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  1. Since tidal power basically turns gravity into electricity does this slightly weaken gravity? If you had enough tidal power stations, would the moon fly off? I have no idea how this works.
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    Time boxes?

    Im trying to go to sleep but I keep having these thoughts. Note when I say kike "for a year" I mean relative earth time. Okay, from the pov(point of view) of a photon, it is teleporting, going from point A to point B instantly.And its only from our pov that light seems to go so slow, taking millions of years to get from star to star. Now the faster you go, the faster time seems to fly by. If you spend a year traveling at 50% the speed of light, it will feel like 6 months. It will only be a year for the observers. But speed isnt the only thing that affects the rate time moves. If someone stood in a machine that made their rate of relative time passage the same as someone going 50% the speed of light, would the person in the machine, watching the person going 50% the speed of light for a year, feel like only 6 months had passed, or would it also feel like a year, in some wort of strange quantum limbo.
  3. The heat death of the universe says that all energy is eventually lost in the form of radiation. But why cant radiation by gathered up and turned back into matter or turned into the energy needed to turn it back into matter? If its just a matter of ineffeciency then that doesnt sound like an absolute problem. Maybe eventually the solar system could be put into a box and the sun refed its own released energy to keep it from ever going red giant. And one day put the whole universe in a box.
  4. okay basically I was wondering, since the speed of light cannot be hit, and it takes more and more energy to go faster the faster you go, what happens to the energy added to a particle moving at 99.9 percent the speed of light? My first personal guess is if you took a particle moving at 99.9% the speed of light and poured an entire supernova's worth of energy into it, that would move it up to 99.99% the speed of light and all that energy would still be in the particle as potential energy so when it struck something, it would strike it with the force of that whole supernova. But if thats true that makes me wonder what would happen if a particle fed more energy to make it go faster, then what is contained in a black hole, if a particle with more energy then a blackhole has in its singularity hit a blackhole, would the blackhole eat it or get blown up? But then thinking about the existence of singularities made me wonder if they represent a true max speed short of the speed of light. Since energy is mass, maybe instead of a particle just constantly adding more 9s to its 99.9999999...% of the speed of light, maybe at a certain speed it just becomes a black hole? But something about that doesnt make sense. So can someone clear this up for me? What happens to energy and the objects it is applied to once it hits the universal speed limit?
  5. So there arent infinite universes just a finite number of most probable universes according to that interpretation?
  6. From my weak understanding of the most popular string theories, the energy from our universe came from a slow build up caused by the vibrations of the "strings" which eventually culminated in the big bang. Their energy comes more from a philosophical/mathematical construct, which professes in simplest form that they exist because the alternative was not existing. And true non existence is impossible as proven by existence. I always found it circular reasoning but its the best Ive ever heard. Still I've never seen anything that begins to suggest that string theory is capable of explaining the existing of an infinite number of universes expanding at a rate that is also infinite.
  7. One thing that has always bugged me, other then the clearly dumb "us" centric way it tends to be portrayed. Is that everytime Ive heard the multiple universe hypothosis described, even on wikipedia. It seems to say that other universes pop out of nothing. If I make a right turn another universe is instantly made out of thin air where I made a left. Ignoring how absurd I find the idea that every flip of a coin spawns a universe. Where does the energy come from for any of these universes?
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