space-time", is to imagine a blanket held taught at its sides. Now, imagine the indentations left by objects of varying mass placed on the blanket. Just as the blanket curves more around objects of larger mass, like a bowling ball vs. a baseball, so does space-time become “distorted” around massive planetary and solar objects.

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NeoArcadian

The problem with space and time is that it has so many facets that our superior yet still primitive human brains cannot fully comprehend it. There is theoretically a way to produce almost enough energy, with the right amplifiers, by using dark matter. There is a type of dark matter called a Que-ball. Que-ball is not the scientific term, just the one they call it for short. I will refer to them as Q-balls.

Anyway, Q-balls take electrons and split them into what they are made up of, these things are called quarks. To give you an idea of how powerful it would be, an atom bomb takes an atom and splits it. The neutrons in the atom go into other atoms and set them off causing a chain reaction. In the case of Q-balls the protons being split would be the energy given off instead of atoms being split. So instead of atoms being split when the chain reaction started the components of the atoms would be split. The power of one proton passing through even the minutest amount of the matter referred to as Q-balls would create the destructive force of 100's of atomic bombs.

If we could harness the power of the "Q-bomb" we could have limitless power. The Q-ball would theoretically weigh nothing and the proton weighs almost nothing.

And here's a little information that I thought might go well in this topic: There was a particle smasher created in 1999 called RHIC. It was much more powerful than all of the other atom smashers to date because it could smash gold atoms together. By smashing two of the same atoms together you could create new types of particles out of thin air. Most of them wouldn't last for more than a few billionths of a second but they were still there.

With the ability to smash as dense of a matter as gold you could create much more powerful and substantial particles. One such particle was why the project was put on delay. It was called a strange quark nugget. The SQN (strange quark nugget) would only be dangerous if it was negative and could last for more than one billionth of a second. If those requirements were met it would latch on to a proton, this would change it's charge to positive, then it would "eat" electrons until it switched back to negative. This would continue until it would be about 100 times its original size, then the dangerous thing would occur.

The electric charge of the strange quark would cause electrons and their anti-matter counterpart’s positrons to be created. The positrons would stick to the stranglet causing it to be surrounded in a cloud of positive energy. The positive pull of the cloud surrounding the stranglet would cause all the atoms within the vicinities electrons to be sucked out of the atoms and to be "eaten" by the stranglet causing it to get bigger. This process would continue until there was no matter left to be "eaten."

The thing is, if the atom smasher named RHIC created a negatively charged strange quark nugget on earth, we would all die because all of the matter of the earth and the surrounding area would turn into dark matter. So instead of having earth and the moon there would be one really big invisible ball of dark matter that if it continued to grow by "eating" other planets and such could destroy the entire universe.

If you have any further questions about odd theories of your own or have qeustions about mine feel free to ask. Also, feel free to post your own theories and I will try to get back to you with my own ideas about them.

beats

Alfred Huxely wrote "Brave New World"

"Soma" was a drug that was taken by everybody, basically it created the "utopian" society shown in the book. Happiness, relaxation, that sort of thing. Frightenly similar to the opiates of today.

I love the last post, by the way. Very well written and a good read.

NeoArcadian

I don't believe that the "soma" idea will happen but if it did we would have a lot of problems.

I don't remember who said it but whoever it was said, "To try to create a utopia will cause failure; the real utopia is knowing that one cannot be created." Or something like that.

First off, if it got out that such a drug was even being created there would be a lot of angry people and protests. If the government made everybody take it there would be all out domestic war. I personally would rather see what we have now than the mind controling ideal of one mind to rule them all. Individuality is one of the most important things alive today in this world.

They have made extreme self-expression almost incapable of happening with the current laws. They have even taken the god given right of smoking what you want to smoke away. The one thing that the people of the world will not stand for is the ability to do whatever they want whenever they want away. It may be illegal to smoke pot but we still do it. To take away the freedom to do that though would tear apart the world. If we couldn't control our free will we would most likely go insane.

Imagine it. We have the perfect utopian society because of some new wonder drug. At first all would go well and every body would be happy. Then things would take a turn for the worst. Psychologically we would break down. The feeling of emptiness and depression would start to fill everybody. They would know something is missing they just wouldn't be able to tell what it is.

Something would then go really wrong. Despite all of the people in clinics do to mental breakdowns there would be serious revolts. Whether it would be immunities to the drug or people who some how found what they were missing all hell would break loose. The general people wouldn't be affected until it hit a large scale but when it would happen there would be a civil war between the people that are told what to do, practically, and the people that know what to do.

It is hard to explain and even harder to write about but either way it would never work.

NeoArcadian

Another odd theory for you to chew upon.

Super Symmetry: The universe, according to this theory, is symmetric. It has been proven to a certain extent. The thing that doesn’t make since is that on a molecular level there is no such thing as symmetry. The numbers just don't add up. If the little numbers don't add up but the big ones do, where is the missing link in-between the two that explains it all?

Example, if two atoms of the same element are not the same, four of them can't be the same. Eight cannot be symmetric and 16 cannot be symmetric. As the number multiply for some reason they seem to fit together perfectly. This cannot be however because it doesn't add up. There is no way you can take non-symmetrics and make a giant symmetric.

Also, the universe was thought to have slowed down in the rate at which it was expanding. It is the opposite however. The universe is not slowing down; in fact it is speeding up.

The general theory is that the more black holes that are created in space the more the expansion rate will slow down. Kind of like putting a vacuum cleaner in a garbage bag. As the suction of the vacuum increases the more the bag will collapse. But, there have been even more black holes recently than it was thought needed to slow down the expansion rate of the universe and it has been speeding up.

What could be the cause of this? Could the black holes actually be creating more of an anit-vacuum to the universe and relieving some of the possible tension allowing the universe to expand even faster? The theories are numerous and many just don't add up. The closest thing that they can think of that could cause such a thing to happen is dark matter.

Dark matter is basically the opposite or "mirror" of regular matter. It is not the same thing as anti-matter because anti-matter is a proven thing. An electron's anti-matter is a positron. Dark matter however is impossible to explain because we have yet to discover any. It is very allusive and is thought to be made up of all of the remaining quarks at the beginning of the universe. Quarks are what make up electrons and neutrons. They are impossibly small.

Either way, there is no way to tell anything about the expansion rate of the universe yet but hopefully there will be.

If you have any questions or comments or even your own theories just ask me and I will try to help you out.

teufelfisch

Sorry, don't mean to correct you or whatever, but (speaking as a chemist) symmetry is a very important concept with molecules. Even the sub-molecular levels show some symmetry. Where'd you hear that there is no such thing as symmetry on a molecular level?

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