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Take the following with a huge grain of salt: The controversial scientist Bob Lazar, the guy who made Area 51 a household name, put out a video when he first w
by lend000 3y ago
Take the following with a huge grain of salt:
The controversial scientist Bob Lazar, the guy who made Area 51 a household name, put out a video when he first went public that, regardless of whether you think he's full of shit or not, is pretty interesting and better than most sci-fi in terms of explaining how an advanced vehicle might travel without propulsion and not be limited by the speed of light [0].
His premise is that the strong nuclear force is a purely attractive sub-force of gravity that affects spacetime in the same way, and that there are heavier elements that were created in star systems with much more energy than our sun and its predecessors. These stable, high atomic weight elements (specifically element 115, which was synthesized and added to the periodic table much later) have large nuclei past a certain size threshold, in which the strong (gravitational) force reaches nonlinearly beyond the nucleus and can be amplified and focused (somehow?) into a gravitational wave that distorts spacetime. He claims that antimatter annihilation, also fueled by the same element, is the source of power for that amplification.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Lre3B6SUQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Lre3B6SUQ
- empath-nirvana 3y agoWouldn't it be more interesting to learn real physics instead of made up stuff?
- withinboredom 3y agoI enjoy fantasy physics more than regular physics by a pretty large margin.
- lend000 3y agoIt's not like you or I are actually going to do anything based on our limited understandings of particle physics, so fortunately it's irrelevant. But I'm not one of those people who says every year that we understand everything (until next year when some updates come out and they reiterate their position). Contemplating why anything exists at all is much more interesting than inaccessible and incomplete particle physics anyway.
- adammichaelc 3y agoDream Big, and keep Dreaming. It's the only thing that ever makes anything New. Dreams reach the collective in mysterious ways. DNA was simultaneously co-discovered in at least 3 parts of the world that I'm aware of. Thank you for your kindness too. Cheers!
- moffkalast 3y agoThe only thing that real physics is good for is telling enthusiastic people that "ackchyually that's not possible because of these equations I won't bother explaining, trust me bro". Made up stuff wins every time.
- ben_w 3y agoReal physics requires ten simultaneous partial differential equations for the gravity, and 17 space filling complex-valued fields for the particles in the standard model, and they don't even work right with each other. Interesting to me, sure, but I'm enough of a nerd than in the team building exercise today where we all had to write a one-word summary of ourselves on a post-it note in secret, then guess which post-it corresponded to which person, even though we were all nerds and I wrote "nerd" on my post-it, everyone else immediately knew it was mine without any debate.
- nyssos 3y ago> The controversial scientist Bob Lazar Lazar was briefly a subcontracted technician at Los Alamos: not a scientist, controversial or otherwise.