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calebxy wrote:

bananaman114 wrote:

city
of
ember

Is nothing at all like this idea.

Um
it has similarities
more then a few

calebxy wrote:

So, I was reading through my science book a week or two ago, and I had a brilliant (in my very humble opinion) idea for a story! So the idea is:

Energy runs out. All energy. It just stops. Well, almost all energy. Kinetic energy in people and objects still exists, as well as light energy and maybe a few others. But other things, like electricity, just runs out. Stops. Disappears.

Water stops, the wind stops, thermal energy etc.

What do you think?

What do you mean by "water stops"?
And the wind thing...
Does the earth just stop moving?

GravityCatisalie wrote:

calebxy wrote:

So, I was reading through my science book a week or two ago, and I had a brilliant (in my very humble opinion) idea for a story! So the idea is:

Energy runs out. All energy. It just stops. Well, almost all energy. Kinetic energy in people and objects still exists, as well as light energy and maybe a few others. But other things, like electricity, just runs out. Stops. Disappears.

Water stops, the wind stops, thermal energy etc.

What do you think?

What do you mean by "water stops"?
And the wind thing...
Does the earth just stop moving?

You know what, I'm going to change that. Kinetic energy still works.

banana500 wrote:

How many stories are you writing right now? 

Only one, Space Academy. But I constantly come up with new ideas.

Last edited by calebxy (2011-10-05 03:48:49)

MoreGamesNow wrote:

To those of you who are so angry at the lack of science and acceptability, did you say the same thing about George Lucas' hyperdrive?  Or, FTL aside, what about instant communication in so many Sci-fi books?  Did you notice that?  Nearly every science fiction book has something unexplainable that plays a very important role in the plot.  I would say that in science fiction, science isn't really a set of definite rules, but rather guidelines that the author can bend or warp for his/her purposes.  Yes, ridding the universe of enormous types of energy is... unlikely, but what explainable through a deeply unexplainable mystery.

What if a secondary pulse since the Big Bang runs through the universe turning certain types of energy into heat, matter, etc?

Well, none of those involve the entire universe stopping.
They're actually plausible, what with technology advancing so much.
But all of the wind stopping?
That has nothing to do with technology, just the earth turning.
And it's just some feedback were giving him so that he could improve.

MoreGamesNow wrote:

To those of you who are so angry at the lack of science and acceptability, did you say the same thing about George Lucas' hyperdrive?  Or, FTL aside, what about instant communication in so many Sci-fi books?  Did you notice that?  Nearly every science fiction book has something unexplainable that plays a very important role in the plot.  I would say that in science fiction, science isn't really a set of definite rules, but rather guidelines that the author can bend or warp for his/her purposes.  Yes, ridding the universe of enormous types of energy is... unlikely, but what explainable through a deeply unexplainable mystery.

What if a secondary pulse since the Big Bang runs through the universe turning certain types of energy into heat, matter, etc?

The hyperdrive actually makes sense. This.. well, this doesn't. There's at least some scientific fact in Star Wars used to make the 'laws'. Science is what seperates sci-fi from magic and ghost stories. Do you need to explain Harry's flying broom or whatever it is in Harry Potter? No.

calebxy wrote:

Andres-Vander wrote:

The hyperdrive actually makes sense. This.. well, this doesn't. There's at least some scientific fact in Star Wars used to make the 'laws'. Science is what seperates sci-fi from magic and ghost stories. Do you need to explain Harry's flying broom or whatever it is in Harry Potter? No.

It only makes no sense if I don't give an explanation for it.

+1

And that is my point exactly.  Lucas bends the laws of physics to allow for fast-than-light travel and instant communication.  I'm asking why this is so different.


And isn't wind caused by the spin of the earth and heating of the sun?  If the earth is no longer in orbit (pulled out by something massive?) and its spin has slowed or nearly stopped, lack of wind isn't too far from the truth.  You just couldn't go outside 

Last edited by MoreGamesNow (2011-10-05 16:41:41)

I think that for a sci-fi idea, people are picking this waaay too much apart and I reckon it's a great idea! In the world of sci-fi it's quite possible that humans keep moving, as the world grinds to a halt! Think about a world without forces, though, you will have to keep friction as without it everything that isn't human would run apart like melting soup! Maybe just go with the production of energy for use as fuel? Wood won't burn, nuclear power plants do nothing, electricity can't be generated, that sort of thing? The the laws of nature can remain intact, it's just that ever way humans know of making energy fail!

I think I rambled a bit there, sorry!

Last night, while in bed reading a book about chess, I had an epiphany! I worked out how it could be done!!!!!! I did it!!!!!!!! 

Andres-Vander wrote:

MoreGamesNow wrote:

To those of you who are so angry at the lack of science and acceptability, did you say the same thing about George Lucas' hyperdrive?  Or, FTL aside, what about instant communication in so many Sci-fi books?  Did you notice that?  Nearly every science fiction book has something unexplainable that plays a very important role in the plot.  I would say that in science fiction, science isn't really a set of definite rules, but rather guidelines that the author can bend or warp for his/her purposes.  Yes, ridding the universe of enormous types of energy is... unlikely, but what explainable through a deeply unexplainable mystery.

What if a secondary pulse since the Big Bang runs through the universe turning certain types of energy into heat, matter, etc?

The hyperdrive actually makes sense. This.. well, this doesn't. There's at least some scientific fact in Star Wars used to make the 'laws'. Science is what seperates sci-fi from magic and ghost stories. Do you need to explain Harry's flying broom or whatever it is in Harry Potter? No.

And yet I own a book explaining all of the science in Harry Potter and how it all is possible.

calebxy wrote:

MyRedNeptune wrote:

ssss wrote:

If someone managed to rip a hole in paralell universes the energy transferral could occur.  Thus meaning energy from one universe goes into another.

I actually think that's a great idea! ^^ You might want to use that, unless you like your own new idea better. What is it, by the way? ^^

Two words:

Quantum entanglement.

That sounds quite fancy. xD What is it?

That's a good way of doing it! However, aren't the entangled particles on the alien planet/ship still bound also by the laws of physics?

Wickimen wrote:

Cool! For some reason when I heard the title, it reminded me of City of Ember, but I guess it's different.
Interesting concept, it sounds like something I'd read

me too.