• Michael McMahon
    538
    “Gravity is slightly stronger at the poles compared to the equator. This is due to the Earth's shape, which is not perfectly spherical but rather an oblate spheroid, meaning it's wider at the equator and flatter at the poles. Additionally, the Earth's rotation creates a centrifugal force, which counteracts gravity more significantly at the equator than at the poles.”

    The way that Earth’s daily rotational speed not only matches the equatorial bulge but actually outcompetes the equatorial bulge can create an inversion of Newtonian gravity by emphasising how increased rotation speed outcomes an increase of mass not only as a result of gravity but potentially as a primary source of gravity too. In other words the north pole might have less gravity mostly because of decreased rotation speed rather than just a decrease in the mass of Earth’s crust seeing as kinetic energy is proportional to speed squared but only mass once.
  • Michael McMahon
    538
    Perhaps the slightly decreased rate of gravity at the equator might appear at first sight to be only a slight athletic advantage until I realised that there might be an upward spiral in kinetic energy when sprinting at top speed! A weightlifter cares not only about the mass of a barbell but also the gravitational weight(!):


    The Game - How We Do
  • Michael McMahon
    538
    Perhaps a problem in quantum gravity is humility where few people who learn Shakespeare could ever speak Shakespearean English fluently to have not done so on a daily basis. Yet no matter how much more advanced modern maths could be we forget that few modern physicists could tell how strict the entire culture of physics could have been in the early 1900s to ever match Einstein at maths. In other words anyone opting to not speak a posh word can't fathom a transcendent value of how many people in ancient history were needed to etymologically derive the word to benefit fully from casually using the word to ever match Shakespeare. Likewise a version of platonism is to forget that the history of maths is so extreme that few could fully fathom how much time is saved to learn mathematical techniques that took centuries to make discover to ever match Einstein. So a more humble version of "shut up and calculate" in quantum mechanics is not only was the problem of quantum gravity immediately resolved physically but metaphysically too only for no one to be good enough to describe all of it simultaneously. So an inversion of Feynman's joke that no one understood quantum mechanics to think they understood it is that no one understand's general relativity to think they fully fathomed it!
  • Michael McMahon
    538
    A postmodern version of Christianity might be to not only partially reject inter-generational forgiveness but to fully reject inter-generational forgiveness such that anyone who sided with evil is actually as evil as theoretically possible in such a manner that ironically they can’t actually be evil in comparison to the extortionate amount of evil being represented! In other words as the generations go by there’ll be a greater amount of good and evil being inherited in a progressively longer history. As such someone’s public actions would outcompete their private thoughts as an indicator of being good or evil. It’d be as if the Protestant doctrine of faith and faith alone to get into heaven would actually not only be combined with good deeds in the Catholic faith but would actually become the equivalent of each other if faith itself becomes increasingly reified in the future in such a way that good faith automatically leads to good deeds rather than just an inclination to do so. So when I first started lucid dreaming years ago and so a frozen image of a little dinosaur then perhaps it was a warning that I was as evil as heck rather than a reward for being nice! Perhaps the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs being equivalent to multiple nuclear bombs was the only event needed to prove quantum gravity on a little hill were it to separate from Earth! If the Earth had no molten core then rock is less dense than magma as if Earth would be twice its size with a frozen interior to help stick us to the ground. The way I can hardly remember my visit to London’s natural history museum with my aunt after my failed Imperial College physics interview might have been a punishment from the lucid dream of the dinosaur!
  • Michael McMahon
    538
    This scene parodies the idea of dreaming being a reflection of ancestral genetic memory. A problem with being descended from fish before life on land first evolved is that anyone not rebelling thoroughly enough against arachnid ancestors in the scene below can never again complain about monkey ancestry!

    "Beyond the aquila rift" ending scene / Love, Death & Robots.
  • Michael McMahon
    538
    Defending humility with false humility might not be as bad as pride but then what would happen if no one actually promoted humility in spite of everyone being humble? So to downplay a dream as a mere cartoon might be more tolerable if we somehow upgraded the idea of a cartoon. For example in vague background characters there can still be emphasis in emotional face recognition in blanking out all secondary details while in impressionistic paintings there can be better temporal emphasis. By contrast a cartoon never has to take pride in low definition when it can never match photons in such a way that a viewer never has to rationalise silver linings. Hence what might be uncanny about a photorealistic cartoon is that there’s no temptation to be possessive of your depth perception in such a way that a cartoon with an evil theme is never evil about the visuals as if it were purely humble in a way that can appear paradoxical like a dream.


    The Tall Grass | Love, Death & Robots
  • Michael McMahon
    538
    The way in which a tachyon moves backwards relative to slower than light matter mimics electric current moving from a positive to a negative.

    “While voltage doesn't flow, it creates a potential difference that causes current to flow from areas of higher potential (positive) to lower potential (negative).”



    Turbo Zoom
    “Unlike most Zoom movies, I run this one in reverse from end to start. This is a basic illustration of what happens as you zoom in on the westernmost tip of the Mandelbrot needle.”
  • Michael McMahon
    538
    When we move our fingertip to block out a car moving closer to you in the distance then the distance we have to move our fingertip from start to finish is proportional to the distance the car moves from the top to the end of the road in a way that mimics our homunculus.
  • Michael McMahon
    538
    Using the same fingertip occultation technique when the car reverses direction to drive away from you then the motion of our fingertip might resemble a repulsive magnetic launchpad as if our neurons could be unconsciously mimicking the process.
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