/sci/ - Science & Math

Stupidest fucking design strategy ever.

Next to this.

What would happen if the Death Star shot a gas giant?

There are 2 ways (maybe more) that the results could show:

1) One can imagine, under General Relativity, that the earth's acceleration towards the sun would be suddenly 'cut' (like a man in a uniformly accelerating elevator who's cable suddenly 'snapped') and we would have the immediate effects of the transform (loss of 'acceleration' towards the sun / our null geodisic change instantaneously) of the Minkowski 4-time BEFORE in fact the massless particles speeding towards us do (as they are traversing a 'trace' geodesic - it being the only one available to them). This would hold if the correct interpretation of Minkowski space-time is purely geometric and/or topological in nature (which is NOT the same thing, with the preserved 'trace' geodesics the massless particles are following, as 'absolute'. It is still frame-dependent).

or 2) The 'trace' geodesics indeed carry the gravitational force (e.g. gravitons) until such time as any particle, massy or massless, ceases to traverse them (till the massless remnants overfly the earth and no more are incoming from the vanished sun). This would hold for 'particle' theory of gravitation (although in general it does not seem necessary that a particle is the required carrier, if you rely upon the 'trace' setup given in the example).

Experiments: In the case of a massive object like the sun, this would be a quite easy and measurable test, especially with the 9 minute interval before between the relevant frames.

Of course, to scale this sort of experiment down has its difficulties, because you would still need a massive object at a significant distance so that the a) gravitational force is distinct and measurable and the 2) distance is large enough to show up as a differential in the time effects for the frames.

Someone needs to construct a Death Star so we can test this hypothesis on a small planet or asteroid NAO!

Come on guys, fucking space lasers!

Serious business.

commence operation death star

bwahahahaha!

Would it be possible to make artificial gravity without spinning very fast? Like some sort of gravity generator? Contained black hole, maybe?

when we run out of oil, uranium, thorium and sun. can geothermal / wind turbines sustain us?

You're the crazy girl who wants to save the space station!!!!