Shepard Quest Mk V, Base of Operations (ME/MCU)
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No, just download and unpack it. The source code is also in the folder (written in delphi, because, yes, that's what I learned way back in school, and I plain don't have time to learn C of any variation like a respectable person), but you don't need it.
It would work for any quest, of course, the only specific thing about it is the overflow which automatically goes into the last scheduled project. I'll add "don't use overflow" switch in the morning. Too tired and want to sleep now (and yes, I know that it's literally two clicks of a mouse and one line of code). You could add a dummy project there if you want to ignore it.
What the program does is caclulate a probability of success of a number of projects, each of which gets assigned a number of dice from the dice pool.
Another thought by way of the possibility of FTL Sensors.
Eezo when exposed to electric current allows the raising or lowering of mass of an object or the creation of gravitational fields for other uses.
So what happens to Eezo exposed to changing gravity, both natural and that generated with other Eezo nodules?
Eezo when exposed to electric current allows the raising or lowering of mass of an object or the creation of gravitational fields for other uses.
So what happens to Eezo exposed to changing gravity, both natural and that generated with other Eezo nodules?
Well, they have some sort of "dark energy" scanner / detector, even handheld ones (you hear about 'dark energy readings" in mass effect 2). So I assume there's some sort of detectable feedback. Now, how quick "dark energy" signals propagate and how they behave is a question, and whether they can be used for FTL sensors or not is a question too.
In principle, a comm buoy might be modified into an active FTL scanner, possibly, if a super-fast computer and super-sensitive sensors are added to it, and if it can work without a paired comm buoy on the other end I'll talk about comm buoys in the morning, but by my calculations, they are complete BS.
From thew wiki:
"Element Zero, also known as "eezo", is a rare material that, when subjected to an electrical current, releases dark energy which can be manipulated into a mass effect field, raising or lowering the mass of all objects within that field."
Eezo it self does not effect gravity in any way other then being a mass. Eezo generates dark energy which is what you use to mess with mass/gravity/kinetic energy.
See wiki
My thought was more how the dark energy propagates is less important than how powerful a gravitation effect has to be to cause such a sympathetic reaction in the Eezo.
Which makes me wonder....why is it they don't use that dark energy for creating a wormhole instead? Wouldn't using it that way be more effective for FTL travel?
We don't know that. It might be that creating wormholes (Achieving space metric necessary) isn't possible with eezo. It might be that calculations required for aiming said wormholes are too complex for available computers or that it's impossible to control the fields precisely enough to create and aim traversable wormhole of macroscopic size over interstellar distances.
I have proposed study of ring singularities as one of the scientific projects, though. It's somewhere above in the thread.
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I've heard that taking a black hole and getting it to rotate at a large percentage of c would have the mass inside the hole "move" towards the hole's edges, which would expose the singularity and reduce lethal tidal effects, resulting in possibly a traversable wormhole if you could get it to work right.
In theory, though. Haven't read anything on this that supports the idea, but it does sound cool.
In theory, though. Haven't read anything on this that supports the idea, but it does sound cool.
Yup, rotating black holes can be traversable. But the space-time you exit into is not the same as the one you entered from.
It is also closely related to the ring singularities Yog mentioned.
As far as I understand, yeah. Ring singularities. There's also a possiblity of toroidal black holes existing (they haven't been ruled out as impossible; all other shapes but spherical have been, from what I understand).
Speaking of, with eezo we might not need "near c" thing, just rotation (maybe):
It's hard to prove things about about real world objects, but for "stationary" (in this context that means "equilibrium," that is unchanging in time) black holes, the Carter-Robinson theorem (as improved by Hawking and Wald) states that it will always belong to the Kerr family; that is be a rotating (and possibly charged) black hole. Thus, toroidal black holes cannot exist. Note that this proof depends crucially on the number of space dimensions, so in higher dimensional theories, you can imagine (generalized) toroidal black holes and even weirder things.
Oh, and on the subject of rotating black holes, you may want to consider the Penrose Process.
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While a few items in ME use the term singularity or blackhole, using it actively is hard and tends to break the device see the reaper blackstar weapon.
The blackstorm is a extremely pathetic "singularity" by comparison. It would seem that the more powerful the singularity effect the more wear and tear on the components of the device. I imagine that wormholes are just as hard if not harder.
Though I wonder what the massless corridor of an active relay pair would be called in science terms. Part of me wants to ask if that isn't sorta like a wormhole, esp as one can ignore the masses between the two relays, or so the use of the conduit in ME1 leads me to conclude.
Nothing? When you use the conduit your quite literally going though the presidium ring and it and you are just fine. You also get to go though the roof of the bunker on Ilos. There might be a small amount of micro/nano damage from passing though the other masses because its not quite perfectly massless but that'd be unnoticeable/irreverent.
So no, If you were really good you could stop the transit with a mass part way though and cause explosions if it intersected an object or what ever happens when two masses try to exist in the same space. But that takes absurd levels of timing as relay transit is basically instant. And you'd need a relay on each side of the object.
I know very little of it, but I don't see how your conclusion (torodial black holes don't exist) follows from the fact that stationary black holes must be rotating and possibly charged. Couldn't such rotating (charged) black holes be toroidal?
Anyway, I promised some ranting about comm buoys. Well, here it is:
How do comm buoys work? They are describedlike this:
Let's say that a comm buoy is a whopping one kilometer in diameter (i.e. the area you have to hit has the cross-section of pi/4 square kilometers). Let's say that the distance between the comm buoys is only one light hour. Just one light hour, which would necessitate over forty thousand buoys to link us with Alpha Centauri, much less anything more distant. The solid angle would be (pi/4*10^6)/(4*pi*(3600*3*10^8)^2)=10^6/16/(3600*3*10^8)^2=5*10^-20.
From a mile (1.6 kilometers) away, you'll see an object with a mean diameter of 1.4 micrometers with the same solid angle. Less than a diameter human hair.
That's what it would be an analogue of - hitting an end of human hair with a laser pointer, while on water, from a mile away, and keeping the laser pointed at that hair, continuously. And that's the best case scenario.
The problem is with aiming and maintaining the connection. The shift of less than one atto-degree would mean that the massless corridor completely misses the target. And once it misses - you don't know where to return to, because the target could have shifted in respect to the emitter. You have to scan the area to reestablish the connection. And you have to do it very slowly, because the correct position can pretty much be described via the delta function. Assuming picosecond reaction times for the equipment, you have to scan with the rate of 5*10^-20/10^-12=5*10^-8 steradian per second. That's very slow. Basically the fact that the things work at all (i.e. one buoy can aim at the other and maintain that aiming) is a miracle and requires Citadel races to have ridiculous aiming and stabilization technologies, for all their STL sensors.
How do comm buoys work? They are describedlike this:
What this essentially means is that comm buoys are tightbeam communicators, and for such things to work, a beam emitted by one buoy would have to hit another buoy. That's absolutely required, otherwise tightbeam communication wouldn't work.
Let's say that a comm buoy is a whopping one kilometer in diameter (i.e. the area you have to hit has the cross-section of pi/4 square kilometers). Let's say that the distance between the comm buoys is only one light hour. Just one light hour, which would necessitate over forty thousand buoys to link us with Alpha Centauri, much less anything more distant. The solid angle would be (pi/4*10^6)/(4*pi*(3600*3*10^8)^2)=10^6/16/(3600*3*10^8)^2=5*10^-20.
From a mile (1.6 kilometers) away, you'll see an object with a mean diameter of 1.4 micrometers with the same solid angle. Less than a diameter human hair.
That's what it would be an analogue of - hitting an end of human hair with a laser pointer, while on water, from a mile away, and keeping the laser pointed at that hair, continuously. And that's the best case scenario.
The problem is with aiming and maintaining the connection. The shift of less than one atto-degree would mean that the massless corridor completely misses the target. And once it misses - you don't know where to return to, because the target could have shifted in respect to the emitter. You have to scan the area to reestablish the connection. And you have to do it very slowly, because the correct position can pretty much be described via the delta function. Assuming picosecond reaction times for the equipment, you have to scan with the rate of 5*10^-20/10^-12=5*10^-8 steradian per second. That's very slow. Basically the fact that the things work at all (i.e. one buoy can aim at the other and maintain that aiming) is a miracle and requires Citadel races to have ridiculous aiming and stabilization technologies, for all their STL sensors.
I wonder if they can use the corridor as a means of keeping the buoys pointed at each other.
That way you only have to do the initial connection, which likely takes forever, it's simply a matter of ensuring that the connection between the two buoys doesn't drop for any reason because then you'd have to reorient them.
That way you only have to do the initial connection, which likely takes forever, it's simply a matter of ensuring that the connection between the two buoys doesn't drop for any reason because then you'd have to reorient them.
Yeah, but how do you keep them pointed at each other? Unless there's some actual force that links the buoys (possible, actually, as electromagnetic force would be transmitted through the channels, so, in principle, you could use (electro)magnets to at least somewhat stabilize the buoys), you still face a problem of relative speeds and drifts over interstellar distances.
I think the question we need answer is how do these mass-less tunnels work?
Going by the codex and the instantaneous transmission, which sinks up with how Relays work, and how we've seen Relays allow you to travel from point A to point B without hitting anything between them I think* the simplest explanation is that they are basically wormholes.
If so and the relative distance between the two is small enough, which everything traveling instantly seems to imply, then you very well might be able to use magnets to keep them oriented.
*Or it might just be my lack of sleep talking. A very real possibility.
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I was thinking about how you guys could really break the Asari's stranglehold on the Galaxy without resorting to outright assassinations of their leadership. The only idea I could come up with is creating a method to artificially generate/replicate/create Element Zero, in massive amounts and much more cheaply then getting it from mining.
Thats because I was vague. They must be described by the Kerr metric, and the Kerr metric corresonds to a (mostly) spherical BH.