Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow_8472, and today, I’m finishing my discord bot! and today, I’m getting back into my Pi Spy Feline Edition and today I’m solving — exploring the pseudo science behind a chapter in a book I’m writing. It’s not quite on topic, but let’s get started anyway.
I was supposed to have 90 days of the audit log. They dissipated after 55 days. I took screenshots the day of, and the file will be 56 days as of this posting. I’m a tad annoyed, but at least I learned something along the way.
I would have been interested in getting back into dealing with Blinkie and the kitty caller, but the case is broken and it still needs to be repaired. I’m hoping I don’t have to reprint the whole thing. Maybe I will see about using a soldering iron… I might actually try that one.
OK, onto business. About two years ago, I was in a role play set in the world of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic where I took the role of two characters: a little Unicorn foal by the name of Applesauce, and an elderly Crystal Pony by the name of Professor Stone W. Jay PHD. I eventually settled on calling him Dr. Stone. I later found out about the manga of the same name. There is no relation between them.
At the end of the first big section of the game, Dr. Stone is in a small town when a dimensional rift opens up and starts spewing enemy soldiers. Having had military experience in the past, Dr. Stone takes command and MacGyvers a temporary victory.
In my novelization, I decided I wanted to add a nod to Physics without kowtowing to it. Since this is a magical setting, I decided I wanted a time dilation field so that as you approach the rift without the proper spells on you, your personal clock slows down, but you don’t suffer the tidal effects one would normally expect from several solar masses crushed to a point mass and placed in the town square.
My original question was along these lines:
- Dr. Stone is at 50 <= r <= 150 feet from the rift.
- Dr. Stone experiences 15 <= t(observer) = t(o) <= 30 minutes.
- The world outside the significant effects of the time dilation field experience 3 <= t(fast) = t(f) <= 6 hours.
- The rift in the town square respects time dilation as if it were a singularity with enough mass to dialate Dr. Stone’s frame of reference by the factors given.
- The rift’s opening is no bigger than a pickup truck, but no smaller than a human.
- Does Dr. Stone see an Einstein’s Ring?
I’ve researched by posting in forums and over Discord. I’ve gotten a whole array of people responding from one or two overly blunt Discord users who wouldn’t buy into my fantasy to an Oxford professor who unfortunately didn’t know anything either.
I did manage to get the attention of a few helpful individuals; one suggested lighting effects while another got me thinking about temporal gradients internal to the body. One individual going by Needling Haystacks has been particularly helpful as someone who knows a bit more than me in the topic. Turns out, the air around the singularity would mess with any Einstein’s ring in the first place.
In the search for an equation to work, I found one for stationary satellites above a non-rotating sphere, then I spent whole evening learning about the universal gravitational constant “big G” and not finding it expressed in Imperial units, likely because 99.99 percent of all people with any business even trying to understand equations with big G are already familiar with the SI system.
At this point, I managed to plug in all the variables in and my graphing software gave me a shape I wasn’t expecting. I’ll need to run some more tests.
Final Question: Have you ever gotten overzealous over what’s supposed to be a small detail, but ended up with something much different?