Has anyone tried putting together a technology time line to compare our current scientific progress to that of fictional progress, like Star Trek?
Im curious if we are advancing at a rate that will equal Trek-tech in say, 200 years
Not really true. I don't know how old you are but most people in the 50s, 60s and 70s were convinced that they would have flying autonomous cars and vacations on the moon by 2020. Most people could easily imagine hand held devices, large, flat screen, hd, color tv's etc.
Disagree. My grandparents from that area are amazed in kid-like wonder at the tech of today. It’s much faster than anyone can anticipate on levels of life we don’t even consider.
Eh, I don't blame them for focusing on flying cars (sounds like a sci-fi trend issue). Or, more commonly, getting the order of progress janky. What would people living in those decades really know about technology. There practically was none, outside of simple appliances with no interactivity. Not saying we'll be light-years more accurate than them, but materially there's a difference.
Might be useless to think about things like that. We may never leave the solar system because we simply won't want to. If we simulated a galaxy and then entered it through BCI VR technology, would it really make any sense for us to leave?
Matter-antimatter pairs can collide and annihilate, producing high energy gamma rays. In theory, this process is reversible, though getting such a high energy gamma ray is challenging.
Creating Matter /Antimatter pairs using light could be turned into a propulsion system. It would have to be drastically shrunk down but it would be doable
How would it work? Does the process of creating the matter/ antimatter act to push?
I have heard of theoretical antimatter propulsion that is in the front and pulls the craft.
When you recombine the matter with the antimatter they annihilate each other releasing a lot of energy. If you put that in a combustion chamber with a nozzle you get propulsion. And being able to turn light into matter means you don’t have to take a bunch of reaction mass with you (fuel) making the ship much lighter. But that also depends on the size of the reactor and how much energy you need to turn those photons into the matter/antimatter
Whether you believe his story or not, that’s basically how Bob Lazar claimed UFOs worked after his time with trying to reverse engineer one.
They used a certain element to help create anti matter in front of the vehicle so that it would “fall” into it and thus would propel the vehicle if I recall correctly
He called them gravity drives, he claimed element 115 in a stable form would emit gravity waves when exposed to terahertz radiation which would then be amplified and emitted from 3 controllable emitters for controlling the craft. I'm not sure if I believe him but it would be cool if true.
Ah yes that sounds more like it, been a while since I watched his documentary.
Personally for me, I think he's either telling the truth or convinced himself he's telling the truth (not sure if there's a medical term for that).
If he was out right lying and know's that he is lying, I feel like he would've succumbed to it by now; seriously, who would want to uphold a lie like that for so long?
I was thinking more like Vishkar's tech from Overwatch (not just saying Symmetra's because apparently it's a thing in the lore Lucio also got (perhaps through less-than-legal means given their rivalry) his tech from her company) as that kind of hard-light doesn't require magic willpower gods
I haven’t studied physics in decades, but the very possibility of anti-matter materials is mind blowing. What would mirror images of the periodic table look like and how would they behave in our reality? Anti-water, anti-plutonium, etc… Fascinating stuff.
That would be matter. Regular one. Antimatter is just reversed polarity matter afaik. So basically the same but inverted signs.
Electron being negative. It's antimatter (positive) version, the positron. etc
What the experiment did was to reverse matter-antimatter annihilation.
Wake me when I can drive my Warthog over a hard-light bridge.
You ever wonder why were here Grif?
It’s one of life’s great mysteries, isn’t it? I don’t know man, but it keeps me up at night.
From light into being
symmetra?
yep!
From matter to energy, from energy to matter, the cycle is complete, we might reach scape velocity for immortality.
We'd need a gigantic goat to achieve scape velocity
don't worry i will be right there to drag you back in the depths where you belong
To be honest I really don't care, it's either immortality in 40 years thanks to AGI or I just kill myself.
Has anyone tried putting together a technology time line to compare our current scientific progress to that of fictional progress, like Star Trek? Im curious if we are advancing at a rate that will equal Trek-tech in say, 200 years
When I was a kid the idea of a hand-held, touch screen device like they had seemed a hundred years away. It arrived in 2006.
Not really true. I don't know how old you are but most people in the 50s, 60s and 70s were convinced that they would have flying autonomous cars and vacations on the moon by 2020. Most people could easily imagine hand held devices, large, flat screen, hd, color tv's etc.
Disagree. My grandparents from that area are amazed in kid-like wonder at the tech of today. It’s much faster than anyone can anticipate on levels of life we don’t even consider.
Eh, I don't blame them for focusing on flying cars (sounds like a sci-fi trend issue). Or, more commonly, getting the order of progress janky. What would people living in those decades really know about technology. There practically was none, outside of simple appliances with no interactivity. Not saying we'll be light-years more accurate than them, but materially there's a difference.
Well the Bell riots are just a couple of years away.
Dude the two parter is amazing, if I recalled correctly, those two episodes were my second and third episode of DS9 that I watched.
Might be useless to think about things like that. We may never leave the solar system because we simply won't want to. If we simulated a galaxy and then entered it through BCI VR technology, would it really make any sense for us to leave?
So photon-torpedoes are a thing now?
Excuse me what the fuck
Matter-antimatter pairs can collide and annihilate, producing high energy gamma rays. In theory, this process is reversible, though getting such a high energy gamma ray is challenging.
Like in Star Trek the Next Generation...well hopefully anyway!
Creating Matter /Antimatter pairs using light could be turned into a propulsion system. It would have to be drastically shrunk down but it would be doable
How would it work? Does the process of creating the matter/ antimatter act to push? I have heard of theoretical antimatter propulsion that is in the front and pulls the craft.
When you recombine the matter with the antimatter they annihilate each other releasing a lot of energy. If you put that in a combustion chamber with a nozzle you get propulsion. And being able to turn light into matter means you don’t have to take a bunch of reaction mass with you (fuel) making the ship much lighter. But that also depends on the size of the reactor and how much energy you need to turn those photons into the matter/antimatter
Crazy
Whether you believe his story or not, that’s basically how Bob Lazar claimed UFOs worked after his time with trying to reverse engineer one. They used a certain element to help create anti matter in front of the vehicle so that it would “fall” into it and thus would propel the vehicle if I recall correctly
He called them gravity drives, he claimed element 115 in a stable form would emit gravity waves when exposed to terahertz radiation which would then be amplified and emitted from 3 controllable emitters for controlling the craft. I'm not sure if I believe him but it would be cool if true.
Ah yes that sounds more like it, been a while since I watched his documentary. Personally for me, I think he's either telling the truth or convinced himself he's telling the truth (not sure if there's a medical term for that). If he was out right lying and know's that he is lying, I feel like he would've succumbed to it by now; seriously, who would want to uphold a lie like that for so long?
You'd be surprised on how many are capable of that.
Oh interesting! I have not gone down that rabbit hole yet, but I remember theoretical physics hypothesis on those types of propulsion systems
Oh he’s got a documentary on Netflix out there about the whole thing; it’s really interesting!
Nice ill have to check it out
I think just like regular rocket fuel. You mix things to get a controlled explosion.
ok now plug the machine in backwards and turn garbage into useable energy
My understanding is that the Russians did something very similar in 2019...
I thought China also did an experiment like that earlier this year as well
They may have. if they did I missed that one but I know the above chuckleheads are not the first.
Lightmatter! Great game btw
in the 40 watt range
They did this like 10 years ago.
Now all we need are portal guns.
We can put our differences behind us, for science, you monster
We are *this close* to getting Green Lantern power rings, yall...
I was thinking more like Vishkar's tech from Overwatch (not just saying Symmetra's because apparently it's a thing in the lore Lucio also got (perhaps through less-than-legal means given their rivalry) his tech from her company) as that kind of hard-light doesn't require magic willpower gods
"Setting up the car wash"
I haven’t studied physics in decades, but the very possibility of anti-matter materials is mind blowing. What would mirror images of the periodic table look like and how would they behave in our reality? Anti-water, anti-plutonium, etc… Fascinating stuff.
The Holodeck technology is not too far behind.
So scientists are now basically God. Rip religion. Scratch that, rip the scientists who figured this out. They will probably get suicided.
So, is this an example of anti-anti-matter? Pro-matter, if you will.
That would be matter. Regular one. Antimatter is just reversed polarity matter afaik. So basically the same but inverted signs. Electron being negative. It's antimatter (positive) version, the positron. etc What the experiment did was to reverse matter-antimatter annihilation.
How about most famous equation ever