Talk about time being relative… my atomic clock sync’d wall clock needed a new battery. Before I realized what was going on, I was being time shifted all over the place. I would feel tired, but look at the clock and see it was too early to be tired, and I’d perk right up. Now that the new battery is in, the clock takes about 24 hours to adjust itself, and I’m being time shifted all over again. It is like jumping around like Quantum Leap.

ralf. you are too hard on yourself

yes. I just have to prove it’ll work on youtube first. So far it’s proving to be more hard work than a labor of love. What did Edison say, opportunity’s not recognized because it comes dressed in overalls?

Wow Ralf, that was quite the goosebump moment. You know , the guy flat out said he would like to be a part of YOUR OWN reality show. . . why wouldn’t you call him on it? Unless that’s just not your thing. But this is an opportunity to maybe put a very serious business plan together and approach him. There are people that can help. You may have to wash their car for a while…but that clip of film is kinda a ticket.

Now , is this who is behind your other camera – oriented venture?

Either way, good fortune!

We all knew Ralf was special……..genius!!

“If you wanna have fun, spend a day with Ralf”
“gifted genius”
wow! You really captured his heart on that show. It’s so cool to hear how they feel about you on there.

I wish I had something to shamelessly self promote!

So long as this thread is about shameless self promotion, here’s another at 3min40sec: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76-1NrNu8Nw&... . Ok there’s nothing really to promote here. I’m just being patoot.

That was cool, Ralf. I think he saw that you were “Driven”… just like the title of his book. That’s why you came to mind. He had an interesting story to tell… pretty rough time as a kid. Very interesting.

Pro??- motion. Not so sure ’bout that…but then again they could have been talking about that other person from Ottawa with the not so good inventions.

They did say you appeared to need the money, so there’s more promot….ah, nevermind. I mean they said you BELIEVED your inventions were good, that was it.

-Jade (speaking of believing in “ideas” and kneading the dough) lol

Ok I have a bit of shameless self promotion here. 8m40s into this interview with Shark/Dragon Robert Herjavec, there’s a mention of a certain crazy inventor from Ottawa whose inventions aren’t very good: http://www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/robert-herjavec/ro...

Bully! well played sir, you had us all going. Guffaw, guffaw! Hold on, now I’m havin a bit of a go here.

caused me offence?

it does not matter who starts these topics

you must all be daft or supersensitive over there in the usa

I am only jollying the topic along

Welcome back Kosmo I’m glad you made it. I quite enjoyed Vlad the Astrophysicist.
However, I must respectfully disagree.
While I cannot accept the idea of God as a cosmic practical joker, building
the universe 5,000 years ago complete with galaxies 15 billion light years away
(their light already here), dinosaur bones in the ground, and the great pyramid
already in place.
I must admit that all this conjecture about the size, age, and shape of the
universe is just that … conjecture. No one has gone there, measured it, or
even for sure seen a star age then die. Everything we know about astrophysics
is based on looking at the pretty lights in the night sky for a couple hundred
years. The rest is all conjecture and really complex calculation.
Those beautiful pictures of nebula we’ve all seen are the false-color output of computer programs, not actual things you could see with your eyes.
I’m not saying they are completely wrong, just that there is wiggle-room for doubt
about the size, shape, and age of the universe. Maybe other civilizations survive.
If mankind survives the next 10,000 years, there is reason to believe they will
survive the next billion.

I loved that, Kos. You and Vlad sound very much alike.

Kosmo,
Roger that! Over and out here too (as we say in the ‘usa’!)

@everyone
Instead of posting my thank you’s here and monopolizing this thread again, I’ll send all of you on my friends list an email later in the day.

@papajim
Sorry I can’t send you an email. But, I’ve really enjoyed this discussion with you, “rapt” and everyone else =)

Kosmonova out. Peace!

@boxerballsbranden
I am truly sorry that I caused you any offense. You titled this thread “AWESOME SCIENCE”. I assumed it was an open topic about all things awesome ABOUT SCIENCE. I thought everyone posting to this thread have acutally been very on topic. Also, very early into the discussion when I noticed you weren’t participating in your own topic, I asked you specifically, the following question…

[quote]
“@brendan
Sorry, we hi-jacked your thread. Where did you want to go with this discussion? Steer us back on course.”
[/quote]

I’m not on this forum to cause anyone grief or to “compete” to get noticed. So, after I post a few more comments to thank everyone who have truly, TRULY touched my heart with their concerns when I was out sick with the flu, I’ll return this thread back to you where it belongs. Sorry again buddy about the misunderstanding. I think Americans, in general, are very direct. Sometimes we miss little nuances of what people are trying to say. In the meanwhile, to put everything in perspective, I would like to share with you Brendan and everyone the following observation…

I conducted my time travel experiment last night. I traveled beyond the far edge of our galaxy but had to cut my road trip short as I was getting low on fuel and snacks (apparently, there are no AM/PM’s anywhere on the south side of the Milky Way).

Maybe I should have waited. I’ve been bed ridden with the flu this entire week. The last 2 days were especially bad: drifting in and out of sleep and consciousness. Not sure, how much of my intergalatic adventure was real, imagined, nyquil or fever-induced.

On the return trip, as I crossed back into this space-time, a piercing ray of light struck me in the forehead. I became disoriented, my body tumbling out of control as if free falling through history. When I awoke, I was lying on the floor next to my bed, elbows and legs akimbo, lime green space helmet askewed on my head.

I didn’t come back from “my trip” with the answer to the universe. But, I did have an epiphany and new perspective of the world that I would like to share with you. This is very similar to what I experienced. It’s unbearably beautiful and I’m glad that I am sharing this very brief time in history with everyone who is reading this comment. Because…

“All of these precious moments we share during our brief time here, will be lost like tears in rain.”

I enjoy the postings, course it helps, and it does not always have to mean anything much, just conversation

Brendon,
Please forgive me, but I am very serious when I say I have no idea where you are going with all of this? Did anything we have said help you at all? Excuse me, I’m just chilling – as we say and do here in the ‘usa’!

I dont even know my multi-target idea is a good idea or not, I just got carried along in a wave of madness,

never bother with it if i had the chance again i think
i must be out of my head

oh i am easy about it, just chilling really

as they say in usa

Brendon,
You mistook my point which was that you have put the people you are asking the question on the spot. Ralf is apparently knowledgable enough to give you concrete answers, yet you seem convinced now that everyone is at odds with your idea! Do you really want answers or do you just want us to tell you that you have a good idea and not criticize it?

going back to light again though

novice question

is it actually travelling or just causing a reaction in things as it moves?
or appears to move?

bar my multi-target device though, !!!

though finding someone who has, would delight me and end all my patent strife for good

I know, I am only joking and jesting alot in these posts,

I am sure people have studied all my ‘new’ ideas long before i was born

Brendan,
When I was a freshman and sophmore taking undergraduate physics classes, I felt compelled to baffle the professors with BS because I really thought I was smarter than them. They were gracious enough not to kick me out of their classes! However, I believe it was when I was a junior and studying differential equations that I actually saw the real connection between physics and math. At that point, I truly thought I was learning something, yet I still felt compelled to try and convince those ‘dumb’ professors how smart I was! My strategy changed though, because at that point I started citing references to back up my bogus and manufactured intelligent ideas – which were still BS! Thank God the profs tolerated me and none threw me out of their classes. When I was a senior in college, it finally dawned on me that it was the professors who wrote the books that I was so religiously intent on citing! My point is this: you have to watch how you ask your questions and who you present them to, because you may be asking people who are either too smart or too stupid to answer them! But at least we should be courteous enough to listen!

I don’t know. Yes the magnets will take time to turn on so they will lag the light even though the magnet to magnet speed paces the light but how is this different from hooking up a million magnets to the same light sensor so they all go on instantaneously upon the first detection of light. The millionth magnet will be on long before the light ever reaches it. Is this really faster than light travel? It’s quite different from one magnet turning on the next in line which would far lag the speed of light due to accumulating delays.

P.S. I forgot to mention the hardest to understand corollary of relativity: there is no such thing as simultaneity. So even if all magnets turn on at the same time, the millionth magnet would not beat the speed of light. Just read about simultaneity in relativity and that is the key to understanding relativity which I have not yet been able to grasp.

it could only happen in america

so I was not the only one to wonder why ralf skipped the question,

as for the pussy with the skin on his head, being upstaged by someone like that really hurts

James absolutely delighted somebody read my faster than light idea

I think I get your point, the answer may never to push something from behind to catch up with light,
but the light is causing a reaction thats moving as fast as itself but is not light itself

To fulfill the obligatory “on topic” matter; I have enjoyed several movies and documentaries dealing with the mystery of time travel.
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Concerning the off-topic matter; Kosmo, I am SO relieved to see you here today, apparently well from your experiment!!

Ralf,
Thanks for being the gentleman you are. I think what Brendan was trying to nicely say, was that he started this forum for engineering and science, but it changed into something else. I have to admit that I was partly responsible too, because sometimes my dry sense of humor can be easily taken wrongly. Inventors, as we all know, can be an odd bunch of characters when communicating together, since nobody wants to admit their invention is ‘bad’, especially in a forum comprised of other inventors! Moreover, there is a strong friendship that has developed between several of you seasoned members, and Brendan probably doesn’t feel he’s part of that. So perhaps he was simply overwhelmed by everyone’s input that had nothing to do with his original question – which I myself don’t know exactly what that was!

I know I’m sarcastic but I don’t see where he stated his purpose was to advertise his product at the top of this thread. As I see the galaxy separation speed, take a rubber sheet with dots all over it and stretch it in all directions at a certain speed. All the dots will separate from each other at that speed no matter where your dot point of reference is. The key is what you set as your point of reference. If your reference is the dot in the middle you see the north and south dots moving away from you in opposite directions at the same speed so you say they’re moving away from each other at twice that speed. But if your reference is the south dot, it sees the north dot moving away from it at the speed of expansion. I think.

Ralf,
I know you can’t force yourself to admit Brendan has something valid to say, but he does have a good point, and this is a forum started by him for a specific purpose which he honestly stated. Now, this is curiously not in any of your books, but again, if it takes light – at light velocity – to travel from one place to another in 15 billion years, and say the universe is 15 billion years old too, then how did the two points consisting of matter have the time to get separated unless they can travel faster than light? This is not a trick question, so please do something differently and take it seriously! Thanks.

We’d never be able to “see” light from distant galaxies moving faster than the speed of light because that would mean the light itself would be moving faster than the speed of light to reach us. What’s the source that stated this? It again sounds like a conclusion stated as a hypothesis. The galaxies we see out there are where they were billions of years ago and the light from where they are presently hasn’t reached us yet. I could see those galaxies moving very close to the speed of light because not only were they at the front of the big bang but the universe is supposedly accelerating due to dark energy. I again can’t understand this because the current view of space is that it’s not empty but filled with “quantum foam” where particles are constantly popping in and out of existence. So if space is “full”, in order for it to expand, it must be constantly creating new fill out of nothing or dark energy. It’s like a balloon blowing up but where’s the new air coming from.

Brendan,
Your idea about the series of light activated magnets in linear succession may not pull the train at the speed of light, but what’s interesting is that the impulse of each magnet becoming magnetized or not in succession is wave-like and the really is no physical limit to how fast the wave can travel – except for the speed of light! Very interesting! For instance’ say that each magnet had an iron bar located near it. When each magnet is activated by the shining light, the iron bar by each magnet will be drawn to that particular magnet and the impulse of that happening will proceed at ‘lighning’ speed down the succession of linear-aligned magnets. Here’s a question though: if the universe is only say 15 billion years old, then why do we see light from distant stars that took longer than that to reach us? How did the matter separate if it can’t travel faster than light?

Really boxerballs? I cannot understand why your serious topic ‘awesome science’ which began with no mention of your european patent approval of your invention could have ever been construed as solely an advertisement to highlight your invention. Maybe we’re not paying you your due respect and understanding that every topic you start is solely devoted to your invention by default. You’ve been on this forum long enough to know that every topic whether serious or not eventually must revert to the important topic of this forum: warm fuzzy-wuzzy cuddly-wuddliness of furry-wurry cuteness.

P.S. I have a solution that should satisfy you. How ‘bout we all post your link so it doesn’t look like you’re working it in as a plug. http://www.youtube.com/user/BoxingBustOut

We all missed you Kos. Next time give us a heads up that you are leaving for a day or two.

I cannot understand why my serious topic ‘awesome science’

cat with a helmet or fruit peel on his head????

http://www.youtube.com/user/BoxingBustOut

THANK GOD, YOU HAD US ALL WORRIED!!!!YOU BETTER NOT LEAVE US AGAIN!!!!!!!

Finishing up my time machine. Bolting down the flux capacitor. Starting small. I’ll travel back in time by 5 minutes.

(time: 03:05 a.m.)

OMG! It worked!

(time: 03:00 a.m.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRN0GDFH3Vs

Frank, I have no doubt that it is distinctly possible and moreso, already discovered science. The problem is that evil we call money aka greed.

Imagine what the investment world would do with that ability to time travel. There are so many scientific capabilities that I believe are under lock and key for that reason. Weather for example….I don’t know if it was this thread or the other science one running currently, but I think someone was talking about the science ie mass, energy, etc, …surrounding everything that exists, and it made me think once again about weather.

But what would happen to Anheuser Busch or Oscar Mayer stock…see what I mean? Can’t happen.

It’d sure be fun traveling though through time…I agree with you there.

And irony for you Jeanie…My middle name is and dad’s name was Bill. Queue the music…Twilight Zone, that is.

Way down in my gut I am very concerned about Kosmo. Been trying to take it with a grain of salt most of the day, but down deep I keep freaking out! Let’s all say a little prayer for him tonight, please?
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To stay on topic, time travel is absolutely possible, but not in the way most people imagine. The human brain has recorded and stored every minute detail of our life thus far. We also have stored our personal perception/outlook for the future.

Should a Neurologist figure out how to tap into those storage facilities, parts of our past could be replayed exactly as we experienced them… sights, sounds, feelings, smells… everything!

We could also be injected into our perceived future, although doing that would be a lot less stable and we’d possibly be able to manipulate what is going on.

All of this while in a controlled coma in a hospital, where we’d be fed and looked after. Of course, they’d have to be a time limit, for health issues. Now how would something like that be…. Going back and re-living your first day of school… or the last family outing when they were all still healthy…. or our wedding day/night…. or when our kids were little…

So many possibilities, and not quite science fiction either.

Sniff for the scent of lime..

sniff…

here Kos…

here kitty kitty…

?

We need a ’WHERE’S KOSMO’ thread. I really hate that ‘poof, he’s gone’.

I love red biscuits. All toasty.
LOL!
I just like messin’ with Kevin. It’s one of my favorite things to do.

We’ve really altered this thread, haven’t we!

Jane, I was just trying to be kind….I didn’t want to see his poor little da biskit head get all red and embarrassed! :-/

Betsy, just call Kevin “Bill”. That should do it. lol!

Hi Billy da biskit!
How ya doin?
Nice biscuit there.

(I made so many ED errors before. I know how ya feel.)