Live Stoner Chat Special Relativity

[gradolabs]

Never heard of grey goo before, but I'll take a look.

I love the idea of nanobots traveling around... accomplishing stuff, but we already have robots traveling around the galaxy testing stuff, photographing other galaxies and universal phenomena.

And these days we have some pretty sweet nano bots. They've laid out an electromagnetic grid on a printed circuit board. And on top of the PCB, tiny robots slide around at about 35 meters per second. That's fast!

Here's the link to the Wired UK article.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/16/magnetic-microrobot-swarms

What I'm after is learning about the limitations of homo sapiens in space. How fast can we travel? What's the best way to get across the galaxy? What kind of propulsion device are we going to use? What are the essential elements of a transgalactic space ship? All that there jazz.

 

[Balarama]

Cool article, thanx!

Here's some food for thoughts:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...an-body-in-space-an-illustrated-guide/237162/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_spaceflight#Safety_concerns

 

[gradolabs]

The punchline seems to be that humans are remarkably well adapted for life on earth... and that we don't really fair well in space. Squishy pink flesh belongs on the ground according to most of my fact finding.

Maybe there's something on the quantum level that we can use for transportation. And I'm not necessarily talking about physically moving an object any more... The entire time, I was just running a thought experiment on how best to go see someone on the other side of the galaxy. But if I could move my consciousness into an entangled avatar light years away that would essentially resolve the issue. And I wouldn't have to store myself in liquid nitrogen for centuries and fly around black holes and asteroids.

 

[Balarama]

Think what is in control of your body and imagine if it could be controling another body or some kind of machine, like an avatar. It' s probably the best option to go for "humans"(whatever we are!?), if we want some kind of consciousness expansion. It always needs a body, carrier, so called avatar.
In some extent, the space probes of our time are some kind of proto-avatars, controlled from control rooms by engineers and scientists, all acting by methodic exploration with available sensors, like an extended organism.
But there is a problem, the speed of light is the fastest speed for any information we are able to produce with our today's knowledge. Rovers on mars(<-link) experience such delay in communications(like a neural network on huge scale) that every action is adapted to this limit.
If some day we(or some other civilisation) discover a use for quantum entanglement based communication systems, then I imagine will be some twisted inventions and unpredictable consequences for the structure of space-time. Or maybe none at all.

So until this point, relativity shows us limits, or better said-conditions of the universe and stimulates the mind to search further into the hidden realms of quantum possibilities.

Schrodinger's cat says meow

*really high right now

 

[gradolabs]

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Me too, so that made high sense to me.

It just wouldn't make sense if there wasn't some possibility there. And in any case, whether or not we like it, eventually we'll find a way to realize most of what we're simply discussing at this point. No matter what, we'll eventually stumble across the methods and inventions to exist in some sort of stable stasis in space. And we'll solidify the limitations of fractional light speed travel with regards to human physiology. Might as well get a jump on fleshing out these ideas. It's like folding at home but instead of computers looking at numbers it's stoners looking at physics.

By the way, hit this vaporizer.

 

[Balarama]

"kudos"

 

[Taviddude]

So if half the speed of light is considered a "Safe" speed to travel at.
What happens when two people are traveling at half the speed of light directly at each other relative to the earth.
I know this conversation has evolved far past this point, and I'm late to the party but I've always wondered.

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So if half the speed of light is considered a "Safe" speed to travel at.
What happens when two people are traveling at half the speed of light directly at each other relative to the earth.
I know this conversation has evolved far past this point, and I'm late to the party but I've always wondered.

 

[NEimmaculates]

So if half the speed of light is considered a "Safe" speed to travel at.
What happens when two people are traveling at half the speed of light directly at each other relative to the earth.
I know this conversation has evolved far past this point, and I'm late to the party but I've always wondered.

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So if half the speed of light is considered a "Safe" speed to travel at.
What happens when two people are traveling at half the speed of light directly at each other relative to the earth.
I know this conversation has evolved far past this point, and I'm late to the party but I've always wondered.

Annihilation

 

[late]

micro black holes for hood ornaments, but that kinda sounds crazy enough to work.

The first guy to try that is gonna have brass cojones.