Monty Wild‭

In my answer to my own question, Physical laws for a matter-filled universe, I detail the gross physical laws that would shape my four-spatial-dimensional matter filled universe. Given a slowly ex...

1 answer  ·  posted 11y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 11y ago by Monty Wild‭

I have a city on a 3km-high mountain-top with a population of perhaps 50,000 humans, at a technological level of late renaissance or early steam. Below the city is a coniferous forest with wildlife...

6 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 10y ago by Monty Wild‭

In the question, Weapons for a civilisation-destroying giant robot, I asked about what weapons might be mounted on a giant snakebot over 1 km in diameter and over 9km long, equipped with six fusion...

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Assuming that we have a universe with four spatial dimensions plus time, within which atoms exist that can form solids, liquids, gases and plasmas, the compounds that can be formed having physical ...

2 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 10y ago by Monty Wild‭

In this question, I asked about a matter-filled 4-spatial-dimensional universe, with a gross structure defined by my own answer to that question. Then, in this question, I asked about what the per...

2 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Monty Wild‭

Is it possible that a large, multicellular, naturally evolved organism with an advanced intellect on the order of a human's could have evolved to pass on its knowledge and memories in a fashion tha...

2 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 10y ago by Monty Wild‭

The Snakebot of Doom - now dubbed Jormungandr by the first humans to encounter it and survive - is busy steamrolling New York into rubble, having first nuked the capitols of every member of the Nuc...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Monty Wild‭

While asking another question about Jormungandr, the Snakebot of Doom, a point was made that it is so big and hot that it might produce its own weather effects. To that end: Jormungandr is 446 me...

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My answer to the question Is there a scientifically sound faster-than-light travel system for a spaceship? involved an Alcubierre-drive starship. However, that then got me thinking. What would an ...

8 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Monty Wild‭

I was reading Flatland, and the thought occurred to me that interaction between an n-dimensional being and a n+1+-dimensional being may not only be difficult but dangerous, that Flatland contains e...

3 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Monty Wild‭

Let us suppose that we have people who for all intents and purposes are human, except for one (not so) tiny modification: they are able to exert enough muscular force and react fast enough that the...

2 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Monty Wild‭

As a child, I was always fascinated by the propensity of water going down a drain to form a vortex. I created a world with a global ocean where there was a narrow body of land running north-south...

4 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 11y ago by Monty Wild‭

Consider a group of humans at a bronze-age to early iron-age technological level colonizing a new earthlike planet. There is just one difference - there exists on the planet something which change...

10 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Monty Wild‭

The Setting: I have an idea for a universe that, in an inversion to our own, is filled for the most part with matter in solid, liquid, gaseous or plasma form, while vacuum and degenerate matter is...

5 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Monty Wild‭

In this question, I asked about a universe with (amongst other things) 4 large spatial dimensions. In 3 dimensions, we have the familiar periodic table with its familiar arrangement of atoms in th...

1 answer  ·  posted 11y ago by Monty Wild‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Monty Wild‭