Jordisk
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Mass is Matter, Matter is Energy, Heat is Energy, therefore Mass is Heat?
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That's completely absurd.
If you have waste heat, you don't need bottles to keep your house warm!
Obviously you should use the bottles as thermal weapons!
I assume this is in your Mass Effect crossover timeline, and a dig at Mass Effect 2's change to use thermal clips for the guns instead of having them cooldown over time like the original game?
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"Of course, that's so you can easily see visually when it's full! You always want a quick manual sanity check on this sort of thing."
"We need a sanity check, all right..."
"It'll work, honest. Look, here's a nearly full one, see?"
"Taylor, heat doesn't work like that!"
"I decided it did. Now it does."
"..."
"And I designed this thing too, you can put the bottle of heat into it and it'll keep the house warm for months! Cool, isn't it? If you'll pardon the pun."
"I think the Council is going to have a collective stroke if they meet you. Can I make the introduction? Please?"
This made me go "Hur hur hur" like a happy Wrex.
"We need a sanity check, all right..."
"It'll work, honest. Look, here's a nearly full one, see?"
"Taylor, heat doesn't work like that!"
"I decided it did. Now it does."
"..."
"And I designed this thing too, you can put the bottle of heat into it and it'll keep the house warm for months! Cool, isn't it? If you'll pardon the pun."
"I think the Council is going to have a collective stroke if they meet you. Can I make the introduction? Please?"
This made me go "Hur hur hur" like a happy Wrex.
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...Wot? Not even a hot water bottle? For shame...
On a more serious note: what did Taylor eat, and where can i find some?
Last i check, you're not God Taytay.
Not yet anyway.
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That is absurd. You have the waste heat in July and you want to keep your house warm in January. A heat bottle is cheaper and easier to use than a time machine.
Amberion
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You're not wrong, but since FTL is technically time travel, she's already cracked that one.
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Also less likely to cause cosmic migraines or Reality to drop you.
Soooort of? We aren't actually sure about that and Einsteinian physics doesn't work properly with numbers greater than C, so we're clearly missing something.
Czlyydwr Llrngwl
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Physics: (makes shy suggestion)
Taylor: No, see, (explanation)
Physics: (blushing) O-okay...
Taylor: (smiles, pats head, and proceeds on her way)
Physics: KYAAA~! (swoons over heapats from Sempai)
Taylor: No, see, (explanation)
Physics: (blushing) O-okay...
Taylor: (smiles, pats head, and proceeds on her way)
Physics: KYAAA~! (swoons over heapats from Sempai)
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Not quite. Since we know from the Theory of General Relativity that E2=m2c4+ρ2c2 (or E=mc2, if you prefer Special Relativity), it follows that Matter is slow Heat.
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Amberion
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It's probably simply impossible to accelerate faster than light in real space, which is why the math implies time travel to relativity.
Also because you can diagram out exactly how you would perform time travel, given an FTL capability (that lacks a preferred reference frame).
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Now the real question is how much waste heat does Taylor inventions generate on a normal operational cycle, something tells me that they barely generate enough to get a cup of lukewarm water and she is quite gleefully janking Tali's leg because she didn't read yet the full theory on her gravitic and weapons systems before peeking at the blueprints and therefore realizing that the biggest source of heat in the ship are the crewmembers and therefore its considered as part of the life support systems.
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Might be
One of the main reasons militaries switched from 7.62mm to 5.56mm is more ammo carried meant more ammo that could be fired, and the army that put more ammo down-range tended to be the winning army. While accuracy matters, quantity beat quality nearly every time.
Thermal clips are a way to do that. In Mass Effect canon, the Geth figured it out first, and reverse-engineering of Geth weapons after the Eden Prime attack in ME1 was when everybody learned about the idea. By making the heat sink external and modular, the gun can put more ammo down-range.
We don't actually know that. We know that charged particles experience a kind of drag effect, that requires more and more energy as they are accelerated, with energy requirements approaching the next best thing to infinite as they get close to light speed, but we can't accelerate UNcharged matter to high enough speeds to test whether it's just charged matter or not.
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Yeah, that particular garbage really ruined my immersion. And my entire fighting style.
We went from consistent heat/cooldown mechanics of infinite ammo for everyone to infinite ammo only for others.. until they die and drop Omni-Magazines good for every weapon... until you pick them up, which fixes them in one non-interchangeable form forever.
Why? Just why?
That said, I look forward to Tali's bareface visit home oh so much.
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Because you paid for a Single-Seat licence only. Should have sprung for a floating one if it's that important to you.
Jordisk
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It is impossible to accelerate faster than light...AS FAR AS WE KNOW. Our current theories say it is impossible, but our current theories are AKNOWLEDGED TO BE WRONG. We know they are wrong, because they break down when attempting to describe known physical phenomena (AKA black holes, among other things). That is the whole point of the theoretical "tachyon" particle, a particle that moves faster-than-light, and backwards in time.
This is also true. IIRC, the closest we have come to light speed was with electrons, and for some reason after reaching a certain point they started getting larger, instead of going faster. We still got an electron to like 98% of the speed of light, but our current technology couldn't make it go faster, and the tool used was a magnet-based particle collider.
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Hmm i can see something like that being possible, not that small and horribly dangerous but possible. If you take a very small black hole (like only a few kilograms worth or less) and then surround it in a magnetic field to keep it in the middle of the bottle or something and than you surround it with material that is more or less 100% reflective to radiation (like a ball like mirror kinda). Then all the hawking radiation will just be reflected around in the bottle and back into the black hole, if you then "pump" in more infrared radiation (AKA heat) it will just enter the black hole. When you want to use the heat you then just open a tiny tiny hole in the bottle to let out a tiny tiny tiny amount of the total radiation in the bottle and absorb it with something the radiation would then be converted back into heat.
It would be far far far to dangerous to do it this way as if the bottle breaks open it would be like having a continues nuclear explosion going on for quite a while only getting bigger and bigger the smaller the black hole got, see "What if there was a black hole in your pocket?" by the YouTube channel "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell" for a simple explanation.
But on a larger scale like a mountain or something and then in space with a far larger and stronger bottle it is feasible to use a black hole like that as a battery for a realistic spaceship drive which is very cool, for a more in depth look at black hole spaceships please look at the video "Black Hole Starships" by the YouTube channel "Isaac Arthur" for more information
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There's... probably a way to do that. It would involve some dimensional folding bullshit and artificial energy gradients, but compared to the other stuff Taylor's been up to, it's not that impossible.
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Yes, that is the in-universe reasoning. Now a question for you, if I may. Why can't you let your thermal clips cool down in between firefights/while hiding behind cover, if you didn't need to eject them? Or, if they're an entirely different design that is specifically single-use, why the fuck isn't there still a built-in reusable one??! The amount of times I had to switch to a suboptimal weapon because I was completely out of ammo for my primary/the one that was appropriate in ME2 was ridiculous, and if we could ration our reloads by allowing them to cool down or, in emergencies, rely on the backup old-style sink, it wouldn't have been anywhere near as bad either for gameplay or for in-universe logic. They went from effectively unlimited ammo - more ammo carried - to sharply limited ammo, for a minor increase in rate of fire over time, without the ability to fall back on unlimited ammo if the situation called for it!
Not to mention the people that had been stranded on an uncharted planet for two decades that just so happened to also be using the new heat clip system - because they had to, otherwise Shepard and co would run out of ammo a quarter of the way through the crazy cultists and be swarmed by them!
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I maybe wrong, but my limited understanding of why we can't go faster then light seems to boil down to the delta time in the acceleration equation (delta velocity/delta time). As an object accelerates to c the delta t approaches 0. Is this the case?
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Programmers have suppressed all knowledge of practical time travel in order to avoid having to figure out how to handle far-past and far-future dates in everything.
Timezones, varying calendars, leap years, leap seconds, etc are all enough of a pain without adding the ability to go forwards or backwards in time at will as well!
Timezones, varying calendars, leap years, leap seconds, etc are all enough of a pain without adding the ability to go forwards or backwards in time at will as well!
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Because of this, most time travel machines that are built only have one trip in them, since the computers in them have no way to handle the travel - and have to be aware of the flow of time for the machine to work in the first place - erroring out upon arrival, stranding the unfortunate time traveller wherever they went for their first trip. A very few rogue time travellers have circumvented this issue, but there is a reason one Dr Emmett Brown was more successful with a retrofitted steam engine with a custom clockwork babbage machine than his original digital DeLorean design.
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