Strange things you can do (no one believes)

[Cogwheel]

Clap with one hand (you kinda hit the base of the palm with the fingertips, folding your hand to half the size in the process).

Heh, I can do that as well! People look at me weird too, until they see it in action. I can do it with both hands, and at the same time as well.

So can I. Knew I wasn't the only one, mind you (for once). That said, I knew ONE other person who could do this until now, must be fairly rare.

I'm not entirely sure why other people have any difficulty mimicking it, though. It's odd.

 

[StBishop]

I can do the cold shiver thing with my spine too. Takes a bit of effort though and I've got to... charge it up, is I guess the best way to describe it, between my shoulderblades for a few seconds first. It's surprisingly plesent when it isn't warning you of danger.

I can recall a surprising amount of facts and figures about videogames and movies, sometiems years later, after a single glance at a wiki page (and other things too, but wiki pages are the most common). Now technically people do believe that I can recall this stuff, but they always say that I spend hours studying and memorising it. Not at all, it's one glance, one read-through when I'm bored, and I can recall it forever. If only I could do the same thing with my damn academic material.

I use to have this with D&D but mostly because I obsessed over the minutiae trying to min/max.

So it was sort of study but mostly I only looked at the page (of the various rules) once or twice.

I have the same when I recall answers in class, like I can spontaneously regurgitate Newton's laws or Bernoulli's principal in class when asked by the teacher despite that it's not really a major part of the course and never rote learning it, only making sure I understand, can reword, and apply it.
Everyone thinks I study every detail of every lecture to a ludicrous extent. But it makes me feel like less of a dick if I let people think I work a million times harder than them for my better marks.
Sure, I put in effort, but not as much as some people seem to think I do.

 

[General_Potatoes]

Well, I can tell the difference between butter and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!

I seem to be rather dull.

I don't believe it. I can't do anything

 

[Quaxar]

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.

Ah, the Cherenkov light. Alright then, I get where you're coming from but I think you or the book must have confused something there (or referred to the <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon#Cherenkov_radiation>theoretical tachyon Cherenkov effect). The emitted light is not tachyons and breaking the speed of light in a medium does not qualify something as a tachyon.
Tachyons always move faster than absolute c (speed of light in total vacuum), normal electromagnetic waves never can move faster than absolute c.
Both are completely different kinds of particles, at least if Tachyons do prove to exist which we can't do currently. Don't listen to the talk of tachyonized water.

Awright I'm bored. So let's get mah Mythbuster on:

Sorry I guess you didn't read my post, but it is okay, people don't read these days despite spending time on the internet looking for things to read, heh. But on your notion about Tach-Water, you can Tachyonize nearly anything. Water for example is very easy to Tach, with a clear Tachyon cell, within a few hours, that water is going to be sweet to the taste, crisp, and give you a pickup like you drank a Jolt soda. The cell consentrates the Tachyons into an area, and what ever is near it usually absorbs the effects that the Tachyon energy provide. The breakdown of this happens shortly after removing the water from the cell. Thus, like I said before, I can not sell or provide for testing this water, unless you happen to live in my state or something. However, the site I get the products from does have the cells you can use to do it yourself, or they have their own ionized and tachyonized water they sell, but I have yet to try it , since I can make my own at will, with anything! Soda, Juice, Beer, Vodka, it doesn't really matter. And in fact, thigns with the most toxins in it, such as Cigarettes and Beer or what not, often taste like nothing you have ever tried before. Take a cheap beer and turn it into almost an ale taste.

Not to offend but this first paragraph reads like the perfect troll marketing scheme. I have something against the laws of physics but I can't show you, you'll have to pay to see it!
Using the laws of refraction you tell me how (if the thing I found on Google is correct) a colorful contact lense can "concentrate tachyons" and I promise I'll think about it.

And ONE more time I will adress the Meta-physical part of this post. Scientists have NOT been intelligent enough yet, to make a device that can happen to measure these particles. As was mentioned, they go WAY too fast, and pass THROUGH the Earth and back out into space. So I suppose you could consider it a wave form of sorts. Similar to light, or the radiation from the sun, these waves come to us all the time. You are getting them right now, but in small doses, and your computer is likly blocking a majority of it. But as far as saying Tachyons exist? If you use Science, they want 100 percent proof before they say anything.

So scientists, despite being made up of the most intelligent people on earth who actually spend years of their lives studying their respective areas are too dumb for it? I'm sorry, how could I question someone who is a <url=http://www.tachyonenergy.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=36>Tachyon Energy Master Practitioner.
Tachyons pass through the earth (kinda like neutrinos, huh?) but the computer is magically blocking them? Please explain.

If you use science they want logical concepts that that fit into established theories. Unless you can find a flaw in the laws of thermodynamics you can publish books about perpetuum mobiles all you want.

 

[Pat8u]

I am able to tell when a TV is turned on without it's volume being up without even being able to tell there is a TV in the room. (From an adjacent room based on a weird almost electric feeling around my ears.)

If that's the case, go earn yourself a million dollars [http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html].

Seriously, anyone claiming to be able to do something paranormal, go forth and take James Randi's money.

thats not paranormal its probabely like a buzzing sound usally happens with old tvs

OT:Nope... Nothing oh waitttttt Nope hmmmmm I can make duck noises with my mouth

 

[Gasaraki]

It's amusing how many people are using this thread to wave around their autistic, supposedly-psychic, e-peens around

Could you clarify on that please? What you said could be taken to be quite offensive. It's definitely got my back up and the only thing that's stopping me from hitting the report button is that you may actually mean something else and aren't being intentionally offensive.

Well, just about every person with autism or asperger's that I've met makes shit up frequently to seem cool. I'm not saying everone with autism or asperger's is a compulsive liar, that's just been my experience with them and so I sort of tend to associate the two. It's not meant to be incredibly offensive or whatever, calm down.

 

[lacktheknack]

I have control over my nostrils as in make the nostrils bigger (inflant). Apperantly the people who I have encounter can't do that.

I CAN DO THAT! BROTHERRRRRR!

Beyond that, I can sweat desperately in 12 degree environments. It's not pleasant.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

I can full on cry whenever I decide to.
I can make my arm fall asleep pretty much at will. I don't do it often cause it feels horrible.
And I can... well, let's just say I can do something to myself not many other guys can do.

Ahh so you are ummm flexible .. in .. that way, eh?

Very much so, yes

 

[fragmaster09]

I have control over my nostrils as in make the nostrils bigger (inflant). Apperantly the people who I have encounter can't do that.

I CAN DO THAT! BROTHERRRRRR!

Beyond that, I can sweat desperately in 12 degree environments. It's not pleasant.

i can do that, but only when talking to one specific young woman (you know what i mean), or when i think i'm in trouble

 

[SadakoMoose]

I can see the future in a really impractical way.
I have a dream, which of course is going to contain a large number of images and concepts and what have you. Then, anywhere from a few months to 4 years later, a number of those images and concepts, from a specific dream, will appear in one place.
It isn't helpful, because I can't do it on purpose and I don't remember it until I see it all happen at once.
It's even harder to prove, since you can't visually record dreams, and there's always that whole law of averages thing where if you dream about a wide variety of real things, that you will eventually run into them. But I get things like exact dialogue quotes, and accurate building layouts.
Still, there'll always be someone calling you a "sheeple" or a "jackass" for trying to tell them that it really does happen.
There's being a skeptic, and then there's being a douche...

 

[Zergadooful]

I have a sixth sense to some degree, I always wake up 10 seconds before something wakes me, I know exactly where people are even if I can't see or hear them, and I just know if something is about to happen.
I've been noticing it a lot more recently, my instincts just tell me do something, and they've been right every time.

 

[fragmaster09]

I have a sixth sense to some degree, I always wake up 10 seconds before something wakes me, I know exactly where people are even if I can't see or hear them, and I just know if something is about to happen.
I've been noticing it a lot more recently, my instincts just tell me do something, and they've been right every time.

I always wake up 5 minutes before my alarm is set to wake me(any time at all, be it 6AM or 3PM).
I can do Bullet-Time from the Matrix(only when in PE lessons in school and there is a Football(ENGLISH!!!) sized ball going straight at my face that i can't see.
I can understand things that nobody else can(like why the girl on the other side of the room at school puts her hand on a cooker or something like that
I can imagine 3d planes as if i were there

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I have weird dark clouds and scratches on the surface of my eyes that zoom about when I move them. The optician called them "floaters", and I kept a straight face and didn't laugh. How many of you would be able to hold back a reaction when your optician looks you straight in the face and tells you, "You have floaters in your eyes, but they're not a problem." Yeah, that's a damn superpower if there ever was one.

 

[otakon17]

Well, I don't know if this counts but I can hear higher frequencies of sound then I'm supposed to. Especially, I can hear TV's turn on and off by a high pitched squeal of the electricity completing the circuit when turned on. As much as I figure it to be anyway. Dog Whistles also bother the hell out of me.

 

[Idsertian]

Well, just about every person with autism or asperger's that I've met makes shit up frequently to seem cool. I'm not saying everone with autism or asperger's is a compulsive liar, that's just been my experience with them and so I sort of tend to associate the two. It's not meant to be incredibly offensive or whatever, calm down.

It got my dander up because most of my family is autistic to one degree or another, my brother and sister the worst affected among us. I tend to get quite defensive when people make comments like that. I apologise for my slight over-reaction.

Are you sure these people are actually on the AS (autistic spectrum), and aren't just trying to get a look in on the "it" crowd by seeming different? I'm not saying autistic people are incapable of lying, they're not, but it's always a possibility. Please don't colour your views on autistic people because of a few people doing something stupid.

Also, you made a distinction between "autism" and "asperger's". No point to that, asperger's falls onto the autistic spectrum, so you basically said "wet water". By default, someone with asperger's is autistic, though someone who's autistic doesn't necessarily have asperger's. For instance, my sister has PDD-NOS (pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified [another ASD]), but not asperger's.

The more you know, and all that...

 

[JDLY]

I can stand outside in freezing temperatures in a tee-shirt and not get cold.

 

[Mr.Numbers]

I can emit a high pitched shriek I guess to be about 180 decibels. It's very painful to hear. Sweet self defense mechanism, like a flashbang.

Umm what else...

I'm a guy who is a florist, can poledance (Groan, stepmum) and cook, but I'm not gay or feminine, I'm actually fairly butch....Fairly.

I can move one eye at a time, like a gecko. (Excellent for watching Tennis)

ANd that's about it

 

[RazorRaptor9]

I also seem to have very good hearing. When playing Marco Polo, I can concentrate and hear my friends breathing and moving through the water. Not exactly helpful, but I think it's cool

 

[Ambi]

Nothing.

I can guess a number that someone is thinking of by looking into their eys long enough with a ludicrous level of accuracy. I've only tried it with 1-10 though, I think a higher range might make it harder, but I'm not sure if it works like that. Anyway, after a few moments then BAM, I just blurt out a number on instinct and it's the right one.

It would be interesting to measure your rate of accuracy with a large groups of people, if you haven't already. I also wonder whether this intuition of yours picks up other ridiculously specific things about other's mental states.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

I have a serious problem with deja vue's.

There are countless times or random encounters when I usually game that I recall that I've done that before,but that being impossible(playing a newly released game for example) and reaching a certain point in the game where I remember doing it at a certain point in the past.

It's very confusing...