Generalizations

Next time you say a generalization about people, keep in mind the average person knows about 600 people (a), and there are 7.3 billion people in the world. You know about 0.00000821917808% of the people on the earth. But you've met more people than that.You will meet about 80,000 people in your life (b). Let's see: that's a whopping 0.00109589041% of the world population.


a>The Average American Knows How Many People? - The New York Times
b>www.quora.com/How-many-people-does-the-average-person-physically-meet-in-a-lifetime

The Solution

In september of last year, I posed a question about time dilation: http://deepindeepthought.blogspot.com/2014/09/question-about-time-dilation.html. What I did not know at the time was that it is physically impossible to send messages instantly, as was proven by one of einstein's thought experiments. 

My Opinion on Teleportation

For a while, I have been considering if teleportation is possible and feasible. Here are my thoughts:

1. Teleporting objects

How would you teleport objects? One way would be to read every particle and it's state, destroy all the particles, send the information to the other portal, and reconstruct the object there. The problems with this? The object's information could be lost, the process would take huge amounts of energy, and the transportation would not be instantaneous. But, it might be possible.

2. Teleporting Humans?

If you could teleport an object, could you teleport a human? This raises a few questions: 

Is a human just made up of matter? Currently science does not know how the brain works. I believe re-creating the physical part of someone's brain would not recreate their memories or their soul.

But, if it did, would it be a good idea to create this teleportation system? No. First of all, you would have to completely destroy someone, and recreate them. Basically you would be killing them, and attempting to reincarnate them somewhere else. This seems like a bad idea. And it seems illegal. 

A 3 sided box...

https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/3-sided-box/5862510565785600

Question about Time Dilation...

For a while, a question has been without answer in my mind. In recent conversation, I have brought it up but had a hard time explaining it. I decided to write it out to help organize my thoughts and help other people understand my thinking in hopes that either I find the answer in sorting it out or someone else comes up with a answer that solves the paradox in my mind. For the purpose of the example, let's assume that instant communication with quantum entanglement (or some other system) is possible.

Mr. Smith  is traveling through space at high speeds. Mr. Brown is on earth. When Mr. Smith  passes earth at supersonic speeds, he fires two photons, one in front of him and one behind him. he has set up sensors that move with his ship that detect when the photon he fired hits them. These sensors do not change the course of the photons, they merely detect them.When they detect them, they send an instant message to the control board witch records the time it received each one. According to time dilation, if they are each equal distances away from the origin of the photons, they should both receive the same time.  

Mr. Brown, who is on earth, also has two sensors. They are also each an equal distance away from where the photons were released. They also should also receive them at the same time.

The problem? For Mr. Smith's readings to be the same, his space ships time will both have to speed up (for the photon sent behind it) and slow down (for the photon sent in front of it).

Any thoughts?

 

 

 

 

A math joke I made up

There were two mathematicians in a car. The car started stalling and then just failed. The first guy said "Man, I have no idea what's wrong with this car. I've tried replacing almost everything and it keeps doing this." and the other guy stated: "Just run it at half power and you'll get to the root of the problem."

Volume Problem...

If you played a song on very low volume and then when it started fading out slowly turned it up, what would happen?