The "Rooftop Theory of Relativity" was created in the early summer of 2007. It is named such because at the time of its creation the theorists were conversing on the rooftop of their residence. The theory is rather simple and is described as follows: "Everything is relative."
by steako October 7, 2008
Get the Rooftop Theory of Relativity mug.Interconnection
Being dependent or intertwined with another event or object that is just as dependant as the other.
Cause and effect.
Being dependent or intertwined with another event or object that is just as dependant as the other.
Cause and effect.
ERIC
I punch you in the face, you'll punch back, right?
VALLEN
Yeah.
ERIC
Your hitting me back is reative to me hitting you in the face.
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A Bank owner is very hard on a Farming family. The family is forced out of their house and loose everything, living in poverty. The Banker prospers with their loss. (1)
For 20 years, the family lives in poverty, barely surviving. Eventualy, one of the family members is forced to rob a bank to survive. The bank that is robbed happens to be the same bank which forced thim into poverty. (2)
The Banker looses everything from the robbery. He resorts to drugs (3) and one day, in a drug impared state, he decides to go and buy more drugs. He has a car accident. (4)
From the car accident, he is paralyzed from the neck down and cannot speak for the rest of his life. (5)
1. The Banker's prosperity is relative to the families suffering.
2. The bank robbery is relative to the Banker's being hard on the family.
3. The drugs are relative to the bank robbery.
4. The car accident is relative to the drugs.
5. the paralysis is relative to the car accidsent
In conclusion, the man's paralysis is relative to his being hard on the family, he bought it upon himself.
I punch you in the face, you'll punch back, right?
VALLEN
Yeah.
ERIC
Your hitting me back is reative to me hitting you in the face.
-ALSO-
A Bank owner is very hard on a Farming family. The family is forced out of their house and loose everything, living in poverty. The Banker prospers with their loss. (1)
For 20 years, the family lives in poverty, barely surviving. Eventualy, one of the family members is forced to rob a bank to survive. The bank that is robbed happens to be the same bank which forced thim into poverty. (2)
The Banker looses everything from the robbery. He resorts to drugs (3) and one day, in a drug impared state, he decides to go and buy more drugs. He has a car accident. (4)
From the car accident, he is paralyzed from the neck down and cannot speak for the rest of his life. (5)
1. The Banker's prosperity is relative to the families suffering.
2. The bank robbery is relative to the Banker's being hard on the family.
3. The drugs are relative to the bank robbery.
4. The car accident is relative to the drugs.
5. the paralysis is relative to the car accidsent
In conclusion, the man's paralysis is relative to his being hard on the family, he bought it upon himself.
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Get the relativities mug.The ultimate overclocking, achieved not by better chips, but by manipulating the flow of time itself. This involves placing a computer processor (or the entire data center) in an extreme gravitational field or accelerating it to a significant fraction of light speed. From the computer's perspective, time passes normally, allowing it to perform calculations. But from the outside, its time is slowed, meaning it can solve problems that would take millennia in just a few years of external time. It's brute-forcing complex problems by giving the computer a temporal head start relative to the rest of the universe.
Example: "Folding@home got an upgrade. They launched a server cluster into a close solar orbit, using relativistic computing. From Earth, it took them three years to crack protein folding. From the server's perspective, it had over thirty years of dedicated processing time to solve it."
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Get the Relativistic Computing mug.The physical hardware designed to operate reliably under the extreme conditions required for relativistic computing. These aren't just silicon in a fancy box; they must be engineered to withstand incredible gravitational tidal forces, acceleration stresses, and the bizarre energy environments near massive objects. Their architecture might use light-based processors to avoid issues with electron flow under relativistic conditions, and they require paradox-proof communication systems to send data back to a slower-timed frame without losing sync.
*Example: "My new gaming rig is a relativistic computer. I had it installed on a drone ship doing a continuous 0.5c boost-brake loop. In-game latency is zero, because by the time my input reaches it, the entire next frame is already calculated. The electricity bill is mostly rocket fuel."* Relativistic Computers
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Example: "Got the new iPhone with the relativistic chipset. It automatically applies time-dilation corrections to my messages. I can text someone from a fast ship, and it holds the message in a buffer, releasing it to the network at the exact nanosecond so it appears I replied instantly, even if I experienced a month-long journey." Relativistic Smartphones
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Get the Relativistic Smartphones mug.Circuitry and components specifically designed to function predictably when moving at relativistic velocities or in strong gravitational gradients. The problem is that at high speeds, lengths contract and magnetic fields transform, which could cause standard circuits to fail. These systems would need to account for the relativistically-induced electric fields from moving magnets, use time-symmetric logic gates, or be built from materials whose properties are invariant under Lorentz transformation. It's electrical engineering where Maxwell's equations are fully merged with Special Relativity.
Example: "The probe's sensors didn't work until they upgraded to relativistic electronics. At 0.9c, the Hall effect sensors were reading garbage because the moving magnetic fields created huge unexpected voltages. The new circuits treat spacetime as a single, warped component of the system." Relativistic Electronics
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