superchump

Jesus.....again it's still perception! Is this getting through? Who cares if I feel if it's a minute or a second of some time span. It doesn't affect the natural flow of anything except for decisions I make based on perception. That piece of pizza in my fridge is still going to go bad whether I want it to or not; that is unless I eat it.

How's that? You can't remove energy from an object and have it keep the same net energy. You're converting rotational energy into electical energy and extracting it, thus slowing down the rotating object. There's really no argument about it.

You're talking about a perpetual motion machine, and that breaks the law of thermodynamics. Yes, objects in space can rotate for an incredibly long time. But if you were to use it to produce electricity, you take energy away from it thus slowing it down. Skye is essentially right.

Sorry, poetry does not equal physics Just because someone has a way with words and a vast imagination doesn't mean they in any way qualified as an example to explain scientific concepts.

Yes, with tartar control!

Try telling me that if you not an outside observer, you'd know the difference between acceleration and graviation. Think of it this way. You're standing in a windowless elevator that sits in a very tall shaft out in space somewhere far from a gravity source. The elevator is accelerating in a way that provides approx. one gee as earth does. A friend who is on earth, in a windowless box that is stationary relative to the earth, is feeling one gee too. Neither of you know what setup you're in. How could either of you tell in what setup your in until the box either slows down or stops accelerating? Ignore the fact that the box had to start accelerating so you were weightless at the time. Pretend you wake up without knowing where you are or something hehe.

Hey, I'm all for that. That would be cool as hell. Having enhanced sences would be extremely useful I think. I'm just saying don't quit your day job looking for a way to actually stop time with your brain.

There is a huge difference between control and perception. If I throw a ball at your face and you just happen to be bored that day and time seems to just stand still, to me the ball continues to follow the rules of physics and will either bean you in the head or you'll snap out of your daze and duck. Our brains are chemicals; cells. There is no mechanism for "controlling" time, just perceiving it differently. But lets look at it this way. What if you could process information faster? Instead of the approx. 30 frames our eyes see, you are a lucky guy and choose to see 100 frames if you want. So let me throw that ball at you again. This time you don't see it as a blur but in more of slow motion camera sort of way. Did you slow time down? No, you're perceiving your environment differently. That's all.

Sure..don't let ME stand in your way. All the math can be done on paper. All the testing in a computer. I think it's more cash flow and manpower that gets in your way.

Exactly. Unless you know how to wind magnets yourself

To "smash" atoms? Or to just bouce them off things" And what do you want to smash together? How are you going to prepare a particle source? Is it going to accelerate ions or a certain particle? If you want to do it like the big boys, you have to make them their size. Atoms don't want to fragment that easily. You have to get them going fast...or give them a great deal of energy. You can probe samples at relatively low energies. Look up Rutherford scattering for that. For a fixed-target accelerator (probably the one you'd most likely try if you do), you must know the amount of energy available in the center of a mass system: Ecm = squ((mass1*c^2 + mass2*c^2)^2 + (2*mass2*c^2*Kinetic Energy)). This equation lets you find the threshold kinetic energy required to make the sample undergo a nuclear reaction(no...not a bomb). That's not even getting the beam up to relativistic speeds. You're looking at above 1Mev beam energy for any nuclear reaction. And that depends on what your beam is composed of and what the target is. So I'd say bench sized if you can get a powerful enough RF source and some good superconducting magnets. Good luck!

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Good enough for me. Good luck. What do you plan to do with your accelerator?

I'm no physicist, I'll say that right now. But I am a computer administrator there. I just make sure the systems stay up and people are happy. It's a good college job IMO. Sure beats waiting tables.

Well the CTR of a monitor or tv is a particle accelerator, so there's a rather cheap example. Why do you want to build on might I ask? For a serious accelerator you'd need vacuum equipment, magnets and some sort of equipment for analysis. Ill provide you with some links to different types of accelerators. You can to your own research. Synchrotrons: http://public.web.cern.ch/public/ http://www-bdnew.fnal.gov/tevatron/ Cyclotrons: http://www.nscl.msu.edu (this one i work at) Linear accelerator: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/ Read up.

Sometimes I wonders if this kid isn't jerkin' our chain with his "knowledge".

As you move toward the speed of light, time in your frame of reference slows down in comparison to earth's time in its frame of reference. So if you were to take a 4 year trip (in your frame of reference) at 90% the speed of light in your spacecraft, about 9 years would have pasted on earth during your trip. At 10 minutes in your spacecraft (again in your frame of reference) at 99.99% the speed of light (approx. the closest speed objects with mass can go), about 50000 minutes passed. I might have screwed up the math folks...please check it.

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Nope, just a bunch of different density layers of air and good old refraction. And throw in suspended particulate matter (dust, vapors)

Someones been reading too much a certain sci-fi book.

Time is not controlled by one's mind. The mind just perceives time differently in some cases. The events around us flow as they normally would. If I were somehow able to start perceiving my environment much quicker, as if watching a slow-motion movie, I don't slow the event down. I just see it differently then others. The event still happens along the natural flow of time.

LASER = Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation oops wrong quote

Yeah. Nukes work by inducing an extreme example of supercritical fission in the fission material. Basically, the denser the material fissioning, the more likely a neutron will produce a fission. That's why a mass of plutonium is crushed into a denser sphere or uranium slugs are slammed together; there is a high probability that there is more than one neutron producing another fission on average. The reaction becomes out of control because there isn't a moderator to slow the neutrons.

Well to sustain a fission reaction, a supply of neutrons must continue the reaction. The energy is mostly from the fissioning process itself and neutron release is a by-product. The neutrons hopefully continue the chain reaction.

Yeah...that's FUSION research. There are such things are cold plasmas. Supercold ionized gas is an example.