Post by Chaosky on Jul 2, 2010 0:37:52 GMT -5
MR. PROFESSOR CHAOSKY! YEAH!
Well I've got an interesting, not to mention very important, topic for all of you.
Well actually, I'll start with Hydrogen Bomb's idea/question.
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So, basically it's a portal in a portal, right?
To describe what happens: When you insert a board with an active portal on the top of it into a wall with an active portal on it...
Well, the board would try to come out through its own portal, but then the board's portal is moved into the wall portal. As you might imagine, intersecting with another portal would likely cause a catastrophic failure of the portal system.
You'd have the system trying to both maintain and destroy itself with all the different forces.
And if you could keep it together, I have a difficult time imagining what the end result would be. The portal would be cut up and curved around itself, with part of it still on the last piece of the board. It would be almost like a black hole doing yoga while it was testing an unstable teleportation prototype.
You'd be surprised how well that describes it.
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Now that that's over, I'll move on to the real topic.
TIME: FACT OR
You might have heard about how there's a lot of people thinking time may not exist, I will clarify on the meaning of that.
What they are saying is that time may not exist as a dimension. If that is true, time would not be quite what we think it is.
However, I found something upsetting from reading the article below. (You can't read all of it, unfortunately.)
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-time-an-illusion
The more I look into this, the more I find that people think there must be a "true universal time" for time to be an actual dimension, so to speak. I really don't understand why people question that time is relative. Hell, that's what the THEORY OF RELATIVITY is.
I actually have the copy of S.A. right here with me, so I'll quote this:
"A quantum state provides probabilities for all of space at an instant of time. [Translation: If you measure all of space at an instant of time at the quantum level, it is possible to measure the probability that a particle will do a certain thing for all particles. Back to quote.] If the state encompasses a pair of particles, measuring one instantaneously affects the other no matter where it is-leading to that infamous "spooky action at a distance" that so troubled Einstein about quantum mechanics. The reason it bothered him was that for the particles to react at the same time, the universe must have a master clock, which relativity expressly forbids."
I have to say the "particle pair" part is confusing me. If any of you read this, have you ever noticed how they never really explain what they're talking about? I mean, it doesn't tell you what this pair is.
Now, I'm going to make a hazard guess that it means "if there are one or more particles in the instant of time."
Okay... what?
All I can say is, if you thought I sounded complicated, these guys are speaking in calculus equations. I mean really, they're introducing a topic many people no doubt consider insane; SHOULDN'T THEY ELABORATE A LITTLE???
Alright, this is worse than translating Mightystella's Latin, but here goes nothing.
... !
THANK YOU TO WHATEVER DEITY IS WATCHING OVER ME!!!!
*AHEM* It would seem that, after a last minute check, the marvelous tool known as Google has informed me that the spooky action at a distance is actually quantum entanglement.
I had actually thought of this, but it seemed to describe something very different.
So, yeah, quantum entanglement. That topic I first addressed way back in my first teleportation topic. "When two particles vibrate at the same frequency, they become connected to each other."
(As I believe in a form of string theory, I imagine they are connected at the dimensional level of said strings through some occurrence caused by the identical vibration... thing.)
So yeah, all the stuff I quoted, it was just someone attempting (and failing) to describe quantum entanglement.
I have many things to say, but first and foremost is that there is absolutely nothing there that gives me reason to believe there is a master time for the universe.
Anyway, that's all the time I have for now. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to stay up all night adding to this, but it's getting late and I'm not sure if I can trust my thoughts to be free of fatigue's effects.
I'll add to this within a few days, bye for now!
Well I've got an interesting, not to mention very important, topic for all of you.
Well actually, I'll start with Hydrogen Bomb's idea/question.
______________________________________________________
So, basically it's a portal in a portal, right?
To describe what happens: When you insert a board with an active portal on the top of it into a wall with an active portal on it...
Well, the board would try to come out through its own portal, but then the board's portal is moved into the wall portal. As you might imagine, intersecting with another portal would likely cause a catastrophic failure of the portal system.
You'd have the system trying to both maintain and destroy itself with all the different forces.
And if you could keep it together, I have a difficult time imagining what the end result would be. The portal would be cut up and curved around itself, with part of it still on the last piece of the board. It would be almost like a black hole doing yoga while it was testing an unstable teleportation prototype.
You'd be surprised how well that describes it.
______________________________________________________
Now that that's over, I'll move on to the real topic.
TIME: FACT OR
You might have heard about how there's a lot of people thinking time may not exist, I will clarify on the meaning of that.
What they are saying is that time may not exist as a dimension. If that is true, time would not be quite what we think it is.
However, I found something upsetting from reading the article below. (You can't read all of it, unfortunately.)
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-time-an-illusion
The more I look into this, the more I find that people think there must be a "true universal time" for time to be an actual dimension, so to speak. I really don't understand why people question that time is relative. Hell, that's what the THEORY OF RELATIVITY is.
I actually have the copy of S.A. right here with me, so I'll quote this:
"A quantum state provides probabilities for all of space at an instant of time. [Translation: If you measure all of space at an instant of time at the quantum level, it is possible to measure the probability that a particle will do a certain thing for all particles. Back to quote.] If the state encompasses a pair of particles, measuring one instantaneously affects the other no matter where it is-leading to that infamous "spooky action at a distance" that so troubled Einstein about quantum mechanics. The reason it bothered him was that for the particles to react at the same time, the universe must have a master clock, which relativity expressly forbids."
I have to say the "particle pair" part is confusing me. If any of you read this, have you ever noticed how they never really explain what they're talking about? I mean, it doesn't tell you what this pair is.
Now, I'm going to make a hazard guess that it means "if there are one or more particles in the instant of time."
Okay... what?
All I can say is, if you thought I sounded complicated, these guys are speaking in calculus equations. I mean really, they're introducing a topic many people no doubt consider insane; SHOULDN'T THEY ELABORATE A LITTLE???
Alright, this is worse than translating Mightystella's Latin, but here goes nothing.
... !
THANK YOU TO WHATEVER DEITY IS WATCHING OVER ME!!!!
*AHEM* It would seem that, after a last minute check, the marvelous tool known as Google has informed me that the spooky action at a distance is actually quantum entanglement.
I had actually thought of this, but it seemed to describe something very different.
So, yeah, quantum entanglement. That topic I first addressed way back in my first teleportation topic. "When two particles vibrate at the same frequency, they become connected to each other."
(As I believe in a form of string theory, I imagine they are connected at the dimensional level of said strings through some occurrence caused by the identical vibration... thing.)
So yeah, all the stuff I quoted, it was just someone attempting (and failing) to describe quantum entanglement.
I have many things to say, but first and foremost is that there is absolutely nothing there that gives me reason to believe there is a master time for the universe.
Anyway, that's all the time I have for now. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to stay up all night adding to this, but it's getting late and I'm not sure if I can trust my thoughts to be free of fatigue's effects.
I'll add to this within a few days, bye for now!
