New science column!
Be excited!
Most of the major breakthroughs in quantum physics have happened in the last 10-15 years (I have no idea if that is a true statement)--new states of matter, light moving faster than the speed of light, quantum computing advances, LHC (back online September 2009, phew), experiments involving entanglement, etc. Now there's also cosmic background noise that is way too loud, plus a ton of new mind-destructo findings on our galaxy, black holes, etc etc etc. Try as I might, I can't keep up with all of this amazing news. It turns my brain into a fucked apart dead thing that then regrows, carefully...and I love it. When Libby asked me if I wanted to make a regular post here on said topics I got pretty excited. It will force me to keep up too. So stay tuned! If you want a warm up you can press your eyelids against your eyes for a while until you see the purple and white star-space-vision. An old favorite. Remember, I'm not an expert, just a guy. So please correct me if I say something that is bullshit. This is the world's largest vacuum chamber.
ULILLILLIA
Ulillillia is in his twenties, lives in North Dakota, and has successfully blogged the entirety of his mind. Think information theory, entropy and general awesomeness. He forces all of us to ask simple and complicated questions...how do we document progress? what is detail? how can we use time more efficiently? fears? dreams? goals? life? He leaves no stone unturned on self-evaluation. Everything I say beyond this point is just wasting your time, by now you should be engulfed in his site. He listens to altered video game music 23 hours per day. Ulillillia is Nick Smith. If you're still here, you might want to check the uber-meta navigational instructions for starters: http://www.ulillillia.us/sitedesign60.shtml Also, the site map is very helpful: http://www.ulillillia.us/sitemap.shtml
I find this all to be highly topical. If the internet is the universe then ulillillia is the quantum world. Remember to understand the biases of your brain when trying to unlock truth. If we all had his power and focus we could get to the bottom of the big questions quickly, then we could discover the bigger questions, (repeat process). Ulillillia, if you are reading this, please contact me: topspeedjohnny@gmail.com, let's collaborate.
JOHN TITOR
- there are a lot of worldlines. infinite. parallel universes. duh.
- John Titor is a time traveler as an occupation, like an astronaut or a pilot.
- time travel is new in 2036, 2 years old (developed at CERN in 2034). the technology sucks like old computers. as such, travelers can only make small jumps (a few decades) before they start diverging drastically from their intended worldline. the technology is getting better and better.
- he mission was going back to the 70's to get a specific Unix system to help with the unix millenium bug...
- he made a personal stop-over in 2000 to visit his parents and young self
- it doesn't matter if all of this is bullshit because his model for time travel is still awesome
- gravity is (by one calculation) 9.80665 m/s²
- Titor's machine calculates the percent error of his journey, or the distance from the correct worldline, based on precise calculations of gravity. want to go to 2009 where dinosaurs rule the earth? just turn off your gravity-meter-reader and drift. who knows where you'll end up though
- it takes time to travel through time, "10 years an hour at 100% power"
- he uses dual microsingularities. these warp space-time of course. past knowledge says you can't get functionally close to the singularity in a black hole because you'd pass the event horizon and be crushed with the rest of the matter and light entering. whoops, now you probably can, hooray for naked singularites
John Titor on how to prepare for the future we have in store:
"I tried to consolidate your questions into a basic list. I hope this helps.
1. Do not eat or use products from any animal that is fed and eats parts of its own dead.
2. Do not kiss or have intimate relations with anyone you do not know.
3. Learn basic sanitation and water purification.
4. Be comfortable around firearms. Learn to shoot and clean a gun.
5. Get a good first aid kit and learn to use it.
6. Find 5 people within 100 miles that you trust with your life and stay in contact with them.
7. Get a copy of the US Constitution and read it.
8. Eat less.
9. Get a bicycle and two sets of spare tires. Ride it 10 miles a week.
10. Consider what you would bring with you if you had to leave your home in 10 min. and never return."
Previously in Misc/Awesome:
- 4/19: HAPPY National High Five Day!
- 4/17: Hangin' Tough with The D.C. Rollergirls
- 2/24: BYT Archives: Geek It Out
- 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
- 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
- 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
- 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
- 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
- 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
- 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
God loves a cheerful giver.
ahhh Justin, I'm glad you started this! I've always loved Ulilillia...and I think I got lost for 5 hours on his site once.
i second that emotion
This column just fucked my mind apart.
Is imaginging the average BYT reader reading the Constitution (and actually understanding it) and handling a gun and laughing his ass off.
This is cool shit, but this: "Most of the major breakthroughs in quantum physics have happened in the last 10-15 years" would only be true if it was currently 1950. Which I am not sure that it isn't, given the distinct possibility that we're living in Philip K. Dick's paranoid hallucinations.
OMG, can't stop looking at ulillillia
My fav section so far:
4 Showers are rare
How often do you take showers? Once a day? Twice a day? Once every two days? How about 3 to 6 times a month? Lately, it's been just that. The reasons come down to these (in order of their impact with the worst on the top):
more: http://www.ulillillia.us/aboutme/majorissues.shtml
and the complete absence of sex dreams in his stats:
768 total dreams
42 mud dreams
116 video game dreams
64 water dreams
15 nightmares
150 travel dreams
77 uncategorized dreams
99 weird dreams
54 fun dreams
15 computer dreams
50 school dreams
86 exploration dreams
YES. this is awesome.
I love how in this photo:
...he's TYPING THROUGH A BLANKET WEIGHED DOWN BY ALTOIDS
i am overwhelmed. and i like it.
yeah so i just now closed ulillillia.us after clicking on your link cale. that's the other thing i forgot to mention about his site: black hole incarnate. so addictive.
@pedro1950, it would be very hard to quantify, but i would still defend my bold-type statement
I love aspergers
re:Aspbergers
THIS is the best thing you will hear all year:
Joshua’s Tough Questions for His Mother
(credit where credit is due Cale played this for me a few months a go BUT I have not stopped thinking about is since)
Thank me later.
I was thinking about Joshua too while reading through it! I love Joshua and his mother so much! That NPR story is rated 5 stars on my iPod.
Asp Burgers? MMMmmmMMMMmmmMMM. I'll take bacon and cheddar on mine.
Titor on forums and Muddreams in order,
Time travel junkies and busted up Sega's,
Using the float run to achieve high speeds,
These are a few of my favorite things!!!
-I could go on but I shouldn't.
Great post.
as if i need another reason to procrastinate.... (a quote to shed light on the strange keyboard arrangement in the ULILLILLIA photo)
"The keyboard has 4 drier sheets covering it (my rather oily hands make it uncomfortable and these help (and help block some dust to some extent)). 3 Altoids containers prevent the dryer sheets from sliding unexpectedly. My hands rest on a blanket. That same blanket covers my mouse and for the same reason as the keyboard and I use a secondary blanket for resting my hands on."
Everything started at www.timetravelinstitute.com @ 2 november 2000 -John Titor was there...
Check for yourself...
I'm glad to see someone writing on these topics. I was actually going to contact BYT and see if I could when time permitted. Anyway, cheers to this. Don't worry too much about it being focused. honestly, there is no way to bring focus to many of these topics without dumbing it down to the point that it loses almost all value. people need to understand that real science is strange than science fiction...on the quantum mechanical statements, pedro is right. quantum computation will be a huge revolution though when a quantum computer is actually functional (check out seth lloyd and david deutsch if you want to go straight to the source)....i'd definitely like to hear about any new entanglement experiments and what you think about what the results mean...i will check this guy out cause he sounds super interesting but the claims here seem a little suspect....one correction (since you asked for it) is that even under the many worlds interpretation of QM there are not an infinite amount of universes. it's insanley large, but still finite. man these discussions could get really long and ridiculous for this type of forum. anyway, it's awesome that you're doing this, and its cool to see people on this board interested in these topics. byt should throw a time travel themed party. yeah!
aaah bob, you're right. sometimes excitement yields hyperbole. i guess if every particle/wave is a binary axis for another world (one way of thinking about it) then our finite universe means finite parallels. i'm glad you liked it, i'll check out lloyd and deutsch. entanglement coming soon