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|    Corey White to All    |
|    Future Science    |
|    12 May 22 23:52:40    |
      From: street@shellcrash.com              Imagine two space ships, in a universe empty of everything else.       The two ships were flying away from each other, and you had to       determine which ship was flying faster.              Lets say the first rocket ship's computer said it was flying at       4,000 MPH. And the second rocket ship's computer sad that       it was flying at 10,000 MPH.              Would there be any reason to believe this was true just because       the computer said so? It would be just as logical to say the first       ship was flying at 14,000 MPH and the other was stationary.              That's why we use light as a constant, to judge the motion of       other things.              However, where did light come from and will it always be here?       Without light everything is subjective.              There are two types of analog clocks. The first stops on every       second, and the other is always moving. What's interesting about       that is that our actual experience of time is a mixture of       both.              There is a thought experiment called Schrödinger's cat. It's kind       of a good way to illustrate what I call the quantum clock.              To explain let us decide on our frame of reference. We will use       24 hours. For the experiment we will observe a cat for one day,       and then put it in a box with a poison dish of milk. We close the       box and leave the cat in it for another 24 hours, and then take       the cat out again on the third day.              We know with a great deal of certainty that our cat can't resist       the poison dish of milk. However, we have restricted ourselves to       observing thus experiment in quantifiable time units.              This means that while the cat was inside the box it was both alive       and dead. Literally.              This may not just be a thought experiment. After all, how much       "time" do we experience in a single moment even right now. Life       isn't a chess board to be easily planned out or recorded.                     There are forces in physics which are said to be ficticious.       These are physically apparent forces that are actually nonexistent.       Centrifugal force is an example of a fictitious force.              Einstein managed to blur forever the distinction between real and       fictitious forces. General relativity is his theory of gravity, and       gravity is certainly the paradigmatic example of a "real" force. The       cornerstone of Einstein's theory, however, is the proposition that       gravity is itself a fictitious force (or, rather, that it is       indistinguishable from a fictitious force).                     The earth spins clockwise in an easternly direction. So, if a       plane flies west it's direction might become curved . That seems       logical enough, but it's not always easy to explain fictitious       forces.              What if there was a new dimension we weren't aware of that wouldn't       be restricted by the speed of light. It would be made of changes in       viewpoints. Like the rotation of an object.              The rotation of an object cannot be directly compared to the speed       of light. If the object is small enough however, it can still rotate       at a zillion times a second.              I would theorizes this rotation exists as a new dimension, capable of       influencing the results of Relativity & our understanding of gravity.                     Consciousness applied alters time and space. If I did not type       this, it would not be here.              There is a thought experiment in which the speed       of light is apparently exceeded. The rotating beam of light from       a lighthouse is imagined to be swept from one object to shine on       a second object. The farther the two objects are away from the       lighthouse, the farther the distance between them crossed by the       light beam. If the objects are sufficiently far away from the       lighthouse, when the beam hits object 2 it will traverse       the object with an apparent speed faster than light, possibly       communicating a signal on object 2 with superluminal velocity,       which violates Albert Einstein's theory of special       relativity.              Relativity theorizes that time is just an axis on the number line.       So what would happen if time were accelerating? The number line       would have to itself be able to change!              We would need to create new dimensions to map the changes in the old       dimensions. But this would seem to become a recursive and nested loop       that never ends.              Now here is the idea. If we were to actually slow down time around       an object it could create the effect of anti gravity. This is       because it would be moving with the earth, but it would be       following a slower path through the same space!              The Wright Brothers discovered a new property of physics called "Lift"       in their Dayton Ohio Bicycle Shop. When a bicycle wheel is rotated       clockwise and at the same time the wheel is rotated counter clockwise       on another axis it will physically try to lift itself in the air.              This strange property was then exploited by the Wright Brothers to       control the flow of air force around a primitive plane to fly!              What they never would have guessed however was that this gyroscopic       effect worked in reverse in the Earth's southern hemisphere. Just like       water going down a drain.              This caused early planes to crash when attempting to circumnavigate the       globe, and eventually created the Bermuda Triangle legend. Modern military       aircraft are so large and heavy, anti gravity is the only way to explain       how they can remain in the air.              An English professor named Eric Laithwaite lectured on this effect and       constructed various experiments that you can watch online.              This takes us back to the subjective nature of numbers themselves. Does       the word "One" mean anything different than the integer "1"? I wrote a       program that assigns every letter a unique number, so that the letters       added together in the word for any integer total up to the value of that       same number. It wouldn't be hard to do this and assign the numbers to add       up to a different than expected value:              [ E, F, G, H, I, L, N, O, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Z]       [-2,-6, 0,-7, 7, 9, 2, 1, 4, 3,10, 5, 6,-9,-4,-3]              (zero) = (-3 + -2 + 4 + 1)              (one) = (1 + 2 + -2)              (two) = (10 + -9 + 1)              (three) = (10 + -7 + 4 + -2 + -2)              (four) = (-6 + 1 + 5 + 4)              (five) = (-6 + 7 + 6 + -2)              (six) = (3 + 7 + -4)              (seven) = (3 + -2 + 6 + -2 + 2)              (eight) = (-2 + 7 + 0 + -7 + 10)              (nine) = (2 + 7 + 2 + -2)              (ten) = (10 + -2 + 2)              Next to prove that we can actually use this system:              (ten^(two))*three = (10 + -2 + 2)^(10 + -9 + 1) * (10 + -7 + 4 + -2 + -2)              (ten^(two))*three = ( 10^2 ) * 3              (ten^(two))*three = ( 100 ) * 3              (ten^(two))*three = 300              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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