Friday, July 29, 2011
Weird waking dream...
I woke up this morning after a weird dream, which was sort of funny.
Basically I was in some college style mathematics class, and judging on the surroundings it was a 10AM class.
What it appeared to be was a calculus class (I should know, I did get to that level in high school) but given the topic of the light discussion - I have reason to suspect it was a calculus class for physics majors. This is because instead of treating the variables just as some purely mathematical constructs, there was some air of understanding the deeper implications of what they represented. (Even high school calculus classes have equations for linear attenuation and things of that nature in their books, but there is no talk at all of what those variables represent. It's pretty funny actually.)
The funny thing that made it memorable was that none other than Ben Stein was teaching it. (Bueller? Bueller?) Yeah, that guy. But he actually wasn't boring in this case. In real life he's also an economics major, so it's not at all like he wouldn't be qualified to teach this subject. Math is math in that regard.
The sad part of the dream is that I felt like the slowest person in a class full of nerds. (And that's defining nerds in a good way.) So I came to class the least prepared. All I had was a piece of paper and one pencil. But nobody cared. Apparently because it was the first day and everybody else was too polite to say anything. (Either that or that I was there for some reason.) The bad thing was is that in the dream I was dead-tired. Ben Stein was talking about some project by a classmate at Harvard (did he go there?) and if anybody knew what it was about. Surprisingly the other students were pretty blank on this, and I was the one that knew what it was about. It had to do with Bussard-Heim fusion of methane molecules, in other words there was some process that fused the hydrogen in methane without too much worry about the carbon atoms. And then we started with some long equation about "Shumann Resonance" or something like that. It started out with R (but written in a particular way) equals E equals... (yes, the same E of E=mc^2) then a long equation involving square roots and such. And that's where I started falling asleep. And I was sort of pissed at myself for doing so in the dream. I was trying hard as hell to write that down. But I was the kind of tired where everything goes blurry. So I tilted back to keep from laying my head on the desk. But then started leaning way back and passed out.
And that's when I woke up.
Why the hell did I dream about that? It's just the weirdest stupidest thing, and in being awake it doesn't make that much sense. And I'm going to have look up the subject of discussion to see if it resembles what was being written on the chalkboard.
Basically I was in some college style mathematics class, and judging on the surroundings it was a 10AM class.
What it appeared to be was a calculus class (I should know, I did get to that level in high school) but given the topic of the light discussion - I have reason to suspect it was a calculus class for physics majors. This is because instead of treating the variables just as some purely mathematical constructs, there was some air of understanding the deeper implications of what they represented. (Even high school calculus classes have equations for linear attenuation and things of that nature in their books, but there is no talk at all of what those variables represent. It's pretty funny actually.)
The funny thing that made it memorable was that none other than Ben Stein was teaching it. (Bueller? Bueller?) Yeah, that guy. But he actually wasn't boring in this case. In real life he's also an economics major, so it's not at all like he wouldn't be qualified to teach this subject. Math is math in that regard.
The sad part of the dream is that I felt like the slowest person in a class full of nerds. (And that's defining nerds in a good way.) So I came to class the least prepared. All I had was a piece of paper and one pencil. But nobody cared. Apparently because it was the first day and everybody else was too polite to say anything. (Either that or that I was there for some reason.) The bad thing was is that in the dream I was dead-tired. Ben Stein was talking about some project by a classmate at Harvard (did he go there?) and if anybody knew what it was about. Surprisingly the other students were pretty blank on this, and I was the one that knew what it was about. It had to do with Bussard-Heim fusion of methane molecules, in other words there was some process that fused the hydrogen in methane without too much worry about the carbon atoms. And then we started with some long equation about "Shumann Resonance" or something like that. It started out with R (but written in a particular way) equals E equals... (yes, the same E of E=mc^2) then a long equation involving square roots and such. And that's where I started falling asleep. And I was sort of pissed at myself for doing so in the dream. I was trying hard as hell to write that down. But I was the kind of tired where everything goes blurry. So I tilted back to keep from laying my head on the desk. But then started leaning way back and passed out.
And that's when I woke up.
Why the hell did I dream about that? It's just the weirdest stupidest thing, and in being awake it doesn't make that much sense. And I'm going to have look up the subject of discussion to see if it resembles what was being written on the chalkboard.
Labels: calculus, class, dream, math, physics, weird
Monday, June 27, 2011
Weirdo dream during a nap
Somehow I dreamt that I was making a ramp overpass out of dirt and rocks so that I could ride my bike up to some overpass. And as I finished the ramp, my bike was missing.
And then it was getting late, but I managed to get some help in searching for my bike from people in charge of something going on at a nearby property. Yet nobody had any luck, and then I got stuck under some cyclone fence.
And that's when I woke up.
An unresolved dream that didn't make much sense. And in a way I almost wanted to go back to sleep so I could get my bike. Which is funny, since I know where my bike is when I'm awake. Just another oddity I suppose.
And then it was getting late, but I managed to get some help in searching for my bike from people in charge of something going on at a nearby property. Yet nobody had any luck, and then I got stuck under some cyclone fence.
And that's when I woke up.
An unresolved dream that didn't make much sense. And in a way I almost wanted to go back to sleep so I could get my bike. Which is funny, since I know where my bike is when I'm awake. Just another oddity I suppose.
Labels: bike, dream, ramp, weird
Monday, March 21, 2011
Something for Physics to chew on
Fizeau's experiment needs to be re-visited, but not in regard to "Aether" theory. Instead it should be considered with relativistic time. That is, the progression of time itself should be considered as non-uniform throughout space.
Think about it this way... Velocity is distance over time. The speed of light is a velocity. Now if the time part itself is not a constant, what does that say about the speed of light? C'mon, do the math.
As an observer in typical instances, you're not going to see the speed of light change one bit because you're only able to measure the speed of light relative to your own frame of reference. Right now, we don't have the technology to go to other star systems where the gravitational field causes time to progress at a different rate, nor the ability to approach relativistic speeds (in regards to an observer here on earth) where time may condense. Variable time progression can also red and blue shift light in the same way movement itself causes Doppler-shift. Think about how a record sounds when you speed it up or slow it down. You're not moving the sound source in space, but compressing or expanding the frame of time in which the sound has been heard.
Gravitational fields can bend light. Since you're not changing the physical density of empty space around a field emitter (there's nothing to change the density of), the next obvious thing to account for the Fresnel effect is to change the progression of time itself.
Thinking of this, I believe the speed of light is not a constant in this universe, but rather a coefficient. There's a subtle difference (at least for most purposes), but it's big enough to be quite important.
I do believe that the math should work out and may prove a little interesting.
Think about it this way... Velocity is distance over time. The speed of light is a velocity. Now if the time part itself is not a constant, what does that say about the speed of light? C'mon, do the math.
As an observer in typical instances, you're not going to see the speed of light change one bit because you're only able to measure the speed of light relative to your own frame of reference. Right now, we don't have the technology to go to other star systems where the gravitational field causes time to progress at a different rate, nor the ability to approach relativistic speeds (in regards to an observer here on earth) where time may condense. Variable time progression can also red and blue shift light in the same way movement itself causes Doppler-shift. Think about how a record sounds when you speed it up or slow it down. You're not moving the sound source in space, but compressing or expanding the frame of time in which the sound has been heard.
Gravitational fields can bend light. Since you're not changing the physical density of empty space around a field emitter (there's nothing to change the density of), the next obvious thing to account for the Fresnel effect is to change the progression of time itself.
Thinking of this, I believe the speed of light is not a constant in this universe, but rather a coefficient. There's a subtle difference (at least for most purposes), but it's big enough to be quite important.
I do believe that the math should work out and may prove a little interesting.
Labels: physics, space, speed of light, time, timetravel, universe, weird
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Wormhole camera again...
Just found out Arthur C. Clarke actually had a short story about this concept, it's called "The Light of Other Days". Sounds like a neat read, I might have to find it. But the idea came up because I'm seeing weird stuff. It's either I'm some wierd experiment subject (cue X-files music) or I'm just too sleep deprived. But why or who the hell would want to do wormhole pics of somebody insignificant as myself? (Unless it is myself, but that would still be odd.) I think I'll argue the latter option of sleep deprivation, but I still find the principle of it to be a tad intriguing.
Edit:
Turns out its a whole book, and not just a short story. I'm just wondering why I haven't heard about it earlier. I'm going to have to see if the library has that one. :)
Edit:
Turns out its a whole book, and not just a short story. I'm just wondering why I haven't heard about it earlier. I'm going to have to see if the library has that one. :)
Labels: sci-fi, weird, wormhole
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
t (x,y,z) , tj (x,y,z)j
t (x, y, z) , tj (x, y, z) j
The way stuff in space as we know it should be defined.
t = time
x, y, z = spatial dimensions or positions
j = physical version of the imaginary number, where j^2 = -1.
So by tallying up these components of space, you get 8 dimensions.
Might have some uses if someone can figure it out. The neat thing is that if you produce a product via the j-dimensional interactions, you get a negative value standard dimension result. Combine this with applied vector products, and it might be possible to use this to produce negative values in various applications where negative values are "naturally" impossible. If this could pan out, one might be able to do some really neat things with electricity or optics. (If you figure out how to make a negative modifier for gravitational attraction, things would get really interesting.)
The j-space stuff also would tie in pretty well to older work in scalar research. Scalar nodes are pretty much like the product results of electromagnetic waves (more or less radio) propagating through j-space. The product should then appear in standard space as a negative value of the two j-space factors.
The other thing is that if something propagates or exists in j-space with out a product producing reaction, it's pretty much non-interactive with standard space. So you either have to put in a j-space emitter to interact with a j-space EM transmission and be upon the vector necessary to intercept it, or be sitting on the node point of two separate j-space EM beams. This particular aspect could be useful for communications applications.
Crazy, huh?
*note: I'm wondering if this j-space thing is what sci-fi meant by hyperspace or subspace? Applications arising from understanding how to interact with a normally unobservable dimensional set defining space would be quite profound.
The way stuff in space as we know it should be defined.
t = time
x, y, z = spatial dimensions or positions
j = physical version of the imaginary number, where j^2 = -1.
So by tallying up these components of space, you get 8 dimensions.
Might have some uses if someone can figure it out. The neat thing is that if you produce a product via the j-dimensional interactions, you get a negative value standard dimension result. Combine this with applied vector products, and it might be possible to use this to produce negative values in various applications where negative values are "naturally" impossible. If this could pan out, one might be able to do some really neat things with electricity or optics. (If you figure out how to make a negative modifier for gravitational attraction, things would get really interesting.)
The j-space stuff also would tie in pretty well to older work in scalar research. Scalar nodes are pretty much like the product results of electromagnetic waves (more or less radio) propagating through j-space. The product should then appear in standard space as a negative value of the two j-space factors.
The other thing is that if something propagates or exists in j-space with out a product producing reaction, it's pretty much non-interactive with standard space. So you either have to put in a j-space emitter to interact with a j-space EM transmission and be upon the vector necessary to intercept it, or be sitting on the node point of two separate j-space EM beams. This particular aspect could be useful for communications applications.
Crazy, huh?
*note: I'm wondering if this j-space thing is what sci-fi meant by hyperspace or subspace? Applications arising from understanding how to interact with a normally unobservable dimensional set defining space would be quite profound.
Labels: crazy, dimensions, idea, physics, space, timetravel, weird
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Temporal DX Observation Weirdness...
If I could use some kind of temporal technology to make an effective pinhole camera into the distant past for observation, I'd be considerate enough to not use a flash. (Even if it means not being able to see anything.) It's annoying to whoever in the past is being observed. Also, do you really want to see what some historic figure does in their own privacy? Geez, have some kind of common courtesy. I'm sure someone would think it'd be neat to see Jesus, Lincoln, Tesla, Edison, or whoever - but really - there are times when they *should* be left alone. Ok?
Labels: bored, funny, strange, timetravel, weird
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Why would a UFO show at O'hare?
It seems silly that a UFO would show up at O'hare International Airport of all places... Why the hell would aliens arive there? Certainly it can't be only to test rumors that Federal authorities there go particularly soft on aliens. (Even if it does seem to have some merit in regards to the illegal variety.)
So why would a UFO show in Chicago? It also happens that within the same timeframe, there was an astro-biology conference. So the UFO could be part of a simple insertion operation. No blinky lights or such shows, so it's not like they wanted to be seen. Rather, what better place could you drop off a strange individual amongst others and not be noticed? A busy airport of course! Who would notice any quirks in a person, amongst crowds of quirky and strange travelers at an international airport? So if there's an alien (of the non-terrestrial variety) in Chicago, he's probably mingling in a conference looking like a normal human and studying our level of understanding of who or what just might be out there. It's like us seeing what primitive cultures think of our existance, and possibly finding interest in the lore of some cargo-cult. It's entertaining and you learn just how weird other viewpoints can be in light of your own understanding. If that's what alien researchers are doing, then I can't blame 'em.
So why would a UFO show in Chicago? It also happens that within the same timeframe, there was an astro-biology conference. So the UFO could be part of a simple insertion operation. No blinky lights or such shows, so it's not like they wanted to be seen. Rather, what better place could you drop off a strange individual amongst others and not be noticed? A busy airport of course! Who would notice any quirks in a person, amongst crowds of quirky and strange travelers at an international airport? So if there's an alien (of the non-terrestrial variety) in Chicago, he's probably mingling in a conference looking like a normal human and studying our level of understanding of who or what just might be out there. It's like us seeing what primitive cultures think of our existance, and possibly finding interest in the lore of some cargo-cult. It's entertaining and you learn just how weird other viewpoints can be in light of your own understanding. If that's what alien researchers are doing, then I can't blame 'em.
Labels: alien, chicago, funny, news, O'hare, ufo, weird
