07-09-2019, 01:04 PM | #11 |
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Re: Physics. (Very LAST thread). I promise
I think what he means is Star Trek style warp drive physics rather than Star Wars hyperspace/Einstein-Rosen Bridge wormhole physics. Two different critters.
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07-09-2019, 11:27 PM | #13 |
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I'd call that an example of the kind of physical processes I was thinking of.
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07-10-2019, 04:08 AM | #14 |
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Good. I thought a specific example might help.
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07-10-2019, 04:30 AM | #15 |
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Turbulence fits my arguments of "not knowing everything" as well. We know it exists, we can measure it, we can enjoy its effects recreationally (waterslides!), and we can kinda figure out how to counteract it, but we don't really know what it is and why it happens.
And I seem to recall in one of the books a mention of hyperspace turbulence. Just gathering raw data to figure out what causes and the physics behind that could take most of a Hutt's thousand year lifespan.
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Time travel. Invisibility. Interplanetary teleportation. Immortality. Digital mind recording and overwriting for brain state backups and mind transference. Frictionless surfaces. Metamalganism. Superconduction of phonons (ergo, of heat). Transmutation of elements. The Langston field (black globe generator). Rishons. Stasis fields. Indestructible spaceship hulls. Regressing organisms to their evolutionary ancestors. Progressing organisms to their evolutionary descendants. Reversing aging. Implanting Force ghosts as minds in suitable bodies to resurrect dead Jedi. Startrekkish replicator technology. Startrekkish transporter technology. Helmgarth wake dynamics. Making sugar stick to baked goods. The endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline. Getting the blue tinge out of milk. Cinematic nanotechnology. Mobile telephones. A quicker way to model protein folding. Quantum cryptography. Synglossatic fibres for stunner-proof fashionware. Self-defrimming materials for turboencabulators that don't need such frequent maintenance. Exploiting the Velma effect to protect planets from magnetic field reversal. Parallel universes. Solid holograms like in Star Trek. Getting robots to replicate basic physics experiments so there won't be Force effects contaminating the results. Traversible wormholes. Non-orientable traversible wormholes. Pocket universes. White holes. Duodeciplatinate. Q-type helices. Memswear varicloth. Muonic matter. Stimulated emission from Bose-Einstein condensates in excited states. Monomolecular Penning traps for chelated-antimatter energy storage. Finding more special-case solutions to the restricted three-body problem. Creating the Borg. Turning into a being of pure energy.
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07-10-2019, 05:38 PM | #19 |
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Re: Physics. (Very LAST thread). I promise
There are about 2,500 suggestions on http://www.technovelgy.com/.
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07-10-2019, 05:52 PM | #20 | |
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I mean the opposite of hyperspace, a time-space continuum which slows you down instead of speeding you up.
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