Strange things you can do (no one believes)

[CaptainLoserPants]

I've never gotten a "sugar rush". For some reason my friends don't believe this. Yes, it is possible to eat sweets and not bounce off the walls. >,>
Pretty lame, I am.

 

[moretwocents]

You know those security gates you walk through at stores so that you can't steal anything without setting off alarms?

I can trigger those just by walking through them. Like, I walk INTO a store and they go off.

Hey, you don't believe I can do it. It fits this thread perfect.

 

[Tim Mazzola]

I can temporarily turn off my sight. Like, I can have my eyes open, but voluntarily make my sight worse to the point where I can be almost completely blind (just seeing everything as a blur, basically, not even perceiving shapes). I always figured anybody could do this by un-focusing their eyes, but nobody I tell it about believes it's possible, so I guess they can't.

I can do that too. Isn't it just some eye muscle thing?
I've never thought about it as anything special.

Also, 3 years of age and being a baby are lightyears apart, brain development and memory wise...

I know, I'm just saying, most people don't believe me when I say I can remember that far.

 

[Sir Broccoli]

I can grow an extra tooth.

Well, I could until they pulled it out. People have a hard time believing me until I show the X-ray photo.

Captcha: giddy goat

 

[warrcry13]

I can shake my whole face along with the thumb dislocation and nostril flaring, also my knees when standing relaxed look as if they are bending backwards. It's really odd looking its kinda like: Imagine a line and at the center it goes backwards and at the bottom it goes back to the original line. I guess I could just say they bend slightly backwards but then I sound like a mutant.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Alright, let me clear things up a bit. Or so I hope.

A Tachyon is a theoretical particle moving faster than the speed of light. We can't disprove that detect a Tachyon and probably never will because even if it exists it probably doesn't interact with sub-lightspeed particles. And if it does we still need bigger and better detectors.

Creating a vacuum isn't the problem, I mean you just have to suck the air out of an airtight vessel but I call BS on the "tachyonizing" part as shown in the last paragraph.

Aaaand... I'm not sure I know this photon detection experiment. Google to the rescue!

But I can help you with the ol' particle-wave-problem.
See, light is a strange thing. It's not totally wave but not totally particle, sometimes it uses features of a wave, sometimes of a particle.
For example looking at the <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment>double-slit experiment it behaves like a wave, meaning we can see interference like when you throw two stones into the water next to each other.
On the other hand do waves need a medium to travel through (sound waves, for example, can't exist in a vacuum) but light still passes the emptiness of space.

I could go on but I think I'll leave you there for now. Though feel free to ask, I have way too many hard physic books here. I can talk about anything.

How does this work for you... (yes, I'm being a ponce for quoting myself).

I will immediately preface this by saying I am not a theoretical physicist.

*ahem* You do realise that tachyon research has only advanced to the point where their involvement in brane-antibrane interactions is only just being understood. Moreover, the application of tachyon fields to systems as small as a bottle of water is... non-sensical. Even current research, e.g. tachyonic fields with respect to dark energy models, run into the problem of causality resolution [1], even if prior hypotheses have been thoroughly tested. Also, despite the requirement of a series of assumptions (e.g. non-flat FRW universe etc.) entropy correction is supremely difficult and tachyonic fields must be considered alongside a myriad of other 'forces' (e.g. K-essence, dilation scalar fields) and other hypothetical models, including loop quantum gravity [2]. All of this is based upon the viability of a particular agegraphic dark energy model [3], which I personally don't like the look of. ¬_¬

Anyway, even were the entirety of the above to be proven to be real (in the mathematical sense), and most of the authors require uncertainty principles to prove probability, how (or rather, why) could it be applied to such mundane and banal things as water...?

1. Sheykhi A, Physics Letters B 682 (2010) 329?333
2. Farooq et al. (submitted 2010 - arXiv: 1003.4098v2)
3. Cui et al. Chinese Physics B 19-1 (2010) 019802

Yes, I'm trolling.

Therefore, request: cite your sources.

Or alternatively, go to page 4, read the long posts and... well, react how you will react.

 

[DoctorPhil]

Hmm, I am fleiable to give myself a blowjob (if you tell anybody I know that A: you are an internet stalker because you found out who I am and B: I will kill you for telling them) Nobody knows because I don't tell people a lot for fear of masterbation jokes

When you said "fleiable", you meant flexible right? How is it?

 

[let's rock]

Hmm, I am fleiable to give myself a blowjob (if you tell anybody I know that A: you are an internet stalker because you found out who I am and B: I will kill you for telling them) Nobody knows because I don't tell people a lot for fear of masterbation jokes

When you said "fleiable", you meant flexible right? How is it?

Yes, I ment flexible. And I don't know what you mean by "How is it?" If you mean how does it feel, just like if somebody else was doing it

 

[Super Six One]

I can dislocate (at least it looks like that) my right thumb as I wish and "relocate" it without external force.

I can do that with my left sholder, just the left one tho for some reason(I think it's and injury i got during gym when i was young and never got checked out)

OT : I have the ablity to create the most factual lies my freinds and family have ever hear of. It's slightly compulsive, someone mentions somthing they have say, hear on the news, and my mind just come out with this amazing story about it which sounds totally real about the subject, and well its just total fake.
After tho i do tell them that i made it up and they can't belive that i thought of it on the spot so quickly.

 

[Drummie666]

Well, I can vibrate my eyes, partially dislocate both my shoulders, move a muscle on the top of my head and occasionally I get dreams of events that happen a couple years down the road.

I haven't had one of those in a long time, so I don't think really believe that I have that power.

 

[zefiewings]

I have an audio memory, so I remember full length movies, damn near to the letter after only seeing it once or twice. People always assume I match the same movie over and over until it sticks, but that just isn't so. I have seen some movies over and over (because I love them) but I still only need a few times seing them to get them.
It is taking at leased two or three times these days, because my movie collection is about 1000 large.

It works with music, and plays too.

I just wish I only remembered the stuff I like. Nothing is worse then constantly getting some signer you hate in your head because you know all her stuff.

 

[Psymon138]

I can dislocate my shoulders, at least partially. It doesn't hurt and I can pop them back in just as easily. It's not terribly useful though, they pop back in by themselves once I lift my arms much above horizontal. So no escaping straitjackets for me.

 

[Neuromaster]

I can ride a unicycle.

 

[Setsuri21]

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Check it out, I've got the exact same thing!

Spoiler

Together we could fight crime and evil! Nobody could withstand the double-icky-thumb!

The funny thing is yours is on your right, mine is on my left. Just out of curiosity, are you right-handed? Because I'm left handed, maybe this has something to do with early development.

I can do that with both hands. I suspect it may have something to do with being Ambidextrous.

 

[The SettingSun]

I don't get hangovers, whatsoever.

I have random moments of precognition.

Examples: It was easter, at my grandparent's, and my cousin, who was too young to actually remember numbers properly was counting her easter eggs. A random number pattern came into my head, something like "1,2,4,8,12" a few seconds later, she counted out those exact numbers (and was then corrected by my sister)

I was in a car, with a drink balanced on the dashboard (fortunately it had a lid) I was playing on my gameboy when I, half aware of what I was doing, stuck my hand out. A few seconds later, we went over a bump and the cup fell safely into my hand.

I was speaking to my friend on msn. I asked what level his character was on an RPG game. I just murmured to myself "32", and that was the number he posted.

I was on holiday with family and friends. It was dark, and we were at the docks. We heard one of the kids running along the docks, right to where the jagged rocks were. Me and another guy sprinted along the docks, but there were these local fishermen untangling some line. It was stretched across the width of the dock in a tangled mess and we couldn't see for the dark. My friend came to a halt, but I jumped on a split reaction and went through a small gap in the net a few feet in the air.

I wondered whether precognition was actually true because if it is I definitely had it when i was younger. I remember one time when I'd been talking to a guy at school and he really annoyed me. Now he'd never phoned me before but I was lying in bed one Saturday morning and the phone started ringing and I thought to myself "Go away Patrick" and I knew it was him. I heard my Dad answer the phone and when i got up around an hour later he told me that Patrick had phoned. I've had similar experiences though they've kinda stopped now.

 

[Groovy Dan]

I have color synesthesia. My family knows I have it but my friends don't even think it's a real thing. I can also make complete 3D models very quickly in my head, of anything. But that's hard thing to prove.

 

[Flyingchciken93]

No one believes me but i can creae matter from empty air, also i can change matter into energy and manipulate it to create different matter

 

[mikev7.0]

I can imagine 7 dimensions.
This one is very hard to prove.
It also makes my brain hurt.

Heh, meet super string theory.

I held 2 cells and drank some normal bottled water that I had tachyonized for a few hours.

How, exactly, do you go about 'tachyonising' a bottle of water? Because I doubt it's very healthy for you, that high you're feeling may just be radiation poisoning.

Tachyon particles are SOOO small and go soo fast (THROUGH the earth's molicule gaps at NEAR the speed of light or faster) we don't have machines sophisticated enough to measure these particles. Perhaps when they built something smaller than a nano-meter or something that day will come.

Oh dear we've made a whoopsie. Tachyons are quantum particles, existing both as physical objects and electromagnetic waveforms depending on if they're observed. That being said, even while existing as particles they don't travel by speed in the same way we do, they exist as probability fields. However even with that, we as a race do have the ability to detect quantum particles, both using our eyes (light photons are quantum particles) and devices like photometres and colourometeres. Tachyons, on the other hand, violate many principles of current universal physics theories and very likely can't be detected because they don't exist.

Of course you'd know all of this if you just read the wikipedia page [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon], which I really recomend you do in future before irradiating yourself or wasting thousands of [your currancy here] trying to detect something that's already being looked for by qualified scientists with millian dollar budgets.

Okay I thought a Tachyon was a subatomic particle that can break the speed of light but only in a vacuum? So how are you creating a vacuum for all this "tachyonising" or how do you do it? I also thought that a research group from Austrailia named KANGAROO (not kidding, that's what they call themselves) did discover it and although it's true that the human eye (when adapted to the dark) can detect a photon, I don't think you would see something traveling faster than 186,000 miles per second. Lastly, did you mean whether light is a wave or particle depends on HOW it's observed? Sorry that first bit confused me. This is why Wikipedia is NOT equal to a library.

Alright, let me clear things up a bit. Or so I hope.

A Tachyon is a theoretical particle moving faster than the speed of light. We can't disprove that detect a Tachyon and probably never will because even if it exists it probably doesn't interact with sub-lightspeed particles. And if it does we still need bigger and better detectors.

Creating a vacuum isn't the problem, I mean you just have to suck the air out of an airtight vessel but I call BS on the "tachyonizing" part as shown in the last paragraph.

Aaaand... I'm not sure I know this photon detection experiment. Google to the rescue!

But I can help you with the ol' particle-wave-problem.
See, light is a strange thing. It's not totally wave but not totally particle, sometimes it uses features of a wave, sometimes of a particle.
For example looking at the <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment>double-slit experiment it behaves like a wave, meaning we can see interference like when you throw two stones into the water next to each other.
On the other hand do waves need a medium to travel through (sound waves, for example, can't exist in a vacuum) but light still passes the emptiness of space.

I could go on but I think I'll leave you there for now. Though feel free to ask, I have way too many hard physic books here. I can talk about anything.

Right. That was exactly what I meant about light. Whether or not it is a wave or a particle depends on HOW it's observed.

It's this bit from Paul Davies: "About Time" that gets me confused about Tachyons I think, Mr. Davies is talking about the CANGAROO experiments: "Some of the eletrically charged particles involved in these showers (the ones they were studying) move at very close indeed to the speed of light. In fact, they actually move FASTER than light moves through the air. This is an important point. The theory of relativity forbids a subatomic particle from going faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. But light travels more slowly in air, so it is possible for a nuclear particle, which may be slowed only slightly by the air, to be superluminal in the atmosphere. If the particle is electrically charged, it creates a sort of electromagnetic shock wave, a little bit like a sonic boom, but with light instead of sound. The light is known as "Cherenkov radiation."

Now the OP had talked about them as if Tachyons were bottled and available as pratically a Slurpee flavor, but I'm just saying that they've been discovered and do exist. If I'm wrong about that then so is this book and I want to know the truth. This is important (as is later explained in the book) because if it's true than it means that at the very least signals could be sent to the past/from the future as well as it has huge paradoxical implications for physics as a whole.

 

[Lilitu]

I can do that with my left thumb. Laos to a lesser extent my right thumb, but not really as well and to do it I have to push it. I'm right handed, are you by chance left handed?

That makes a trio of icky-thumbs together with k-ossuburb.
I am right-handed too, but k-ossuburb is lefthanded.

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Check it out, I've got the exact same thing!

Spoiler

We gonna rule the world! ;D

 

[IxHADOUKENxI]

The only thing like this I can do is...something that not many other Blokes can do without the removal of several Ribs....