WANTED: Astrophysicist

[Tenet Nosce]

Anybody know of any astrophysicists that would be willing to discuss some concepts with me? I have some undergraduate level education in physics... enough to be able to frame intelligent questions and understand theory, but not necessarily the math.

[Oceania]

Cyan wants to build a space ship.

[Cyan]

Lol, i'm not really a astrophysicist with formal education and dont know the physics/chemistry aspect all that well but can probably either answer or forward you to someone who can answer.

Edit: Move me to colorado with a good appartment and a endless supply and i'll be churning out spaceships by the hour

[Cyan]

Cyan wants to build a space ship.

Actually, i really want to build a deep sea self sufficient city for all the people in the world to enjoy. I think i'll start by building a one man submarine / space ship (virtually identical if well designed since pressure concerns are similar except with the water requirement) and then move around the world campaining for the idea of ocean habitation.

Once that takes off sufficiently and I have enough money (20esque million) i'll self design and order a central building for the city and rent out the office spaces there for near free to anyone who wants them (i'm sure game companies would be interested, then shops, then possibly a clinic) and so on.

With 20 million and my skills i could build a central building thats maybe 15-20 families inhabitation and rent it out for pennies on the dollar and offer free electricity, water and waste systems but require you to have a business that contributes to the whole and pay for your own food and a rent that should be sufficiently low to attract attention.

Once I get that going I'll try my best to make it as organic and self growing as quickly as possible by instructing the people on free or cheap ways to expand the city.

Then I'd withdraw to my pimped out super version of my ship and go into hiding somewhere in the deep sea floor and offer free teachings and initiations on any mystical tradition that i can do (and there are a few) to anyone who is able to locate my ship and contact me in some way.

Idea is to find a single island somewhere and expand so that the island is used as a ground support point + platform for tide power off the sides at depths.

In combination for a waste = energy + money plant
and
Seawater + filters + power = drinking water
and
Seacurrent + landmass to hold onto (island which looks like a giant mountain when looked at from space since its at continental shelf bottom and the top is maybe 100 meters wide?) + lots and lots of turbines = massive amounts of power.

Kind of form my own nation in the middle of the ocean with custom built 100-200k€ ships that can all go into hiding and survive a nuclear war.

That way. Anyone who wants can come and live in a society that is designed from the ground up to be not only unaffected, but literally not even notice a global nuclear war short of having to go underwater until the radiation clears. Beyond that it would be safe from any conceivable threat since no one could ever board one of these ships underwater.

Anyway, its kind of my solution to the "OH MY GOD WORLD ECONOMI COLLAPS!" bullcrap fear by simply pointing out how much ocean we have, how easy it is to colonize, and how good it would do for the planet (try venting uranium into human inhabited oceans. Might go a bit differently than "uninhabited wastes")

Thats what i'm dreaming of right now, school first though due to promise to father.

My current ship version in 8m wide about 5m tall and the living space is about 6m by 6m and 2.5m tall and would cost around 300-500kUSD to build and have all the normal amneties expected of a house of such price including internet, water, waste, food, heat, submersion (not really expected but look at new orleans, its practically a guarantee), AP armor (once again, not most houses can take a shot from a AK-47 and shrug it off, but once you design a ship for 500m depth, it can take a lot of things), about 20-50PC's worth cpu/ram/hd and a range of about 500-2000km and a maximum operative depth of about 700 but tested to no more than maybe 400-500.

Depending on how much you want to shell out i can build you one between 100kUSD private version to multi billion ocean complex. This 8m version i could probably comfortably sink 20 million into before it gets into the redicilous detail level like hand carved hull dragons painted with neon UV reactive paint making the ufo look like a giant rainbowcolored carved glowing dragon against the night sky.

come to think of it, that would look pretty awesome.

Anyway. We all have our "other" lives i'm sure. Mine just happens to be a science / politics / colonization / exploration junkie of unimagiable proportions. I designed this stuff in my dreams, literally, a decade ago

[Tenet Nosce]

I'm thinking something more along the lines of a conversation rather than a written exchange. I may alter the questions depending on the responses.

And yes, they would need to know physics and chemistry! But the deep sea cities sound cool...

[Ashim]

I'm really good at physics but only saw the inside of a university once. I delivered their christmas tree.
Sorry could not resist posting this....cos I'll follow you deep sea baby...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiMgdx_C-4

[Cyan]

Didnt say i dont know any physics/chemistry, just that i dont know enough to consider myself a astrophysicist (that is to say, if you want to discuss the mixratios of fuels are certain altitudes and conditions, thats not my field), but if you just want a general discussion about the topic, why not post the question here and we can see what is what. Or PM me and i may be able to forward you to sites where the astrophysicist generally hang around that I know of (there are a few that i frequent).

I might know enough to work at NASA if i could convert my knowledge into the relevant degrees in a hurry but that does not, in my opinion, qualify me for anywhere near to being called a Astrophysicist, for that you'd need someone like Hawkings.

[Tenet Nosce]

Well, I have been pondering much about the effects of solar radiation on biological systems. There was a thought that occurred to me, but unfortunately I don't think I have enough of a theoretical framework to evaluate it. Put simply, it is this... due to beta decay of neutrons in the core of the sun, we have primarily protons, electrons, and neutrinos streaming out on the solar wind, right? Now the protons and electrons are mostly deflected by the planetary magnetic field, and most of those that get through become trapped in the atmosphere. Except the neutrinos pass right through.

Now there was also that recent finding that suggested variations in neutrino bombardment can affect the rate of radioactive decay on earth materials. And according to the Reciprocal System (if I am understanding correctly) radioactivity is emitted when matter goes FTL and flips inside-out into time/space.

So the question is, what if biological systems could reverse this process of beta-decay and recapture solar neutrinos as they are passing through the body? For example, we know that biological processes produce excess protons and electrons, and that these are the primary contributors to disease and the aging process. Could this offer a biophysical basis for reverse aging, or the "fountain of youth"? Or perhaps even a basis for accretion of a "light-body" in time/space?

Those are just some initial thoughts. But I know my understanding of physics is at a low-intermediate level, so I wondering if there is anything you can think of off the top of your head that would invalidate this line of thinking right off the bat?

[Cyan]

Know enough to know there are no absolutely glaring mistakes there. And there are a few that will look like that to a amateur. (neutrinos FTL is kind of, yeah, it is but sort of yeah it isnt, but not conventional FTL but connected to your explanation, i think kind of... there. Cant actually be sure, quantum physics and what not).

Off the top of my head, cant say theoretically if its possible.

hmm..

Well. I think the most likely consequences or problems would be in a kind of matter antimatter reaction or its time-antitime equivelant. (if you actually think about it like that, no idea).

Beyond me, and i think, beyond physics.

I'd recommend writing it up as a good or semi-good explanation and posting it to a high quality sci-fi forum and asking for opinion from others. They will then inseminate the idea across the sci-fi verse and produce a 90-99% accurate answer within a few decades at most. But science might take centuries in this kind of question (its pretty complicated).

[Tenet Nosce]

Yes, there are really two different considerations there.

One is neutrino capture by the body, and its potential physical effects.

The other is about a potential bridge between the metaphysical and the physical. That involves much more fringe concepts like FTL and space/time inversion.

If I went the general physics forum route, I might just leave the second consideration out for now.

[Cyan]

They'll scream "movie about continents moving due to neutrino capture"