Posts by Mithrandir24601
This is based on a question in Writing about revitalising the community and is pretty much a blatant copy-paste of Monica's answer there. Essentially, it's been suggested that we remove all mass-i...
To replace using the like of the 'hard-science' tag on Worldbuilding SE, we have the 'Rigorous Science' category. As evident in the name, this involves 'research' of some form, but what does this m...
Quantum Computers are considered a more powerful type of computer than so called 'classical' computers. While a typical classical computer could be considered as a black box that can solve Polynomi...
Preamble Lets start from the beginning here. The Alcubierre drive is a result of general relativity. This has what's known as a metric. Minkowski spacetime (lets call this 'flat') has the metric ...
Both the (current) answers to the question state that it is not possible for your idea to work. Aside from the fact that you are explicitly not asking for a feasibility study, the obligatory XKCD r...
Using Michael Karnerfors' answer as a basis for the numbers, only instead of directly attaching the rail-gun to the ship so that everything moves as a whole, attaching the gun to a flywheel (or som...
By definition, the average IQ score is 100. However, the above-mentioned Flynn effect states that average IQs relative to previous years' standards increases. Going by this paper, the increase in ...
The second law of thermodynamics states that global entropy of an isolated system always increases or remains constant This tells us a couple of things that are relevant here: If the system is n...
I'm going to run through your list of points and see what happens: Fine. Has to interact via either gravity, strong or weak Fine. $0$ charge (no electromagnetic interaction), integer spin (are bo...
