Space and Time

The weeping angels are locked with quantum physics, so don’t blink! Yes, quantum physics is a real concept and it goes deep into theory with proof.

In 1801, Thomas Young, a British Physician, proved that electrons and protons are different depending on if there is anything observing it. When he first aimed an electron beam gun through two slits like an equal sign, the electrons would hit the back wall like how the sign looked. But when he left the room, and redid the experiment, the pattern was more like crisscrosses. He came back and redid the experiment with a camera watching but himself physically outside of the room. It went back to looking like the equal sign. To this day, scientists are unable to explain the reasoning behind quantum physics although there are so many math equations that have found the pattern in their movements. 

Since everything is made of electrons, your laptop could be a completely different from when you’re not looking at it, the minute it’s not being observed, it could be just a piece of metal. Or wait, metal might not even be metal when no one’s looking at it, you’d never know. The only reason why weeping angels are so scary is because their electrons somehow react to the lack of observation by moving. Although everything around us doesn’t move, they are still made up of electrons that don’t “operate properly” when we’re looking at it, so think of how different the world might be if it was never under observation.

In Doctor Who, the weeping angels are quantum locked. When you look at them, they are stone, but when you are not, they move incredibly fast and feast off of time energy. Everyone just automatically assumes that they are still stone when they’re moving, just a different formation. In reality, they are probably something entirely different with different compositions. Another question many whovians ask, is why can’t they just put a mirror in front of it and have it stare at itself. The answer is that it wouldn’t work because it is not an outside source that is observing it. In that way, it’s different. But again, scientists don’t know why yet. 

In my previous post, I’ve mentioned the difference between dwarves and black holes. I’ve also mentioned how black holes are much more deadly than any type of dwarves. I’m sure we all know that black holes kill. But why?

Our sun possesses twenty-eight times the gravitational pull of our earth, and most celestial bodies possess more than that of the sun. So, if we can easily be crushed standing under the gravity of the sun, what will happen if we were under the gravity of a denser star, let alone a black hole? Now that’s the easy part.

Black holes are heavy enough to “suck in” light, they literally bend and alter the fabric of time and space. Meaning? Well first of all, since space would be lengthened, so would the person, but also so would each atom, proton, neutron and electron. So the person in the black hole itself would probably not feel a thing because everything around them is also comparably getting larger. However, to an outside eye, the person inside is getting stretched out. While the person on the inside would feel extreme compression, it would look like they’re expanding to their friend. At the same time, time would also expand. Again the person on the inside will experience everything normally, and fall “down the drain.” But this is where it changes on the outside. Because the progress of time is progressively slower deeper into the black hole, by the time an hour has passed here, the person inside would have only lived through 5 minutes of their torture. So to the outsider, the person inside would appear to travel slower and slower until at one point they would just appear to stay still.

Often, people think of black hole as an actual hole that appears to be black. I’ve always wondered about how that would work. However, after years and years of research (school projects), I learned that black holes are actually a singularity (point of great mass where everything is clumped together), pulling in everything around them with gravity. As the saying goes, “nothing escapes it, not even light.” So what makes it so dense? A black hole is formed by a gigantic star (supernova) collapsing in on itself from the gravity. So something maybe billions and trillions times the mass of our sun, would be shrunk to the size of the head of a needle; that’s what creates the immense gravity. Black holes can only be formed by supernovas (a giant star) because it’s the only type of star that has enough mass to provide the mass that a blackhole needs to form. Any smaller, and the result would be a dwarf. Many smaller stars, when dying, would collapse into white dwarves, brown dwarves, or red dwarves pulled together by the gravity, and forming into a dense sphere. A supernova (a giant star) does the same. Except the sphere is way smaller. And way denser. And has a way stronger gravity. And way deadlier (Stay tuned for explanation). Resulting in the black hole. Since the mass is so concentrated, its gravity would be unbelievable, too.

Imagine this: on an unbreakable gigantic pillow, there is one grain of rice; the surface would sink in a slight bit, that would be the mass of the earth. Then a half inch metal ball would be put down, and the dent would be slightly bigger compared to the rice, that would be the sun. But compared to a bowling ball, the metal ball would be nothing, there would be a huge dent, and that’s a supernova. Now back to the grain of rice.  If you divide that grain of rice by two, by five, by ten, or even a thousand, and put your weight into the fraction of a grain of rice, that would be the black hole. The entire pillow would concave. The pillow is the fabric of time and space. And the more it sinks, the greater the gravity there. At some point, light (contrary to popular belief, does have a very slight mass), will fall into the pull of its gravity too. The video attached to the bottom would provide a visual explanation.

Here’s an interesting video that gives a visual representation of my pillow example:

According to many theories or even conspiracies, humans would be able to time travel once their speed has reached the speed of light. So since we have planes at the speed of sound, how come we haven’t gone further to reach the speed of light? Well the theory of relation between time and speed actually goes like this. Time being the equivalent of the 4th dimension is in fact, not moving, but as we experience it, is. But its correlation with speed is that the faster an object moves, the slower time appears. If we were to send a clock suspended in outer space, and keep one on earth in an ever moving roller coaster, and given that there were no errors and the batteries stayed working, the one in space would be 3 or 4 minutes ahead, given that it had been traveling 460m per second on top of the speed of the roller coaster. Meaning that even if we were to travel at the speed of light, we won’t be able to travel in time, but to just stop or slow down time. The second theory, now according to actual famous scientists like Galileo, Newton and Einstein, is that as objects get closer to the speed of light, our mass almost parabolically increases, so by the time that we hit the speed of light, our mass will be infinite. For an object to fly, its mass must be proportional to the wing span, but when the mass is infinite, it is safe to say that humans, with our current technology, cannot create never ending wings. And thus, we cannot put a stop to time.

Mostly, in the beginning, there was just a giant boiling soup of the ground sky and air, but when it separated, people started noticing patterns and things around them. Which we now call science. I mean, at first it was called natural philosophy and changed throughout the time, but I mean, same thing right.

But in the beginning, everything was passed on orally, starting somewhere in southern Mexico, which is around where actual people first began appearing.  As it was only starting to be developed, of course, it involved food, they domesticated corn so they would have food all year round. As it started progressing in ancient Egypt, it touched upon simple astronomy such as constellations. But Egypt is where it made its first main progress as writing and words became a thing.