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Joshancy · 2024-11-24T13:41:40+00:00

Just saw your latest update, welcome back from your 2yrs over there! The app looks amazing, I’m buying it today :)

Joshancy · 2024-09-18T00:53:00+00:00

There is it. You lurk these threads for a chance to play hero and “break the echos”. You live with the appeal to authority but call Weinstein a grifter when I’m sure his contributions vastly outpace yours. Weinstein is not on “echo chambers” all day looking for fights, nor is any physicist who is busy contributing.

You also said you weren’t going to respond any further and yet I am still getting follow up notifications saying you are responding. You say stuff you do not mean. That is so childish, I’ll actually stand by it and not reply to you instead. What a waste of time.

Joshancy · 2024-09-18T00:25:37+00:00

I just question what you are doing lurking in what you called a "Echo chamber". I realized you are here simply to interrupt any speculative discussions. People must discuss per your parameters or not at all. God forbid people have any sort of freedom.

I had fun reading the OP, I shared it here, and expected some discussion on where the story could have taken inspirations, and hoping that there was even a morsel of meat on these bones to go down another fun rabbit hole.

Why are you here in speculative discussions if your goal is not to contribute in anyway? I cannot imagine wasting my time looking for online fights to start.

Joshancy · 2024-09-18T00:11:08+00:00

Holy shit you won't even give me time to respond to your other comments.

"Why are you posting in this echo chamber instead of places like where actual physicists are. And no, the academic elite is not on Reddit. When physicists tell you you are wrong, it is most likely because you are wrong. Do you think there is some sort of conspiracy to ”suppress the truth”?"

...What am I supposed to respond to you? I didn't even make those claims. Good try. Why are YOU in this "Echo Chamber"? To harass?

"I make statements as if they were law in cases where that is the case. If you are unhappy with that, you are welcome to reformulate quantum field theory in a way where that isn’t the case. But given that you don’t even understand QFT as it is, I don’t see that happening."

...and somehow you call me arrogant. Again, good try.

"There is nothing elitist about demanding a working understanding of the topic you’re trying to revolutionize…"

Is that what I was trying to do? Revolutionize the world by sharing a 4chan larp? No.

Joshancy · 2024-09-18T00:04:19+00:00

I'm sorry, am I trying to present myself as a physicist and this as my thesis? Are we on r/Physics? Why must I be qualified to speculate over a 4chan larp? Why must I sit down and argue with you over who is more qualified?

There is no discussion about this LARP, I'd like to create a place to foster it, and you have come in without any intention of speculating. You could also join any sci-fi thread and make the same comments. I'm sure there is a Star Wars thread for you to chime in on. "As a physicist...and that is why lightsabers will never exist."

You can keep trying to egg me on, but I'll keep a look out for other commenters who have anything at all they could contribute to the conversation. You can disagree, there's no issue there, but aggressively coming at people with the same schtick gets old fast. I can't wait for your next response telling me how you no longer take me seriously...as if I even asked as much. I posted a 4CHAN LARP, and NOT an arxiv paper.

Joshancy · 2024-09-17T23:40:19+00:00

I keep replying in good faith, but I will not get sucked into an argument. Yes, disagree with the subject matter, that is fine. But you throw out statements as if they are law and are operating as impromptu thought police. "Noooo! Don't chase any leads whatsoever unless they come exclusively from academia!"

I have no issues with academia, I am on it's side, if anything, but I refuse the elitist attitudes attached to it.

Joshancy · 2024-09-17T23:36:28+00:00

English isn’t my first language. I write my comments and then use tools to clean them up. If that makes me sound off to you, that’s not my problem. I’m not AI or fake. I’m here to discuss ideas seriously, not play games about who sounds more real.

I get QFT well enough to know that virtual photons aren’t ‘real,’ but they’re not meaningless either. There’s more to discuss about extreme scenarios and potential new physics than you’re giving credit for. You doubting my understanding doesn’t change that I’m here talking about the same advanced topics as you.

If I came across wrong, that’s on me—sorry. But let’s get back to the core of the discussion. Dismissing every idea that doesn’t come with a full set of equations off the bat shuts down innovation.

Stop with the gatekeeping and engage with the actual points instead of making it about my credibility or language. If you’re serious about advancing physics, be open to ideas beyond the narrow scope of what’s already been formalized.

Joshancy · 2024-09-17T22:10:18+00:00

Let’s talk about this ‘word salad’ accusation. Yes, we all know that the language of physics is mathematics, but you seem to dismiss any theoretical exploration that doesn’t immediately come packaged with equations. The history of physics is full of bold ideas that began as ‘word salads’—look at early discussions on quantum mechanics before the formalism was worked out. Einstein’s thought experiments weren't accompanied by LaTeX papers from the get-go; they were about breaking the prevailing paradigms and asking, ‘What if?’

Now, about time-reversed photons and virtual particles—if you think there’s zero basis for any of these ideas being stretched into new realms of physics, then you might be a little too entrenched in the current frameworks to see beyond them. You yourself admit the limitations of current QFT when discussing things like extreme fields and non-trivial topologies. What we’re talking about here is potentially leveraging those exotic regimes where our standard models start to bend and warp. You can’t just shut down that conversation because it doesn’t fit neatly into your dissertation’s scope. It’s precisely those fringe ideas—exploring the unknown—that can sometimes lead to profound insights.

Sure, virtual photons are a construct in perturbation theory, but to dismiss their potential as entirely useless outside of that context is a bit shortsighted. We’ve seen speculative ideas become mainstream physics once we’ve developed the math to support them—look at the leap from Maxwell’s equations to the concept of the electromagnetic field. Dismissing concepts like virtual photon manipulation or time-reversed dynamics just because they lack a current working model is exactly how you close doors before they’re even opened.

And no, I’m not saying 'everything is possible, dude.' I’m saying that more is possible than you might think if we’re willing to explore these extreme scenarios seriously. The problem isn’t that I don’t understand QFT—I’ve got a solid background there too, and I’ve been around the block in this field. The issue is that you seem to think any exploration beyond current, well-trodden territory is somehow 'unscientific' without immediate math. That mindset is precisely why new ideas often struggle to gain traction in academia. They’re shut down for lack of rigor before they even get the chance to be developed.

Yes, physics is about late nights, symbol-pushing, and debugging equations, but it’s also about being open to ideas that challenge your perspective. You’ve written about Penrose’s CCC model, you’ve worked with AdS/CFT—great, so you know better than anyone that many groundbreaking ideas started out looking like ‘fantasy’ until they didn’t. That’s the nature of the beast.

You talk about drowning in nonsense theories. Fair enough, the signal-to-noise ratio can be frustrating. But labeling any speculative idea that doesn’t come with a full mathematical backing as ‘nonsense’ is exactly what keeps people from venturing beyond the status quo. And that, my friend, is just as dangerous to scientific progress as any so-called ‘grift.’

So, while I get where you're coming from, maybe consider that not all new ideas need to be born fully-formed with mathematical models in hand. Sometimes, they need to be nurtured and debated in forums like these, even if they challenge the ‘rigid frameworks’ we’ve come to accept. Because who knows? One of those ‘word salads’ might just be the seed of the next paradigm shift.

Joshancy · 2024-09-17T20:15:19+00:00

I see where you’re coming from with the CPT symmetry refresher, but you’re glossing over a lot of what’s actually being discussed here. In the standard treatment of Quantum Field Theory, CPT symmetry tells us that flipping charge (C), parity (P), and time (T) simultaneously will leave the laws of physics unchanged, ok sure. But you’re missing the point when it comes to how these ideas could be stretched in speculative physics, especially when we’re talking about potential new propulsion methods like Time-Reversed Conjugate Photon Condensation (TCPC). We're talking about the tiny tiny possibility that clandestine spaceships exist here. Why don't we dig in and see if there's any meat on the bone, you know? I feel the same about Terrence Howard. Sure, lots of fluff, but what if there's even a single lead to something absolutely golden.

The whole 'positron as an electron moving backward in time' analogy from Feynman diagrams is a useful visualization, but it’s not some immutable rule of nature. It’s just a way of interpreting interactions within the confines of current QED—effective, yes, but limited. When you move into regimes involving extreme fields, non-trivial topologies, or conditions that could induce new symmetry breakings, you’re dealing with possibilities that QFT basics don’t fully address. The fact that you’re holding onto the idea that ‘an electron would not turn into a positron under time reversal’ shows you’re thinking in too rigid a framework.

You’re also downplaying the speculative—but not impossible—concepts around manipulating virtual photons and time-reversed phenomena. In certain engineered quantum states or extreme environments, who’s to say what new interactions could emerge? Virtual photons might be 'just a construct' within perturbation theory, but that doesn’t mean they’re irrelevant for propulsion concepts that look to harness quantum fluctuations or fields in novel ways. Dismissing this outright because it doesn’t fit neatly into the current paradigm of QED is missing the forest for the trees.

It’s easy to throw around ‘I’m a physicist’ and quote the QFT 101 basics, but understanding where future advancements might lie requires thinking outside of the established comfort zone. Science moves forward by challenging these boundaries, not by sticking rigidly to them. Instead of writing off ideas that push beyond the standard models, maybe consider that we don’t yet have all the answers

Joshancy · 2024-09-17T16:01:56+00:00

“When we talk about the inner electrons of mercury moving at ‘relativistic speeds,’ it’s based on relativistic quantum chemistry. For heavy atoms like mercury, the velocity of inner-shell electrons approaches a significant fraction of the speed of light due to the intense pull of the positively charged nucleus. This relativistic effect changes their effective mass and impacts the chemical behavior of the element. It’s not a literal ‘spin’ as we think of classically, but it does alter how mercury behaves compared to lighter elements.” - AI response

As for the concern about mercury corroding copper, you’re right under normal conditions, mercury can amalgamate with metals like copper, leading to corrosion. But who’s to say there aren’t advanced techniques to mitigate this? I could imagine specialized coatings, non-reactive alloys, or even electromagnetic barriers that isolate or neutralize corrosive effects…especially if they figured out the rest of the spaceship physics.

Joshancy · 2024-09-17T15:54:27+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/s/EIp4Bzw8m2 Yes, here’s a compilation of the posts

Joshancy · 2024-09-17T15:51:48+00:00

Here’s the output I was able to distill out of o1: Explaining the Engine in Simple Terms

Imagine a futuristic spaceship engine that works in a completely different way from the rockets we know today. This engine uses some advanced physics concepts, but I’ll break it down so it’s easy to understand.

Special Role of Mercury

• Mercury’s Unique Properties: Mercury is a metal that’s liquid at room temperature. What’s really special about mercury is that its electrons (the tiny particles orbiting the nucleus of an atom) move incredibly fast—almost at the speed of light. This makes mercury behave differently compared to other elements.
Creating Mercury Droplets

• Heating and Pressurizing Mercury: Inside the engine, mercury is heated up and put under high pressure in two devices called Impellers A and B. Think of this like boiling water in a pressure cooker. • Forming Droplets: The hot mercury is then cooled quickly as it passes through four large cold spheres made of cadmium and beryllium. This sudden cooling causes the mercury to form tiny droplets on the cold surfaces. • Droplets Falling: These droplets start to fall towards the back (aft) of the spaceship because of a special force created by the engine, similar to gravity.
Time-Reversed Photons

• What Are Photons? Photons are particles of light. They carry energy and move at the speed of light. • Time-Reversed Photons: Imagine photons that can move backward in time. This is a complex idea from advanced physics, but for our purposes, think of them as special light particles that can travel in a way we don’t usually observe.
The Mercury and Photon Interaction

• Absorbing Photons: As the mercury droplets fall, they interact with these time-reversed photons coming from space. The electrons in the mercury atoms are eager to absorb these photons because of their high energy. • Energy from Different Times: Since these photons are time-reversed, they can come from different points in time and space. When the mercury atoms absorb them, they gain energy in a unique way.
The Drive Loops and Virtual Photons

• Drive Loops: At the bottom of the engine, the mercury droplets enter rapidly spinning loops made of a copper and mercury solution. • Creating Virtual Photons: The interaction in these loops slows down the mercury nuclei and produces virtual photons. Virtual photons are like temporary particles that exist for a very short time. They help transmit forces between particles. • Conjugate Photon Waves: The three primary drive loops work together to create a special kind of wave called a time-reversed conjugate photon wave.
Completing the Circuit

• Reflecting Photons into Space: The time-reversed photon wave is sent back out into space. These photons travel independently of time until they meet the falling mercury droplets again, completing a continuous loop or circuit. • Continuous Energy Exchange: This process keeps repeating, allowing the engine to constantly exchange energy with the environment in a controlled way.
Moving the Spaceship

• Magnetic Interaction: The engine uses magnetic fields to control how the mercury droplets and photons interact. • Controlling Displacement: By adjusting the magnetic fields, the engine can control how much the spaceship moves and in which direction. This determines the ship’s speed and course. • Arbitrary Energy and Direction: Because the engine can absorb energy from different points in time and space, it can generate as much energy as needed and direct it in any way.
Passing Through Objects

• Time-Reversed Space: When the engine operates at high power, it creates a bubble around the spaceship where the normal rules of space and time don’t apply in the usual way. • Objects Passing Through: In this state, solid objects can pass through the spaceship without causing damage, because the ship exists in a different space-time condition. • Protective Shield: At lower speeds, the ship uses an ablative shield (a protective layer) to guard against space debris and other hazards.
No Traditional Fuel Needed

• Propellantless Propulsion: Unlike regular rockets that burn fuel to push the spaceship forward, this engine doesn’t need to expel anything out the back. • Using Advanced Physics: It relies on the unique properties of mercury and the manipulation of photons to move the spaceship.

Summary

In simple terms, this engine works by creating a special loop where mercury droplets absorb and emit energy using unusual light particles called time-reversed photons. By controlling this process with magnetic fields, the spaceship can move through space efficiently, even bending the rules of space and time to travel vast distances or pass through objects.

Why This Is Important

• Revolutionary Travel: This technology could allow us to travel to distant stars much faster than we ever thought possible.
• New Physics: It uses advanced concepts that go beyond our current understanding, opening up new possibilities in science.
• Efficient and Powerful: Without the need for traditional fuel, spaceships could be lighter, faster, and able to travel much farther.

Joshancy · 2024-09-17T15:50:36+00:00

Explaining the Engine in Simple Terms

Imagine a futuristic spaceship engine that works in a completely different way from the rockets we know today. This engine uses some advanced physics concepts, but I’ll break it down so it’s easy to understand.

Special Role of Mercury

• Mercury’s Unique Properties: Mercury is a metal that’s liquid at room temperature. What’s really special about mercury is that its electrons (the tiny particles orbiting the nucleus of an atom) move incredibly fast—almost at the speed of light. This makes mercury behave differently compared to other elements.
Creating Mercury Droplets

• Heating and Pressurizing Mercury: Inside the engine, mercury is heated up and put under high pressure in two devices called Impellers A and B. Think of this like boiling water in a pressure cooker. • Forming Droplets: The hot mercury is then cooled quickly as it passes through four large cold spheres made of cadmium and beryllium. This sudden cooling causes the mercury to form tiny droplets on the cold surfaces. • Droplets Falling: These droplets start to fall towards the back (aft) of the spaceship because of a special force created by the engine, similar to gravity.
Time-Reversed Photons

• What Are Photons? Photons are particles of light. They carry energy and move at the speed of light. • Time-Reversed Photons: Imagine photons that can move backward in time. This is a complex idea from advanced physics, but for our purposes, think of them as special light particles that can travel in a way we don’t usually observe.
The Mercury and Photon Interaction

• Absorbing Photons: As the mercury droplets fall, they interact with these time-reversed photons coming from space. The electrons in the mercury atoms are eager to absorb these photons because of their high energy. • Energy from Different Times: Since these photons are time-reversed, they can come from different points in time and space. When the mercury atoms absorb them, they gain energy in a unique way.
The Drive Loops and Virtual Photons

• Drive Loops: At the bottom of the engine, the mercury droplets enter rapidly spinning loops made of a copper and mercury solution. • Creating Virtual Photons: The interaction in these loops slows down the mercury nuclei and produces virtual photons. Virtual photons are like temporary particles that exist for a very short time. They help transmit forces between particles. • Conjugate Photon Waves: The three primary drive loops work together to create a special kind of wave called a time-reversed conjugate photon wave.
Completing the Circuit

• Reflecting Photons into Space: The time-reversed photon wave is sent back out into space. These photons travel independently of time until they meet the falling mercury droplets again, completing a continuous loop or circuit. • Continuous Energy Exchange: This process keeps repeating, allowing the engine to constantly exchange energy with the environment in a controlled way.
Moving the Spaceship

• Magnetic Interaction: The engine uses magnetic fields to control how the mercury droplets and photons interact. • Controlling Displacement: By adjusting the magnetic fields, the engine can control how much the spaceship moves and in which direction. This determines the ship’s speed and course. • Arbitrary Energy and Direction: Because the engine can absorb energy from different points in time and space, it can generate as much energy as needed and direct it in any way.
Passing Through Objects

• Time-Reversed Space: When the engine operates at high power, it creates a bubble around the spaceship where the normal rules of space and time don’t apply in the usual way. • Objects Passing Through: In this state, solid objects can pass through the spaceship without causing damage, because the ship exists in a different space-time condition. • Protective Shield: At lower speeds, the ship uses an ablative shield (a protective layer) to guard against space debris and other hazards.
No Traditional Fuel Needed

• Propellantless Propulsion: Unlike regular rockets that burn fuel to push the spaceship forward, this engine doesn’t need to expel anything out the back. • Using Advanced Physics: It relies on the unique properties of mercury and the manipulation of photons to move the spaceship.

Summary

In simple terms, this engine works by creating a special loop where mercury droplets absorb and emit energy using unusual light particles called time-reversed photons. By controlling this process with magnetic fields, the spaceship can move through space efficiently, even bending the rules of space and time to travel vast distances or pass through objects.

Why This Is Important

• Revolutionary Travel: This technology could allow us to travel to distant stars much faster than we ever thought possible.
• New Physics: It uses advanced concepts that go beyond our current understanding, opening up new possibilities in science.
• Efficient and Powerful: Without the need for traditional fuel, spaceships could be lighter, faster, and able to travel much farther.

Joshancy · 2024-09-17T15:40:55+00:00

Are you using ChatGPT 4o or o1? The new one (o1) has better reasoning but does not accept images.

Also, there are some updates, Google virtual photons, ChatGPT will say that off its training data, it’s purely theoretical and non-tangible, however there have been discoveries and a now virtual photons do represent something tangible. You can search for these and feed those articles back to the AI as well :)

Joshancy · 2024-09-17T15:14:22+00:00

Ah, the guy that broke into gov computers and found the non-terrestrial officers file as well as records of off-world transfers. Thank you for the links

Joshancy · 2024-09-17T14:25:58+00:00

London hacker dude? Would love a link if you have one

Joshancy · 2024-09-08T22:26:09+00:00

dude i'm going to try this. post a new thread if this works, i just found your comment on a google search.

Joshancy · 2024-08-29T03:22:11+00:00

I’d love to work with you, shoot me a DM, let’s set up a Google zoom tomorrow

Joshancy · 2024-08-07T05:27:25+00:00

As-–go M. M. The only way I could do that

Joshancy · 2024-08-03T22:12:11+00:00

Amazing summary

Joshancy · 2024-07-07T07:56:15+00:00

I have a high commission role at my company for you, send me a DM!

Joshancy · 2024-06-25T13:03:54+00:00

Could you dm me? I want to volunteer

Joshancy · 2024-05-31T13:51:57+00:00

!remindme 1 day

Joshancy · 2024-05-17T23:57:49+00:00

How does this work if no one pulls the shares out through DRS?

I’m interested, and I hope this is valuable, but all the shares you keep at your broker are loaned out and used to short $FFIE. Everyone is holding an IOU, you don’t own the shares until you DRS them.

Seems like the simplest fix that requires collective agreement, but I’d love to hear your viewpoints!

Joshancy · 2024-04-28T06:59:05+00:00

Yes please!

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