Time Manipulation.. awesome science inside.

[Lantyssa]

It would have to be an infinitely deep (and dense) ocean... like a singularity.

[Sheepherder]

Plus you wouldn't enjoy the neurological problems that go along with that.  Supposedly one of the Duke University dive team guys who used to do extreme depth simulated dives would flop over onto the ground every time someone would hit the lights, and his brain was full of lesions from barotrauma.

[01101010]

Plus you wouldn't enjoy the neurological problems that go along with that.  Supposedly one of the Duke University dive team guys who used to do extreme depth simulated dives would flop over onto the ground every time someone would hit the lights and his brain was full of lesions from barotrauma.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baOKDlM-CNs

[Sheepherder]

The theory is that either the vestibular system, the nerve endings within, or the connection to the brain (via the spinal column, AFAIK) were pinched.  So, not a seizure, just whenever you removed or significantly interfered with his ability to see the brain had no fucking clue which way was up and hilarity ensued.

[proudft]

Plus you wouldn't enjoy the neurological problems that go along with that.  Supposedly one of the Duke University dive team guys who used to do extreme depth simulated dives would flop over onto the ground every time someone would hit the lights and his brain was full of lesions from barotrauma.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baOKDlM-CNs

I was picturing http://youtu.be/we9_CdNPuJg , personally.

[Lantyssa]

The theory is that either the vestibular system, the nerve endings within, or the connection to the brain (via the spinal column, AFAIK) were pinched.  So, not a seizure, just whenever you removed or significantly interfered with his ability to see the brain had no fucking clue which way was up and hilarity ensued.

I'd believe it after dealing with an ear infection and BPPV the last month.

[Yegolev]

After browsing this thread, I feel we are closer to a Grand Unified Theory than ever.

[pxib]

No, because that includes gravity. Nobody bends gravity.

[Yegolev]

Even in Soviet Russia?

[pxib]

Nope, nor in Finland, nor the US of A.
Not with reliably reproducable results, anyway.

[Vaiti]

Weäve been bending gravity for years in Finland. We call it olut.

[MahrinSkel]

No, because that includes gravity. Nobody bends gravity.

There is no such thing as gravity, only K, the ever increasing pressure of nothing, fighting to advance entropy by either making everything infinitely far apart or force it out of this universe altogether (there might not be a difference).

I'm only slightly paraphrasing a theory that is becoming increasingly popular in theoretical physics/cosmology.

--Dave

[Furiously]

We say atoms are bound by
Weak Attractions.
Why not admit the Truth:
The Universe is held together by Love.

(I think that's from Andromeda)

[Logain]

Time and the passage of it are relative to who's observing what when. That hardly means time doesn't exist or that it isn't manipulated. It's called space-time for a reason. Two atomic clocks, one in orbit and the other at sea level, will differ as to how much time has passed with the one in orbit showing slightly faster. This is due to them differing on how deep in earths "gravity well" the clocks are. This is a cold hard consequence of relativity which has been experimentally tested and confirmed.

Speed = Distance/Time. Speed is a constant, C, which is the same to all observers. If you bend light, causing it to travel a larger distance than the shortest distance from A to B, the only other variable that can give is time. Speed is constant to all observers. Increase distance, time will have to compensate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity

Time is relative just as motion is relative. Relative to the sun earth travels around it at a certain speed. Relative to the center of the galaxy, earth travels around the core at a much larger speed. Relative to another galaxy or some distant place in the universe, the earth could be travelling at a significant fraction of C. Whatever motion and speed we assign to the earth relative to that distant place can just as validly be stated with the earth at rest and the distant point travelling at a significant fraction of C.

[01101010]

[grebo]

[NiX]

Nope, nor in Finland, nor the US of A.
Not with reliably reproducable results, anyway.

What do you do again? I remember it being something real cool and science like.

[Fordel]

Time and the passage of it are relative to who's observing what when. That hardly means time doesn't exist or that it isn't manipulated. It's called space-time for a reason. Two atomic clocks, one in orbit and the other at sea level, will differ as to how much time has passed with the one in orbit showing slightly faster. This is due to them differing on how deep in earths "gravity well" the clocks are. This is a cold hard consequence of relativity which has been experimentally tested and confirmed.

This is something they have to take into account with GPS satellites and shit right? Where without the correction the system would become utterly useless like less then a week or whatever.

[sinij]

I prefer Dunbar theory of time, and this thread just added couple years to my life. I should re-read it carefully.