4:02 am and the clock goes tick-tick-tick Musings

Ok, so I don't have a handle on the speed of light thing, and how an observer would see two objects traveling at the speed of light that are heading towards each other.

So I revisited the super-power thing again. Two more came to mind. They are similar

• Making yourself super-hot - The Human Torch - or turning into flames


• Making yourself super-cold - Mr.Freeze.

Both rubbish.

The calorific output or calories required would preclude either of these two ever bring a thing. Can you image the amount of food you'd have to eat to sustain a body of flames, or how weak and frail you'd become after a quick jaunt.

OF course you could pair both of these up with flying ability for a double-rubbish.

And then one that I'd forgotten about Telekinesis, or the ability to move things with the power of your mind.

Rubbish. Particularly if I understand physics a bit, and force and reaction.

Oh and Remote Viewing, being able to visualise remote places and scenes. Or as most people call it, having a good imagination.

I have to come up with some new things to think about.

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4:01 am and the clock goes tick-tick-tick Musings

To help me back to sleep I try to challenge myself to thinking something.

I've worked through the perpetual motion machines, came up with a great idea, and almost convinced myself that I understood the theory of general relativity.

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This morning I was trying to work out what you'd see for two objects that are colliding, both of which are travelling at, for instance, 75% of the sped of light.  The closing speed would therefore be 1.5X the speed of light.

For each of the objects they would observe something approaching them at .75% of the speed of light, but if they could measure that they should know that they are closing at 150% of the speed of light?

And what would an observer view.

Anyway, putting that aside, the other thought train has been on super-powers and why I think that most of them are rubbish, the flight, the invisibility, the teleportation, the mind reading and thought control.

The latest one though, re-sizing. The ability to grow or shrink. Clearly nonsense.

Your mass couldn't change, you can't shed or gain mass. So if you shrank to say the size of a mouse, you'd still have to weigh 140lbs. There would also be a limit on the size you could shrink to, and this would be based on the 'space' that atoms meed. You can't cram more atoms into a space than will fit.

Would you turn into a black-hole?

Did I just show up my ignorance of science again?

 

4am and the clock goes tick-tick-tick Musings

4am is a weird time, and I've already covered a few things that keep me occupied at that time of the morning , or this. Things like why flying is nonsense, why invisibility would be chilly, walking through walls not floors and the improbability of time-travel.

But now lying awake I'm thinking about Mind Reading,  Mind Control and what I've been thinking of as Trans-Location or Teleporting. Sort of things that you'd think were Holy Grail.

Mind Reading:  Actual mind-reading, not the interpreting the body language and picking up visual clues.  Listening in to people's thoughts. I'm not a scientist but I'm not actually sure that there are voices in my head that you could listen into like a radio, and the mind is processing a lot of information all the time.

Mind Control: Being able to influence people by "talking" in their head. Nice idea the thought of suggestion. I don't know if you'd have to have contact with their head though, like a Klingon mind-meld or something or you could just stand behind them and whisper, brain-to-brain like not actual words.

Trans-Location or Teleporting: Being able to re-locate your whole self into a different or new location. Couple of issues though.

• If you were standing you would arrive standing, if you were sitting you'd arrive sitting, or whatever posture, pose or contortion you had at point A you would arrive at point B the same.


• If you teleported into a solid object, like a concrete wall, that'd be a problem, mostly of instant death, because you're transient state of moving from A to B would be finished.

So would need heaps of research if you wanted to use this 'power' to do anything without injuring, or even killing yourself.  You'd have to extend this to being able to scan or verify the landing place before your re-emerged, then making it a non-instantaneous transaction where you would find yourself outside of the everything.  useful for things like getting from one side of a door or from one room into the next room perhaps (furniture and other objects in your landing space aside).

But it was 4am and the clock went tick-tick-tick