I reckon, that Black Holes and Shrink Rays could solve a lot of the world's problems. Firsly, black holes have a HUGE compression power. ( I think they're created when a star explodes ((implodes!!!) or something like that) Theoretically (because noones certain that they exist at all) anything that gets caught in a black hole, would get crushed into nothing. It would cease to exist. Even time could get swallowed up by a black hole (creating the whole worm-hole thing which could make time travel possible...but time travel means possible paradoxes...and so to deal with those, we'd need parallell universes...anyways, I'm getting off topic) So, how could black holes be useful. Well, what if we could find one (though it would probably be like billions of light years away) then we could send all our garbage, nuclear waste etc. into one, then get it crushed into nonexistanse. That would solve the land-fill problems, and all the issues about being exposed to radiation. Though this would be good, there are so many problems with this (mostly cost, time taken, and logistics) but theoretically, it could work...and that leads me to shrink rays (well, really it doesn't, but I couldn't think of a linking thingo)
So, shrink rays...basically, if we could shrink stuff, it would be good. Parking wouldn't be an issue, because you could shrink your car and put in your pocket. Two major problems with this - 1) You could lose it - thats a costly mistake and 2) Whats to stop you shrinking someone else's car and putting it in your pocket? To deal with 2) you could have specific shrinky things for each car, kinda like a key. Also, if you could shrink things, then you wouldn't need the whole black hole thing (except for the radiation) because you could reduce landfill by just shrinking everything. Anyways, I reckon thats enough convoluted theories for one post.
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guess what? i used fossiking the other day!! and yeah, black holes would solve our problems...theoretically...
Excellent! And another convertee! Now there are two...
Elizabeth ur strange wat makes u think of these things? mmm well neway there is a presumed black hole near us like still light years away but via telescopes and things like that they have seen what they believe to be one! its about as far away as one of the stars in the southern cross not the 2nd closest one to us but one of the others...talking of atronomy my favourite star is called beatle juice...heheh and shrink rays eh? kinda cool...could be convenient as well and especially if u want to move ur house (u know like literally move ur house) u could shrink it to doll house size then just put it in the boot of ur car! ehehe so intense...
ps im goin to show Morgs this post oh i think hed hasve a view on it ofcourse!
Excllent again! I think this means: Now there are three! There's a black hole in sight? It's all falling into place! Good point on the house moving! Then again, 2) comes into play (damn you 2)!!!) But then again, they could figure it out I'm sure...(I don't know who I mean by they)Anyways, i think I have used a more than adequate amount of exclamation marks!
I spelt excellent wrong. I think I'll just stick to antidisestablishmentarianism next time.
show off...damn u epistomologists damn u all... well talking about number 2) u could barcode things like library books and wen u shrink ray something the process can only occur if the barcode is accepted as urs threw programing by companies when u buy a product... ahaha...(i like ants...)
That's good!! (well, I also like rabbits (!!) ) The plan is definately getting there...
The other problem with shrinking things is that the only way to actually SHRINK things is to remove the empty space between atoms.(See footnote 1) The problem with this is that you would have the same mass and same weight pulling the object down, so you couldn't pick it up (It being the same weight as a car still...) and leaving it where it is would damage the pavement because of the pressure of having all that weight pressed down onto a smaller space. Kinda like when someone steps on your foot in a stilleto heel, all that person's weight is on that one point of the shoe and driving down onto one small pin point on your foot. (Also see footnote 2)
Footnotes
1. Other proposed ways of shrinking is removing the excess matter so it is made up of less stuff on a scale model. The problem with that is you are actually changing the object itself and therefore it is not shrinking (Also where would you put all the excess stuff?) The other way would be to shove it into (Funnily enough) a black hole. Most unfeasible.
2. Funnily enough, this is why pins work.
They know where a lot of black holes are suspected to be; they can't 'see' them because light does not escape from them. Black holes are discovered by gravitational problems around them -- how they affect nearby stars and such. There's one suspected to be at the center of our galaxy.
But a black hole does not destroy time; time is how we express the law of entropy. Entropy means basically that everything disintegrates. As things get older (time) they wear down and disintegrate. That's why you can't go back in time, since doing that would require putting things back together and we don't have enough energy to do that.
Yeah, I have difficulty understanding entropy. Time travel is complicated as it is, mainly because of paradoxes, i.e the well worn "a man goes back in time, accidentally kills his father, and so doesn't go back in time and kill his father" thus: paradox. Though this could probably be dealt with by the creation of a parallel universe...
Yes, but I find the parallel universe theory of time travel quite a cop-out
My favourite theory on the subject is that the reason paradoxes are impossible is that because such events would naturally lie in the past, therefore as there are none of the effects of said paradoxes they haven't happened. Paradoxes aren't impossible they just don't happen because the world is as it is because of what happened in the past, any change to the past means it always happened and therefore going back in time actuall reinforces our present to be the way it is. Same with chosing not to go back in time. Everything done in relation to time travel actually determines our present, therefore you don't go back to change things, your going back in time makes sure they happen.
But if someone goes back in time to make something happen, wouldn't it have had to have not happened in order for them to go back to make it happen? (there's a flaw in there somewhere which I can't pinpoint)Then if it is fixed, they won't have to go back in time to fix it, meaning that it won't be fixed. Unless they created a parallel universe in the interum, so the fixed world is one, and they return to the normal time at a point after they went back in time, and the other screwed up one just explodes or disappears or something.
Anyways, the parallel universes that I was thinking of are the ones which are created each time a decision is made (though this is difficult to define, because people are making decisions all the time, on extremely minor scales, and on major scales) Then again, all decisions (no matter how minor) can have an impact on your future. even what you decide to put on your sandwiches
There is a fault, because you're thinking of that particular change from the point you arrive in the past to the point you travel back as being a sort of 'N' shape (It's hard to do this without diagrams.) where time flows normally to the point where you leave, then travels downwards and sideways before continuing upwards but not overlapping the original line. In the 'P' shape theory, there IS no original line. The future you leave is the same future that you end up with when you get back BECAUSE you left. I'm not implying intent in the interference. If there is intent, it will inadvertantly change things from how they would have been but into the future you left. You must not make the mistake of assuming that the alternate future exists or ever existed. Things exist because of what happened in the past. Therefore if anyone is going to change the past, they've already done so, resulting in now. Time with a loop is not N shaped but P shaped. That's the flaw you had there.
That really makes a lot of sense (and I'm not being sarcastic!)It certainly explains a lot, and ties up a lot of loose ends. One thing though, if someone believed that, wouldn't it mean that you have to believe in fate and stuff, i.e. "everything is meant to be" etc. I mean, I think that everything does happen for a reason, but thats not necessarily "destiny" and all that sort of stuff, more, one thing happens so another happens. It sort of eliminates chance (that may be worded badly. I know what I'm trying to say, but it's difficult to type it down...odd)Anyways, I think what I'm trying to say is that if the P shaped theory is true, all of life has been planned out from the beginning, and noone is in control of the outcome.
It doesn't mean you need to believe in fate. It implies no reason, just that everything that has happened has been shaped by the event that preceded it. Cause and effect, Every cause has an effect and every effect has a cause. The end!
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