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13 Year old boy Has Time Machine plan that might work

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  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    That's where imagination comes in. Most adults usually lose their imagination. Whereas kids still have theirs. So wouldn't it be logical that a kid (If he/she was correctly taught) would come up with a way to make a plan for such a mechanism?


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    The ignorance of people these days just sickens me!


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 27,267 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    That's where imagination comes in. Most adults usually lose their imagination. Whereas kids still have theirs. So wouldn't it be logical that a kid (If he/she was correctly taught) would come up with a way to make a plan for such a mechanism?

    Not really, no. There's a reason that physicists go through years of education. I struggle to think of a single major innovation in theoretical physics that arose from a child's work. It's commendable that some work on it, and many will undoubtedly end up better at it than I am, but there are often technicalities and subtleties that they just don't grasp or fully understand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭dunworth1




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 956 ✭✭✭steve_


    Listening to him he convinced me.......................he's a genius!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    Not really, no. There's a reason that physicists go through years of education. I struggle to think of a single major innovation in theoretical physics that arose from a child's work. It's commendable that some work on it, and many will undoubtedly end up better at it than I am, but there are often technicalities and subtleties that they just don't grasp or fully understand.


    Yes but my experiment just replaces gravity and uses electromagnetism. BUT ,we are still talking about the old one btw, it allows an object to have infinite energy density but in a barbaric way. The experiment also has to be sustained. But in order to understand my way of thinking I have to ask you this question "How do you compress an object without compressing an object?" This is where imagination comes in. The plastic magnet is really a light tunable magnet. It gets stronger with light. (Blue light specifically) But it is very hard to produce and doesn't work at room temperature. The experiment on the other hand can be done without it ,or the beam of light for that matter, it just has to warp space time.


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    dunworth1 wrote: »


    I don't think George gave me enough time on there though. Was my voice to high on there?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Triangle


    It might be too early, but i'd like to welcome our newest arachnid overloads to the planet earth. Hopefully they'll do Ireland better justice than out current Swine overlords.

    Hail our newest spineback Tds!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    Not really, no. There's a reason that physicists go through years of education. I struggle to think of a single major innovation in theoretical physics that arose from a child's work. It's commendable that some work on it, and many will undoubtedly end up better at it than I am, but there are often technicalities and subtleties that they just don't grasp or fully understand.


    Unlike older physicists children don't need inspiration. WE can do it without it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    I can't believe you said
    That's where imagination comes in. Most adults usually lose their imagination.
    only to then say
    The ignorance of people these days just sickens me!

    which is really indicative of you being only 13. Anybody who makes such sweeping assumptions is only destined to fail. To say that adults have no imagination is just as general as some of the claims in your ireport, I mean how do you know if my mother has no imagination, or those doctors whose "imagination" led to things like heart transplants, brain surgery, "string theory".

    Also, don't you think it's a bit crazy to go on national radio proclaiming x,y & z only to be schooled on this blog by Prof Fink 4 days after, the first person who actually understood the details of what you're talking about (assuming he's the first to read this).

    I listened to Michio Kaku on that show b4 & thought it was good, but now this shows just lost all credibility to me.

    If you're so serious why don't you go down to Steven Weinberg (assuming you know who he is) in his college in Austin Texas, you live in Texas & shouldn't live so far away from him. Why not get his, or any college professor's opinion on your theory instead of telling people w/o physics degrees you've created black holes,quantum theory is wrong and that you've got a device to split a magnetic singularity into a ring.

    Weinberg has written books on general relativity & cosmology so he should have a good idea of the validity of your theory. But, you really could go to any prof and get a detailed explanation of why you're theory is just too...

    Theres nothing wrong with theorizing or having an imagination, but if you think - and say - that all adults lose their imagination you've certainly got some s'plainin to do... Also, maybe stay off national radio until you've got a cement-clad theory, you'll become known as the boy who cried "BLACK HOLE!"


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  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    I can't believe you said

    only to then say


    which is really indicative of you being only 13. Anybody who makes such sweeping assumptions is only destined to fail. To say that adults have no imagination is just as general as some of the claims in your ireport, I mean how do you know if my mother has no imagination, or those doctors whose "imagination" led to things like heart transplants, brain surgery, "string theory".

    Also, don't you think it's a bit crazy to go on national radio proclaiming x,y & z only to be schooled on this blog by Prof Fink 4 days after, the first person who actually understood the details of what you're talking about (assuming he's the first to read this).

    I listened to Michio Kaku on that show b4 & thought it was good, but now this shows just lost all credibility to me.

    If you're so serious why don't you go down to Steven Weinberg (assuming you know who he is) in his college in Austin Texas, you live in Texas & shouldn't live so far away from him. Why not get his, or any college professor's opinion on your theory instead of telling people w/o physics degrees you've created black holes,quantum theory is wrong and that you've got a device to split a magnetic singularity into a ring.

    Weinberg has written books on general relativity & cosmology so he should have a good idea of the validity of your theory. But, you really could go to any prof and get a detailed explanation of why you're theory is just too...

    Theres nothing wrong with theorizing or having an imagination, but if you think - and say - that all adults lose their imagination you've certainly got some s'plainin to do... Also, maybe stay off national radio until you've got a cement-clad theory, you'll become known as the boy who cried "BLACK HOLE!"

    I never said that ALL adults lose their imagination did I? I said most adults lose their imagination.I was wrong to say that quantum theory is wrong ,but I have grown to accept it now.I do not believe I was schooled by the way. I had just tried to explain to him ,what I later found out, was Nasseim Haramein's unified field theory. The other person that supports me is John Hutchison. In my old experiment I used compression to make an object gain infinite energy density.I just switched from gravitational compression to magnetic compression. SO that got me thinking how do you compress something without compressing it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,351 ✭✭✭djhaxman


    Does anyone have any questions for me?

    I do. How did you end up on boards? ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    djhaxman wrote: »
    I do. How did you end up on boards? ;)
    Well it happened when my sister told me my name was on google.When I looked my name on my own computer I found this forum. It had sent me to this specific thread. I kept looking at it for a few days and I thought I would join.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30 Sound Computers


    SO that got me thinking how do you compress something without compressing it?

    this is quite the paradoxical thought experiment...i seem to recall someone writing about it in the 1930's...some silly austrian and his feline pet come to mind :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    Do the work and find out.
    Theorising and hypostulating and asking for opinions is well, pointless.
    If you have a mad idea go and test it.
    Is time travel possible? Go and ask a bus queue.
    If they all say yes then it is.
    No need for research, its been sorted by public opinion.


    Research is always important I believe. Opinion not so much(unless it is based on research that clearly supports the opinion.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,073 ✭✭✭Xios


    Apologies for the ninja post. But i believe Abdulla is promoting snake oil and magic beans. I suspect that family members of the boy have spotted an oppurtunity to cash in on the childs enthusiasm for physics and his ideas. Hence the strong push for publicity. Anyone else get that feeling?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    Xios wrote: »
    Apologies for the ninja post. But i believe Abdulla is promoting snake oil and magic beans. I suspect that family members of the boy have spotted an oppurtunity to cash in on the childs enthusiasm for physics and his ideas. Hence the strong push for publicity. Anyone else get that feeling?

    When you try to sell the idea of a time machine that is not in the shape of a DeLorean & contains no Flux Capacitor you can't be offering anything but snake oil & magic beans...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,073 ✭✭✭Xios


    When you try to sell the idea of a time machine that is not in the shape of a DeLorean & contains no Flux Capacitor you can't be offering anything but snake oil & magic beans...

    I am very tired right now, been up all night playing warcraft 3 so i wouldn't sleep in for work, so i'm confused with all the negatives in your sentence. You're agreeing with me?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Mango Joe


    How do we know that he didn't discover all of this as a 90 year old and then simply travel back in time to bamboozle us all and of Science in general as a 13 year old?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    Xios wrote: »
    I am very tired right now, been up all night playing warcraft 3 so i wouldn't sleep in for work, so i'm confused with all the negatives in your sentence. You're agreeing with me?

    It's just a Back to the Future joke about the car needing a flux capacitor to work. '...[it] was described by Doc as "what makes time travel possible".'

    So yeah, I am lol ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    Now I was wondering about the controversial spacetime continuum.

    I am for the spacetime continuum because I believe it accurately predicts how gravity acts. Here is a link for that...

    http://www.physorg.com/news187447655.html

    (But something most of us don't know it wasn't Einstein who created the idea for a spacetime continuum but Minkowski, one of Einstein's teachers at the ETH Zuric.)

    Anyway I thought about the perspective of different dimensions and gravity.

    Here is what is known as a tesseract

    en.wikipedia.org...

    A tesseract is known as a four dimensional square.

    This tesseract that is in rotation becomes very weird looking when looking at it head on.

    Lets have a little thought experiment before we go on...

    What would a 2 dimensional object look like if it was placed in a 1 dimensional world?

    To me I would think that it would exist as a 1 dimensional part but it's true 2 dimensional quality would be hidden from view.

    Now what would a 3 dimensional object look like in a 2 dimensional world?

    It would look 2 dimensional.

    Now it goes to what would a 4 dimensional object look like in a 3 dimensional world?

    It would look like a 3 dimensional object.

    But what if the object when it interacts with the 3 dimensional matter and energy warps?

    It would create an effect that is 3 dimensional.

    Now spacetime is known as a continuum of both space and time.

    It occurred to me while I was looking at this picture what spacetime might be made of...

    orbismediologicus.files.wordpress.com...

    What if spacetime was made out of individual tesseracts that bent when they was mass present?

    Then an effect which is 3 dimensional would be created.

    I think that the effect created is called gravity.

    Any questions, comments, concerns, or conundrums then please post here.


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    He claims to be able to do multiple thing that appear to be impossible without explanation. There really is no arguing with blanket assertions other than simply saying, show me the device.

    It's largely unintelligible nonsense, but as I have said, I'm against being to hard on a 13 year old.

    By the way, are you the one claiming to have met the boy?

    So you guys wanted an explanation to my thinking alright then I will try and explain myself.

    When aligning magnets of the same polarity all around a magnetic field they repel each other.

    If there was a large spherical magnet at the center then the magnet would, due to it's polarity, try and move away.

    This cannot happen due to the arrangement of the magnets.They will force the large spherical magnet to implode.This implosion brings the mass it has inward.

    According to Einstein mass and energy bend spacetime to create gravity. As the object is imploding the energy and mass would implode inward warping spacetime as it implodes.

    This causes spacetime to warp even more producing gravity.

    Now to time travel we need to create a thing called closed timelike curves.Professor Fink mentioned numerous times that we don't know of a mechanism that could create these curves today.

    But you will find that if this object goes under a simple rotation the spacetime bending would cause closed loops in time and space without the infinite energy density of a black hole needed.

    The time traveling would be solely dependent on the rotation of the spherical magnet.Not a blue beam of light.:p

    This can be a method of gravity production but it's energy requirements are much more then what we are capable of today.:eek:

    Which is why I changed the experiment to a new one which I still believe in.


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    Money quote:
    So while this is clearly incorrect, I would hesitate to criticize the guy, other than perhaps on his claim to have actually built the device he describes above. He might well turn out to be a good physicist in another 10 or 15 years.

    So you are clearly skeptical of a magnetic singularity aren't you? Tell me would a black hole that is rotating at speeds close to that of light not deform?

    This is important because it causes the singularity not to exist as a point but a ring due to the deformation of the black hole.

    Now there are other ways to get a wormhole from a black hole.

    Again here is a wormhole.
    http://lnns.webs.com/lnns/wormhole_graphic.jpg

    Here is a black hole.
    http://structureofentropy.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/blackhole.jpg

    A wormhole as you know is under intense pressure to contract. It needs an outward pressure about equal to the density of a neutron star.

    If you could make a ring that is about as dense as a neutron star then you could theoretically open up a wormhole from a black hole.

    (You could use my gravity creation hypothesis stated in the above post.)

    Just make the ring much larger than the event horizon. (Since the ring is magnetic I would recommend using emp's to keep it from collapsing.) Then put that magnetic ring directly above the event horizon.

    Finally try to stabilize the ring at the event horizon. Now lower the other massive ring over the event horizon.

    Now since it is very massive it will tend to go toward the black hole.But it is being stopped by the magnetic ring. This is because the ring is repelled by the dense object. It does have to be a very strong magnet.

    You will find that as that ring comes closer the black holes event horizon starts to evaporate rapidly. this is because of the wormhole growing larger.

    As the event horizon becomes clearer then you will be able to see a wormhole growing increasingly larger than it was before.Finally the black hole is gone and in it's place is a stable wormhole.

    Now my idea for the wormhole stabilization is to use the ring singularity's own gravity against it.

    Since the ring singularity would have it's own properties, such as magnetism, it would repel the object.

    But do to it's gravity it will bring it toward the ring singularity.Thus when the object goes to the ring singularity it would essentially increase the opening and then you could put a dense magnetic ring there.

    Also stabilizing a wormhole.


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    When you try to sell the idea of a time machine that is not in the shape of a DeLorean & contains no Flux Capacitor you can't be offering anything but snake oil & magic beans...


    I'm sure that you can use carbon nanotubes.

    (It's a hint.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    If there was a large spherical magnet at the center then the magnet would, due to it's polarity, try and move away.

    This cannot happen due to the arrangement of the magnets.They will force the large spherical magnet to implode.This implosion brings the mass it has inward.

    Sorry, what now?

    get a few magnets, arrange them, and suddenly one implodes? I think there's a small problem there...

    Also, another small problem with your theory.... The earth is essentially, a large spherical magnet. According to you, it should have imploded by now, no?

    facepalm23.jpg


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  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    Sorry, what now?

    get a few magnets, arrange them, and suddenly one implodes? I think there's a small problem there...

    Also, another small problem with your theory.... The earth is essentially, a large spherical magnet. According to you, it should have imploded by now, no?

    Is the earth being compressed by other magnets which would cause the implosion? (Hint: no)

    So, no you are wrong.
    (Again the magnets are compressing the spherical magnet with their magnetic fields.This would cause it to implode after it went past a certain radius. It is formally known as the Schwarzschild radius.)

    facepalm23.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,073 ✭✭✭Xios


    How much energy would you need to compress the spherical magnet to a singularity?
    Perhaps the entire output of Anteras (the star) during it's whole life?


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    Xios wrote: »
    How much energy would you need to compress the spherical magnet to a singularity?
    Perhaps the entire output of Anteras (the star) during it's whole life?


    The energy is comparable to a supernovae of a star that is about 3.2 solar masses.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    (But something most of us don't know it wasn't Einstein who created the idea for a spacetime continuum but Minkowski, one of Einstein's teachers at the ETH Zuric.)


    Why do you keep on making these ridiculous statements?


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    Why do you keep on making these ridiculous statements?
    Just because a lot of us here know that doesn't mean average people do.

    I felt it was an interesting fact that deserved notation.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    Here's a link to where it says what I stated.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Minkowski#Life_and_work


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    What a load of crap, gentillabdulla

    The plan will not work.


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    old_aussie wrote: »
    What a load of crap, gentillabdulla

    The plan will not work.


    Would you mind explaining?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    Just because a lot of us here know that doesn't mean average people do.

    I felt it was an interesting fact that deserved notation.

    Again, why do you keep making statements that show people who don't understand physics to be just average?
    Or lacking imagination?

    Physics isn't some elitist club, please stop making statements that make it out to be so, it's getting tiresome.

    Nobody is criticizing you for not understanding the exact mathematics for a specific physics situation and, if we follow your logic, we should have every right to make you feel foolish for not knowing exactly what you're talking about when you talk abut a space-time diagrams, let alone time machines :rolleyes:. Stop patronizing people or we'll pull out those difficult questions that wikipedia wont be able to answer for you to show you exactly what you're doing to human beings when you talk about them.

    I understand you like physics, but please try not to insult "average" people because they do not know, or care, about Minkowski.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    If what you say is possible every government in the would want your plan.

    Wikipedia, from where you keep quoting is just science fiction.


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    Again, why do you keep making statements that show people who don't understand physics to be just average?
    Or lacking imagination?

    I understand you like physics, but please try not to insult "average" people because they do not know, or care, about Minkowski.

    Excuse me it wasn't me it wasn't an insult.

    I never said all people lack imagination either.

    Why are you putting words into my mouth that I never said anyway?

    I see no reason for it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    old_aussie wrote: »
    If what you say is possible every government in the would want your plan.

    Wikipedia, from where you keep quoting is just science fiction.

    It's even stated in the book The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose.

    I just used Wiki for a link on the internet.

    None have you have even heard the right plan so I don't see why you guys are doing this.


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla



    Nobody is criticizing you for not understanding the exact mathematics for a specific physics situation and, if we follow your logic, we should have every right to make you feel foolish for not knowing exactly what you're talking about when you talk abut a space-time diagrams, let alone time machines :rolleyes:. Stop patronizing people or we'll pull out those difficult questions that wikipedia wont be able to answer for you to show you exactly what you're doing to human beings when you talk about them.

    I am telling you to please ask me those questions.

    It's not too be cocky I am just a kid who wants to learn. I would also like to know how smart I am compared to you guys.

    Again not a challenge but just asking you to ask me questions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,073 ✭✭✭Xios


    The energy is comparable to a supernovae of a star that is about 3.2 solar masses.

    And where do you propose to gather this energy? And store it? and Channel it into the magnets. The only way you can have any proof that your idea will work, is in the maths, and from what i've gathered, you're not yet skilled in the mathematics of physics. Best of luck amassing the energy of a dieing sun, btw, don't incinerate us all.


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    Xios wrote: »
    And where do you propose to gather this energy? And store it? and Channel it into the magnets. The only way you can have any proof that your idea will work, is in the maths, and from what i've gathered, you're not yet skilled in the mathematics of physics. Best of luck amassing the energy of a dieing sun, btw, don't incinerate us all.


    Getting that energy is something much beyond us today much less changing it.

    Math is the problem for me right now.

    Not a problem as in I am not good in math but as in I need a teacher to help me.(I am a fast learner though, if I do say so myself.)

    I know the math behind some models that I study a lot. But it's only for those specific models.

    I can try and learn but there is only a certain extent to what I can learn in my current state.

    If anyone wants to help me with learning advanced math I will be willing to listen.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,073 ✭✭✭Xios


    So you've basically got the idea in your head, of which you are certain it will work, based on no mathimatical data, but yet you've still gone to state that other theories are incorrect based on nothing more than your imagination.

    I think that your ideas are nothing more than wishful thinking, caused by you not knowing all the pieces of the puzzle, or perhaps you are ignoring the parts that disprove your theory whilst seeking to find ideas to reinforce your theory. Creationists tend to do this.

    So i must ask, why the push for publicity? It seems rather silly to me, it's like you're a race car driver, and you're boasting that you will win the next race hands down, but you've no engine in your car. You're firing blanks as far as i'm concerned. Good luck preaching to the ignorant, perhaps if you gather enough interest, you'll get some fools to invest in your studies and ideas.


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    Xios wrote: »
    So you've basically got the idea in your head, of which you are certain it will work, based on no mathematical data, but yet you've still gone to state that other theories are incorrect based on nothing more than your imagination.

    I think that your ideas are nothing more than wishful thinking, caused by you not knowing all the pieces of the puzzle, or perhaps you are ignoring the parts that disprove your theory whilst seeking to find ideas to reinforce your theory. Creationists tend to do this.

    So i must ask, why the push for publicity? It seems rather silly to me, it's like you're a race car driver, and you're boasting that you will win the next race hands down, but you've no engine in your car. You're firing blanks as far as i'm concerned. Good luck preaching to the ignorant, perhaps if you gather enough interest, you'll get some fools to invest in your studies and ideas.

    You have to think about what I am doing in the old theory.

    Basically I am just switching gravity with electromagnetism.

    It would produce the same effect but with much more energy required.

    It is just really simple but very hard to do.

    But the new one, which I have complete faith in, agrees with everything that I know and am still hearing about physics.

    So far I haven't heard a single thing that negates my time travel process.

    A friend of mine who you may have heard of agreed to help me carry on the new experiment.Though it doesn't cost a lot I don't have the tools to build it and John has agreed to help me.


    I did however give a hint that it uses these things called carbon nanotubes.(And 2 elementary particles.)

    Though I DO believe in quantum mechanics.

    My theory actually uses a component of quantum mechanics to produce an effect which can cause time travel.

    I do base some math on it.(Such as the math used to find the gravitational field, the math to see how much strong the effect has become over a period of time, the math needed to calculate how far back in time you could travel, and the math needed to find the time needed to produce the effect.)

    I just meant I needed a teacher to learn trigonometry( I only have a basic understanding here), or calculus (I have a pretty good understanding here so not much work needs to be done).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 tullibardine


    Interesting thread, pretty sure I've heard this theory before, about 10 years ago. The guy came to the conclusion that you would need the energy of a super nova for it to work however. I don't recall anyone bothering to discredit it as there isn't any point in doing the work. It may have been a Horizon program.


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    Interesting thread, pretty sure I've heard this theory before, about 10 years ago. The guy came to the conclusion that you would need the energy of a super nova for it to work however. I don't recall anyone bothering to discredit it as there isn't any point in doing the work. It may have been a Horizon program.

    Somebody could have told me that!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Improbable


    I'll admit that I don't really know about physics to make any assumptions about what you're saying. But you have offered up no proof, no equations, no mathematical reasoning to show why this might even be plausible. All I can see is a half baked idea with a lot of technical jargon thrown in the mix.

    If you have any scientific papers published in a peer reviewed journal, I would be happy to read them. Otherwise, throwing together a random bunch of ideas without any proof or evidence is not considered science.


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    Improbable wrote: »
    I'll admit that I don't really know about physics to make any assumptions about what you're saying. But you have offered up no proof, no equations, no mathematical reasoning to show why this might even be plausible. All I can see is a half baked idea with a lot of technical jargon thrown in the mix.

    Doesn't that sound a little weird.

    You say you really don't know then you criticize me.

    Just pointing that out.

    But can you tell me why you think it is a "half-baked idea"?

    Anyway I primarily use logic to come up with ideas.

    I don't use math unless I get serious about an idea.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Improbable


    Doesn't that sound a little weird.

    You say you really don't know then you criticize me.

    Just pointing that out.

    But can you tell me why you think it is a "half-baked idea"?

    Anyway I primarily use logic to come up with ideas.

    I don't use math unless I get serious about an idea.

    Just because I don't know the physics behind the idea doesn't mean that I cant identify bad science, being a scientist myself. The reason I think its a half baked idea is because you offer no real scientific evidence to demonstrate that this would work. So can we assume that since you haven't used any maths that you're not really serious about this?


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    Improbable wrote: »
    Just because I don't know the physics behind the idea doesn't mean that I cant identify bad science, being a scientist myself. The reason I think its a half baked idea is because you offer no real scientific evidence to demonstrate that this would work. So can we assume that since you haven't used any maths that you're not really serious about this?


    Not particularly serious about the one stated in the beginning, due to energy requirements being enormous.

    But it is based on some theories such as relativity for instance.

    However, I am serious about my new solution and I have math that backs it up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Improbable


    Can we see this math? is it published somewhere?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭gentillabdulla


    Improbable wrote: »
    Can we see this math? is it published somewhere?
    Check your private messages.


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