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I know it seems silly to ask if science ends, as oftentimes, when you solve one mystery or answer one question; several more questions/problems pop up to take its place, like hydra heads. There is also no way to know everything as the human mind cannot understand infinity (you’d have to be a god and it’s unknown if we can achieve that level of advancement) Yet, while we constantly make incremental discoveries every year; it seems the days of discoveries as significant as electricity, gravity, atoms, DNA etc are well behind us and we are not really uncovering any new fundamental laws in nature. We don’t know for sure but it seems unlikely that we will ever discover, say, a new color or a sixth Platonic solid and certain highly desirable future technologies like Faster-than-light travel or anti-gravity will never materialize no matter how hard we try to make them a reality Science appears to be moving more rapidly than ever but that’s just from our narrow perspective. Science has always moved slowly and most times; individuals live and die before entirely new ways of thinking come into our species’s awareness Yet in some distant future; will science as we know it come to halt as there will really be no significant new things to discover OR is it a never-ending conversation- a zero-sum game?

I'm aware of that. Im asking if they are saying that if superluminality were achievable; it could in theory work

I don’t know why I bother 😔. Nobody bothers to read

I came across this article from 2011 It says in the intro “However, the realization of electromagnetic cloaking has both a practical and fundamental problem [34]. The practical problem is that material requirements for electromagnetic cloaking are very difficult to meet, whereas the fundamental problem is that perfect invisibility [4, 5] requires that light should propagate in certain cloaking regions with a superluminal phase velocity that tends to infinity……..Broadband cloaking based on non-Euclidean geometries was proposed in [32] to avoid the requirement for infinite light velocities for electromagnetic cloaking. In this proposal, the speed of light is finite in the entire cloaking region and, therefore, this cloak has the potential to work for a broad range of frequencies. However, the fundamental problem still remains. Since space has to be expanded to make room for the invisible region within the cloak, the implementation of this device will still demand superluminal propagation (i.e. propagation with a velocity that exceeds the speed of light in vacuum). The same is true for 'carpet cloaking' [20-26], where the velocity of light in the cloaking device must exceed the speed of light in the host material, i.e. vacuum, if such devices are to find practical applications” If I am reading this correctly; are they implying; hypothetically-if there was someway to move light at superluminal speeds-that we could achieve “perfect”invisibility cloaking? I now FTL motion is impossible but I was just wondering because I am also a huge sci-fi fan and always wanted to know how cloaking devices in Star Trek and Star Wars might work Please just take this post with a grain of salt and “humor me” when answering. I know FTL is not supported by any physics but this is for my imagination Here is the article if you need to see for yourself https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/13/8/083007/pdf

I think you are being a bit of a jerk in the fact that you are judging me in this way. I am very fascinated by the sociology and and the science of sex and it really has nothing to do with what I feel personally. This was an experiment done on YouTube and I always wondered how it might work on the largest scale possible; much like how we want to test gravity on the largest scales. And the Archduke was heterosexual, had a wife and was likely thinking the way I am thinking as well; if not more carnal and creepily. Thank you very much

Franz Ferdinand famously said “ If you ask 100 people for sex, surely 1 will say yes”. I saw a YouTube video where they conducted this experiment; and to my non-surprise; all 100 women the man asked said no (except one who hesitated and said she wasn’t sure) But how could this work on a global scale? Imagine if someone had access to every eligible woman between the ages of 18-39-this is completely impossible but just a thought experiment. I found that the population worldwide of women between the ages of 20 and 39 in 2023 was approximately 1,170,000,000. I couldn’t find the statistics for women aged 18 and 19; but there is nothing I can do about that and there of course a larger population (slightly) within the last 2 years. The control. Our tester is a heterosexual man of average looks, average height and average weight. We will make him Caucasian, because a study of 2.3 million heterosexual couples concluded that women of all races seemed to find white men the most desirable. A noted outlier in this study is that black women tend to only like black men. He will also ask in a “charming” and non-threatening way as being weird or creepy will destroy the experiment immediately. Now you have to consider many conditions when dealing with our pool of ~1,170,000,000 women. A small fraction of these women may have an intellectual disability and it would not be ethical to ask them as they might not understand what is going on A small fraction of these women may have a physical disability and want no part in this experiment. A quarter of these women may be gay and have no desire to have sex with a man whatsoever. There may also be bisexual women in this quarter that consider themselves 5’s on the Kinsey Scale and rarely find men attractive and also be unwilling to have sex A big chunk of these women may refuse due to cultural and religious edicts. Women who are highly religious may not want anything to do with this experiment and women from Middle Eastern countries or South Asian ( India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) countries will almost always refuse as having sex before marriage can be considered a serious offense and they could suffer repercussions for agreeing. Some of them of course may be “rebels” and will say yes and hope their fathers do not find out but this is likely minimal Some women will be married or in committed relationships and would never “cheat” on their significant others but this also needs to be adjusted for women who want to cheat or don’t care about cheating. It is 2025 and there are many people who identify as women; transwomen; and it is only right to include them in the pool. They may be fully transitioned or in the process of transitioning. Top and bottom surgery should be complete before asking them to participate as it does create a hard to calculate grey area (in an already hard to calculate equation). We will exclude intersex women for now as most heterosexual men do not like anal penetration Lastly we have to be mindful when considering the physical appearance of each woman. Our control is neither handsome nor ugly but some women who may be considered conventionally “unattractive” may still refuse as their confidence may be low and they feel that this guy is crazy or malevolent in his intentions. Also it could be the opposite. A very conventionally “attractive” woman may not want to participate as they know their options for casual sex partners is much larger. Varying sex drives of the women is a given but we will ignore that for now as the main part of the experiment is “let’s see we’ll find out” Is there any meaningful way to make a calculation based on all these variables and statistics? I know this will probably be closed but they created the Drake Equation to calculate how many alien civilizations may be in the galaxy and that is even more speculative than women who would have causal sex (something we have undeniable proof exists). If I missed any variables-let me know. This thought experiment has fascinated me for 3 years and while it may be a moonshot; someone with a brilliant math mind could try their best to make a meaningful calculation.

You did it? The math checks out?!

I’m looking at the equation right now. I don’t know if the temperature of the gas would be the same as the sun itself.

The Jeans instability is the collapse of a cloud of gas or dust. Recently, a vSauce short claimed that if you wanted to destroy the Sun, you would need to spread its material far enough that it wouldn't recollapse into a star again. vSauce gives the number at 10 AU (Astronomical units) I usually trust vSauce but I have no clue how he got this number and I can't find any additional sources supporting it. Is 10 AU correct? Jeans instability - Wikipedia How To Destroy The Sun

There is a M Night Shyamalan movie called The Village where there is a village in “19th century” Pennsylvania. It is a remote village and the Elders forbid the residents from going into the woods or leaving the village because there are humanoid creatures that live there that will attack the village if the villagers enter their domain. If the villagers heed the rules, the monsters leave them alone. In reality, the elders dress as the creatures and the isolated village actually exists in the 21st century. A history professor founded this village 2 decades prior with the original intention of it being a grief counseling clinic and people originally started living there to isolate themselves from societal violence. However, their children and grandchildren (besides the elders) do not know this and dress and live as people in the 19th century did. Beyond the woods, the residents know of “the towns” that exist but aside from that, it is basically a historical “wildlife preserve” of sorts and the founder even paid the government to make it a no-fly zone (seeing planes or other flying objects would definitely expose the farce to the residents). Aside from being morally unethical, this concept really intrigued me and it got me wondering. If someone actually did this, would 1.) It really be bad for the residents? Ignorance is bliss and there are recent studies showing Alzheimer’s is prevalent due to our modern lifestyle and there is an established study showing that people who live in a low-tech society have almost no heart disease among them 2.) How long do you think a facade like this could be maintained? The towns population wasn’t very big and it was quite isolated. Most people were too afraid of the “creatures” to leave the village and trouble only started due to some misbehaving young people who rebelled against the adults and went into the woods. That is definitely a danger as throughout history; young adults/late teens were always somewhat rebellious and looking to defy their elders. Also human nature is incredibly curious and all societies have daredevils, so the odds are that someone would have tried to go into the woods at some point. I won’t spoil the end if you want to watch this movie. It came out exactly 20 years ago so it’s a bit late for spoilers but I will acquiesce out of courtesy.

I have an excellent memory. I remember little details that can amaze my family. My memories are often as vivid as the experience I once had. However, my memory does have holes in it as I was never diagnosed with Hyperthymesia or any superior autobiographical memory. I forget short term stuff all the time. Yet I was talking to my mother. 4 events in my life; I have no recollection of. My mother told me and when I tried to bring up the memory, I drew a complete blank. They are 1. Seeing Finding Nemo with my best friend and his mother and my mother and then going to McDonalds and meeting a nutty women who would later become very frequently seen in my life. 2. Seeing Mulan with my fathers friends kids in the theater while my paternal grandmother stayed over. 3. Going to my maternal great grandmothers for an impromptu Christmas celebration and my aunt ordering calamari. 4. This is actually unknown to my mother but exists based on logic. The last time I saw my aforementioned aunt before she stopped talking to my parents. Anyway, when I try to “remember” these events; absolutely nothing comes up in my minds eye. I try really hard to focus and nothing. It’s very frustrating because everything else is pretty clear. My question is. Were these event memories deleted from my brain or are they still in there, just inaccessible by current means? Or is it possible they were never memories to begin with? Why weren’t they recorded if such?

I was watching John Michael Godier and he said that a possible technosignature that could indicate alien life would be a star that had an unnatural composition. I know the heaviest element a star can fuse naturally is iron but scientists have discovered Przybylski’s star which contains traces of plutonium. I personally think it’s NOT a technosignature and I am thinking of writing a story and I was wondering what element would never exist in a natural star and would have to be created artificially. Does anyone know what that element could be?

It’s very common in this society that you see men (and sometimes women) being very attracted to someone of the opposite sex (or even the same sex) and the person generally tends to not always feel an attraction back, especially with men liking women. Every girl I liked; wanted nothing to do with me. Why would I be attracted to someone who isn’t genetically capable of liking me? It just seems like an evolutionary flaw. Is their a science theory behind why so many times the attraction isn’t mutual?

I sucked at learning languages but I really want to learn conversational French. Learning a new language has always been cited as something that can change your brain and based on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, your native language influences your thoughts. I think this is correct as I listened to a song in Spanish with English translations, and it really didn't make sense to me. Yet it rhymes and sounds good in Spanish Anyway, lets say I become fluent in French. What would change in my brain, if an EEG was done on my brain before I start studying and again after I master it, if anything.

Well I did read they everyone remembers things differently, but if all the pieces are their and you can recall it, its probably a real memory.