The 20 worse Science errors in films..

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The 20 worst science and technology errors in films - Telegraph

At last something worth reading in the Torygraph..

I can think of a few more as well... Armageddon being the worst culprate. (I do know these movies are Science FICTION however, and not documentaries!).

Some other crackers?

1. Surviving an A-Bomb in a lead lined fridge (Indiana Jones and the skull thingy). The air would be superheated to 2000 deg and lead boils at 1500 and melts at 327.35!.:fyi:

2. Thinking a black hole is a "black hole" (Disney's "The Black hole"). No , you cant travel through it, that's why it's called a singularity! Disney's "The Worm hole" would be a different matter, however.:fyi:

3. "Beaming" in Star trek. (How are they containing the 850 megatonne explosion as the mass of an avarage human is converted to an "energy stream?).:fyi:

4. "An asteroid the size of Texas" In Armegeddon that can be "split in two" by a 9 Megaton nuke , which has been drilled 800ft into it! Texas is 4,000,000 ft wide!

5. The Aliens in "Signs" are harvesting humans, but water dissolves them. Well, I take it we are gonny be dried out before it's lunch, seeing as we are 90% water.
 
Miniaturising the ship in Fantastic Voyage, it's mass would have sunk it through the floor never mind the guys body.

Miniaturising Raquel Welch is a huge mistake anyway.
 
Anything involving time travel back the way.

Forward is theoretically possible. Back the way? No so much.
 
wee 162 said:
Anything involving time travel back the way.

Forward is theoretically possible. Back the way? No so much.
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It just might be.

http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v44/i10/p3197_1

But I dont think we can ever get "The butterfly effect" ie Going back and murdering Jesus or Hitler at childbirth then zooming back to 2009 to see the difference.

What David Deutche is theorising is that a parallel universe is created whenever this "closed timelike line" is altered. Therefore, whilst you might go back to 0 AD and top old Joshua bar Josep, when you travel back to your own 2009, nothing different has taken place. Only the parallel universe has the changes.
 
Stirlinghibee said:
It just might be.

http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v44/i10/p3197_1

But I dont think we can ever get "The butterfly effect" ie Going back and murdering Jesus or Hitler at childbirth then zooming back to 2009 to see the difference.

What David Deutche is theorising is that a parallel universe is created whenever this "closed timelike line" is altered. Therefore, whilst you might go back to 0 AD and top old Joshua bar Josep, when you travel back to your own 2009, nothing different has taken place. Only the parallel universe has the changes.
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Interesting....

If you went back and altered history to your liking, you'd never come back.

So if folk start inexplicably disappearing, they're off having a jolly in ninteen canteen:ura:
 
ZemmamasBarnet said:
Interesting....

If you went back and altered history to your liking, you'd never come back.

So if folk start inexplicably disappearing, they're off having a jolly in ninteen canteen:ura:
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No, according to Deutche ( David Deutsch - Parallel Universes ) , you can feck about in the parallel universes as much as you want, however, all that would happen in to you "here" would be that you disappear then reappear again, Hibs would still be third!
 
Stirlinghibee said:
No, according to Deutche ( David Deutsch - Parallel Universes ) , you can feck about in the parallel universes as much as you want, however, all that would happen in to you "here" would be that you disappear then reappear again, Hibs would still be third!
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I'll confess, I've no read it (Probably will though when I've got a bit more time) but if you fuck off to some other parallel universe and piss about with events then, have you effectively split in two as you'd still be here?
 
ZemmamasBarnet said:
I'll confess, I've no read it (Probably will though when I've got a bit more time) but if you fuck off to some other parallel universe and piss about with events then, have you effectively split in two as you'd still be here?
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You would physically have to remove yourself from this universe (wormhole, Tardis, HG Wells thing with a big circular whirly bit on the back) , so you cant split yourself in two. When you get back, you wont have changed anything here.
 
But would time have moved on? So if you went back to the day of the crucifixion with a bag of cement and then put it around the rock, but it turned out that it took a while cause you had to wait on the Jesus fellae getting killed and you were out by a couple of months (who can be arsed checking what date Easter was in 0) would you have aged the amount of time you were away when you came back a second after disappearing?

And if you did. Would this no be a way of getting loads of physically older folk into under 18 sides even though everyone would think they were only 17 say?

And if you didn't, would you age there, but not here?

What if you died there. Would you come back dead?

Would you be able to pick anywhere to land on earth, or would you have to land on exactly the same spot as you left? Because it would take fecking ages to get to Jerusalem if I ended up in Scotland at that point. And I wouldn't speak the language. Plus nae fags cause they hadn't been discovered yet. It would be a nightmare and I wouldnae bother if that was the case.

edit: I can't help but feel I may have taken this off at a slight tangent...
 
connected to the INdependence day one and the one about access granted - it's when someone just starts typing binary or random looking characters into a computer when trying to hack into a computer - even worse when it's against the clock or even in some films when the computer is trying the reset the code as the hacker tries to break it. Obscureish one that comes to mind is the film Swordfish (only notable for seeing Halle Berry's breasts) in which Hugh Jackman "breaks" an 128bit encryption code in 30 seconds with a gun at his head. Not quite sure what breaking a 128bit encryption code means but in simple terms I would understand it at least as involving identifying a number 2 to the power 128 long, which according to my limited understanding would take every computer in the world longer than the age of the universe to crack. Even if it is taken to mean just entering a 128 digit code - the chances of just happening on that are astronomical.
 
If it was possible to travel back in time, we would be inundated with visitors from the future
 
might gve us a better chance on the lottery and would let yogi see the other teams formations and tactics though:rollfloor
 
wee 162 said:
But would time have moved on? So if you went back to the day of the crucifixion with a bag of cement and then put it around the rock, but it turned out that it took a while cause you had to wait on the Jesus fellae getting killed and you were out by a couple of months (who can be arsed checking what date Easter was in 0) would you have aged the amount of time you were away when you came back a second after disappearing?

And if you did. Would this no be a way of getting loads of physically older folk into under 18 sides even though everyone would think they were only 17 say?

And if you didn't, would you age there, but not here?

What if you died there. Would you come back dead?

Would you be able to pick anywhere to land on earth, or would you have to land on exactly the same spot as you left? Because it would take fecking ages to get to Jerusalem if I ended up in Scotland at that point. And I wouldn't speak the language. Plus nae fags cause they hadn't been discovered yet. It would be a nightmare and I wouldnae bother if that was the case.

edit: I can't help but feel I may have taken this off at a slight tangent...
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Depends how metastable the false vacuum of the Parallel universe is and if it does not exists as a DeSitter space.

In string theory the number of false vacua is commonly quoted as 10 to the power 500. The large number of possibilities arises from different choices of Calabi-Yau manifolds and different values of generalized magnetic fluxes over different homology cycles.

So if each of these is a single point in space time, you should be able to pick your location from this reinflating parallel universe which Deutche suggests happens whenever you cross into a closed timelike line.
 
ZemmamasBarnet said:
Interesting....

If you went back and altered history to your liking, you'd never come back.

So if folk start inexplicably disappearing, they're off having a jolly in ninteen canteen:ura:
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There's a Ray Bradbury story along those lines.

Good author, Ray Bradbury.
 
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