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This thread is to discuss theoretical ideas you may have, and invention you know that are in the making. For example, currently possible theoretical inventions:

Star-Wars like blaster

Description: A gun shooting bolts of plasma like what a stromtrooper would have.
Current Problems:
1. To fire a simple blaster rifle would require the full power from several nuclear power plants.
2. We can't even create enough energy to have a turbolaser or large cannon.
Outlook: Partly Cloudy. The development of compact fusion reaction cells and such could make these a reality. However, the is no telling when that might happen

Hovercars

Description: Cars that can hover and fly.
Current Problems: While such devices have been sucessfully built, they are inexorbanantly expensive and ways to lower the cost aren't on the horizon yet.
Outlook Stormy. It is unlikely they will become affordable to the average person.


Discuss and post new invention ideas or theoretical inventions!

They have guns that shoot microwaves. They aren't powerfull enough to kill anything, but they are being used to destroy tornadoes.

My ideas:

Well if you ever hear about the ideas for mp3 sunglasses by Oakly. Me and my dad had actually thought up and built our patent for them, but when we got to the patent office, we found that Oakly had gotten the pattent two days before us!

Other than that attempt, I have designed a set of clothes (pants and a shirt) that glow in the dark. All I need to complete this idea is some phosphorus. But I have heard now that they were made in the sixties...

I am also designing a type of shoe. It would have a metal frame in parts of it, and this could be used to lock your foot into place on, say snowboards or rollerskates.

kool.

The Star Wars blasters work by converting gas (ammo) into plasma and firing with a magnetic bottle effect. Hot crazy plasma hits target.. BZZZZT flash melt.

Wait till we get fusion power just wait...

I just read that scientists can make plasma by shooting Ultrasonic waves through a fluid. These waves can create microcosms, which are little bubbles about three times hotter than the sun (15,000°K). This definatly produces ionization, and they are saying that it could be the beginings of fusion power. This could help in your goal for a blaster.

The Gravity gun?

magnet? it would move you when used on big objects
creating 0 field energy? then it would lift/move all objects

-finish later-

Ah, plasma weapons. Well, there's an interesting article on plasma weapons used in sci-fi films and shows:

http://stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/PlasmaWeapons.html

Lighting is fifty thousand not fifty million.

I said like blasters. They'll be made eventually, if not exactly like the films.

I get a magazine called science news, which basically has the most current scientific discoveries. (It comes weekly, instead of monthly, because there is so much stuff)

No no no..An awsome invention would be a Gravitic Drive System. Seeing as how it would be impossible to travel faster then the speed of light because as you approach the speed of light *breath* time slows, using Gravitic Drive System for propulsion would bypass all this hassle. Heh I'm smart

Could you explain what you mean by "Gravitic Drive System"

Lol well basically it creates a rip in the Space Time Continuum and you travel through a gravity warp. Almost like a more stable worm hole you can say. Truthfully I seen it off a game >.> So it seemed pretty cool

And of course is jsut random words slapped together to sound like a coherent idea.

Exactly

On a quick note: According to several very reputable news releases among the scientific community, researchers were able to propel a beam of light through a gas-filled tube at approximately three times the speed of light. Of course, I havent heard anthing about it since, so I think its completely false.

Also, as you approach the speed of light, time doesnt actually slow down...it just seems to, and only to you. Noone else would notice a difference.


Something I've thought a lot about: some sort of design that achieves 100% effeciency, or more; more output than input.

Chances? According to science, none. But we can still try!

Synthetic fossil fuels.

Or something ever more far-reaching than the above two: A new form of power. Sure, theres alternate power sources: solar, wind, fusion, but these are all ways to achieve the same kind of power. Surely there has to be something else out there beyond electricity.

internet glasses

you will soon be able to access the internet throught glasses, typing will be voice activated, say a word and it types it, if the word was spelled incorectly say retype

a tiny hand held mouse will be used as well, a mouse

ccongrats who ever is inviting this, you just made the word even more lazier

Go beyond that. Forget speech-to-text recgnition. Think even higher.
Mind-Machine interface...

Speaking of mind-machine interface I'm so damn suprised we don't have that now. All you have to do is tell someone to think hard about something then program a machine to recognize the electronic nerve impulses and do something.



Time does slow down. Any matter moving close to the speed of light has time slow down relatively. Which is why, traveling at nearly the speed of light, a human could circumnavigate (go all the way around) the universe in 64 years. (but 3,000,000,000 would have passed on Earth)

Yea... I wanna have a conversation with a robot...
I think in 20 years we will have robot AI. Maybe even in 15...

I DO believe youre a LITTLE off in your calculations. Traveling at the speed of light itself, it would take hundreds of years to even travel to the star NEAREST us...(cant think of the name right now, its somehting along the lines of alpha centauri or gamma....bleh) Thats why theyre called light-years. The distance that, travelling at the speed of light, you can cover in a year.

Circumnavigating the universe would also be completely impossible, because the universe is expanding at an infinitely exponential rate. At least, thats one theory. Another says that it already spans across an infinite space. And another theory suggests were in a big marble, and there are thouand of other universe in marble bubbles. Or that our universe has a twin running the exact opposite direction, and thus we cannot feel its presence, but the alternate universe's beings are all-powerful and influence our thoughts and actions with their minds (friend of mine's idea...hes wierd.l)

Hopefully you mean any star besides the sun. That would be VERY off.

another theory is that for every thought, another universe appears.

Ok, it is pretty well known that light (traveling in a vacuum with no external forces) is what scientists use to determine the interactions of objects far away. Light years measures the distance light travels in a year, but that is fropm the perspective of people here on earth. In reality there are multiple "truths" that are happening as asomething approaches the speed of light.
Say a spaceship were to zoom past earth at near the speed of, on it were a bunch of people doing varius tasks. To them they would be moving at normal everyday speeds.
Now say there were an observer on the earth that witnessed them do these tasks from a telescope. To him they would be moving very slowly. If they infact reached the speed of light, in relation to the observer, they would dissappear. He would not see them again until they reached their destination and slowed down.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that when they reached the speed of light, time (in relation to an observer) would stop. They would arrive at their destination without losing any time, because we measure time by the speed of light. This is really hard to explain, so I would suggest reading the book, "The Elegant Universe" before you make accusations on how time is measured and such. It is a really handy book to read.

The people in the spaceship would have aged 64 years. 3 billion would have passed on Earth by their return.

You can circumnavigate the universe. Scientist say if you keep going in any one direction, you'll end up back at the same place.

I think they should make robots like in I robot. When i say that i mean the robot called sony. Who was nice. But the robot would also have to be able to do your chores, homework,, and babysit. That would be so cool. But then we would all get even fatter and dumber. But it would still be cool.

Or a virtual reality video game system that like if you walk you walk through the map in your video game system and stuff. Or if you like had a gun(fake) and you have to have accuracy by pointing not just using like a computer mouse like you would play counter-strike...

Even if you came up with such weapons, if they were ever used on the battlefield by infantry, every country would want to loot those corpses to get those guns. Then imagine if all countries had them. I shiver at the thought. Now a rail gun, that sounds nice.