Sato

Are you referring to something like this?

Well, I believe that the device is real as I know people who saw a working demo, and he's backed by a big research university and government agency (sorry for the ambiguity, I just don't think he'd be fond of me posting such details on a public forum), but not exactly sure about that larger aspect with the car and train powering. Can someone re-patent something after the 26 years? Also, just curious, what do you do EdEarl?

He said that it could go anywhere unless the receiver was blocked by an Iron barrier, or at least I think I recall that. And no, I'm a layman and that is definitely not my intention; I am trying to understand how his project works and if it's stated implications are feasible. There is one part he explicitly told me not to tell anybody about as the patent is pending and organizations may try to scrutinize it, but it seems to relate to one of your bullets so I will censor the details: I think that makes it such that less energy is lost when the light is at the receiver.

The process is photovoltaic. Also, here is an excerpt from a description he wrote up: That's all that I'm able to provide about it; from that, should I take it that he was most likely just exaggerating? You did not make an error, I did with my quoting. The author was shown as enthalpy, while it should have been EdEarl.

I'm not sure if you're referring to this, but the electrical efficiency is 90%, and it works at any distance according to him (and others who were at a demo he did), unless there's an iron barrier between them. Does that seem right, and enough such that long distance wireless vehicle powering is feasible with this? It is non-ionizing radiation, if that applies to this, and made a joke that it could be used as a directed energy weapon before.

A friend of mine was telling me about his research and that with it a larger version of his prototype could be built to power electrical devices including cars and trains via wireless power transmission and efficaciously. The transmission system has 98% quantum efficiency (not sure what that means, but it sounds good). To all who've studied optics or more so applied optics/photonics, is this feasible or an exaggeration of the capabilities of wireless power transmission?

Take a look at John Moffat, he was a painter after school but could not make a career out of it and obsessively studied physics for two years, and he ended up being admitted to a PhD program at Cambridge due to impressing some people with his work/research and is now a professor/researcher at the University of Toronto. Another case is my friend Austin who is currently a high school senior, and taught himself enough such that he's been invited to a PhD program at Stanford and has caught the direct eyes of different government agencies for his research. I think that I am in a similar situation as you, studying informally, and would be happy to discuss interests/studies if you're interested in collaborating. I do hope though, that you are not just doing this for some sort of fame or intellectual praise as indicated by the thread linked to by hypervalent_iodine, as that would likely guarantee that you'd fall too deep into apathy for the actual subject at some point. Regards, Sato

Oh okay, but the main wonder was if there could be some sort of internal opposite to Lorentz contraction; a length dilation maybe? Just a thought that might make more conceptual sense of having mass appear to fall into the same space as other mass to me. Say, within that singularity is there a relative length dilation that spreads the particles of the matter farther apart than they appear to be from an outside observer?

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/Physics_equation_tables.pdf

Can you be a bit more descriptive of your question?

Yes, but due to that my question was if this could possibly be avoided by some relativistic length dilation within the black hole (since I know length contraction and time dilation can occur in GR). I think the QM violation I'm thinking of is called the Pauli exclusion principle, but I'm not sure. I've read that theoretically, if an object travels at a speed greater than that of light, it could go back in time or the opposite of the normal time dilation would occur (a time 'contraction' I guess). So would the same thing happen in terms of spatial length; instead of length contraction, at the point of gravity of a singularity (such as after the velocity of c), there could be a length dilation keeping the particles from occupying each other's spaces as the space between them (non-existent to an external observer) dilates?

Ello, It isn't possible for there to be some sort of 'length dilation' under the conditions of a black hole is it? Then in those particles' frames of reference the space between them would be greater, possibly avoiding a collapse into each other's volumes. Sorry if this is riddled with conceptual errors, and if so please correct them. Thanks, Sato

He's currently 17 and a senior in my high school, going there next year. I do know two people who were accepted into the MIT media lab when they were 14 though. Why are you trying to get in a year earlier, or is that just when secondary schooling ends in your country?

That's almost completely true. My friend Eric was accepted into MIT this year and only had Piano band and Math club as his extra-curricular activities. But yes, he was american, had a ~4.13 GPA weighted (4.0), and scored a 2400 on his SAT.

When I think of anti-gravity I think of quintessence as it defines a force that would be able to exhibit characteristics opposite those of gravity, not a force acting against gravity. http://en.wikipedia....ssence_(physics)

My friend Nikhil, he is 17 and wants to reform education. He has given many talks at Ted Conferences, been invited to Fox 5 business and other popular programs, and is going to have his book on reforming education (One Size Does Not Fit All) published sometime in September. Things like what you just said are the reason we /aren't/ reforming education.

I remember back when I knew nothing of relativity I thought that time was constant but wanted to come up with something that could make time travel possible. What I thought was that for every possibility there was a different universe and that time travel would technically be interuniversal travel, to a universe where 10 years ago/ahead was occurring at the present time. Of course I know better now, but it was an interesting idea (coinciding with the Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics).

Space expeditions are expensive and people have ties to those who'd rather remain on earth.

You can try using Bat2Exe, but I've read that its not too efficient and can be problematic in Windows 7(in case you're using it). Another option is obfuscating your code to make it unreadable in hopes that nobody will take the time to unobfuscate it.

It seems interesting and will probably have some positive application in the future, but it somewhat reminds me of the (horror) movie Prometheus.

Check to make sure that it's not your underwear rubbing off on the bottom of your scrotum.

These might be of assistance: http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/saethre-chotzen-syndrome http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1189/

Your buttocks will barricade your anus if you're rude to it?