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- Vacuum barriers 101, ok Henry, where do we start?
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- Anonymous (ID: JbUf7hKi) 09/28/12(Fri)19:02:51 No.427699457
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- /b/ is not the right place. We only do roll-, pony-, and copypasta-threads.
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- Anonymous (ID: sW9cJLfs) 09/28/12(Fri)19:03:29 No.427699568
- >>427699457
- Shhhhh, a time traveler is coming.
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- Anonymous (ID: gz8Q7IFu) 09/28/12(Fri)19:06:13 No.427699998
- Replies: >>427700260 >>427700621
- Here we go, I have been waiting for this for over two years now.
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- Anonymous (ID: N4F345iN) 09/28/12(Fri)19:07:10 No.427700157
- cool
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- Anonymous (ID: 2QptZnAM) 09/28/12(Fri)19:07:47 No.427700245
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02jEY0oCi0Y
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- Anonymous (ID: sW9cJLfs) 09/28/12(Fri)19:07:52 No.427700260
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- >>427699999
- Pow right in the kisser.
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- Anonymous (ID: RsTcOTIA) 09/28/12(Fri)19:08:57 No.427700419
- Replies: >>427700558 >>427700591 >>427702198 >>427702870
- Henry, this is the anon who asked you about the "Kreamer" attractor. What did you find?
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- Anonymous (ID: gz8Q7IFu) 09/28/12(Fri)19:09:56 No.427700558
- >>427700419
- I hope the mods dont see this thread.
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- Anonymous (ID: ayHLokeK) 09/28/12(Fri)19:10:12 No.427700591
- >>427700419
- https://boards.4chan.org/b/res/ 427648913#p427689218
- For those without context.
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- Anonymous (ID: uN7kEab5) 09/28/12(Fri)19:10:22 No.427700621
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- oooooooooooh sooooooo ddddaaaaammmmmnnnnnnn cccclllllllloooooossssssssseeeeee
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- Anonymous (ID: 7JOSfM1u) 09/28/12(Fri)19:10:39 No.427700664
- Replies: >>427700783 >>427700820
- where's henry?
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- Anonymous (ID: sW9cJLfs) 09/28/12(Fri)19:11:26 No.427700783
- >>427700664
- He said he'd be here that baka.
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- Anonymous (ID: ayHLokeK) 09/28/12(Fri)19:11:39 No.427700820
- >>427700664
- Its quantum physics. Give him a sec to type.
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- Anonymous (ID: uN7kEab5) 09/28/12(Fri)19:12:23 No.427700940
- Replies: >>427701035
- btw whatre vacuum barriers?
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- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)19:12:26 No.427700950
- Replies: >>427701271 >>427701871 >>427701967 >>427702781 >>427706383
- I will do my best to explain this as I am not a physicist by trade and also by what existing science and maths you can reference conventionally.
- A "vacuum field" or "vacuum barrier" is a region of what we call "orthogonal spacetime". That is, it is an offset of the spacetime continuum and can be thusly resolved in nominal terms with the maths of Euclid, Pythagoras, etc.
- Our Principal Investigator explained it to me in this way: Imagine a pond. Drop a pebble onto the surface and watch as waves propagate out from the point of incursion. If you were a microbe at the crest of a given ripple, you observe time-like T-Symmetry in terms of Albert Einstein: Hence, should you attempt to measure time, your measurements can be easily "fooled" by such things as velocity and gravity.
- However, if you were to view this same phenomena as a "fourth dimensional being" and "look down" upon the ripples from "above" them, then you would see the distinction between individual ripples as an outstretching crop of rings.
- At the crest of a ripple, you are unable to observe the nadir, as your laser, for example, only reaches the next crest. But that doesn't mean those nadir valleys don't exist. These areas are what we call the "vacuum field" from which we can excite virtual particles using exotic baryonic gas.
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- Anonymous (ID: sW9cJLfs) 09/28/12(Fri)19:12:57 No.427701035
- >>427700940
- Barriers in your vacuum.
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- Anonymous (ID: uN7kEab5) 09/28/12(Fri)19:14:31 No.427701271
- >>427700950
- okay, I think I understand some of that
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- Anonymous (ID: RiQSs/Mi) 09/28/12(Fri)19:14:39 No.427701301
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- This is the new "fingerbox". It quit being funny as soon as fingerbox quit being funny, which was immediately.
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- Anonymous (ID: MY2ZMGzs) 09/28/12(Fri)19:15:59 No.427701509
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- Anonymous (ID: ayHLokeK) 09/28/12(Fri)19:18:11 No.427701871
- >>427700950
- OH THAT MAKES BEAUTIFUL SENSE. Go on.
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- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)19:18:41 No.427701967
- Replies: >>427702198 >>427702732 >>427702830 >>427702901
- >>427700950
- If you perform the double-slit experiment using laser light, you will see a ripple-like pattern emerge as the laser beams recombine.
- These ripples are evidence of a "vacuum barrier" that is essentially topographically much like the ripples in mention in my previous exercise. Those "gaps" you observe and "vacuum barriers" for us are synonymous.
- If you recite the work of Casimer, you will find that you can excite virtual particles and make a beam of information seem to excede c.
- Unfortunately, those are the only conventional analogues I can give that you can reference without higher math or science you are not yet aware of.
- I will wait for questions while you digest my notes. I am excited for this privilege, thank you.
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- Anonymous (ID: xQyBt+98) 09/28/12(Fri)19:20:09 No.427702194
- >>427699051 (OP)
- important stuff I know about "abstract vacuum" things..
- only that this shit of yours is somehow probably connected to "false vacuum" theory (which I never understood by the way), that when our vacuum depletes (I guess) the universe will collapse in itself. that cold happen-never, or in few secon..
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- Anonymous (ID: RsTcOTIA) 09/28/12(Fri)19:20:12 No.427702198
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- Anonymous (ID: 5xNgcjvE) 09/28/12(Fri)19:21:34 No.427702425
- Replies: >>427703452 >>427728780
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- Greetings
- http://www.thespiritscience.net/forum/discussion/3190/the-quantum-universe/p1
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- Anonymous (ID: ayHLokeK) 09/28/12(Fri)19:23:26 No.427702732
- >>427701967
- Fascinating, i have theorized myself that in the instance of the emerging of fundamental particles that each one came from their own higher dimension. As photons move the speed of light they are able to move in between planks so to oscillate in an extra dimension for color without affecting motion through 3d space.
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- Anonymous (ID: sdlalfQg) 09/28/12(Fri)19:23:43 No.427702781
- Replies: >>427703627
- >>427700950
- Does it have to be at the crest? There will be orthogonal vectors at any given point. Does a particular universe follow the peak in this example or more or less stay stationary and roll with the wave?
- Has anyone recreated the freehand perfect circles or perpetual motion clock from The Great Library?
- Are black people by and large still niggers in your time?
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- Anonymous (ID: 5xNgcjvE) 09/28/12(Fri)19:24:08 No.427702830
- Replies: >>427703074
- >>427701967
- I actually want to build an over unity generator that also harnesses Casimir forces between two metal plates.
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- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)19:24:23 No.427702870
- Replies: >>427703372 >>427703405
- >>427700419
- I have notes for a "Kreamer" by family name. I don't suppose your relation, but whatever it is, tell them to "continue to dream". They will apply what that means at the appropriate condition.
- My apologies to the rest of you for the apparent slowness of my responses. I will do my best to keep up. I practice every day but it still takes some getting used to.
- Thank you for understanding.
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- Anonymous (ID: gz8Q7IFu) 09/28/12(Fri)19:24:35 No.427702901
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- >>427701967
- I assume therefore that theoretically almost anything is able to happen.
- That is to a degree or rational probability or co-ordinated chaos however which way you would like to look at it.
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- Anonymous (ID: gz8Q7IFu) 09/28/12(Fri)19:25:52 No.427703074
- >>427702830
- Casimir forces are a whole other ballpark sonny.
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- Anonymous (ID: kIxo8s0h) 09/28/12(Fri)19:27:17 No.427703286
- cool thread op. I have actually read that perhaps matter and energy cannot exceed the speed of light but due to various oddities not fully discovered or realized yet that information could in theory be made to exceed the speed of light. (horribly simplified I know but I am a criminal justice major not a physicist)
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- Anonymous (ID: 7JOSfM1u) 09/28/12(Fri)19:27:48 No.427703370
- Replies: >>427703523 >>427717187
- dump some hiegher math in here pls.
- some questions:
- -from which year do you come (can't be that far. still waiting for technological singularity)
- -what does the actual version of the standard modell looks like?
- -did aa man ever set his foot on the mars?
- -do big companies and countries still exist? or did the gouvernment fall in some countries?
- (sorry for bad typing, im very tired)
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- Anonymous (ID: RsTcOTIA) 09/28/12(Fri)19:27:48 No.427703372
- >>427702870
- So, there is not one specific "Kreamer," but rather the entire family? Should I explain my relation?
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- Anonymous (ID: sdlalfQg) 09/28/12(Fri)19:28:03 No.427703405
- >>427702870
- Practice?
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- Anonymous (ID: 5xNgcjvE) 09/28/12(Fri)19:28:19 No.427703452
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- Anonymous (ID: RsTcOTIA) 09/28/12(Fri)19:28:45 No.427703523
- >>427703370
- About 3000 Gregorian years, If memory serves.
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- Anonymous (ID: YShus4ZJ) 09/28/12(Fri)19:28:47 No.427703528
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- >>427702901
- As long it doesn't violate Conservation or Thermo laws.
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- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)19:29:29 No.427703627
- Replies: >>427704202 >>427704583 >>427705634
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- This is a rather fond notion, and you are right to think that something has interrupted the photon in 3-dimensional space.
- It is difficult even for me at times, but you must think of a vacuum as not "nothing", but as a sort of "negative pressure". But it is a form of "pressure" if you will, that disrupts the observable state of a given photon when the wave function collapses against a given medium.
- Those photons are being operated on orthogonally by said vacuum pressure. Hence, ripples.
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- Anonymous (ID: 5xNgcjvE) 09/28/12(Fri)19:30:05 No.427703709
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- Anonymous (ID: z3VSSgpj) 09/28/12(Fri)19:30:11 No.427703728
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- moar like OP please
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- Anonymous (ID: gz8Q7IFu) 09/28/12(Fri)19:30:35 No.427703794
- >>427703528
- My friend, laws are dynamic and as such very open to the sort of formulations we see changing the very matter around us.
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- Anonymous (ID: 5xNgcjvE) 09/28/12(Fri)19:31:24 No.427703917
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- Anonymous (ID: WZHtmnYR) 09/28/12(Fri)19:32:21 No.427704029
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- this thread should be posted in /sci/
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- Anonymous (ID: 5xNgcjvE) 09/28/12(Fri)19:33:05 No.427704130
- >>427703728
- These are similar in a way
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- Anonymous (ID: YShus4ZJ) 09/28/12(Fri)19:33:30 No.427704202
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- Where, in your opinion, is the best place one's lens when understanding the universe?
- Do we go macro, micro, nano, femto, or is a complex melange of all the above in some kind of spatial matrix?
- Where do the real answers exist, and where to the confusing complexities end?
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- Anonymous (ID: 7JOSfM1u) 09/28/12(Fri)19:35:40 No.427704526
- is there a "Mix" you had ever heard of?
- Mix as last name
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- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)19:36:08 No.427704583
- Replies: >>427706383
- >>427703627
- Exotic matter has a tendency to have "negative density". It responds to the "negative pressure" of vacuum fields.
- You will have a mess on your hands when LHC discovers something it can't quite measure at its highest TeV's. It will go unnoticed and ignored because it won't be able to be duplicated with enough fidelity to reach sigma.
- Expect this to happen what would be roughly six Gregorian calendar years from 20 of 12, according to my notes.
- Please let me also apologize, as frame metrics do not play well with standard Gregorian time. The two do not even run alongside. It is this gross miscommunication between frame interferometry and conventional atomic clocks that put my calendar date at roughly 3000 years in what would be your future, as someone here sated on my behalf.
- This is by no means a fair assessment, however, so please take that measurement with an equally heft grain of proverbial salt.
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- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)19:42:21 No.427705468
- >>427704202
- I would say micro. There are delicate nuances that we have yet to even explain.
- This is due to higher math. We stopped looking for how to link quantum to gravity because from higher math arose a deeper understanding of symmetry and more specifically symmetry breaking. Or why else would a "time travelling tourist" spite Mr. Hawking if only to see the LHC discover evidence of the Higgs mechanism, which like a billiard ball, sprang forth a deeper look into symmetry and thereby a higher maths to explain how it all breaks.
- It will take you hundreds of years of math just to do something topographically and remotely macroscopically observable.
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- Anonymous (ID: 5xNgcjvE) 09/28/12(Fri)19:43:34 No.427705634
- Replies: >>427707985
- >>427703627
- I have a theory regarding photons based on Richard Feynman's work, more specifically the Feynman Diagram.
- When electrons share photons between one another, the photons exits, breaks into two electrons, or an electron pair, then collapses again into a photon before entering the next electron. If every electron in an object were to share photons all at once in perfect unison, the total number of electrons would triple for a very short moment.
- Since most matter is mostly empty space, or vacuum, then would it not make sense that the physicality and solidity of matter we perceive on our plane of existence is merely a ethereal copy of said object's energetic structure? Think about it, the object creates more electrons than are initially present but only for very short times. Not to mention, it's entirely possible that the electron pair, before collapsing back into a photon, could share photons with other electrons. This would result in a rapid, massive expansion of electrons. If this is constantly happening at all times, then who's to say the object you are touching is real and that the electrons won't be entirely new a few nanoseconds later?
- I even linked this concept with the idea of density levels, ether, and manifestation.
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- Anonymous (ID: RsTcOTIA) 09/28/12(Fri)19:47:57 No.427706263
- For the record, Henry, my mother just sent me a text message through our primitive cellular telephones and said her name was Henrietta. The timing of the symbol, as you have already stated is rather difficult to calculate, was slightly off. I found the thread a few minutes before she spoke with me, so you were yet again entirely correct.
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- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)19:48:57 No.427706383
- >>427700950
- >>427704583
- Take my pond ripple exercise: You observe time from the crest of a ripple. It flows "forward" for you according to the breaking of T-Symmetry, and you follow its arrow pristinely, the laws of Einstein notwithstanding.
- Meanwhile, from my orthogonal point of reference, I watch as your ripple slowly dies in amplitude as it spreads and slows losing inertia. My measurement of "time", then, doesn't rely on the amplitude of the ripple, but the metric between incursions that we call "attractors". These are easily measured, like looking down at rain: I may not know where the next incursion might take place, but I can easily measure the "distance" (to put it clumsily) between them from my orthogonal view.
- This is how we quantize localized frames. My birth is in a different frame than yours. The distance between them in calendar years is the perspective from the crest of a ripple. The distance between them in frames is entirely different and irrespective of amplitude, velocity, etc.
- Does this make sense? Is someone here who feels they can grasp this also skilled enough to make a diagram?
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- Anonymous (ID: 7JOSfM1u) 09/28/12(Fri)19:55:13 No.427707335
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- Anonymous (ID: 7JOSfM1u) 09/28/12(Fri)19:59:04 No.427707895
- everybody gets this thread archieved too
- http://chanarchive.org/ request_votes
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- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)19:59:37 No.427707985
- Replies: >>427709194 >>427709238 >>427710264 >>427711692
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- I can see now that the people that need to be here are here, and that is all I can say.
- That said, the only theory of alternate reality my colleagues are willing to entertain have to do with "copies" of matter that might exist in "deeper" fields or pockets within the vacuum barrier. Hence, "unused quantum states" that go back into hiding upon wave function collapse.
- We have no idea how to measure it, however, much less even find it.
- The problem arises in the many attempts to kill Adolf Hitler both during and prenatal to his rise to power. Both of his parents have been slain, as were many blatant assassinations carried out. The returning time traveller always returns to a familiar home in his future, things as they may be. What changes, curiously enough, is WHEN the time traveller arrives in the past. We return to a non-Hitler for lack of him being born, or to a post-Hitler when he has already died. And when we kill him at the podium of the Olympics for all the world to see, that particular frame does not cease to exist!
- However, we are unable to recoup any evidence that we had done what we had previously. For example, I have learned that I have visited this message board at least two years prior to today, but for me, this is my first visit.
- If parallel universes exist, they exist until some sort of wave-function-like collapse. Our bridge has burned. We cannot bring the wagon bearing fruit across it.
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- Anonymous (ID: 5wCInZkd) 09/28/12(Fri)20:00:15 No.427708065
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- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)20:06:53 No.427709035
- >>427707335
- This is brilliant, thank you, though one might falsely perceive that I am somehow I am omnipotent, which I am not.
- It's also curious that you would draw angled lines, for this is how we measure how we might project ourselves "forward" or "backward" through the "arrow of time" that carries you.
- By injecting exotic matter into the vacuum barrier, it curves with the same elegant theory derived by Einstein! We are able, then, to force a three dimensional object moving along a "ripple" to follow the arrow as it curves in on itself, hence becoming more time-like than space-like. Time "direction", then, is a simple matter of angle. The steeper the angle, the further "back" you go, and the more shallow the angle, the closer to "your own time" you go. A near flat curve gives no discernable feedback either microscopically nor macroscopically.
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- Anonymous (ID: RsTcOTIA) 09/28/12(Fri)20:07:41 No.427709194
- >>427707985
- $mind="blown";
- Although I should have expected this, based on the conversation you and I had a while back (In my time).
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- Anonymous (ID: YShus4ZJ) 09/28/12(Fri)20:07:57 No.427709238
- Replies: >>427710264
- >>427707985
- As it always seems, the ability to harness something, and the ability to understand/control it, seem to be aways a part.
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- Anonymous (ID: Bn2L74JC) 09/28/12(Fri)20:10:46 No.427709629
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- Anonymous (ID: Bn2L74JC) 09/28/12(Fri)20:12:56 No.427709967
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- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)20:14:53 No.427710264
- Replies: >>427710801 >>427711454 >>427711578
- >>427707985
- Please allow me to be more specifically clear by our repsective definitions of "parallel reality". In terms of time travel, the breaking of T-Symmetry prevents information from flowing "backward" through time.
- We do not violate T-Symmetry. In fact, in a gross fashion, we harness it. (I would probably receive a throttling from my peers should I have said this in front of them. They seem to loathe my crippled interpretations of their work.)
- As I reference a given frame from my own, I have now arrived at a "perfect reality": One in which a time traveller exists. There is no paradox or causal violation. It was simply "meant to be as such". So I go on to kill my grandfather. He dies before me. I watch as my poor grandmother is widowed. She continues her life, and so on. I now have a choice: Continue to live in my own past and die accordingly (hence, I cease to exist), or return to my own localized frame, where my life, my wears, and everything I know remain in tact.
- Realize that I have never left the course of time's arrow! My past is gone, and even if I took my grandfather's favorite hat as a souvenir, it does not magically dissolve into nothingness. But what good is an old man's hat in my proverbial future?
- >>427709238
- You have crystalized the purity of truth most eloquently, my friend.
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- Anonymous (ID: RsTcOTIA) 09/28/12(Fri)20:18:36 No.427710801
- Replies: >>427711692
- >>427710264
- So if you can go back to a point in time when a time traveller exists, this was all "in accordance with the universe's master plan?" Meaning, you would have never come to this point in time if the universe would not allow it, as though it were a sentient omnipotent being, such as "God?"
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- Anonymous (ID: YShus4ZJ) 09/28/12(Fri)20:22:58 No.427711454
- Replies: >>427712657
- >>427710264
- Is one's body still subject to disorder over "time" when one travels?
- Can you have an infinite existence via traveling?
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- Anonymous (ID: ayHLokeK) 09/28/12(Fri)20:23:47 No.427711578
- Replies: >>427712657
- >>427710264
- After a chat with a fellow scientist we have determined that since the events of killing hitler were not as powerful as the event of the beginning of time that the superposition of hitler's death does not breach the peak of our relative frame. Alternate realities do not exist haha it would seem time travel is for educational purposes only.
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- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)20:24:33 No.427711692
- Replies: >>427712209 >>427713065
- >>427707985
- This would also explain the lack of observable antimatter, and may be what's ultimately hiding dark matter.
- >>427710801
- There is your lack of evidence of a parallel universe. One where my history does not record a certain "Adolf Hitler".
- Although this is for me my second visit to this particular public forum, it is actually one of dozens of visits I have made to this particular frame. Never once has there NOT been a history of an Adolf Hitler when I arrive.
- A truly parallel universe would allow me to enter a past where Hitler does not exist, which has happened several times, but then not exist for me, either.
- Sorry if that was a bit less theistic as you'd hoped. I continue to believe in God, however, but He is probably the same God revered by Albert Einstein.
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- Anonymous (ID: +Bhsn0gX) 09/28/12(Fri)20:28:06 No.427712209
- >>427711692
- The one who doesn't play dice with the universe?
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- Anonymous (ID: Wc/T/vkk) 09/28/12(Fri)20:29:31 No.427712438
- Replies: >>427712804
- Are these henry threads worth reading?
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- Anonymous (ID: 7JOSfM1u) 09/28/12(Fri)20:30:22 No.427712565
- Replies: >>427712871
- C'mon, vote for a archieving
- http://chanarchive.org/request_votes
- in the 6th line
- 4chan /b/ >>427699051 (OP) 2/6 30 minutes ago
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- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)20:30:55 No.427712657
- >>427711454
- My body is and shall always be a slave to the function of T-Symmetry breaking. Time simply does not "flow" backwards. You have to bend space around it so as not to violate causality. There is no other way for us, it seems.
- Also, one must be careful in that, from a casual standpoint, the "past" you arrive in might not be the "past" you were "aiming" for. it's not plausible, then, to travel further back than human history, as "aiming" becomes more difficult.
- It probably makes no sense to you, but that is the best way I can put it.
- Remember that as YOU enter a frame non-local to your own that the T-Symmetry breaking function of "time's arrow" continues to move in a "forward" direction to you in Einsteinen prose.
- >>427711578
- I'm afraid you are correct.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 3s19hFP1) 09/28/12(Fri)20:31:51 No.427712804
- >>427712438
- No
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: +Bhsn0gX) 09/28/12(Fri)20:32:15 No.427712871
- Replies: >>427713113
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- >>427712565
- I was going to vote for it but then he had to go be a jerk and talk smack about my immortal Führer
- What'd Hitler ever do to him
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: RsTcOTIA) 09/28/12(Fri)20:33:26 No.427713065
- Replies: >>427714729
- >>427711692
- All is well, I'm uncertain if I believe in God or not, i feel a need to personally see evidence proving or disproving God before I take a religious stance.
- So what you're saying is that there is not a parallel universe, because of the discrepancies in the time periods you have visited?
- Once you get to this time period, how do you get back? Is it safe to say the device you use is small enough to be easily transported, or does the technology already exist yet we are not aware of it's use?
- On a personal note, may I inquire the reason you slay your grandfather? You talk about killing Hitler and your grandfather in almost the same manor, is Adolf Hitler an ancestor of yours? Does Hitler's seed live in this world, or did he legitimately discover some form of time travel, as believed my some consipracy theorists?
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: ayHLokeK) 09/28/12(Fri)20:33:45 No.427713113
- Replies: >>427713502 >>427713617
- >>427712871
- Science is about doing things simply because you can. Can we kill hitler and get away with it? Turns out yes. :D
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 3s19hFP1) 09/28/12(Fri)20:36:32 No.427713502
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- >>427713113
- >turns out yes :D
- It's fucking happening
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- Anonymous (ID: ayHLokeK) 09/28/12(Fri)20:37:13 No.427713602
- Replies: >>427717187
- What if you added another dimension and superposition the superposition of hitler's death with the beginning of time?
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: +Bhsn0gX) 09/28/12(Fri)20:37:24 No.427713617
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- >>427713113
- But then we wouldn't have Volkswagen ;_;
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- Anonymous (ID: /14jMM+2) 09/28/12(Fri)20:39:54 No.427713987
- Requesting chakra information pic.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 7JOSfM1u) 09/28/12(Fri)20:41:38 No.427714251
- Replies: >>427714975
- C'mon 3 more votes.
- It's 2 am here and i have to get up early this morning and i want to read the thread tommorrow.
- pls help your fellow /b/ro
- http://chanarchive.org/request_votes
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)20:45:04 No.427714729
- >>427713065
- Parallel universes MAY exist, though entirely inaccessible. I cannot return to a future from which I have altered the past. I return to my own future comfortably with whatever artifacts I care to bring with me. More specifically, to put it crudely, I could "hand you a working time machine", but you would not be able to use it to alter your own future. You may visit your own past as you please and even interact with it (because you were SUPPOSED TO). But it will have no effect on your return.
- Mind you, I feel awkward for even using the phrase "time travel" in novel terms. The interferometer we use to displace localized frames is fixed. It is roughly the size of one of your conventional city buses--some 10x3x3 meters in size. One simply stands at a focal point (we call it a lens) and watches as the room appears to pinch around the edges of your peripheral vision in such a way that gives you a mild sense of vertigo.
- I can still see my research lab if I step back into the projection angle, but once I leave the focal point, I am able to roam freely in any direction.
- Sorry, there are no swirling, chromatically illuminated "magical cloud" vortices to speak of. The process is actually rather anti-climactic, aside from the mild sense of nausea you feel as you walk forward and the world in front of you gets smaller for a moment. But even this passes in a few mere seconds.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 5yrB26qu) 09/28/12(Fri)20:45:43 No.427714834
- Replies: >>427715991
- >>427699051 (OP)
- but those are very specific, nonstandard examples of those events and locations.
- Only one nebula looks like that, stars don't typically die that way, and that is an artist rendering if a specific location in the universe.
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- Anonymous (ID: 3s19hFP1) 09/28/12(Fri)20:46:44 No.427714975
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- >>427714251
- Because I want to laught about that shit tomorrow.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: /14jMM+2) 09/28/12(Fri)20:53:24 No.427715991
- Replies: >>427717204
- >>427714834
- >Only one nebula looks like that.
- Only one eye looks like that.
- >stars don't typically die that way
- Yes they do If no other significant gravity source is acting on it.
- > that is an artist rendering if a specific location in the universe.
- That is also a specific brain cell.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)21:00:55 No.427717187
- >>427713602
- If I understand what you're implying (and forgive me if admit that I'm not quite sure I do) we don't have the math or science to even know.
- >>427703370
- A private organization made an initiative to colonize mars. It was an effort not unlike your current International Space Station. However, due to several disputes and even conflicts over such things as "which nation is the Martian nation?" and "Solidarity of Martian Rights for Martian Citizens", the privately-funded effort was abandoned. Only a handful of men and women actually took-up residence on Mars, which lasted less than a conventional decade for you.
- But this was long before I was born, even.
- I must say that the society I live in could not care less about exploring space. Our last major accomplishment was the Janus deep-field observatory that is stationed just beyond the bowe shock of our solar system. It is unmanned and capable of creating its own mission parameters. It still beams data back for us to analyze, but it is ancient, and there are no plans I'm aware of of replacing it.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 5yrB26qu) 09/28/12(Fri)21:01:03 No.427717204
- >>427715991
- I'm glad you see my point.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)21:05:06 No.427717841
- Replies: >>427718870 >>427719234 >>427721040
- Someone here mentioned something about "the Grid". I am curious and would like to talk about it.
- Also, there was mention that I had been here before and spoke of two individuals from the US state of Ohio. If whoever asked those questions would like for me to elaborate, I would be happy to.
- Meanwhile, this has been a pleasure, and if anyone else has any questions for me, I will do my best to satisfy them. Thank you for being such gracious hosts!
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 3s19hFP1) 09/28/12(Fri)21:11:33 No.427718870
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- >>427717841
- What is this "time travel" you speak of?
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- Anonymous (ID: RsTcOTIA) 09/28/12(Fri)21:13:47 No.427719234
- Replies: >>427722308
- >>427717841
- In my time, you spoke to [us] in the past about the Ohio pair, then you wouldn't specifically tell if the "Kreamer" was related to the pair. I had given specific examples of several psychics proclaiming something big was to happen to the "Kreamer" in the next few years, then you mentioned the Ohio pair's event was due in a few years. Is the Kreamer attractor related to the Ohio pair?
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: MOx2siog) 09/28/12(Fri)21:17:57 No.427719890
- Replies: >>427720040
- Regardless of the timeline of this information, I'd like to personally note to you Henry, Hello my name is Taben, nice to meet you.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: MOx2siog) 09/28/12(Fri)21:18:53 No.427720040
- >>427719890
- Im OP by the way.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)21:25:40 No.427721040
- Replies: >>427721838 >>427723676
- >>427717841
- Could someone please tell me which of these events have occurred thus far according to your frame of reference:
- - Commercialized, embedded RFID location and tracking system
- - A practical means of interactive commerce via television, "Grab-In Television"
- - A navigation system developed by Apple to rival other navigation providers
- - A consortium of animation studios from Japan collaborating on a feature-length animated film, "LoO"
- - Theatrical release of a motion picture "Hunger Games" based on the novel of the same title, and its subsequent franchises
- - Bombing of US embassy in Libya
- - Introduction of an online gaming service, "GameJack"
- - The production of a controversial animated television series, "AXYS"
- According to my notes, these events from your frame of reference should either already have occurred or be in the process of occurring. Please consider that my notes may not 100% reflect the actual names you might be familiar with.
- I will check Google for them shortly, but any insight you could provide would be appreciated.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: RsTcOTIA) 09/28/12(Fri)21:30:56 No.427721838
- >>427721040
- The Hunger Games, though I feel may not be entirely complete, is happening. A theatrical release has been made, but no "subsequent franchises" that I'm aware of. Bombing of the US Embassy in Libya may have happened, Libya has been in the news lately for similar events. That's as far as I know. AXS may be out, but you told me previously it was an anime closely resembling what the future holds exactly, but I may be unaware of it's existance because I'm not fond of anime of any sort.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)21:33:57 No.427722308
- Replies: >>427724780 >>427725562
- >>427719234
- According to my notes, Ohio pair has met and collaborate.
- One of them should be lurking these boards according to my notes. You may not want to offend him! He will go on to revolutionize the amusement entertainment industry, including location-based attractions, film, television, and music. He will be heralded in the same regard as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Robertson and Johnson are the names I have in my notes, along with another partner, who remains silent. All from the state of Ohio.
- Kreamer may be the silent partner, but I cannot confirm this. Is Kreamer of Ohio? If so, there is your connection.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)21:42:11 No.427723676
- Replies: >>427724780 >>427725048 >>427725562 >>427728451
- >>427721040
- I can give more specific details on each of these if you wish.
- I have found on Google the evidence of
- - Libya bombing
- - "Hunger Games" franchise
- - Aletter of apology for Apple's navigation service by the acting CEO, Tim Cook
- I would appreciate your assistance finding the rest.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: MOx2siog) 09/28/12(Fri)21:48:57 No.427724780
- Replies: >>427726701
- >>427722308
- Interesting so it would seem this planet is doomed only from your point of view in the future, you could always stay here and leave a message for the world of the future. But why doant we just do that for you? because we cant... there needs to be a large event that will be remembered well. Can you do something to lock in the success of humanity through cultural growth? Perhaps proving the failing future of our species to the populace so a radical change occurs.
- >>427723676
- http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/GameJack/1068729796/1
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: jxUkjoh0) 09/28/12(Fri)21:50:32 No.427725048
- Replies: >>427726701
- >>427723676
- In your frame of referance, do you have Linux?
- Also, has circumstantial immortality been achieved?
- Thanks in advance
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: RsTcOTIA) 09/28/12(Fri)21:54:12 No.427725562
- Replies: >>427727379
- >>427722308
- No I'm afraid Kreamer is of New York. However, I'll look into possible family living in Ohio, if you and your organization permit me so.
- >>427723676
- The rest that you speak of, I am not entiely aware of. But alas, I was not aware Apple even attempted to enter the "GPS" field. But, like you said, they may be in the works and haven't been made to the public yet.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)22:01:48 No.427726701
- Replies: >>427728023
- >>427724780
- This is precisely what I am hoping for. There are so many attractors during this particular frame that shape society in ways that are more profound than any world war before it.
- >>427725048
- No. The term "Operating System"--a term used to describe the core functions of a unary system or network of systems--is wholly antiquated. We use a kind of massively-distributed computing that is somewhat biological in nature. Information is carried in the microwave band of the EMS. Colloquially, we call anything in computing a "dust".
- We can interface with dust through biological implants. No, it is not like your Tron or Matrix series of feature films, which I am quite familiar with.
- When locally clustered, a foam of dust uses optomics for both data transmission at the quantum level as well as for basic motive force.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)22:06:09 No.427727379
- >>427725562
- You may do as you please. I only show a relation which may be business-related or family-related. I only have a list of names and occurrences, some with more detail than others.
- For example, "consumers will be able to shop directly from any ordinary television using a their remote", as well as several other socially-impacting tidbits are all around the same attractor: The pair from Ohio.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: jxUkjoh0) 09/28/12(Fri)22:10:40 No.427728023
- Replies: >>427730450
- >>427726701
- >somewhat biological in nature
- So people in your frame are augmented? So is dust programmed or is it like biologically hard-coded?
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: pjch0zQv) 09/28/12(Fri)22:13:33 No.427728451
- Replies: >>427730450
- >>427723676
- Will a hovercraft be invented anytime soon? and a power source that requires little to no fuel that will revolutionize the human race as we know it (in this time period)
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)22:15:40 No.427728780
- >>427702425
- I am a member of an informal group investigating the more metaphysical attributes of attractors. That is, when something "important" is going on in the universe, it seems that humanity is somehow capable of resonating with it. Biologically-speaking, we have no native senses to detect attractors, as they are merely perturbations between frames where Lorenz-like patterns appear to emerge. We don't know if it is more spiritual than physical, but we do know that when "something's about to happen" we "feel it".
- We take notice of smaller details around us. It is as if the universe makes a tiny "bump" that we are somehow connected to on at a very deep, intimate level that is so intrinsic that we cannot possibly remain forwardly conscious of it.
- This was confirmed by several members here who say that they noticed peculiar coincidences as of late, and a strange perception of time moving more quickly or slowly without evidence otherwise.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)22:26:17 No.427730450
- Replies: >>427731460
- >>427728023
- Biological as in DNA: Somewhat self-replicating but self-instructing and able to inherit code discretely at the molecular-level.
- We are not the "cyborgs" of Star Trek, Deus Ex, AXYS, or Ghost In the Shell, although the latter three are very close in terms of their prediction of human prosthesis and cosmetic augmentation.
- Alas, I do not have guns for arms like Constable Newton or plugs in the back of my neck like Major Kusanagi.
- The dust enters the endocrine system in a more liquid form.
- Average life expectancy is 96. And no, I cannot crush cars with my thoughts.
- >>427728451
- Flying cars should already be commercially available according to my notes, just not widely accepted.
- The flying car notion is a "fad" that proves wholly impractical. We still have roads we call "inductionways". Our "cars" float a few centimeters above the tarmac. "Cars" is a gross approximation, as a "car" might have several rooms, a bath, a shower, and even recreational amenities. You might consider one more the line of "an aerodynamic house". I'm sure you would be surprised to see one moving at several hundred miles per hour.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: pjch0zQv) 09/28/12(Fri)22:32:42 No.427731460
- Replies: >>427732708
- >>427730450
- Thank you for answering and that is very interesting, but i have not heard of any flying cars yet. What about an efficient energy source? maybe a tiny thorium reactor? one of Tesla's inventions? Does cold electricity exist?
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: MOx2siog) 09/28/12(Fri)22:39:20 No.427732474
- Is this archived?
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)22:40:45 No.427732708
- Replies: >>427733696
- >>427731460
- We use optomics. Very low-level photons. The photons are used for both data transmission and as a nominal power source. We consume very little in the way of power compared to what you might know conventionally.
- Optomics can "step-up" sunlight in a room though the walls themselves are not transparent. Moreover, we can store sunlight for weeks at a time for later use. Dust (distributed computing foam) requires very little in the way of energy.
- Our largest industry per watt is air and water filtration, and even those use filters made from plastids (for you, "meta materials") and bacterial agents to do most of the "muscle work", respectively.
- The one thing I can commend humanity for is our willingness to leave nature to her devices and move to city clusters. Population growth is highly regulated, and we have done some things in our history that we are not proud of before legislation was enacted. I don't care to elaborate, though it is not as gruesome as that might allude to.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: fWSiYHFl) 09/28/12(Fri)22:45:09 No.427733385
- Replies: >>427734558
- i have lots to say is their peace amont the races in the future? is there just once race or is their many like their is today in the last 1000 years have you guys found any existence of "aliens" do humans live on other plannets wow this is truly interesting i have so many questions for you
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: pjch0zQv) 09/28/12(Fri)22:47:07 No.427733696
- Replies: >>427736058
- >>427732708
- Do aliens really exist?
- and have you ever heard of Drexel University?
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)22:52:26 No.427734558
- >>427733385
- Forgive me as I still have trouble grasping antiquated notions of race. For me, there is no Negro, other than a person who exists in a region that may have ancestrally been the home for Negroes, other than the fact that negroes live anywhere mother earth can sustain them. So that term is somewhat difficult for me to grasp, although I understand tremendously the significance it must have on your frame of reference. And I respect that.
- As far as "skin color", we have been lost to so many variations of race mixing and cosmetic augmentation that I could not tell you for sure what ancestry my sexual partners are. The same goes for your antiquated notions of sex and gender. I would in your view be "gay" as I have fornicated with both men and women regularly. We understand the biological sex mechanism but are liberated from those things which by standard convention you might find "taboo".
- Also, religion is still available, but usually on a much more personal level. I believe in God, but more of Einstein's God than your depictions of the "old man in the cloud", so to speak.
- Even the notion of "time travel" is somewhat mundane.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: lNlFUXSI) 09/28/12(Fri)22:53:10 No.427734684
- Replies: >>427738126
- In the past, you and another time traveler named Tom came to this board at the same time. One of you stated that with the medicine and science of your time allows for almost superhuman feats. Care to elaborate on that?
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: fWSiYHFl) 09/28/12(Fri)22:56:04 No.427735165
- Replies: >>427738126
- so what you are saying is that religion isn't that big of a deal in the future i'm not saying I do not believe in god but nobody has seen him anything in the future we should know about?
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)23:01:25 No.427736058
- Replies: >>427737764
- >>427733696
- We have not yet made contact with extraterrestrial life.
- I, like you, continue to be fascinated by the notion, and cannot bear to think that we are somehow alone in all this universe. However, the consensus is that if intelligent life were to exist, then as advanced as we might be, that any life form not indigenous to Earth must thereby equally be advanced. In short, we simply stopped looking.
- There was an incident, however, according to my notes, where Earth-based radio telescopes collected signals that had a distinct pattern to them. My notes say that this was later theorized to be the heart of a star that had collapsed and left a gigantic crystal in its remains. This crystal emitted radiation including patterns in the EMF band. We were jinxed, as it were, and the excitement surrounding the event was for naught.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: pjch0zQv) 09/28/12(Fri)23:11:36 No.427737764
- Replies: >>427739383
- >>427736058
- would you mind explaining to me how exactly do you harvest the energy from electrons? is it the same method that exists now: there is a a radioactive source that emits electron radiation and this radiation is captured, but this gives only very low voltage. Such voltage is not even usable to power a light bulb.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)23:13:47 No.427738126
- Replies: >>427739707
- >>427734684
- I have no doubts that other time tourists have visited public forums. And yes, I am fully aware of the John Titor debacle, which proved to be a promotional stunt by a film executive working for the Walt Disney company as per your reference.
- I am not aware of any incident where I corroborate with Tom. I personally don't know anyone named Tom, which I assume is short for Thomas, at least in my family's lifetime.
- Biological augmentation often includes recreational augmentation. As I stated, in "my" history, some very painful lessons were learned in the search for the definition of "humanity". Within your lifetime, three particular works stand out: Ghost in the Shell, AXYS, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Those franchises almost perfectly encapsulate the concepts of human augmentation (although grossly exaggerated) with AXYS being the most accurate of the three.
- >>427735165
- Religions such as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, etc. still exist and are still revered by those who follow it. Again, your antiquated notion of "organized religion" strains me. People are free to worship as they will without persecution or conflict. Those who wish to disagree over religion rarely speak. So in becoming an intimated society, we also are more nationalistic in our ways. As nations become more self-sufficient, there is naturally less social integration.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: fWSiYHFl) 09/28/12(Fri)23:14:14 No.427738197
- kinda interesting that the gov't gave up on aliens lol what about the whole area 51 thing on how they have ships and have used reverse engineering and stuff like that anything you know about that? and what about the gov't themselves and is it the same but more advanced or is it totally different
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)23:21:49 No.427739383
- Replies: >>427739948
- >>427737764
- Some smaller, naturalized citystates still use electro-motive current for work, but only in limited capacity. Electro-motive current is powered by solar collectors and chemical storage, and released in discrete amounts when needed.
- We use optomics. Both data and motive force are carried by low-light photons, or stepped-up if ambient light is needed.
- The use of fossil fuels and natural gas are prohibited and outlawed in most sovereign nations.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: RsTcOTIA) 09/28/12(Fri)23:24:05 No.427739707
- Replies: >>427739959 >>427741632
- >>427738126
- Seeing as this is your second of many visits, you haven't met Tom "yet." You meet him, about 2 months prior to "now", purely by coincidence. The only difference being he comes from a time of about 5000 Gregorian years in the future, if memory serves. A time when a human life spans just under 500 years, and the option of permissible suicide by ingesting a "pill", if you are familiar with the term, is given from the age of 150 years old henceforth. You actually stated that the other time traveller was one of the attractors to your visit. In your future's time frame, of course.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: pjch0zQv) 09/28/12(Fri)23:25:41 No.427739948
- Replies: >>427741632
- >>427739383
- do you poses a schematic of this technology? or know the elements that are in use for chemical storage?
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: RsTcOTIA) 09/28/12(Fri)23:25:46 No.427739959
- >>427739707
- Your time's future, excuse me.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: fWSiYHFl) 09/28/12(Fri)23:31:46 No.427740828
- Replies: >>427741241
- can I give you my contact info so we can talk one on one or maybe meet up someplace and talk in person?
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: MOx2siog) 09/28/12(Fri)23:34:33 No.427741241
- >>427740828
- Or all of us.. or the world, your choice.
- >>
- Anonymous (ID: 8/XQfZCY) 09/28/12(Fri)23:37:20 No.427741632
- >>427739707
- I can see by several accounts that I have been here "already" according to your local frame. I can assure you that "time tourism" is quite nominal in my lifetime, despite the bantering of Mr. Hawking. It is not a consumer pastime, no, insofaras no one is in a hurry to die or be "trapped" in one's own "past", which is a terrible reality that our team must face and in a few incidents before I arrived that exact thing happened. Nevertheless, it is simply impractical to want to keep a herd of dinosar roaming when a specimen or two is more easily contained.
- But thank you for understanding the peculiar nature of how you might perceive my visits compared to my own local frame of reference. I could very well have been here before "now", which it seems at least a few of you kept notes from that frame of reference.
- I shall look forward, then, to meeting "Tom".
- >>427739948
- It is a thick, oil-like compound is all I know. I don't know much about physics and even less about chemistry, sorry. However, I can assure you that even if I gave you the exact ingredients necessary to make such a compound, you lack the necessary material sciences to contain it, I'm afraid.
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