liveforphysics
Thank you for that post. I would like to see a video of your bike doing the quarter mile.
LINK [youtube]K9XCKP9KN7A[/youtube] The planet earth needs more people who think like you when it comes to fossil fuel. I think Tesla put it best when he said it was a "barbaric use of resources". If I had the power I would make all gas powered vehicles totally illegal to manufacture or buy. You would just make a black market for them increasing demand. Banning gasoline would create a black market in smuggling it in drums and storing it in garages and things. Laws are not some magical instant change in peoples interests, they are droplets of ink on a page in a book somewhere representing someone's delusion. And within 10 years illegal to drive on the road. Laws are just someones delusion. If you wish to change peoples actions, change their thoughts by giving them improved awareness. All the big rich oil company's could still make plenty of money building factories that replace internal combustion engines to DC electric motors.
Also I would build huge domes big enough to put in a quarter mile race track. one in each state which would be totally enclosed for any gas powered sport event. You would be allowed to drag race run monster trucks or anything gas powered because the air would be filtered thru machines as to not pollute the environment. The deserts would have windmills 1000 feet high or more and solar panels would be spaced out thru the entire desert but not too many in one area to avoid streamers ( birds which catch on fire flying over large areas filled with solar panels). The windmills could have many solar panels on the sides of them. Sounds like a much wiser use of resources than the status quo of sending our children and the wealth of there country to go bleed out in sand in the name of corporate greed.
All skyscrapers and large buildings would be self sufficient and not rely on outside power. That would be quite the trick considering the power consumption of many skyscrapers, but I agree it would be possible if they were designed right from the ground up to be as efficient as possible. Factories which pollute the environment would also employ large air filtration machines for 0 or close to 0 emissions of carbon and other pollutions. The manufacturing of all of this should be enough to stimulate world economy for the next half a century.
I love physics also but had to drop out of physics 1 as my wife got hit by a car and I was working full time and had to pass material science technology and algebra 2 with trig. I had too much on my plate and as I loved the class it was not an easy subject. However I plan on returning to college to finish my associated degree once my disability checks kick in and I am able to straighten out my student loans. I look forward to taking physics again. There is nothing magical about a classroom and teacher to help you learn, you have an internet connection, you can go through hundreds of college physics lectures on youtube if the lecture format is your preference for learning. The most important part to learning anything is simply wanting to learn it, and it seems you already have that.
My interests include particle physics, quantum physics including the development of the quantum computer, bio computer, nanotechnology, advanced robotics, radical life extension including The Total body transplant. I support stem cell research obviously and have an utter distain for any and all religious groups who dare oppose any scientific research and development. I trolley believe that the human race can conquer its own mortality as well as curing all disease and end world hunger, poverty and suffering. It would certainly be possible to end disease, world hunger and poverty. It would only take something like 1 year of the current US military budget. No need for a body transplant for me, I embrace death as life, because they are inseparable.
I even believe that animal suffering can be eliminated also. At minimum a great reduction can occur. Instead of slaughter houses to process meat there will be factories which grow meat. They will be able to grow an entire animal such as a cow or pig minus the brain and neural systems. Why waste the resources growing meat? [youtube]es6U00LMmC4[/youtube]The total body transplant would work the same way. An identical clone of you would be grown to an age of 16 or 17 when the cranium reaches adult size. There would be no brain therefore no conciseness A brain is not the same as a consciousness. Consciousness = mystery. but all the arteries and spinal cord nerve hook ups would be intact in the case of a human and the 50 or 60 year old brain would be transplanted somehow by a very complex laser surgery. All brain disease's and disorders would be eliminated and damaged tissue in the human body could be repaired on a molecular level by tiny nanobots.
Immortality would then be achieved thru science and technology. Everything will still all crumble to dust. This I can assure you. The world would then be a better place to live but far from paradise. As long as there are religious groups out there there will be terrorism. As long as there are laws and someone feeling like they have authority to enforce them there will be terrorism. The radical Islamic groups and 911 are a prime example. If you sum the harms caused by all the rest of the worlds "bad-guys" you don't match the US military's harms caused to the world in the toned down version of perpetual warmongering they call peacetime. Other non radical groups such as some Christian groups oppose Science and technology as well as life extension and refuse to embrace human evolution. They could eventually rise up and become radical and then would become a threat to human immortality. I have never talked to anyone who has died and actually went to heaven or hell and came back. Nor have I ever seen a ghost and don't believe in metaphysical things Metaphysics a tool for exploring the nature of reality. such as ghosts and spirits I think its utter nonsense like cryogenics. There is no way you can freeze someone and bring them back. Its a big fairy tale just like religion. I have an 160 IQ. My mother told me so and she don't lie. This is a forum of nerds, many of whom share many similar beliefs. I personally have a religion, it's a one word religion, and it's only real while you're practicing it. The word is "kindness".
Thanks Latecurtis out.
We should all be thankful that you, nor anyone else, has that power, as you certainly do not realise the chaos and social destruction that would follow.
