Theory

Gilly · 14 May 2007 at 11:28

dcolyer said:
Stop critiquing my idea and improve it.

The best (and only) feasible idea you came up with was relay stations. Remove the poles and we'll be able to talk to one another

You could even connect these relay stations up with fibre optics as mentioned previously. This would mean the materials used, though prohibitively costly, actually exist.

dcolyer said:
I have moved several carrots and let me assure you it works.

Why don't you connect a lot of carrots together and see if your neighbour can understand you.

Barbie · 14 May 2007 at 11:28

manoz said:
It's still a theory though isn't it?

True, but so far it's stood up to all the tests thrown at it. Explained the anomolies found with Newton's Laws of motion (precession of Mercury's orbit)

Pythagorus' Theory is still only a theory remember

Amleto · 14 May 2007 at 11:28

This is a troll right? Cant even spell Hawking right. As for the theory, words fail me.

xgeek · 14 May 2007 at 11:29

You guys never heard the story about the Carrot and stick or in this case the Carrot and pole

Gilly · 14 May 2007 at 11:31

Amleto said:
This is a troll right? Cant even spell Hawking right. As for the theory, words fail me.

Its highly likely, but I'm having some fun

Barbie · 14 May 2007 at 11:32

Put a carrot on the end of a pole to some distant planet and see if we can entice some aliens?

Van_Dammesque · 14 May 2007 at 11:33

The pulse of information would be limited to the attenuation of the phonons, depending on what material you use, at best several mach.

ArmyofHarmony · 14 May 2007 at 11:33

Im pretty sure dcolyer is just winding us up, but he's just talking crap without listening to people who know what they're on about

JumpinJ · 14 May 2007 at 11:34

who would we communicate with?

everyone I know lives on earth..

manoz · 14 May 2007 at 11:35

Barbie said:
True, but so far it's stood up to all the tests thrown at it. Explained the anomolies found with Newton's Laws of motion (precession of Mercury's orbit)

Pythagorus' Theory is still only a theory remember

I thought Pythagorus was a theorem, not a theory?

I 'm not totally sure about this but I think I read somewhere that particles(or was it energy?) that have got ejected from the sun were detected in the atmosphere but only thing is these particles/energy have a shorter lifespan 8 minutes. So only way they could have got here is if they were faster then light or went through time. It could be crazy talk!!!

Rathanes · 14 May 2007 at 11:35

Some people are taking this worryingly seriously. :/

iamdjdz · 14 May 2007 at 11:36

By any chance, you're not Karl Pillkington are you? Because this is drivel. But good drivel and I want to be the first person to push a pole in space.

Barbie · 14 May 2007 at 11:37

manoz said:
I thought Pythagorus was a theorem, not a theory?

I 'm not totally sure about this but I think I read somewhere that particles(or was it energy?) that have got ejected from the sun were detected in the atmosphere but only thing is these particles/energy have a shorter lifespan 8 minutes. So only way they could have got here is if they were faster then light or went through time. It could be crazy talk!!!

Less than 8 minutes at rest. Remember for a moving object, time for that object slows down compared to a stationary observer.

So for a particle at near the speed of light, 1 minute for it could be a month, even a year for someone on earth.

Andelusion · 14 May 2007 at 11:38

From the second picture it was obvious this was a wind-up

The moment anyone starts introducing vegetables into a complex (or not) interstellar theory for communication there's bound to be some giggles floating about

Six6siX · 14 May 2007 at 11:38

iamdjdz said:
By any chance, you're not Karl Pillkington are you? Because this is drivel. But good drivel and I want to be the first person to push a pole in space.

Giggidy

ArmyofHarmony · 14 May 2007 at 11:39

he thinks he's smarter than einstein

dustiestrat · 14 May 2007 at 11:40

wouldnt a pole the length that would be need bend in the middle making it almost useless?

Moredhel · 14 May 2007 at 11:40

Just think about the mass of the bloody thing!

Ok so assume the pole goes from here to the nearest system, that's about 4 light years give or take. We'll assume it's made from one of the strongest alloys around, Aluminium 7178. That's 2823.379 KG/M^3.

We'll assume the pole has a circular cross section of about 2 meters. That's a total volume of 2.97211265 * 10^16 M^3 Meaning the whole thing is going to weigh (or rather have a mass of, as there's no mavity in space for it to weigh anything) 8.39140044 * 10^16 metric tons... And you want 2 of them!

M0KUJ1N · 14 May 2007 at 11:41

Van_Dammesque said:
The pulse of information would be limited to the attenuation of the phonons, depending on what material you use, at best several mach.

That's what I was thinking too, surely this guy's "theory" is just the transmission of a standing wave through a solid? Therefore the actual speed of transmission of information would be the average group velocity of the phonons through the pole? (Which would be considerably less than c!)

Gilly · 14 May 2007 at 11:41

Moredhel said:
Just think about the mass of the bloody thing!

Ok so assume the pole goes from here to the nearest system, that's about 4 light years give or take. We'll assume it's made from one of the strongest alloys around, Aluminium 7178. That's 2823.379 KG/M^3.

We'll assume the pole has a circular cross section of about 2 meters. That's a total volume of 2.97211265 * 10^16 M^3 Meaning the whole thing is going to weigh 8.39140044 * 10^16 metric tons... And you want 2 of them!

And wants to be able to anchor them, and push them accurately enough for communication.