Well, I agree with that. And it could be more efficient than a giant rocket engine, or whatever. Same energy output, but less effort to extract it. So you'd save a little energy that way.
Tachyon Shields Sci Tech Questions Thread
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What if we could build a device that turns off the effects of distance?
Your idea is just as absurd and outlandish.
If you're going to use your own specail, moderator ordained, thread of flights of fantasy you could at least come up with something that makes sense.
Rather than "if we could "somehow" turn off the effects of gravity."
Your idea is just as absurd and outlandish.
If you're going to use your own specail, moderator ordained, thread of flights of fantasy you could at least come up with something that makes sense.
Rather than "if we could "somehow" turn off the effects of gravity."
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
Such as an Einstein-Rosen bridge?
No. All distance everywhere.
You flip a switch everything everywhere is in one place. You decide where you ant to be, flip the switch again and you're there.
It's like Warp 10 only in reverse.
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
There's a possibility that wormholes are instantaneous, if one is created at the same location of the ship then it basically means distance becomes irrelevant.
I know of no scientific theory that suggests this.
Further, wormholes are just that. A theory.
A "what if."
An international, accepted, version of one your threads, actually.
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
I thought it was common knowledge. People believe if wormholes exist not only is it possible that travel would be instantaneous it's possible that you exit the other end before you even enter it.
Yeh and warp drive is just a theory too, what's your point?
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
No idea, watched a documentary about wormholes and they said that if a wormhole could be created that there's 3 possibilities.
1) It would take time to travel through it.
2) It would be instantaneous.
3) You'd exit the other end before you even enter it.
I actually think Steven Hawking was the one that said it.
Ah. So obviously you're an expert.
This is the guy you claimed had died, right?
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
I'm having a discussion with you, at no point have I claimed to be an expert. You said my idea to cancel gravity and momentum is as impossible as cancelling out distance, I am merely pointing out to you that if a wormhole is created and travel is instantaneous which scientists have theorised could be what happens then distance can be cancelled out.
That has no relevance here.
one of the side effects of creating special rules for one poster over another, I suppose. A normal poster cluttering this forum with "ideas" like Tacky's would result in a friendly. At first...
If he wants to discuss science, but using outlandish ideas, posts that shoot his ideas down, or highlight how they violate very basic, very well known science is going to be part of that.
And you can't really fault Trekker for his attitude here, when Tacky responded the same way to MY post, which was entirely on topic...
If he wants to discuss science, but using outlandish ideas, posts that shoot his ideas down, or highlight how they violate very basic, very well known science is going to be part of that.
And you can't really fault Trekker for his attitude here, when Tacky responded the same way to MY post, which was entirely on topic...
I'll dial it back.
It just strikes me as bizzare to give a poster his very own thread to post his outlandish ideas and questions when every single thread he's ever made here on that topic has resulted in people telling him it won't possibly work and he fights his side tooth-and-nail.
I'll dial it back, if not cut out my disdain for the allowance of this thread, but may still post occasionaly how outlandish his "ideas" are and how they'll never work.
It just strikes me as bizzare to give a poster his very own thread to post his outlandish ideas and questions when every single thread he's ever made here on that topic has resulted in people telling him it won't possibly work and he fights his side tooth-and-nail.
I'll dial it back, if not cut out my disdain for the allowance of this thread, but may still post occasionaly how outlandish his "ideas" are and how they'll never work.
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All Seeing Eye
Admiral
Excuse me sir but I asked if it was ok to start this thread so I WOULDN'T clutter up the Sci Tech forum. I asked to start this thread so I didn't have to keep starting new threads for different things. I am trying to do the Sci Tech forum a favour by keeping things in one location.
Would you rather I go back to starting new threads and cluttering the place up? Na, I didn't think you would.
There is no 'special rule' for one poster. I could have started it without mentioning it to TerriO but I decided it was better to ask.
Is my idea more outlandish than wormholes or warp travel? not really no and yet they're out there being theorised by top scientists. Go try telling those guys their ideas are outlandish.
In what way did I respond? I said thanks for your opinion, I didn't see any need to debate you about it since i'm not trying to argue that such a device can be created or indeed how it would be created, in fact i'm not here to argue my ideas at all i'm here to ask questions and hear different peoples perspectives on things. I asked 2 simple questions about a different method of space travel and I wanted peoples opinions on them, you gave me your opinion on it and that was the end of that.
Also Trekker can be faulted, especially when he mentions things that happened in TNZ and have absolutely no bearing at all on the discussion at hand.
Sound advice and advice I cannot fault.
I'll repeat what I said above: I asked if it was ok to start this thread so I WOULDN'T clutter up the Sci Tech forum. I asked to start this thread so I didn't have to keep starting new threads for different things. I am trying to do the Sci Tech forum a favour by keeping things in one location.
Would you rather I go back to starting new threads and cluttering the place up? Na, I didn't think you would.
There is no 'special rule' for one poster. I could have started it without mentioning it to TerriO but I decided it was better to ask.
I will also add that my "ideas" don't really have anything to do with this thread. I am asking questions based on science and technology, my idea to cancel out gravity and momentum can be picked at all you want because i'm not arguing whether it can be achieved or not, what I was asking is would it be a better method of space propulsion, for all you know i'm writing a science fiction book and need a new method of propulsion.
You guys clearly have a problem with me and it stems from the Neutral Zone, it should be kept there and not brought into the other forums, you know that and don't need telling and I no longer post in TNZ anyway so if you have a problem with me please stick me on ignore instead of hunting me down in the other forums.
So if you would be kind enough to not de-rail my thread with petty grievances from another forum it would be appreciated. Thankyou.
That's all I have left to say on the matter and have no intention of mentioning it further.
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Actually, I don't mind this thread. In the words of the late Jacob Bronowski: "That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
Of course, making sense of the question so that you can come up with a half-way decent answer is another matter entirely.
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/...termold=102+Minutes&searchtermold=102+Minutes
Of course, making sense of the question so that you can come up with a half-way decent answer is another matter entirely.
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/...termold=102+Minutes&searchtermold=102+Minutes
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
I'm here to ask questions, people can either answer them or not answer them. There's no achievement gained in brandishing my ideas as outlandish, it brings nothing but negativity to a thread that doesn't need it. Telling me my ideas are outlandish is getting us nowhere and it's all just a matter of opinion.
Do we know how to create a wormhole? no we don't, not really. Do we know how to create a device that cancels out gravity and momentum? no we don't. But does the idea of such a device really seem that outlandish when you consider people mentioning wormholes that they don't even know how to create and don't even know how one might work?
Are you telling me then you don't think anti-gravity is possible? a device to cancel out gravity would be an anti-gravity device, I don't know about you but i'm quite confident such a device will one day be developed.
I wasn't asking if the device would work, I wasn't asking if such a device was possible. I am asking a hypothetical question, if it was possible would the effects be a more efficient method of space transportation.
By all means tell me it wouldn't and tell me why but people coming in here guns blazing telling me I shouldn't be posting such questions and telling me I shouldn't be allowed a thread to post them and getting aggressive towards me for my ideas is nothing more than trolling and is completely uncalled for.
If you were able to cancel gravity, if it is a force that can be cancelled, (and relativity says it isn't), it would make it much easier to send craft into space, but once in interstellar space there isn't that much of a gain.
It would be a curious device, as you'd be able to change orbital heights of satellites by switching the device on and off, and there would be various masses you'd be canceling the gravitational effects of: the earth, the sun, the galactic core. So I'm not sure what trajectory your craft would take, but it certainly wouldn't stay in orbit while the device were switched on.
It would be a curious device, as you'd be able to change orbital heights of satellites by switching the device on and off, and there would be various masses you'd be canceling the gravitational effects of: the earth, the sun, the galactic core. So I'm not sure what trajectory your craft would take, but it certainly wouldn't stay in orbit while the device were switched on.
