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| Re: Corbin's Orphanage for Abandoned Story/Universe Ideas [message #22023 is a reply to message #3943 ] |
Wed, 14 January 2009 04:18   |
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 tensai
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Bit of an odd idea, but here goes.
We all know about magic circles, drawn by mages of all kinds to focus or contain magical energy, effects, and creatures.
Now, look at Saturn. Mighty big ring there, aye? What if Saturn didn't have a ring in the past, and someone put one there? What might that big circle contain or lead to?
For some reason, the Caregivers universe seemed a likely candidate for this gem.
"It took her some time to accept that with such wings, her soul would never soar--but the fact that she could kick a man's lungs out through his spine was ultimately some small consolation." -ursulav
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| Re: Corbin's Orphanage for Abandoned Story/Universe Ideas [message #22025 is a reply to message #22023 ] |
Wed, 14 January 2009 04:41 |
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negation
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| tensai wrote on Wed, 14 January 2009 17:18 |
Bit of an odd idea, but here goes.
We all know about magic circles, drawn by mages of all kinds to focus or contain magical energy, effects, and creatures.
Now, look at Saturn. Mighty big ring there, aye? What if Saturn didn't have a ring in the past, and someone put one there? What might that big circle contain or lead to?
For some reason, the Caregivers universe seemed a likely candidate for this gem.
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As a containment for Cronus? Greek legends weren't really clear with what was done to him after Zeus defeated him.
Any sufficiently unethical experiment is indistinguishable from Hell.
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| Re: Corbin's Orphanage for Abandoned Story/Universe Ideas [message #22113 is a reply to message #22040 ] |
Wed, 14 January 2009 17:22 |
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KenJ
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That's a clever idea...won't work, but it's a great idea. 
A mystic circle has to be unbroken. The rock and ice particles that make up Saturn's rings have no connection to one another.
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| Re: Corbin's Orphanage for Abandoned Story/Universe Ideas [message #22191 is a reply to message #22182 ] |
Wed, 14 January 2009 23:34 |
charm
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| oljak.eru wrote on Thu, 15 January 2009 16:20 |
The majority of people think they're solid and standing on the solid floor, when they're actually pretty much open space and not solid, hovering above the floor (that likewise is mostly open space) because the electron clouds in the atoms lining their soles repel the electron clouds lining the floor. We're rationalising it as our solid bodies standing on the solid floor because at the scale of our perceptions, that's what it seems like is happening.
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If I recall my quantum physics (It's been 20+ years) as long as the wavefunction hasn't been collapsed by observation (which only occurs for an instant in time) the electron DOES exist at all places in the electron cloud. (Because the electron is viewed as a wave, not a particle) That is, from a quantum mechanical point of view, the electron cloud is continuous.
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/Chemistry/Gener alchemistry/Atomic/Electronicstructure/Atomicstructure/Schro dinger/Schrodinger.htm
However, that's enough being pedantic. Another solution to the continuous/discontinuous problem, the pieces are joined through a higher dimension. e.g. Consider the four fingers of a hand being pushed though a 2D surface. From the viewpoint of something living in the 2D surface, there are four separated circular objects. From the viewpoint of a 3D entity, they're all parts of a single connected object.
Mathematics is the language that commands the universe. Science is how you learn it. Engineering is how you speak it.
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