/sci/ - Science & Math

>>5275981
One more thing, think of a very complicated spirograph, that has a mirror image.

Somewhere on the line as you're drawing it, a mirror image of it is being drawn by another particle. If this spirograph was sufficiently complex so that sampling any point along the path would appear to be random, then you could seperate the spirograph and it's mirror and still know based on coincidence, which one is the spirograph and which is the mirror.

So it's not that hard to find situations where it doesn't matter if it's probabilistic. Whats hard is determining empirically what the spirograph in this situation looks like.

Some complex calabi yau kinda shit.

>>3528319
>implying he doesnt understand orders of magnitude.

>>3504999
have you ever studied orders of magnitude?

Hello /sci/.

Reading a lot of science fiction I come up on a lot of concepts for technologies that make me ponder its feasibility. Some ideas that sci-fi has come up with are totally within the realm of possibility, but we are held back by limitations of practicality. Disregarding the arguments of human conflicts limiting us, what are some of the things that science fiction describes that could be possible, and what things are not?

tl:dr; Possible: ??? Impossible: ???

>>2164727
The shear amount of power we can generate due to solar radiation alone suffices to supply the world.

http://www.causecast.org/content/new-solar-balloon-creates-400-times-more-energy-average-solar-cell-
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101202181128.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091111122320.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101110101319.htm

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/japans-space-agency-planning-space-based-solar-power-arrays/