From: fnord@sovietairforce.fen
To allcall@nation.fen
Subj: Re: Theories
> Some theories
> of superstings posit there is only ONE superstring, and every
> piece of matter in the universe is just this superstring
> vibrating diferently throuh time. This could certainly explain
> a number of event where the wave has come up with tech in my
> researches that I didn't know I'd need for years.
I'm not sure I buy the superstring theory, but I'm not a professional quantum theorist, so I'm not too worried about that. Superstrings *do*
explain some things about handwavium's properties, but not everything or even most things.
> I've even considered the theory its a throwback of the ultimate
> technology from the final moments of this universe.
I figure we ought to focus on what it *is* first before we start looking into where it came from & who's responsible.
> Are you describing a fractal structure, Mal, or something even
> stranger?
It *seems* to be fractal, or at least each seperate element seems to be fractal. It looks like a cloud of microscopic bushbots, each one with finer & finer
manipulators that vanish into a haze the electron microscope can't pick up. I'm tempted to run a sample through a tunneling microscope, but I have a
suspicion that it's turtles all the way down to Planck level, which is of course impossible.
Also, spectrographic analysis shows a bunch of very interesting lines that don't correspond to anything in the current periodic table.
> Marduk runs on waved cold fusion technology, although it's fed
> garbage, and table scraps, rather than additional handwavium
> modifications. When it's opened up, schematics have shifted from
> the original plans.
If it's using a variant on the Pons and Fleischmann cold fusion process, that doesn't surprise me at all. The P&F cold fusion reaction was garbage
to begin with, and it would *have* to be significantly modified in order to work at *all*.
> If handwavium is an intelligent agent that can tweak space-time,
> maybe it needs humanity for creativity to allow it sapience and
> become a true AI, rather than intelligence.
Trying to pin *goals* on handwavium strikes me as folly in the extreme. Whatever else it is, the wave follows rules just as deterministic as the laws of
physics that it cheerfully violates.
> Quarkbots-Space-time tweaks. How would one test this?
We know that we're doing *something* to the unified field every single day in Fenspace. The unified field is everything, it's physics. It's four
elements and gravity is one of them. Alter the field, you alter physics. Alter physics, and you can do stuff like drive a car to Mars.
Exactly *what* the field effect is, nobody's quite sure. The LHC managed to duplicate the antigravity effect in an experiment six months ago - for all of
three microseconds, and over an area barely big enough to hold a hydrogen atom, but still.
--M. Fnord
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Fen of the Solar System, unite!
The Soviet Air Force is now hiring Pilot-Cosmonauts and support crew:
http://www.sovietairforce.fen/
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To allcall@nation.fen
Subj: Re: Theories
> Some theories
> of superstings posit there is only ONE superstring, and every
> piece of matter in the universe is just this superstring
> vibrating diferently throuh time. This could certainly explain
> a number of event where the wave has come up with tech in my
> researches that I didn't know I'd need for years.
I'm not sure I buy the superstring theory, but I'm not a professional quantum theorist, so I'm not too worried about that. Superstrings *do*
explain some things about handwavium's properties, but not everything or even most things.
> I've even considered the theory its a throwback of the ultimate
> technology from the final moments of this universe.
I figure we ought to focus on what it *is* first before we start looking into where it came from & who's responsible.
> Are you describing a fractal structure, Mal, or something even
> stranger?
It *seems* to be fractal, or at least each seperate element seems to be fractal. It looks like a cloud of microscopic bushbots, each one with finer & finer
manipulators that vanish into a haze the electron microscope can't pick up. I'm tempted to run a sample through a tunneling microscope, but I have a
suspicion that it's turtles all the way down to Planck level, which is of course impossible.
Also, spectrographic analysis shows a bunch of very interesting lines that don't correspond to anything in the current periodic table.
> Marduk runs on waved cold fusion technology, although it's fed
> garbage, and table scraps, rather than additional handwavium
> modifications. When it's opened up, schematics have shifted from
> the original plans.
If it's using a variant on the Pons and Fleischmann cold fusion process, that doesn't surprise me at all. The P&F cold fusion reaction was garbage
to begin with, and it would *have* to be significantly modified in order to work at *all*.
> If handwavium is an intelligent agent that can tweak space-time,
> maybe it needs humanity for creativity to allow it sapience and
> become a true AI, rather than intelligence.
Trying to pin *goals* on handwavium strikes me as folly in the extreme. Whatever else it is, the wave follows rules just as deterministic as the laws of
physics that it cheerfully violates.
> Quarkbots-Space-time tweaks. How would one test this?
We know that we're doing *something* to the unified field every single day in Fenspace. The unified field is everything, it's physics. It's four
elements and gravity is one of them. Alter the field, you alter physics. Alter physics, and you can do stuff like drive a car to Mars.
Exactly *what* the field effect is, nobody's quite sure. The LHC managed to duplicate the antigravity effect in an experiment six months ago - for all of
three microseconds, and over an area barely big enough to hold a hydrogen atom, but still.
--M. Fnord
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Fen of the Solar System, unite!
The Soviet Air Force is now hiring Pilot-Cosmonauts and support crew:
http://www.sovietairforce.fen/
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"