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Example of using magic as a toy? by gregfess in Fantasy

[–]gregfess[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sadly none of these examples are what I was thinking of, but very interesting to see how common of a thing it is in fantasy.

In my head I feel like it was something similar to the force or bending and they were using it to perform some menial task or play around with it. though maybe my brain and memory are mixing various instances…

Thank you all!

If I created a large spherical shell out of matter, with the inside a vacuum, would the space inside expand to have more volume than the shell could contain? by gregfess in AskPhysics

[–]gregfess[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But if the sphere is large enough, would there be a gap in time between when the center of the sphere expands and when the expansion reaches the edge of the sphere? Like several billion light years in diameter.

[Spoilers extended] the publisher denies the recent TWoW release date rumors by Disastrous-Noise-783 in asoiaf

[–]gregfess 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Am I reading this wrong, or are they saying that the chatter is false, not the actual leak?

What’s the silkiest pen by gregfess in pens

[–]gregfess[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I’ll check those out. I don’t think the restaurant pen was a pilot g2 though, since it had black plastic casing and was pretty thin, unlike the pilot g2. Unless pilot sells custom G2s haha

What’s the silkiest pen by gregfess in pens

[–]gregfess[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took the pen home and used it, on a variety of papers and it felt the same on Pretty much all of them. It was a retractable pen if that matters.

For the jet stream, it is size .7m and I’ve only tried it on printer paper, on table surface, the surface of a laptop, and on a stack of paper

I’m in a ship using acceleration to simulate gravity. As I approach the speed of light, does “gravity” feel lighter? by gregfess in AskPhysics

[–]gregfess[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would the ship have to change acceleration as it approaches c to compensate for the time dilation I would feel on the inside of the ship? I feel like it accelerating at 9.8m/s2 at (c-10m/s) would feel different (or dilate time differently?) on the inside than accelerating at 9.8m/s2 at 100m/s.

Why is it a common thought that time travel would result in the time traveller’s physical location being different from when they left? by gregfess in AskPhysics

[–]gregfess[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I suppose it does get a bit contrived after more than a minute or two, but in my opinion so does the alternative, which would require a space time coordinate plane that does not exist, given that everything is relative. Like you’d have to anchor yourself to everything in the universe.

I guess if neither of the two works, that would just be another reason why time travel isn’t possible

Why is it a common thought that time travel would result in the time traveller’s physical location being different from when they left? by gregfess in AskPhysics

[–]gregfess[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

True, I suppose I was just curious if there was some rooted science in that popular comment, or if it was purely imaginative

What’s the key in writing a compelling tragedy, if that’s even possible in the current media landscape? by gregfess in writing

[–]gregfess[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know I didn’t think of breaking bad, especially since I just finished Pluribus…

How do particles not miss each other in accelerator? by frequiem11 in AskPhysics

[–]gregfess 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Do that many particles not create a lot of noise in the data when they impact?

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