Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 2:45 am
I've been pondering, and I'm not sure, in a practical way, if it matters as long as it is limited to some neutrinos and other nearly effectless entities.
After all it isn't anything like all of them, it seems to be a tiny percentage. And of that tiny percentage an absolutely miniscule percentage would ever interact with anything at all. And of those that DO interact with anything at all, an almost impossibly small percentage could even theoretically alter an outcome even on the microscopic scale.
Now obviously it would be a huge deal to the science of physics and the fundamentals of the structure of the universe...which hardly anyone can even potentially understand.
But unless either it is something lots of things are doing all the time and violating relativity, conservation of energy, entropy, etc. Or it connects to something on the macro scale so we could teleport or FTL or get free energy from a paperclip, a crayola burnt umber, and sun-dried tomats it won't really mean anything except for the non-negligible satisfaction of knowing stuff.
After all it isn't anything like all of them, it seems to be a tiny percentage. And of that tiny percentage an absolutely miniscule percentage would ever interact with anything at all. And of those that DO interact with anything at all, an almost impossibly small percentage could even theoretically alter an outcome even on the microscopic scale.
Now obviously it would be a huge deal to the science of physics and the fundamentals of the structure of the universe...which hardly anyone can even potentially understand.
But unless either it is something lots of things are doing all the time and violating relativity, conservation of energy, entropy, etc. Or it connects to something on the macro scale so we could teleport or FTL or get free energy from a paperclip, a crayola burnt umber, and sun-dried tomats it won't really mean anything except for the non-negligible satisfaction of knowing stuff.
