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time is perpendicular to the three spatial dimentions, you don't shrink any angles. the dimention numbering system is arbitrary, you could call it the first second or third if you really wanted but since everybody calls it the fourth you're better sticking with that. the significance of a fourth dimension is that you need 4 coordinates to locate an object, the first three for the spatial location of the object and the fourth for the time it is at that location. like if i wanted to meet you i would have to give both a place AND a time otherwise we'd probably miss each other even if we stood in exactly the same spot.

not really, when you try to apply rules for one thing to another the naswer does not make any sense whatsoever. like if i tried to play chess with the rules of monopoly it just wouldn't make sense.

yes, i think we are a bunch of atoms and that is it. to die is for the electrical activity in your brain to stop. there is no more conciousness, no more 'you'. like turning off a computer, except one where it cannot just be switched on again. there may be waysof reviving you before significant decay sets in but atm those are complete fiction.

yeah, they haven't built that. it doesn't really exist outside on an engineers head at the moment where it nice and cheap. once it gets out it'll almost definitely be far more expensive. spaceship1/2 actually exist and will be around 200k when testing phase is completed. i also wouldn't call it a space bus, it only does suborbital so it can't actually take you anywhere like the ISS or something like that.

the problem comes in that you have to put a crapload of energy into the system by way of pumping air into the balloon. this air is by necessity at extremely high pressures compared to the source(atmosphere) and due to losses you'll end up using more energy than it produces. with any system like this you have to look at where the energy input is(not the turbine as that is a converter and output). in this case it is pumping the air that is the input of energy. basically what is happening is you are pumping the water out of a chamber with compressed air and then letting the water rush back in again. at best the system will give as much out as you put in.

one exception to that rule is titan though. its basically just a big old ball of hydrocarbons. although at earth temperatures it would all be gaseous as it is mainly short chain alkanes. but these could be converted to petroleum and diesel. by the time we are able to mine titan though, we won't be using oil for fuel.

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nothing with mass can be trvelling at the speed of light, it is an invalid reference frame.

a photon is both a wave and a particle. the reality is there isn't any distinction between them on a quantum level.

infinitesolid3, the only and I mean ONLY time where your method would be more efficient that current methods is if we wanted a single bucketful at a time. I think we can all agree that this is not the case. just because you divide the weight up into buckets does not change the total weight.

we have told you several times already, the pump is at the top, it does not lift the oil but it pumps water down which makes the oil FLOAT up out the top.you could even turn the pump off and let gravity do all the work for you but that would make the flow rate too small. the pump is only there to speed it up. your design does not work at all without a very large and powerful engine. typical centrifigal pump speeds on this scale at 600-1200RPM. but that doesn't really matter, what matters is the power you require for pumping. which is quite low considering the torrent of oil you get out of it.

you don't need a very big engine for the current pumping system. a 1 MW engine is more than capable of pumping sufficient oil out. with your design you need a hell of a lot of torque as one side of the chain is going to be massively heavier than the other. and you'll need a lot of power as you are merely lifting stuff without replacing it. you'd probably be talking 50-100 MW.

no, it can't go further down, your design is limited by the tensile strength of the wire/chain which also limits the maximum speed. the pumping system is limited by how deep we can drill and/or how much pipe you have available. aswe can drill to the bottom of oil deposit and then some, this is not a limiting factor, and pipe supplies are effectively unlimited as well, this is not a problem. and pumping systems can work in off shore deposits too. and anyway, displacing the oil with water means you only have to pump from the top of the oil field rather than drilling to the bottom as with a chain pump. less work involved.

wire is potentially worse as there will be metal fatigue fairly soon. you know how bending a paperclip back and forthe a few times snaps it, that sort of thing. so its going to need replacement every few months especially considering the extreme loads put on it. and that means removing the entire rig. thats going to take months itself to complete. and be extremely costly. there is no way it would be more profitable than a big centrifugal pump.

only in principle, but with a 2 mile long chain the weakness of the materials plays a huge role. try replacing the motorbike chain with wet tissue paper and see what happens. because a two mile long steel chain will behave in a similar manner. stuff like this doesn't scale very well.

yes, motor bikes have a higly tensioned chain that is maybe a meter long, 2 meters at most and only on a ridiculous bike. motor bikes and oil wells are not comparable.

tryspinning a long loose chain at 100mph. just remember to stand well back aas the shrapnel will travel quite far.

1/very small 2/not very fast at all 3/lots. and all of these result in it bein a shitty way to bring oil up from down an oil well. tell us how this is better than the centrifugal pumps currently used

buckets are not efficient, infact, they are ASTOUNDINGLY inefficient. if buckets WERE so efficient then we wouldn't use pipes, water would be transported in buckets everywhere, in your car there would be a line of buckets from the fuel tank to the engine and so on. notice how there are no bucket lines everywhere to transport our liquids? thats because pumping it through a pipline with a centrifugal or reciprical pump is MUCH more efficient than a batch process like buckets.

what actually happens is we pump water down. this makes the process faster than just letting it come up by itself. the result is less energy is used than it would take to lift the oil out at a similar rate. EDIT: then the well is depleted and there is no more oil down there to remove.

sigh, you haven't been reading my posts have you. the pumps used for oil pump stuff DOWN they don't suck the oil up because that would be impossible. just because a car can get 30-40 mpg doesn't matter at all. to use a vehicle engine for a static load pump would be horribly inefficient not to mention it would not have sufficient power. remember, you are not just lifting a single gallon at a time. to achieve the same rate of oil extraction as current methods you need to be looking on the order of 100-1000 gallons a second. and then your buckets will be limited to something like 5 miles ano hour otherwise the chain pump won't work.(the chain will literally fly off the top and screw up your drive mechanism). and how much force it takes for a car to move also has absolutely bugger all to do with a chain pump. explain how this is better than current methods.

you didn't explain it in any of your posts. all you did was claim it wasn't a chain pump without looking at what a chain pump was.

no, i don't think you will. and using an petrol engine to drive it is not worthy of a patent. seeing as you aren't really doing anything origional. the buckets won't be able to go very fast(this is the major flaw of chain pumps) so to get a decent flow you need large buckets.

or how about you tell us explicitly how they differ?

you obviously do not understand how oil pumping works, we pump stuff down and the oil comes up. not to mention there are a lot of oil wells where pumping isn't required at all, all you have to do is run a pipe to your refinary. your not just lifting the weight of 1 gallon, you are lifting thousands of gallons every second. EDIT: you still haven't demonstrated how your 'invention' is new