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Originally posted by an0maly33
wow, i wasn't expecting that. lol
i was going to say that the expansion idea is flawed. it would mean not only that the earth and other planets/etc are expanding, but at an exponential rate. my reasoning? because if i jumped i should not be able to come back down, unless the earth was perpetually expanding at an increased rate as to catch up with me again. i'm pretty sure that in a VERY short amount of time such a change would be easily noticeable, even if the conditions on the planet were still conducive to life. over the last few billion years, assuming the earth started out the size of an atom, it should have grown...lemme see here...9.8 m/s^2... 9.8 * (60mins * 24hrs * 365days * oh 5billion years)^2, the earth would be expanding at a rate of roughly 25 trillion km/s by now.
i'm pulling all of that out of my butt so don't scrutinize, just making a point. =)
Originally posted by Astyanax
Flag! Star! Both continually expanding!
Ah, this is more like it. The kind of stuff that makes AboveTopSecret so endlessly, mindbogglingly entertaining. Utterly fabulous, in both senses of the word.
Now tell us how to heat a house and run a car on Expansion Energy.
The energy that makes electricity is simply pointing a speaker type device to sun (1 atom thick alloy) that vibrates as photons bounce off it, any element can do this.
thats the specifics with what I'm saying
f = W/c
F = ma
E = 1/2mv^2
Originally posted by Astyanax
reply to post by Im a Marty
Lastly, there's the added complication that sunlight is continuous. Once your speaker cone has reached the limit of its travel, how will you return it to its starting position? You'd have to switch off the sunlight and then use some other force to push it back again. Let me think...
Eureka! We could use an ingenious arrangement of swivelling mirrors and some kind of high-frequency shutter device...
...but where would we find the power to run them? Bet that would take a bit more than a hundred thousandth of a watt...
Lastly, there's the added complication that sunlight is continuous.