So I just finished watching the Black Mirror episode "USS Callister." And it got me thinking again about strange social experiments that would be interesting (though unethical) to try. For example. What if you built a full scale "working" replica of the Enterprise. Then you snatched someone up in the middle of this night and snuck them into the ship. Then they wake up there. When they wonder where they are, you give them a complete back story about an accident that they just woke up from. You could have photos and other evidence to back up your story. Would they ever come to accept their new life? Then if they did, what would happen if you put them back into their old life? Maybe with a "just woke up from an accident" story to explain the missing time. It would be so interesting to see how someone would react to such a situation. The admittedly probably very cruel and undoubtedly unethical.
I recall reading about a married couple where one spouse got amnesia and couldn't remember ever having gotten married. So lets say you take someone and hire them to work at a special facility. This facility has no way to tell what time it is outside. You have them work there for two months or so. Then everyday you slow down the clock. That way there's about a one or two week difference in time between the real time and the perceived time on the inside. You then take the subject of the experiment and move them to a hospital bed while they are asleep. The goal being to tell them they had a whirlwind romance with another worker at the facility and they were married just a few days ago. When they wake up you tell them they slipped and hit their head. Then you give them all sorts of doctored evidence that proves what you're saying is true. What would their reaction be. Would they continue the relationship. I suppose you could tell them anything really. They are a different person or something.
What sort of weirdness could you put into someone's life and how would they react? What other strange social experiments do you think would be interesting?
I recall reading about a married couple where one spouse got amnesia and couldn't remember ever having gotten married. So lets say you take someone and hire them to work at a special facility. This facility has no way to tell what time it is outside. You have them work there for two months or so. Then everyday you slow down the clock. That way there's about a one or two week difference in time between the real time and the perceived time on the inside. You then take the subject of the experiment and move them to a hospital bed while they are asleep. The goal being to tell them they had a whirlwind romance with another worker at the facility and they were married just a few days ago. When they wake up you tell them they slipped and hit their head. Then you give them all sorts of doctored evidence that proves what you're saying is true. What would their reaction be. Would they continue the relationship. I suppose you could tell them anything really. They are a different person or something.
What sort of weirdness could you put into someone's life and how would they react? What other strange social experiments do you think would be interesting?
