Perpetual rain machine

Was looking at stuff about phase transitions and wondered about glass. Without using many polysylabilistic words. If you cool something down quick enough and its viscosity reduces in a uniform manner if should become a glass. Glass then is like a single crystal, but without any sharp edges. It will still look like it is a fluid because the outside edges are defined by its surface tension when it was a liquid. In all respects it will appear as a liquid that has been frozen in time.

So possibly this will be a phenomenon that occurs at the same time as when trying to make cold light.



It seems glass isn’t a proper state of matter, it’s an Amorphous Solid, like jelly and kind of stuck in between being a liquid and a solid. Apparently it’s a dynamic thing and depends on the pressure and how fast the cooling rate was. In the end glass should be solid, brittle and have no internal diffraction surfaces (ie. can see through it). Apparently if you cool it enough it will have to shatter to for crystals because they are more stable at lower temperatures, eventually the stability difference will be enough to break the glass.



Then I was wondering what would it be if you got stuck between a liquid and a gas? I suppose it would depend on the vapour pressure. Imagining a Kg of H2O, that is neither fully evaporated into steam, nor is it cooled into water. The temperature and pressure would have to be uniform and precisely controlled. I suppose it would look like a mist or rain that doesn’t fall. The steam would condense into raindrops, but then evaporate before gravity takes hold.



Hmm, I wonder if anybody has tried to make a rain machine like that? It would have to be tall to allow for a temperature difference to occur. The sides would have to be clear to see what is happening and hydrophobic to stop the water precipitation on the sides. Would need some sort of heater on the bottom to boil the water and a freezer on the top to remove heat from there. The whole vessel would have to be pretty tall.

So then at the bottom the water would be boiled to steam and disappear. Probably have to be an electric element that can be turned off automatically when there is no liquid.

Then the invisible steam will travel up to the top with all the heat from the heater. At the top there may be too much heat for the steam to precipitate so a cooling device may be required. But the vapour mustn’t freeze on the walls. Then when droplets form they would fall down towards the heater as far as the heat will allow them to.

Foamy sea

Recently we had a lot of foam in out cooling water towers at work. So I decided to have a look at what sea foam was. It seems to be a breakdown of algee and microbes and stuff. The strings of lipids (from the breakdown of cellular barriers for example) react with the abundance of salt in the presence of acid (carbon dioxide) forming a multitude of varied soaps. Then with a bit of extra agitation they foam up.

then again I could be wrong, its happened before.

Horizon Eye Technique: to see without looking

The human eye can see in a 200° horizontal and 100° vertical Radius, but that is with looking at things out of the corner of your eye. To see without looking you need to rely on your peripheral vision. Focus where you are looking on the horizon in front of you, at whatever is in the furthest distance. But don’t look at clouds, they are too high and nondescript. Your peripheral vision still needs to be able to perceive your feet, so you can watch where you are walking.
Don’t take my word for it, have a go. Stand with your back to a wall and stretch your arms out to your sides, point your fingers away from the wall and wiggle them. Even if you look directly in front, away from the wall you should be able to detect the movement of your fingers in your peripheral vision.
Have a go when next you are driving, don’t watch the car directly ahead of you, look at the furthest point on the road. Then you can easily react to a train-crossing three intersections away from you as well as detect the cars near you using their break lights. Although I do find it hard to see the speedo I can notice cars behind me in the rear view mirrors.

Look at nothing, see everything.

Compared to this computer games are rather limited, maybe giving you a 30°x20° view of what’s happening. Thus I am interested in this new VR headset, 110° FOV is about half of what you are capable of when using this technique. This part (@2:52) compares what the VR headset can see as opposed to the human eye.

P.S. Peripheral vision is in Black& White.

Trousers of Time

The way that I understand the omnipresence in inexplicableness of God is also the way that I understand the organised chaos theory. Through the trousers of time. I believe Terry Pratchett first introduced me to the Trousers of Time. The way it works is this. At any arbitrary point in time you can make a decision. For example weather to wear my unban camo trousers or my denim jeans. Once I have put on one set the the universe will be irrevocably altered. Just like trousers you can either put the left leg in first or the right. And since time (for us) only moves the one direction you cannot change your mind part way through. You can imagine what the universe would’ve been like if you were wearing urban camo but there is no way to know. Unless you are God. Trousers are like a fork in the road and also like a fork in the road there will be more choices to make. Will I have Spaghetti bog for tea or Spaghetti and meatballs? Now you have two Trouser like splits in time giving rise to four different possible universes. Its like trousers stuck on the leg of the trousers you just put on. And the choices go on forever, and sometimes there are even three legged trousers. Eventually the possibilities would end up like a plate of spaghetti.

I believe God can see every possible choice of trousers, be they camo or jeans, and can accurately depict what the universe would be like with any combination of trousers and spaghetti. Even where separate time streams recombine. For there are times when it is irrelevant to your choice of tea what trousers you are wearing. So regardless of your choice of Urban Camo you will still end up with the choice of Spaghetti bog or Spaghetti and meatballs. God doesn’t exist outside of the bowl of spaghetti he lives in it with us, but he can clearly comprehend every set of trousers.

So, our lives travel along one of these strands of spaghetti, like a photon in a fibre optic cable, twisting and turning wherever the spaghetti will take us. At each junction we make a choice and travel down one branch and not the other. Thus our reality is completely linear like a game of F3AR. Also unlike movies time always moves in the same direction and at the same pace, so we can never remake a decision once decided. Thus there is only one possible reality that we can experience.

But wait, what about the game F3AR? Is that not an alternate reality that can be experienced? Movies too, they are like our reality but strange things happen, like aliens building pyramids that then get attacked by Decepticons because a boy fell in love. Then if things can be experienced and shared they must exist, as per the qualification “I think therefore I am”. It’s also possible for me to imagine what life could’ve been like if I had chosen Jeans. Is that not nearly looking into a different strand of spaghetti in the trousers of time? But we still cant really get into these alternate realities for we always exist in the current one. Its sort of like a psionic translation or a sojourn of the soul then, after a while we reincarnate and return to the real world. I think these are like the meatballs in the spaghetti. You can access them from different places in the time stream but they are always the same; Some of them like movies can be accessed by lots of people while others like daydreams can only be accessed by you. And like two fibre optic cables, photons can only cross the divide when they touch each other. You can get lost within a meatball but eventually, you must reincarnate back to your original universe, the linear one.

So thats kind of how I understand Life, the Universe and the Trousers of Time. God knows the spin on every atom and every outcome that is possible from a single electron changing spin. To me life looks like complete and utter chaos. But yet it also kind of makes sence, at least I like to think so.

Is that a UV Diode Death Star? I think it is!

I was looking for the frequencies of LED lights and found something interesting. The Wavelength (color) produced by a LED is determined by what minerals are used to dope the diode. So the spectra of the emitted light will only show a single peak. For instance using diamonds as the light source produces light at a wavelength of 235nm.

The intensity of light produced is determined by how efficiently the doping chemicals can convert electrical energy into electromagnetic radiation. Currently blue LEDs are the more efficient.

To get a white light a blue LED can be coated in various phosphors to produce a second broader peak on the spectra. The phosphors absorb light at one wavelength and re-emit it at another. Alternatively white light is produced from a combination of RGB LEDs.

Now the interesting bit, Ultra Violet LEDs with a wavelength less than 400nm can be used to sterilize water. I have seen these on camping trips but not used one. They work by radiating light ~260nm which is coincidentally the frequency of the chemical bonds in DNA causing them to vibrate. Thus the UV LEDs are able to do the same thing to DNA that microwaves do to water. Thereby mutating the DNA and cell structure until it breaks down and destroys any microorganisms in the water.

Keeping on this train of thought, is this not the same as skin cancer? I use sunscreen with a UV rating to absorb some of the UV spectrum produced by the sun thereby preventing it from mutating my skin cells to the point that they become cancerous

Truth

Truth is a matter of perspective.

Person 1: How do you spell telephone?
Person 2: T E L E F O N E
p1: Are you sure that doesn't look right
P2: hmm, yep that's it. why , how else could it be spelled?

Hopefully you get the idea. Both people know the truth but one of them is wrong (i'm usually P2). In this example there is:

The Truth
The Truth that I believe
The truth that you believe


Then when P1 finds the correct spelling and explains it to P2 there will be:

The truth that I want you to believe
The truth that I think you believe

...

Now P2 will start to doubt himself and there will be:

The truth that I want to believe but do not
The truth that I really believe
The truth that I want others to think I believe

Then when you turn these truths to other people and bring in a third party you start to have ninja truths. Everything is underneath the underneath.

How can you really know that something is true unless to can observe it to be so. And also observe that the null hypothesis is false.

This is how Darwin's theory of evolution became Darwin's law of evolution. Nobody can prove that it is false and there have been no better explanations of what has been observed.




Accidentally I have also given an example here of the difference between faith and logic.

Light produced from cooling, as opposed to heating.

Ever since I found out about transitional elements d orbital’s I have wondered if it is possible to produce light from cooling them. It follows that if light is produced by the electron shedding energy as light when they return to their stable electron shell that if there are empty shells below then they should be able to be squashed in to them and emit light of a wavelength corresponding to the step they have made from one orbital to the next.

The first step would be to theoretically determine what the energy output would be for that jump in the atomic spectra. This would allow development of a photon receptor specifically tuned to that wavelength to use as a detector.

Next to find a way to get the electrons into the lower orbital. I always though cooling the metal would be the best way to make it more stable.

But there is no fast way to cool something, nothing compared to a laser or nuclear fusion. What is the most endothermic reaction available?

I don’t imagine at first there would be more than a few photons emitted so this also would require development of a reaction chamber similar to a laser to capture any photons and direct them onto the detector.

Possible applications: I don’t know. More likely the useful bit of this exercise would be the cooling mechanism.

The bonding structure of the elements should change so having them in a suspension of metallic form is probably safest. You wouldn’t want to create a temporarily superdense particle that is extremely reactive and exothermic on the first attempt.

Alternatively maybe it is possible to have a similar setup to Flame ionisation spectrographs. Distribute the metal ions in a solution that is vaporised into a reaction chamber and supercooled (as opposed to burnt)

How else could the atoms be made stable enough for the electrons to drop down a shell? Cooling would only remove kinetic energy. Maybe an increasing density could overcome the electrons repulsion of each other, or flooding the sample with more electrons than it can handle.

Magnetism is another interesting aspect. The more lone electrons there are with the same orientation of spin the more magnetic the element is. This may confine most of those electrons to pairs. Would this then cause the elements to lose all their magnetic moment? Gaining it again when the electrons return to their original orbit?

It has been quite a while since I did any quantum mechanics, so there may be a few holes in my methods and I am sure some of the phases are incorrect. I think I firs asked my science teacher about this in grade 10. I also asked some of my chemistry lecturers but they all gave a non-committal answer. Eventually I hope to find out, maybe I should go back to uni and study it myself?