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Post by quinkgirl on Nov 3, 2013 0:38:20 GMT
That thing in the tray was probably an artificial wing, perhaps a proof-of-concept for the body Kat wants to build for Robot. Though if she's planning on making Robot a body with full functional wings that could make the whole Kat->Angel->Creator thing even weirder. Not weird, just more true  ...I wonder if she is actually an angel of some sort...? |
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Post by zuullancemaster on Nov 3, 2013 0:47:41 GMT
I do not. Probably a lot of effort, but then it's not my place to doubt The Angel. The polymer idea makes sense, though. I wonder how much electricity that would take. not much electricity actually 3.5 volts gives good movement www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E5U8BuyyJsthe stronger the voltage or current the more movement in the polymer. By running a current though it, it will expand or contract dependant on the type of polymer used and the chemistry involved. Dielectric Electro-active polymers could be made as strips with a non-conducting layer between two polymer layers, applying a charge to one side would cause it to bend in the opposite direction. a more useful Polymer would be one that can stretch when uncharged or or will expand with a positive current, and contract with a negative current. Diodes and non-conductive layers would be important in the design of the actual artificial muscles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL5bInUumbMwww.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga_IafGRWyEI have no clue what type of polymer Kat could be using. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw8FLgiXsmkwww.youtube.com/watch?v=4XGVMXCxBNAwww.youtube.com/watch?v=eIh8L59sd30Oh wow! You really did your research. This is so awesome. I tip my hat to you, good sir! =) I don't want to go off-topic, but how do you know all this? Are you an engineer? Just a bit curious. |
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Post by fishtie on Nov 3, 2013 1:07:42 GMT
Though if she's planning on making Robot a body with full functional wings that could make the whole Kat->Angel->Creator thing even weirder. Not weird, just more true ...I wonder if she is actually an angel of some sort...? I don't know... Robot has had some strange presumptions at times. Maybe bringing his form more in line with a 'messenger of deity' isn't such a good idea. |
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Post by Señor Goose on Nov 3, 2013 2:44:20 GMT
Wonder if that could become a source of conflict within the story?
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Post by Kuraimizu on Nov 3, 2013 3:29:46 GMT
Oh wow! You really did your research. This is so awesome. I tip my hat to you, good sir! =) I don't want to go off-topic, but how do you know all this? Are you an engineer? Just a bit curious. nope not an engineer, I just like to study the sciences. I have a broad field of studies I'm interested in. basically everything interests me, if not for the knowledge then for the entertainment. the internet helps make research faster and easier too, though I end up sifting out a lot of junk info too. My interests cover everything from quantum physics chemistry, biology, architecture, Astronomy, computers and technology. Technology, Quantum, and astronomy being my favorites. I also study fictional sciences such as arcana, magic, and how such concepts would work in their perspective universes. I am also religious, but from a scientific level. Pure science[proven facts] and Pure Religion[revelation] should never contradict the other if there is a contradiction, which is the fallacy? the revelation, proving it isn't a revelation, and rendering it a falsehood invented by man. currently trying to flesh out a personal theory of gravity and space-time. That thing in the tray was probably an artificial wing, perhaps a proof-of-concept for the body Kat wants to build for Robot. Though if she's planning on making Robot a body with full functional wings that could make the whole Kat->Angel->Creator thing even weirder. I actually have this theory that Jones is one of Kat's future creation's and that Jones was sent back in time to do a broad scale study of history. Kat is going a more biological design route, A bird or cat like robot would be a good first step but like all robotics the eventual goal is to create something as close or better than a human as possible. What do you think? Will Kat create Jones? |
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Post by fishtie on Nov 3, 2013 7:30:37 GMT
Though if she's planning on making Robot a body with full functional wings that could make the whole Kat->Angel->Creator thing even weirder. I actually have this theory that Jones is one of Kat's future creation's and that Jones was sent back in time to do a broad scale study of history. Kat is going a more biological design route, A bird or cat like robot would be a good first step but like all robotics the eventual goal is to create something as close or better than a human as possible. What do you think? Will Kat create Jones? I suppose that that theory does refute my own Jones'-existence-disproves-evolution-in-the-Gunnerkrigg-Court-world theory. However, Kat doesn't strike me as the kind of creator who would disregard emotion in her creations. Then again, that's current Kat. Future Katerina Donlan could be a very different person. |
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Post by Gulby on Nov 3, 2013 15:55:28 GMT
I don't know... Robot has had some strange presumptions at times. Maybe bringing his form more in line with a 'messenger of deity' isn't such a good idea. OH MAN. And what if this prove the theory of Coyote ? Kat becoming the deity of robots BECAUSE they all believe her to be ?...  |
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Post by sidhekin on Nov 3, 2013 16:11:00 GMT
Nah. The guides to not deal in electrical appliances.
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Post by warrl on Nov 3, 2013 18:18:18 GMT
I actually have this theory that Jones is one of Kat's future creation's and that Jones was sent back in time to do a broad scale study of history. It occurs to me that there would be a lot of knowledge inherent in Jones' makeup, and revealing that knowledge (or her knowledge of history) *before she is made* would introduce lots of possibilities for paradox. Therefore she is secretive about her knowledge, and neither she nor anyone else can discern her internal makeup (which requires that she be quite indestructible). When Kat makes her (assuming your theory is true), she will embed a complex unlock code word/pattern/situation, and then (after sending the newly-made Jones back in time) apply it to the "old" Jones. Of course, this also requires a time machine. Quandary: how you you prove that you're the original inventor of a time machine that can send things into the past? (Maybe your great-great-great-grandchild will actually invent it and send you the plans, meaning that YOU are not the original inventor and your g^3-grandchild is merely copying prior art.) |
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Post by Kuraimizu on Nov 3, 2013 19:25:15 GMT
I actually have this theory that Jones is one of Kat's future creation's and that Jones was sent back in time to do a broad scale study of history. Kat is going a more biological design route, A bird or cat like robot would be a good first step but like all robotics the eventual goal is to create something as close or better than a human as possible. What do you think? Will Kat create Jones? I suppose that that theory does refute my own Jones'-existence-disproves-evolution-in-the-Gunnerkrigg-Court-world theory. However, Kat doesn't strike me as the kind of creator who would disregard emotion in her creations. Then again, that's current Kat. Future Katerina Donlan could be a very different person. Jones has emotion, she just isn't good at showing it. She remembers people by taking their name and keeping an album. a normal robot wouldn't do that. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1092 and second her first memories are watching the world form from a volcanic wasteland, she watched life evolve, but she herself has never eaten for the 4.5 billion years of earth. she walked among dinosaurs. she had no notion of language or emotions till she stumbled upon the first humans ** proof she remembers nothing before the earth, she thought herself unique ** ** and was surprised to find Humans that looked like her but were nothing like her ** and started to live alongside them and even then she has lived like a hermit for no other reason than most humans fear the fact she does not age and she can't be harmed. the only human trait she lacks is ambition. for if she wanted to with her knowledge and her immortality she could rule the earth. I actually have this theory that Jones is one of Kat's future creation's and that Jones was sent back in time to do a broad scale study of history. It occurs to me that there would be a lot of knowledge inherent in Jones' makeup, and revealing that knowledge (or her knowledge of history) *before she is made* would introduce lots of possibilities for paradox. Therefore she is secretive about her knowledge, and neither she nor anyone else can discern her internal makeup (which requires that she be quite indestructible). When Kat makes her (assuming your theory is true), she will embed a complex unlock code word/pattern/situation, and then (after sending the newly-made Jones back in time) apply it to the "old" Jones. Of course, this also requires a time machine. Quandary: how you you prove that you're the original inventor of a time machine that can send things into the past? (Maybe your great-great-great-grandchild will actually invent it and send you the plans, meaning that YOU are not the original inventor and your g^3-grandchild is merely copying prior art.) What is important to understand in a 5-d space-time universe such as our own while we have the proof of the fifth dimension as evidenced by observable quantum effects of particles and energy. and is evidence that the complexity of time is event based dependant on observation or interaction to collapse the universal wave-function into a solid snapshot of time Time travel is possible so long as you can find a way to alter the wave function of the object or person you wish to send across time. The four ways to travel across time or dimensions are, Teleportation, Worm-hole/portal, Slowed-time/doppler shift following. For teleportation you need to be able to actively change the wave-function's present Temporal and spacial Co-ordinates and vectors-parameters for the most recent plank second. A wormhole or portal is much simpler in that you connect the space and time of two distinct wave-function co-ordinates, and step through the rift. Following travel is by far the easiest and only involves either fast speed, or a large gravity field. Both of which cause the flow of surrounding time to move slower in relation to the flow of time in empty space. This mode however only allows travel to the future, unless one can find a way to propel your ship in the opposite direction as the flow of time, causing you to see the universe course and rewind, as Super nova collapse into stars and galaxies dim into clouds of hydrogen gas. The forth way is to actively leave the universe proper and escape into the void between realities. The fourth way however requires a map of quantum wave-functions, and a physics generator. With out a map one would become lost between realities, and with out the generator your ship and all aboard would dissolve back into the quantum foam of the void. However there is still the problem that because time is event based, and the act of time travel is an event, anytime you try to enter a time stream it will split into a reality where you arrive, and a prime reality where you never arrive. all of time is essentially a prime reality and can never be entered only viewed externally. any time traveller will never be able to view the actual history that happened, only a sister reality in which the traveller is interfering. The only way one could enter a prime reality is if one is the God who created that reality or has acquired a quantum temporal visa from said God, enabling the rewriting of history. Also of note when ever you leave a reality by timetravel, you split the reality 3 ways One where you don't time travel. One where You do time travel and never return, **Always make sure to say goodbye or hold a Funeral/Wake before time travelling, ** **because as far as realities are concerned you just committed suicide in at least one of them. ** and one where a time travelling version of your future self returns to the same point he originally left, which technically causes an incursion for each of the possible different versions of yourself that could return. Seeing as there is no proof of time travel and that we have not encountered large numbers of travellers is proof towards the idea that we live in a prime reality and as such will never develop time travel or be visited by time travellers. at least not in the prime, a sister reality perhaps, but never the prime. |
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Post by fishtie on Nov 3, 2013 20:58:23 GMT
I suppose that that theory does refute my own Jones'-existence-disproves-evolution-in-the-Gunnerkrigg-Court-world theory. However, Kat doesn't strike me as the kind of creator who would disregard emotion in her creations. Then again, that's current Kat. Future Katerina Donlan could be a very different person. Jones has emotion, she just isn't good at showing it. She remembers people by taking their name and keeping an album. a normal robot wouldn't do that. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1092 and second her first memories are watching the world form from a volcanic wasteland, she watched life evolve, but she herself has never eaten for the 4.5 billion years of earth. she walked among dinosaurs. she had no notion of language or emotions till she stumbled upon the first humans ** proof she remembers nothing before the earth, she thought herself unique ** ** and was surprised to find Humans that looked like her but were nothing like her ** and started to live alongside them and even then she has lived like a hermit for no other reason than most humans fear the fact she does not age and she can't be harmed. the only human trait she lacks is ambition. for if she wanted to with her knowledge and her immortality she could rule the earth. Oh, I absolutely agree that Jones has emotions. I would even argue that she does have ambitions of sorts visible through her actions if not her words. (actually the intent to observe human life is in itself an ambition) But I think the blatant self denial of emotions, while being a very human trait, doesn't really match up with Kat's creative style. Besides, hate to break up the fun, but even word of god says that Jones is not a robot. |
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Post by quinkgirl on Nov 3, 2013 21:09:59 GMT
Jones has emotion, she just isn't good at showing it. She remembers people by taking their name and keeping an album. a normal robot wouldn't do that. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1092 and second her first memories are watching the world form from a volcanic wasteland, she watched life evolve, but she herself has never eaten for the 4.5 billion years of earth. she walked among dinosaurs. she had no notion of language or emotions till she stumbled upon the first humans ** proof she remembers nothing before the earth, she thought herself unique ** ** and was surprised to find Humans that looked like her but were nothing like her ** and started to live alongside them and even then she has lived like a hermit for no other reason than most humans fear the fact she does not age and she can't be harmed. the only human trait she lacks is ambition. for if she wanted to with her knowledge and her immortality she could rule the earth. Oh, I absolutely agree that Jones has emotions. I would even argue that she does have ambitions of sorts visible through her actions if not her words. (actually the intent to observe human life is in itself an ambition) But I think the blatant self denial of emotions, while being a very human trait, doesn't really match up with Kat's creative style. Besides, hate to break up the fun, but even word of god says that Jones is not a robot.My theory is that Jones has emotions, but she doesn't... usually feel them? Maybe it's like a subconscious sort of thing. I never actually thought she was a robot until Annie suggested it. Because you don't see any other androids walking around, right? |
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Post by Mezzaphor on Nov 3, 2013 21:19:37 GMT
Not to mention all the actual robots in the Court are just so full of all the emotions.
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Post by fishtie on Nov 3, 2013 21:29:52 GMT
Well I guess that was mostly directed at Kuraimizu's time loop theory.
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Post by nightwind on Nov 3, 2013 21:44:14 GMT
Even if Jones was the most emotional person in the world when she first woke up, imagine what millions of years in solitude do to that.
And also the life experience from that: 'Been there, done that.' is what I think Jones thinks most of the time.
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Post by Kuraimizu on Nov 3, 2013 21:58:27 GMT
Besides, hate to break up the fun, but even word of god says that Jones is not a robot.Depends on your definition of robot. technically humans fit that definition. the only difference is that humans are biological and electro-chemical our DNA is our programming, and our brain is a processor computer and memory storage unit. humans are machines made of meat, and biological tissue robots are machines made of metal, plastic, ceramic, and polymers. |
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Post by Daedalus on Nov 3, 2013 22:58:43 GMT
I suppose that that theory does refute my own Jones'-existence-disproves-evolution-in-the-Gunnerkrigg-Court-world theory. However, Kat doesn't strike me as the kind of creator who would disregard emotion in her creations. Then again, that's current Kat. Future Katerina Donlan could be a very different person. Jones has emotion, she just isn't good at showing it. She remembers people by taking their name and keeping an album. a normal robot wouldn't do that. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1092 and second her first memories are watching the world form from a volcanic wasteland, she watched life evolve, but she herself has never eaten for the 4.5 billion years of earth. she walked among dinosaurs. she had no notion of language or emotions till she stumbled upon the first humans ** proof she remembers nothing before the earth, she thought herself unique ** ** and was surprised to find Humans that looked like her but were nothing like her ** and started to live alongside them and even then she has lived like a hermit for no other reason than most humans fear the fact she does not age and she can't be harmed. the only human trait she lacks is ambition. for if she wanted to with her knowledge and her immortality she could rule the earth. It occurs to me that there would be a lot of knowledge inherent in Jones' makeup, and revealing that knowledge (or her knowledge of history) *before she is made* would introduce lots of possibilities for paradox. Therefore she is secretive about her knowledge, and neither she nor anyone else can discern her internal makeup (which requires that she be quite indestructible). When Kat makes her (assuming your theory is true), she will embed a complex unlock code word/pattern/situation, and then (after sending the newly-made Jones back in time) apply it to the "old" Jones. Of course, this also requires a time machine. Quandary: how you you prove that you're the original inventor of a time machine that can send things into the past? (Maybe your great-great-great-grandchild will actually invent it and send you the plans, meaning that YOU are not the original inventor and your g^3-grandchild is merely copying prior art.) What is important to understand in a 5-d space-time universe such as our own while we have the proof of the fifth dimension as evidenced by observable quantum effects of particles and energy. and is evidence that the complexity of time is event based dependant on observation or interaction to collapse the universal wave-function into a solid snapshot of time Time travel is possible so long as you can find a way to alter the wave function of the object or person you wish to send across time. The four ways to travel across time or dimensions are, Teleportation, Worm-hole/portal, Slowed-time/doppler shift following. For teleportation you need to be able to actively change the wave-function's present Temporal and spacial Co-ordinates and vectors-parameters for the most recent plank second. A wormhole or portal is much simpler in that you connect the space and time of two distinct wave-function co-ordinates, and step through the rift. Following travel is by far the easiest and only involves either fast speed, or a large gravity field. Both of which cause the flow of surrounding time to move slower in relation to the flow of time in empty space. This mode however only allows travel to the future, unless one can find a way to propel your ship in the opposite direction as the flow of time, causing you to see the universe course and rewind, as Super nova collapse into stars and galaxies dim into clouds of hydrogen gas. The forth way is to actively leave the universe proper and escape into the void between realities. The fourth way however requires a map of quantum wave-functions, and a physics generator. With out a map one would become lost between realities, and with out the generator your ship and all aboard would dissolve back into the quantum foam of the void. However there is still the problem that because time is event based, and the act of time travel is an event, anytime you try to enter a time stream it will split into a reality where you arrive, and a prime reality where you never arrive. all of time is essentially a prime reality and can never be entered only viewed externally. any time traveller will never be able to view the actual history that happened, only a sister reality in which the traveller is interfering. The only way one could enter a prime reality is if one is the God who created that reality or has acquired a quantum temporal visa from said God, enabling the rewriting of history. Also of note when ever you leave a reality by timetravel, you split the reality 3 ways One where you don't time travel. One where You do time travel and never return, **Always make sure to say goodbye or hold a Funeral/Wake before time travelling, ** **because as far as realities are concerned you just committed suicide in at least one of them. ** and one where a time travelling version of your future self returns to the same point he originally left, which technically causes an incursion for each of the possible different versions of yourself that could return. Seeing as there is no proof of time travel and that we have not encountered large numbers of travellers is proof towards the idea that we live in a prime reality and as such will never develop time travel or be visited by time travellers. at least not in the prime, a sister reality perhaps, but never the prime. I must ask; do you intentionally break each line, or is it an artifact of whatever device you are using to get the internetz? Because, as it is, I start to read it and try to analyze it as poetry. 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Post by Kuraimizu on Nov 3, 2013 23:28:58 GMT
I must ask; do you intentionally break each line, or is it an artifact of whatever device you are using to get the internetz? Because, as it is, I start to read it and try to analyze it as poetry. This is not a good thing; I've done enough of that for a lifetime I don't like wide patches of text that span the entire screen So I break it up to make it easier to glance over while reading. personal internet habit, same with my random capitalization of the first letters in words I want to add emphasis to. Bad habit more than anything. guessing it stems from the fact that pages in books aren't as wide as the screen and with how much I have read in my life, I find it more natural to read with a paragraph width roughly equal to the width of a hand span splayed pinkie to thumb. if the width is too long it's easier to loose track of what line you are on when moving to the next line while reading fast. |
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Post by Daedalus on Nov 3, 2013 23:32:25 GMT
I must ask; do you intentionally break each line, or is it an artifact of whatever device you are using to get the internetz? Because, as it is, I start to read it and try to analyze it as poetry. This is not a good thing; I've done enough of that for a lifetime I don't like wide patches of text that span the entire screen So I break it up to make it easier to glance over while reading. personal internet habit, same with my random capitalization of the first letters in words I want to add emphasis to. Bad habit more than anything. I started sounding it out to see if it was iambic pentameter. Shakespeare has corrupted my internet reading. But yeah, it is a useful habit. I might steal that sometime. |
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Post by Kuraimizu on Nov 3, 2013 23:45:55 GMT
I started sounding it out to see if it was iambic pentameter. Shakespeare has corrupted my internet reading. But yeah, it is a useful habit. I might steal that sometime. Out of curiosity what did you think of my Ideas in that spiel ? |
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Post by warrl on Nov 4, 2013 0:15:14 GMT
I started sounding it out to see if it was iambic pentameter. That would be strange and interesting reading but hard to do for exposition text on subjects ranging geeky, philosophic, absurd and downright strange. (I now give up.) |
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Post by GK Sierra on Nov 4, 2013 0:19:55 GMT
I started sounding it out to see if it was iambic pentameter. Shakespeare has corrupted my internet reading. But yeah, it is a useful habit. I might steal that sometime. Out of curiosity what did you think of my Ideas in that spiel ? It was good, although some of the devices and concepts you're talking about have yet to be invented/proven to exist, and we must always take into account the idea that one day our talk of "quantum this" and "quantum that" will seem quint by comparison with the prevailing theory. There might also be a fifth option involving the ether (that wonderful all-purpose plot-supporting miasma) or the nature of the ether that allowed Jones to begin her existence a long time ago.  |
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Post by Daedalus on Nov 4, 2013 0:20:02 GMT
while we have the proof of the fifth dimension as evidenced by observable quantum effects of particles and energy. and is evidence that the complexity of time is event based dependant on observation or interaction to collapse the universal wave-function into a solid snapshot of time Time travel is possible so long as you can find a way to alter the wave function of the object or person you wish to send across time. The four ways to travel across time or dimensions are, Teleportation, Worm-hole/portal, Slowed-time/doppler shift following. For teleportation you need to be able to actively change the wave-function's present Temporal and spacial Co-ordinates and vectors-parameters for the most recent plank second. A wormhole or portal is much simpler in that you connect the space and time of two distinct wave-function co-ordinates, and step through the rift. Following travel is by far the easiest and only involves either fast speed, or a large gravity field. Both of which cause the flow of surrounding time to move slower in relation to the flow of time in empty space. This mode however only allows travel to the future, unless one can find a way to propel your ship in the opposite direction as the flow of time, causing you to see the universe course and rewind, as Super nova collapse into stars and galaxies dim into clouds of hydrogen gas. The forth way is to actively leave the universe proper and escape into the void between realities. The fourth way however requires a map of quantum wave-functions, and a physics generator. With out a map one would become lost between realities, and with out the generator your ship and all aboard would dissolve back into the quantum foam of the void. However there is still the problem that because time is event based, and the act of time travel is an event, anytime you try to enter a time stream it will split into a reality where you arrive, and a prime reality where you never arrive. all of time is essentially a prime reality and can never be entered only viewed externally. any time traveller will never be able to view the actual history that happened, only a sister reality in which the traveller is interfering. The only way one could enter a prime reality is if one is the God who created that reality or has acquired a quantum temporal visa from said God, enabling the rewriting of history. Also of note when ever you leave a reality by timetravel, you split the reality 3 ways One where you don't time travel. One where You do time travel and never return, **Always make sure to say goodbye or hold a Funeral/Wake before time travelling, ** **because as far as realities are concerned you just committed suicide in at least one of them. ** and one where a time travelling version of your future self returns to the same point he originally left, which technically causes an incursion for each of the possible different versions of yourself that could return. Seeing as there is no proof of time travel and that we have not encountered large numbers of travellers is proof towards the idea that we live in a prime reality and as such will never develop time travel or be visited by time travellers. at least not in the prime, a sister reality perhaps, but never the prime. I have a good familiarity with quantum theory and I have never heard of several of the things you conjectured (or at least how you combined and phrased them; the terms themselves are familiar: kind of like reading Portuguese while fluent in Spanish). Certainly I take exception to several statements that are said as fact but are currently entirely hypothetical. However, they could certainly be done in the Gunnerverse, if not here. So, in the context of Gunnerkrigg Court, I agree with it all (or nearly all). |
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Post by deram on Nov 4, 2013 0:54:22 GMT
Nah. The guides to not deal in electrical appliances. Are you trying to tell me that there's no Silicon Heaven? Preposterous! Where would all the calculators go?  |
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Post by Kuraimizu on Nov 4, 2013 0:55:49 GMT
It was good, although some of the devices and concepts you're talking about have yet to be invented/proven to exist, and we must always take into account the idea that one day our talk of "quantum this" and "quantum that" will seem quint by comparison with the prevailing theory. There might also be a fifth option involving the ether (that wonderful all-purpose plot-supporting miasma) or the nature of the ether that allowed Jones to begin her existence a long time ago. I have a good familiarity with quantum theory and I have never heard of several of the things you conjectured (or at least how you combined and phrased them; the terms themselves are familiar: kind of like reading Portuguese while fluent in Spanish). Certainly I take exception to several statements that are said as fact but are currently entirely hypothetical. However, they could certainly be done in the Gunnerverse, if not here. So, in the context of Gunnerkrigg Court, I agree with it all (or nearly all). I've sort of developed my own personal Theology in regards to both religion and science. even to the point of developing my own theory of gravity based on scientific articles I have read and collected. ** I actually have a binder that I am filling with articles from various science Magazines. ** Needless to say the picture in my mind is a mesh of scientific theories from many different researchers and a mix of imagery from science fictions that I have found help to visualize the basic concepts of the whole theory I'm slowly assembling. the hardest part is figuring out the most logical parts of the puzzle and how they interlock. but while still a work in progress I have found my theory helps explain the observations in astronomy that have puzzled some researchers. most have tried explaining these inconsistencies as changes in the universal constants of physics. whereas my theory explains them as a change in the flow of time allowing the constants to remain the same, and also explaining why the theory of relativity works. However to proof it I need to learn a lot more, specifically the mathematics and calculus behind the current theories. I'm so far behind in what I should know. But I guess the key point of seeking knowledge is knowing you know nothing. And having the imagination to invent new ideas. |
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Post by Señor Goose on Nov 4, 2013 1:05:57 GMT
I started sounding it out to see if it was iambic pentameter. Shakespeare has corrupted my internet reading. But yeah, it is a useful habit. I might steal that sometime. Out of curiosity what did you think of my Ideas in that spiel ? It's uh.... It's very inspired, to say the least. |
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Post by Kuraimizu on Nov 4, 2013 1:10:15 GMT
If one believes in an afterlife, going to assume belief in a god or greater being. Why would A god that allows us the Knowledge to create self aware Artificial intelligence not also supply those artificial Intelligences with souls of their own, seeing as he supplied us with souls? Just a thought. Also what is the proof something has a Soul? Emotion? Empathy? Grief? Curiosity? the desire to better itself? And what if there is no soul? No afterlife? Given that one day the entire universe will grow cold and die from entropy decay, why or what are you living for? if our sun is just going to burn earth to ashes in a billion years or so, all our history lost, most of the genetic diversity wasted, toward what end are you working? |
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Post by GK Sierra on Nov 4, 2013 1:45:15 GMT
No end. Any end. Whichever end you choose.
You can either let our utter cosmic insignificance terrify you or motivate you. (or both)
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