Which Scientific Law do you wish you could break ?

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Which Scientific Law do you wish you could break ?

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All the bad nasty laws saying why SW or ST(Especial ST some days :D) that they can't work

Which law do you wish was not around/Could be broken

Mine is probably the Lasers go on forever one with it
Aww no lightsabers :)

Without it
Imagin how quick yardwork would be?

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Depends...if entire laws weren't around, and never had been, we wouldn't notice too much because we wouldn't know about them...if they all of the sudden disappeared, we'd be fucked...but if I had the ability to break one, and the ability to control that ability...then that would be nice. And I'd probably choose the conservation of energy...the ability to create and/or destroy energy would be sweet. But only if I was the only one who had it; otherwise we'd be a race of battling superm...wait, that'd be awesome too.
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Gotta agree with GAT, general relativity is a bitch.
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I think the worst scientific law ever is E=MC2, myself. It's just so terribly limitating ! How are we supposed to get anywhere if we can't go beyond the speed of light ?
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I'd rather counteract the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
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I'd like to be able to change E=MC^2 as required. Like reversing it to M=EC^2, so I can form my own personal Acclamator transport out of a few joules. Or make a pesky nuke smuggled in by a terrorist go off like a wet firecracker.
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I'd just as soon not fuck with the laws of physics, because they tend to fuck back. Being dry humped to death by General Relativity sucks.
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I think the worst scientific law ever is E=MC2, myself. It's just so terribly limitating ! How are we supposed to get anywhere if we can't go beyond the speed of light ?
The law doesn't say you can't go beyond the speed of light... just that you can't go at the speed of light. :D
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I dunno what laws I'd like to break. conservation of energy perhaps, that would allow me to travel at c :mrgreen:
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Unsolvable Paradoxes, the second and greatest hurdle for FTL travel and comms.
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I always Favored the galaxy breaks em both idea

IE go back and kill your father you BOTH wink out of exstance, OR compesates

So you got a diffrant father, Or Mom,

So unless you went on a genocidal ramage back in the past and killed ALL memebers of your species no problems

If problems revert to number one

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I favour an interpretation where time changes don't occur instantly, but rather follow the same speed as normal events. That takes care of most paradoxes elegantly, and doesn't involve any added complexity.
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Yeah, I'd like to find the guy who put a speed limit on the universe and punch him.
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Re: Which Scientific Law do you wish you could break ?

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Mr Bean wrote:All the bad nasty laws saying why SW or ST(Especial ST some days :D) that they can't work

Which law do you wish was not around/Could be broken
I think in the case of this Board (and lets face it, every person on the planet) is that we would want a set of Laws to be bent to our personal gain rather than for the entirety of the Universe. So that we could be a Superman/Jedi/Unstoppable love Machine without any other competitors.

So in light of that i want whatever laws are stopping me from having Superpowers to be repealed, Dammit i want to fly and I want to fly now!
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Mr Bean wrote:All the bad nasty laws saying why SW or ST(Especial ST some days :D) that they can't work

Which law do you wish was not around/Could be broken
I think in the case of this Board (and lets face it, every person on the planet) is that we would want a set of Laws to be bent to our personal gain rather than for the entirety of the Universe. So that we could be a Superman/Jedi/Unstoppable love Machine without any other competitors.

So in light of that i want whatever laws are stopping me from having Superpowers to be repealed, Dammit i want to fly and I want to fly now!
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Post so great you had to post it twice? :D
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Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Post so great you had to post it twice? :D
Your Damned right! Why my posts contain a briliance that demands posting not Twice, but thrice so all can bathe in their intellectual glow.
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Rob Wilson wrote:
Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Post so great you had to post it twice? :D
Your Damned right! Why my posts contain a briliance that demands posting not Twice, but thrice so all can bathe in their intellectual glow.
:P
Uhm, sure...
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His Divine Shadow wrote:
Rob Wilson wrote:
Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Post so great you had to post it twice? :D
Your Damned right! Why my posts contain a briliance that demands posting not Twice, but thrice so all can bathe in their intellectual glow.
:P
Uhm, sure...
See. Your bathing in it now, doesn't it feel good?
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Rob Wilson wrote:See. Your bathing in it now, doesn't it feel good?
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Bathing in evil?
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Rob Wilson wrote:
His Divine Shadow wrote:
Rob Wilson wrote: Your Damned right! Why my posts contain a briliance that demands posting not Twice, but thrice so all can bathe in their intellectual glow.
:P
Uhm, sure...
See. Your bathing in it now, doesn't it feel good?
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Yup, pass the soap... :P
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Your Damned right! Why my posts contain a briliance that demands posting not Twice, but thrice so all can bathe in their intellectual glow.





Uhm, sure...




See. Your bathing in it now, doesn't it feel good?

Yup, pass the soap...
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