Telepathy: Here's What I'm Thinking

Before we get into the discussion of applying Controlled Inertia, lets take a break and look into the idea of Telepathy. In short, here's how I think it could work.

The other day I was in my garage hanging some hooks on the wall so that I could get my lawn tools off of the floor. I got a stud finder as a gift some time ago, and I thought this would be a great time to use it...don't want my blower crashing to the floor and pulling sheet rock with it! So I put the stud finder on the wall, push the button and begin sliding it along the wall until it senses a stud. It's not perfect but it's a little less intrusive than the banging-on-the-wall tool I used to use. I don't know how it works. I would guess that there is some sort of circuit created when you push the button, and when it glides over an object in the wall, like a wooden stud, the current is interrupted, thus showing you the stud. So, it's not really telling you that there is a stud there, it's just telling you that the pattern created by pushing the button was interrupted, somehow. Therefore, you don't have to know what is behind the wall, you just need to know that it's something, and that based on analysis of prior knowledge, the percentage is very high that you have found a stud in the wall. All of this with a crackerjack tool that anyone can buy.

Now, take this same idea, but instead of studs, look for impulses in the brain. You might not necessarliy know what those impulses are, but you know they're there. Now you just need the right analysis and prior knowledge to be able to infer what those impulses are. Maybe this impulse found in this area of the brain, at this time, under these conditions means that you are hungry for chips and queso....whatever. The point is that if we could map the brain's impulses we could figure out what you are thinking.

So all we have to do now is have the ability to allow our brains to sense the impulses...how do we do that? Ok, how about instead of an X-Ray machine, we have a I-Ray Machine, a machine that can see the elecrical impulses in our body. Eventually we could get the device small enough so that, for instance, we could have sensors implanted in our corneas that when triggered allow us to see impulses? The big stumbling block of course, is that even if you could do any of this way out, trippy sci-fi stuff, your brain still has to have the ability to process what it is seeing and do it quickly...Huge computers can already process at unimaginable speeds, and they are only getting faster. And with the advent of nano-technology, engineering at the molecular level, those computers aren't just going to keep getting faster, they're going to keep getting smaller too. So, like all things sci-fi, maybe telepathy isn't that far out...of reach. Just some thoughts.

Inertia--The New Wheel

Inertia is the central force for all things: speed, time, space, gravity. If we could figure out how to manipulate inertia, a brand new age would be ushered in that hasn't been seen since the beginning of time...it will make cavemen of us all.

So what is Inertia? Really?

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, lack of skill, from inert-, iners
Date: 1713
1 a: a property of matter by which it remains at rest or in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force b: an analogous property of other physical quantities (as electricity)
2: indisposition to motion, exertion, or change

The one everyone is familiar with is, "An object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by another force. Or, a motionless object will stay motionless unless acted upon by some other force." -Newton's First Law

So here's the problem with inertia, it kills! The reason you go through the windshield in a car accident is because you are in motion, and stay in motion, until you've bounced down the street a ways and friction has stalled your momentum. Inertia is central to all concepts concerning movement of anything. In bowling, pins fall, because of the bowling ball, which moves because of the person bowling, who moved because of muscular contraction, which moved due to electrical impulses, which were caused by stimuli from the brain, which was acting according to visual cues.......bottom line, something's gotta cause the movement.

Things don't just move. Why? Mostly because of gravity. So the question is, what happens if there is no gravity? In space, where there is no gravity, things still have to have a force of some sort applied to it before it moves...otherwise it remains motionless. The difference is that the motion is proportional to the force applied. In space if you step off of the shuttle, you move proportional to the force and direction from which the force was applied; i.e., strait out. If you step off of a building on earth, gravity causes you to fall disproportionately to the force applied and you fall downward at increasing speed until you hit terminal velocity. The bigger problem is when you land...the force at which you land is very disproportionate to the force applied to move you in the first place and is therefore quite detrimental to the body. So think about this: if there wasn't inertia, in other words, if we could manipulate the force/movement equation, force would become a non-binding requirement for movement. You could move and stop moving without being affected by force. Is it possible? Is it mostly fiction? Well, cloaking devices used to be considered pure fiction...

Inertia...We've Figured Out the Universe!

"There is nothing new under the sun."
Ecclesiastes 1:9

In a world where technology rules all new ideas, there really isn't anything new. Today's Palm Pilots are really nothing more than yesterday's computer's. The advent of Nano-Technology is nothing more than another industrial revolution (make more things faster, with more efficiancy). The idea of a possible cloaking device http://people.ee.duke.edu/~drsmith/cloaking.html being developed is nothing more than high tech Cammo. Flying has obviously changed over the years, but really the concepts are the same as when the Wright Brother's got things started. Rocket propulsion is just hyped up fireworks that have been around for centuries, etc.....

Admittedly, all things must have a beginning; it's called discovery. For instance, some broad discoveries that changed the world: Electricity, Vaccines, The Engine...basically Fire, Medicine, and Transportation. From the beginning of time, Fire, Medicine, and Transportation have driven discovery. All discoveries since the beginning of time have been used to enhance our use of the big 3. Still, the discoveries that have been made have mostly affected already existing technologies and merely been used for the purpose of creating a better mousetrap. Yes, the technologies discovered, even in the past 10 years, are nothing short of amazing and important.

But are we looking for the next discovery that will change life as we know it. If you were to tell someone from the Roman period that we could see the body without looking in it, or tell someone from the Romantic period that there are "waves" in the air that you can put your voice on and send it to someone thousands of miles away, you would be called a sorcerer! However, radio waves are the most taken for granted technology we live with today, and X-Rays don't freak us out anymore. So what is it today that seems so far fetched that only magic has an answer for? And what technology is out there that will make those discoveries possible? I think its Inertia. What do you think?

To be continued....

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