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  1. If a random mini black hole (maybe 10 times the mass of our sun) moved through our solar system, what are the possible effects? What if it moved close enough or touched a planet? How fast would it happen? Would there be enough gravitational pull from the sun on the outer planets if they were moved off their orbit to keep them from being slung into the cosmos? What would happen to say, Earth, should the black hole come into contact with the planet?
  2. Baxter and Card are two authors I love and consume rabidly. I'll go check out the other stuff too. Thanks. I forgot all about the ansible in the Ender's saga. I need to reread that thing someday.
  3. ye gods you all are too smart for me. Is there any kind of literature or a Dummies Guide to quantum mechanics that you all would probably completely scoff at that would be perfect for me?
  4. I'm pretty sure I've got what I want the computer to be able to do. I just sent off a pitch to Shadowline Comics' Superheroine Contest with a huge outline of the story. Everything right now is pretty ad hoc. I made up a drug called PneuSpeed that somehow allows its users to speed up a localized pocket of spacetime around them. And then I started wondering how the heck something like that could possibly work outside of some unexplainable pseudo science blech (there, I rhymed for you). I came across this idea by David Bohm that the brain is actually a quantum computer. However, skeptics have calculated that the brain is not an ideal environment for the brain to function as a quantum computer ... blah blah. I still don't even know what all of it means, really. I'm trying to read up on a ton of literature out there but I'm not sure if what I'm interpreting/deciphering from these Quantum Mind theories is going to gel with my story or not. So I came here. I've been here in the past and you all rock.
  5. In my own rudimentary thought process, I distinguish active and passive as having the ability to control the quantum mind to interface, encode, and manipulate our environment versus ... whatever we do now, if quantum mechanics apply to brain function. It's a comic book. Basically I want to come up with a scenario that allows my characters to be able to actively manipulate a localized pocket of space-time. By manipulate, I specifically mean that characters will be able to speed up that pocket of space-time, which includes themselves, so that they will be faster than anyone else outside that pocket. That may present a ton of time paradox scenarios which I haven't even considered yet. I just want to see if there's any kind of theoretical way for a quantum brain to be able to interface with the universe first of all. I can go the way of ad hoc (after all, I mean, nobody has much of a problem with superman ...) but that's no fun :hihi:. I work for a company that contracts to DARPA and I know they are in love with Spintronics. I just can't wrap my head around their equation heavy material.
  6. First off, please bear in mind that I'm simply a sci fi writer trying to wrap my head around all of this. I probably have a very limited and fictional view of what quantum mechanics really means. I've tried to wrap my head around David Bohm but it's just not happening. I'm trying to design a fictional way for the brain to act as an active quantum computer - rather than a passive one. Passive, for me, meaning that the brain functions as a quantum computer simply to process and store information. Versus an active computer, meaning the brain can interface, encode and manipulate the quantum universe. If an active quantum computing brain can manipulate the quantum universe, what are the implications? Feel free to poke a billion holes in this and/or my rudimentary understanding of what a quantum mind really would be. That would be very helpful actually. But remember I will probably glaze over if you get ludicrously esoteric. Thanks! (be nice! :hihi: )
  7. my first post ... i've been reading these forums off and on with a lot of interest and finally have two quick questions to ask ... (please pardon my ignorance of physics etc) - If I were moving at the speed of light through deep space or whatever, would I get squished into a near-2D line? Would I survive? - Aren't galaxies receding from each other at the speed of light suggesting that they are all moving at the speed of light? If so aren't we all already moving at the speed of light? How does the relativity theory explain this? that's it
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