And, It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
Unless we also create giant robots. Giant fighting robots can save humanity -- I saw it on the internet.
There is a rumor the count of the number of words in the last paragraph of each of HPL's stories in chrono order create a secret code. Apparently someone said HPL was an amateur crypto-type.
Proper time is a concept in Special Relativity that refers to the time experienced by an observer who is at rest relative to a given event or object. It is defined as the time interval measured by a clock that is co-located with the observer. Proper time is frame-dependent and is invariant under Lorentz transformations -- which describe the transformation of spacetime coordinates between different inertial frames.
In the context of spacetime diagrams, where time is plotted on the vertical axis and space on the horizontal axis, the worldline of an object at rest relative to an observer forms a vertical line with a slope of zero. This worldline represents the proper time experienced by the object, and it is a straight line.
BRZRKR is a comic book series created and written by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt and drawn by Ron Garney. The comic follows an immortal warrior, known as Berzerker, as he fights his way through the ages. The first issue of the 12-issue limited series was published on March 3, 2021, by Boom! Studios. It raised more than $1.4 million USD in its funding campaign on Kickstarter.
I was in the comic book store today and looked at the latest one.
Because the southern end of the magnet is up "there". We use a compass to determine N and S. Magnetic north is attracted to magnetic south, so if your compass is pointing North you are facing the south magnetic pole.
Maybe someone has already figured this out, but the parameter we don’t really know is what the actual probability is of looking into a mirror and being sucked into another dimension. My first guess was 2%, but after thinking about it this is way waaay too large. 2% implies that about one time out of every fifty times a person looks into a mirror they will cross over to another dimension. If this were true, people would be disappearing all around us!!
Luckily, we can actually set up and do an experiment to figure out what the probability is of passing through a mirror, by using the set up David has suggested in his original post. If we set up two mirrors and measure how long it takes for a trapped image to disappear we can directly measure this ‘leak’ probability.
I had to tap into the meta-physical community, here in my city, to find somebody capable of pulling this off with two mirrors, but luckily a few friends were more than eager.
The Math: Using our equation from above, time = distance-between-mirrors / ( probability * speed-of-light) we can use algebra to manipulate it and solve for ‘probability’.
So, probability = distance-between-mirrors / ( time * speed-of-light). We want a number for ‘probability’, so we need numbers for ‘distance-between-mirrors’, ‘time’, and ‘speed-of-light’.
‘speed-of-light’ is a constant in our universe at 300,000,000 m/s.
‘distance-between-mirrors’ is something we can control, so we set it at 1 meter.
‘time’ is something we don’t know, but will measure with a stop-watch.
The Experiment: To get ‘time’ a meta-physician friend set up the two mirrors in his lab. Then, by ways mysterious to me, he captured an image between them, and we watched it bounced back and forth between the mirrors. We used a stop-watch to measure how long it took before the image disappeared by passing through one of the mirrors and into another dimension. The number we got was 10 seconds. 10 SECONDS.
Plugging all these numbers into our ‘probability’ equation using a...
Apparently, after many unnerving attempts it turns out one must first "Collimate" the mirrors. I didn't even know collimate was a word until recently.
James, do you feel there is any "Lovecraftian" theme to the old module "Expedition to Barrier Peaks" ? And would you in any way related the story "At the Mountain of Madness" to the adventure "Expedition to Barrier Peaks"?
I just saw your thread:
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Post Apocalyptic Debt Collector
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The gang emerged from the twisted metal of a 200 year old parking deck. The old man needed a return on his investment and Clark knew how to get it. Susan's metal boot crunched
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I didn't finish the last sentence because I ran out of time. But it would have been "Susan's metal boot crunched down on a shard of broken glass." Or something like that, dunno now.
Who is Clark and who is Susan? There is a gang, so we can assume a few more of them are around. What is in the sunlit windows of the buildings across the street? Do they think they are being watched by potential adversaries?
I need more than a 1 minute. The people have got to know!