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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Sept 16, 2005 15:54:57 GMT -5
Love the theories but hate the math? This is the place for you! Inspired by the Commander. But those of you who like the math that comes along with it are very welcome to post, as well.
This can cover anything physics-related, on Terra (Earth), elsewhere, or just mere speculation. Constellations, cosmic strings, quantum foam, momentum, black holes, wormholes, multiverses, the loop theory...all and more are good! Yay!
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Post by Caffeinerush on Sept 16, 2005 18:47:14 GMT -5
Black holes are actually figments of your imagination, wormholes are in my backyard, and momentum is programmed by the matrix.
Agent Bob out.
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on Sept 17, 2005 10:40:59 GMT -5
There was a Black Hole in Nigeria once... or so according to Danny. Who really has no grasp on the Reality, so it was probably just some guy with a prehistoric lawn mower causing more raucus than he really needed to.
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Post by Absolon on Sept 17, 2005 13:13:17 GMT -5
Lose the wheels on the bottoms of cars, and put a big rectangular magnet on instead. And using the magentic fields of the earth, sun and moon to levitate those cars.
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Post by Morgana Le Fay on Sept 17, 2005 16:21:04 GMT -5
Heh, just Commander's fine. Or Dragon.
This is awesome. Whenever I talk to anyone aside from myself (like my mom, Warious, my coauthor) about physics, I get a *HUH???* and have to explain it and yet they still don't get it!!!
Okey, has anyone heard of M-theory? Or RNAi (not exactly physics, but still cool)?
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Post by bob on Sept 21, 2005 14:48:01 GMT -5
this confuses me...i hav not heard of any of this. black holes are cool though. they made a big machine..i forget what its called...and they hope to make a small black hole for a fraction of a second.
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Post by Cy Otauna on Sept 22, 2005 18:01:25 GMT -5
You mean the M-Branes? I know a little about them... amin mela this stuff. The really wierd theories where you don't care whether its' real or not cause it's so interesting? Awesome. But the people who like to talk about it are few and far between. Steven Hawking is one of the Cool Guys of the Universe. I named a laptop after him.
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Post by Morgana Le Fay on Sept 24, 2005 16:52:10 GMT -5
Stephen Hawking R0X0Rs!! He's come thru alot, and he's quite a mind! M- theory is an attempt to unifiy all the theories (including string theory) into one big theory. It's been partially done.
And they did indeed simulate a black hole. I don't remember all the details though.
And I will explain a black hole for those who don't know what they are.... Eventually.
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Post by Cy Otauna on Sept 26, 2005 5:26:59 GMT -5
Oh, right, I recall the M-theory now. I'm working on that actually...oh! GOT IT! FOURTY TWO!! Snrk... black holes are awesome. They probably could simulate one somewhere...but simulate, not create, aff? Hawking says you could go through a black hole if it were rotating, had the correct size Schwartzchild radius, and you could go nearly the speed of light. Quite possible! What's been done on M-theory, really? Is it all mathematical? I don't like the math.
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Sept 27, 2005 23:59:11 GMT -5
Odd. Could've sworn I posted here... (muses) Or was that somewhere else?
Anyhow, I found some good stuff on the M-theory at Wikipedia, though I'm not sure if it's got everything. I'm rather unfamiliar with the theory myself, sad to say...
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Oct 1, 2005 23:40:50 GMT -5
(trying to decide whether this belongs in the reality board)
Wikipedia is good.
Mmm... the theory of physics all boilds down to "If you leave a cookie on the cubboard unattended, your younger brother will eat it". That is the answer to the questions of the universe... HAH!
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Post by Mekka on Oct 3, 2005 14:54:09 GMT -5
Cosmic strings: those little thingies vaguely resembling shoelaces (or spaghetti) that hold the universe in place; OR a totally roxy section of the orchestra
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Post by Morgana Le Fay on Oct 3, 2005 15:59:08 GMT -5
M theory is mostly math, yeah, but it's the physical concepts that are side effects of the math that are cool.
Example: String theory states that there are 11 dimensions. The four that we know, time, and 6 others. (BTW, strings are little things like 0 that each vibrate different ways. They're SUBsubatomic, and are thought to make up the building blocks of atoms. .. Not trying to sound like a know it all.... Smite me if I get too annoying!!!)
Lotsa different lightspeed theorys, haven't heard that one, Cy. Makes sense.
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Post by Cy Otauna on Oct 7, 2005 7:19:58 GMT -5
Well I knew that stuff...just not recently. My precalculus teacher *burns with hatred for precalc* has a representation of a four-dimensional cube that is so r0ox0rz cool I had to invent a word in 133t-type speech to describe it...I just don't get the arrangement of cosmic strings. Are they a large ball, all wrapped up together? Or floating about separately?
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Oct 9, 2005 17:06:13 GMT -5
I got the impression they just sort of floated randomly...infinitely long, too...
EDIT: Ahem. As I was saying before I got kicked off the other computer. I also heard of a theory that if one detects a cosmic string and travels around it as it moves in a specifically shaped circle/ellipse, one comes through a distortion of space-time and ends up sometime else! I can't remember whether it was backwards or forwards, though.
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Post by Morgana Le Fay on Oct 12, 2005 18:17:01 GMT -5
That's a wormhole.... I think.
One theory is that strings are curled up teeny tiny subatomically (Kyp: is that even a word?) It is now. *ahem* In rows. They're kinda like - you know the plastic rings you pull off of milk jugs? Like that, only they wiggle - some so fast you can't see them, others so slow they look like they're wobbling. So they're seperate. And they're not exactly strings.
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Post by Cy Otauna on Oct 14, 2005 7:10:19 GMT -5
They vibrate. Yez.
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Post by firefly on Oct 15, 2005 12:48:08 GMT -5
Anyone here seen Stargate? The physics in that is just so wrong: you couldn't control the kind of power neccessary to actually constrain even a tiny wormhole, never mind make it go where you want it to, and as for making is stable enough to travel through? Huh. They made it a pretty colour though, and the program's fun.
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Post by Cy Otauna on Oct 15, 2005 18:35:58 GMT -5
But I love Stargate! *hugs Tiel'c* That show doesn't care about it's physics. A lot don't. You know how much is wrong with Star Wars? Snrk.
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Post by firefly on Oct 16, 2005 2:56:40 GMT -5
Very true, very true indeed. It's cool to watch though - gotta love some of those Star Wars ships. They may be actually unable to fly but they're cool!
(note: sorry if I get annoying about this: I have a really bad habit that I'm trying to break, but it leaves me taking everything too literally and seriously at times. Just ignore me when I do!)
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