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sci-fi stuff you want now...
Micharus:
Plentiful, cheap/free energy source, with no bad 'byproducts'.
Replicators, food and otherwise.
Advanced medicine/medical procedures.
Limb replacement technology. Not just replace the limb with a prosthetic version, but have the option of a 'regrown' or 'vat grown' replacement limb grown from your own cells.
Tests to determine just who has what chance of getting cancer...... and a way to remove that possibility totally.
With the above items in play, Space travel would then be a 'must have', along with terraforming technology, so that the excess population could be moved off of earth, to an 'earth-like' planet.
Anti-gravity.
So many other things that I know I will think of.
dakarv:
--- Quote ---You know you'll become blind when you're invisible? If you intend to use the power to bump into stuff then have fun xD
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I don't see how you figure this, the two most logical ways to be become invisible in my opinion would either be to reproduce the image that someone sees behind you at whichever angle they look, but this doesn't necessary mean light couldn't pass through this screen. Also your far closer to the layer causing the effect so a series of thin slits would let you see though but be invisible to someone further away. Or it could simple act like a two way mirror only reproducing what's behind the mirror rather than in front, via cameras etc (would require some futuristic material)
The next would be to allow light to pass through you probably by reproducing its trajectory on the other side and also blocking light coming off you but it would most likely block it after it passes through the invisibility layer and just stop it rebounding which would mean you could receive light (ie see)
Anyway on a separate note you mention earlier about being able to control the graviton and the god-particle. These are obviously both theoretical and might not even exist in the first place but suppose they do. I was wondering what controlling the god-particle might achieve. Isn't it just some sort of elementary particle that gives mass to other particles? I can see how if we had complete control of the graviton you could possible block gravity or with even more futuristic technology create your own gravity fields but I was wondering what stuff you could achieve with the god particle. Make objects weightless while maintaining their structure? seems a bit unlikely with any amount of technology.
Anyway standard model for particles is just a nice way to make stuff fit together in an understandable way imo. I think string and quantum loop gravity might be closer to the truth or for finding a unified theory for everything.
surdumil:
I need to know how to build Marvin the Martian's disintegrator ray gun,
because taking stuff apart is much more fun and much easier than putting stuff together.
Soulreaper77:
--- Quote from: dakarv on October 17, 2010, 11:48:02 AM ---
--- Quote ---You know you'll become blind when you're invisible? If you intend to use the power to bump into stuff then have fun xD
--- End quote ---
I don't see how you figure this, the two most logical ways to be become invisible in my opinion would either be to reproduce the image that someone sees behind you at whichever angle they look, but this doesn't necessary mean light couldn't pass through this screen. Also your far closer to the layer causing the effect so a series of thin slits would let you see though but be invisible to someone further away. Or it could simple act like a two way mirror only reproducing what's behind the mirror rather than in front, via cameras etc
The the next would be to allow light to pass through you probably by reproducing its trajectory on the other side and also blocking light coming off you but it would most likely block it after it passes through the invisibility layer and just stop it rebounding which would mean you could receive light (ie see)
Anyway on a separate note you mention earlier about being able to control the graviton and the god-particle. These are obviously both theoretical and might not even exist in the first place but suppose they do. I was wondering what controlling the god-particle might achieve. Isn't it just some sort of elementary particle that gives mass to other particles? I can see how if we had complete control of the graviton you could possible block gravity or with even more futuristic technology create your own gravity fields but I was wondering what stuff you could achieve with the god particle. Make objects weightless while maintaining their structure? seems a bit unlikely with any amount of technology.
Anyway standard model for particles is just a nice way to make stuff fit together in an understandable way imo. I think string and quantum loop gravity might be closer to the truth or for finding a unified theory for everything.
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Invisibility = bending light around the object. That's what meant generally by it and that's what I thought he meant. So if light passes around him then he's blind.
Creating a contraption with cameras, mirrors, screens, etc is too big for a person to carry and probably doesn't work well when you're moving.
The God-particle i.e. the Higgs boson indeed gives mass to particles. And you are right when you say that Graviton control and the God-particle control are essentially the same but there is one big difference. Making an object weightless with the God-particle will work in any gravity field, so an object made weightless here will also be weightless on the sun. But making an object weightless with gravitons will not work in any gravity field, you'll have to adjust it to match the gravity field every time and thus in the more severe gravity fields this would require more and more energy. While once you've made an object massless with the God-particle you're done.
I just put both there for no reason xD And assuming that they do exist, which isn't proven yet.
dakarv:
--- Quote ---bending light around the object. That's what meant generally by it and that's what I thought he meant. So if light passes around him then he's blind.
--- End quote ---
Ah yes bending light, didn't think of that one, still bending something that moves that fast must be pretty hard, unless we fully understand light, is it a wave or a particle? Or have a gravitational force equal to a black hole but that might cause other problems during daily life :D
--- Quote ---And you are right when you say that Graviton control and the God-particle control are essentially the same
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Hmm I wasn't really trying to say this , there is obviously a big difference between mass and weight
With zero weight an object would still have a large amount of inertia but with zero/near zero mass a small amount of force would result in
a ridiculous amount of acceleration
I was trying to say that if the higgs boson exists it would be very hard to remove it from all the matter composing an object and still have that object behave in the same way, ie removing it would probably mess up all the intermolecular forces of the matter and the object would probably disintegrate into individual particles.
Still who knows what role mass plays with strong and weak intermolecular forces
Edit: actually back to the light thing I guess we can reflect/refract light easily enough which can have similar effects to bending light
--- Quote ---Creating a contraption with cameras, mirrors, screens, etc is too big for a person to carry and probably doesn't work well when you're moving.
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well this is the future you know, and I'm sure refracting light around an entire human would require a large mass as well, although maybe some generator that produce a mist or something could work? who knows :D
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