Saturday 1 October 2011

Holy Crap I Leaned Too Much Get It Out Get It Out

As seen from the title, I have learned too much. It is now my duty, as a host of the memetic virus 'Being Cleverer Simplex', to spread it to everybody in ear... shot. Wait, hang on. How does that work?

Textshot? Internetshot? Webshot? Blogshot? Eyeshot?

I dunno. But, here comes a summary!

Thomas's First and Second Theorems
My first theorem:
XyZ = XwZ where y and w > 0

This needs a bit of explanation:

X+Y is the same as X2Y, so it is equal to "X1X1X..." iterated Y times.
That means X1Y = "X0X0X..." iterated Y times
And so on. But, when y and w are both less than or equal to zero, the two equations above are the same (for example, 3-4327 = 3-57487).

My second theorem is that the same holds for the inverse function.

Higher Order Atoms
My idea behind this one is simple:

Atoms made of charmed omegas, double charmed omegas and muons instead of nucleons and electrons. This would make a lot of very unstable elements, but they could display similar properties to their lower-order counterparts.

They could be named unhydrogen, unhelium, unlithium etc. after the waterbien word for 'one'. Our elements would be called nullamhydrogen under the same convention, and they would form an entire new periodic table.

Also, would an element with an exotic nucleus (cough cough Muonium cough) go on our periodic table, or on a different one.

FTL Neutrinos
My explanation for the FTL neutrinos:

As light travels through a vacuum, it is not really travelling through a vacuum - it is travelling through a sea of virtual particles (a 'false vacuum'). This gives the vacuum a small yet positive refractive index, which slows the photons down by up to 1 in 40,000, which also makes reported values for c incorrect. Neutrinos, on the other hand, do not interact with these virtual particles, so they travel through a vacuum with 0 refractive index, and therfore seem to go faster.

--Thomas