#tangible light

Sanity is over-rated. I want to be clear that I DO NOT do ANY DRUGS WHAT SO EVER!! Not even prescription ones. No pot, no shrooms, nothing.

I do not meditate often, I never hold my breath to make myself light headed, I was never dropped on my head as a baby. I just have a very....let's call it active. I have a very active mind.

That said, I thought this conversation was amusing as hell. And I needed a good laugh today. I am Stark. Pardu is a long time freind of mine. This chat was done via AIM a few years ago, but still relevant.

(sorry for the length, haven't figured out how to cut away yet)

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pardusorientalis (1:55:59 AM): sup pup? starkravingnorml (1:56:48 AM): I am deeply contemplating a matter that concerns absolutely no one but fascinates me endlessly. pardusorientalis (1:57:09 AM): the fact that barack obama has handles? starkravingnorml (1:57:11 AM): I have a ton of questions but I don't know anyone smart enough to ask pardusorientalis (1:57:27 AM): what kinda questions pardusorientalis (1:57:33 AM): ? starkravingnorml (1:58:05 AM): Well, let's say that hypothetically, light was a tangible object & you could reach out & grab a beam of light as it passed you by. pardusorientalis (1:58:27 AM): okay. *hypothetically makes that true* starkravingnorml (1:59:01 AM): Lets also say that hypothetically, you had a transparent box capable of containing said light beams. Size of box is not yet a factor. pardusorientalis (1:59:11 AM): *makes it so* starkravingnorml (2:00:25 AM): Ok, now that we have that clear, lets assume that once that box is full, you can now put the lid on that box & none of the photons that make light can escape. at all. pardusorientalis (2:00:49 AM): ok starkravingnorml (2:02:45 AM): Now, also assume that just because no light can escape our box that does not prevent other light beams from reflecting. Is that possible? If so, what would it look like? pardusorientalis (2:03:25 AM): well I'd assume if it's reflecting shit it's metallic pardusorientalis (2:03:48 AM): *keeps eyes propped open with toofpicks* pardusorientalis (2:03:53 AM): at least on the outside starkravingnorml (2:03:53 AM): Assuming photons have mass so they must have weight, how much light would you have to pack into a box before it weighed as much as a dust particle? starkravingnorml (2:04:03 AM): No no, not metalic, transparent pardusorientalis (2:04:08 AM): why? pardusorientalis (2:04:19 AM): if the light can't escape, you can't see it starkravingnorml (2:04:22 AM): Completely see through. pardusorientalis (2:04:25 AM): otherwise it's escaping pardusorientalis (2:04:42 AM): completely defeating the purpose of trapping it pardusorientalis (2:04:51 AM): it would generate more and more light starkravingnorml (2:05:09 AM): Which brings up another question. If you have your transparent box of light & you go into a closed room with NO OTHER source of light, would everything be black? pardusorientalis (2:05:34 AM): but transparent can't keep light in. pardusorientalis (2:05:39 AM): if you can see the light pardusorientalis (2:05:42 AM): it's escaping pardusorientalis (2:06:22 AM): if you can still see the light, it's escaping, or are we now throwing every known rule in the universe out in the cold? starkravingnorml (2:06:39 AM): No pardusorientalis (2:06:53 AM): because if you throw out every last law of physic out nothing makes any sense and you need to redefine your universe pardusorientalis (2:06:57 AM): s starkravingnorml (2:08:14 AM): The container is clear, but lets say the light the light particles are too big to escape the box's biochemical makeup. Or we could even go the route of magic & call it a forcefeild. pardusorientalis (2:08:36 AM): *smacks head on the table* starkravingnorml (2:08:40 AM): It's nothing that can happen in the natural world because you can not trap light in a box without having a source pardusorientalis (2:08:41 AM): ouch pardusorientalis (2:09:01 AM): then you ARE throwing out the laws of physics starkravingnorml (2:09:03 AM): This is why I should keep my silly questions to myself pardusorientalis (2:09:48 AM): suddenly your entire universe no longer makes sense, gravity no longer exists nor does life exist as we know it starkravingnorml (2:09:52 AM): I'm not questioning the laws of physics, I happen to know they work fine. I'm just dancing around in the world of hypothetical nonsensicalness pardusorientalis (2:10:19 AM): no, when you change properties you also change physics starkravingnorml (2:10:39 AM): Which your right, making light tangible changes it's very nature. pardusorientalis (2:10:48 AM): yes starkravingnorml (2:11:08 AM): Shit. You've just expanded my hypo-world!! starkravingnorml (2:11:16 AM): LOL pardusorientalis (2:11:23 AM): XD starkravingnorml (2:11:30 AM): Well this complicates matters signifigantly. pardusorientalis (2:11:43 AM): *pokes at her writing* this is what happens when you shift natural laws pardusorientalis (2:11:52 AM): no longer can light even ENTER your eye pardusorientalis (2:11:56 AM): so you don't see shit starkravingnorml (2:11:59 AM): If you can confine light to a box, then what makes that light visable? There can't be two kinds of light pardusorientalis (2:12:05 AM): no matter where you. pardusorientalis (2:12:08 AM): are pardusorientalis (2:12:23 AM): what makes the box visible? starkravingnorml (2:12:24 AM): That might hurt actually pardusorientalis (2:12:34 AM): what makes you visable? pardusorientalis (2:12:36 AM): i starkravingnorml (2:13:11 AM): AAAAHHHHH!!!!! unstable paradox ripping apart the unknown universe inside my head!!! pardusorientalis (2:13:29 AM): *pokes holes* starkravingnorml (2:13:35 AM): Damn you! You'd just created a blackhole! And that really sucks! pardusorientalis (2:13:37 AM): LET THERE BE LIGHT pardusorientalis (2:13:49 AM): >.> pardusorientalis (2:13:53 AM): <.< starkravingnorml (2:14:03 AM): Which brings up still more questions. pardusorientalis (2:14:12 AM): indeed starkravingnorml (2:14:22 AM): Light can not escape a black hole once crossing the event horizon. pardusorientalis (2:14:54 AM): nor can matter starkravingnorml (2:15:06 AM): And black holes devore things (theoretically) by first tearing them down to the very basis of strings. pardusorientalis (2:15:31 AM): stringtheory pardusorientalis (2:15:33 AM): :P starkravingnorml (2:15:34 AM): Does that mean light itself becomes changed into something else entirely? Or does it keeps it's form? pardusorientalis (2:15:46 AM): I think light would just be destroyed pardusorientalis (2:15:53 AM): since it's got no mass starkravingnorml (2:16:03 AM): It has a slight mass starkravingnorml (2:16:09 AM): It has to pardusorientalis (2:16:12 AM): or everything theoretically could also pop out into another universe starkravingnorml (2:16:18 AM): It's made of photons & photons have mass starkravingnorml (2:16:35 AM): It could but white holes are thought to not exist pardusorientalis (2:16:46 AM): but we don't know everything starkravingnorml (2:16:51 AM): We know nothing. pardusorientalis (2:17:01 AM): and the Great Wall is thought to hide shit from our view pardusorientalis (2:17:17 AM): there's a wall of galaxies and stars way out there pardusorientalis (2:17:25 AM): and it's massive starkravingnorml (2:17:31 AM): We're like toddlers staring at a book of trianomotry & amusing ourselves by tearing out pages & turning them into crappy origami pardusorientalis (2:17:42 AM): basically pardusorientalis (2:17:58 AM): and then if you throw philosophy in? pardusorientalis (2:18:03 AM): omg are we fucked pardusorientalis (2:18:12 AM): "we can't trust our senses." starkravingnorml (2:18:12 AM): Oh let's not even tough phylosophy pardusorientalis (2:18:36 AM): *pokes your spelling* starkravingnorml (2:18:45 AM): You have to room to poke! starkravingnorml (2:18:46 AM): LOL pardusorientalis (2:18:52 AM): Indeed I do! pardusorientalis (2:18:52 AM): :P starkravingnorml (2:18:59 AM): LMAO starkravingnorml (2:19:19 AM): That to was supposed to be a no pardusorientalis (2:19:31 AM): I DO SO. pardusorientalis (2:19:38 AM): LIES AND POPPYCOCK starkravingnorml (2:19:41 AM): LMAO pardusorientalis (2:19:54 AM): my songs need to fill my iPod pardusorientalis (2:19:55 AM): nao starkravingnorml (2:20:03 AM): Yayness starkravingnorml (2:21:13 AM): I'm still wondering though. Assuming light is not destroyed or destringed, what would it look like bouncing around in a black hole? starkravingnorml (2:21:35 AM): And the worst question of all. Is it possible for light to be stationary? pardusorientalis (2:21:52 AM): I dunno, this is your whackjob universe starkravingnorml (2:21:58 AM): LMAO starkravingnorml (2:22:12 AM): Bitch, you collapsed my whackjob universe. pardusorientalis (2:22:15 AM): I'm just here to see the solid light pardusorientalis (2:22:22 AM): indeed. pardusorientalis (2:22:32 AM): *is very very smart* starkravingnorml (2:22:35 AM): LOL starkravingnorml (2:22:53 AM): Did I ever tell you I love you? LMAO starkravingnorml (2:23:05 AM): By the way, awsome nighties. pardusorientalis (2:23:13 AM): ^_________________^ nooo, but you can tell me again and again starkravingnorml (2:26:42 AM): I was about to grab a passing beam of light & beat you with it pardusorientalis (2:26:50 AM): OH NOES pardusorientalis (2:26:56 AM): not a passing beam of light starkravingnorml (2:26:59 AM): LMAO starkravingnorml (2:28:48 AM): I so need to create myself in fiction, fucked up universe theories & everything pardusorientalis (2:28:55 AM): XD pardusorientalis (2:29:07 AM): just make sure everything makes sense starkravingnorml (2:29:18 AM): Think about who your talking to pardusorientalis (2:29:39 AM): that's right nothing ever makes sense with you.... pardusorientalis (2:29:40 AM): :P pardusorientalis (2:29:44 AM): I'm writinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng starkravingnorml (2:29:53 AM): I'd like to say maybe there was a device that could catch light but then you're changing it's composition & it's no longer light starkravingnorml (2:30:15 AM): It becomes.....ight pardusorientalis (2:30:21 AM): XD pardusorientalis (2:30:24 AM): fright! starkravingnorml (2:30:26 AM): LOL starkravingnorml (2:30:43 AM): I imagine ight has a very silky feel pardusorientalis (2:30:53 AM): and warm starkravingnorml (2:31:05 AM): Would it be warm? starkravingnorml (2:31:21 AM): I don't know if light in & of itself has a temperature starkravingnorml (2:31:38 AM): If light doesn't I can't imagine ight would either pardusorientalis (2:31:43 AM): well most light comes from heat pardusorientalis (2:31:47 AM): think about the sun pardusorientalis (2:31:58 AM): what is the byproduct of light? pardusorientalis (2:32:08 AM): why is the light of the sun burning? starkravingnorml (2:32:20 AM): True. Isn't there a way to create light without heat though? starkravingnorml (2:32:30 AM): Kinda like neon glow pardusorientalis (2:32:32 AM): not without some kind of heat pardusorientalis (2:32:37 AM): that still makes heat starkravingnorml (2:32:41 AM): Does it? pardusorientalis (2:32:45 AM): yeah starkravingnorml (2:32:54 AM): Hm.... interesting. pardusorientalis (2:32:54 AM): ever touched a neon sign that's been on awhile? starkravingnorml (2:33:02 AM): That's a lightbulb pardusorientalis (2:33:04 AM): it's at least warm pardusorientalis (2:33:12 AM): that's neon light starkravingnorml (2:33:34 AM): Lightbulbs are a product of human creation. I'm thinking maybe worms or undersea animals that produce neon glows starkravingnorml (2:33:41 AM): Or even light sticks starkravingnorml (2:33:57 AM): Which glow without getting warm unless they touch a source of heat pardusorientalis (2:34:15 AM): any reaction that causes light gives off some kind of heat, it's a byproduct of light afaik starkravingnorml (2:34:24 AM): Through friction? pardusorientalis (2:34:36 AM): even lightning bugs waste energy through heat when they make glow pardusorientalis (2:34:40 AM): it's tiny amounts pardusorientalis (2:34:47 AM): but it's a kind of heat starkravingnorml (2:34:51 AM): hm pardusorientalis (2:35:01 AM): and no pardusorientalis (2:35:08 AM): glow in the dark things don't count pardusorientalis (2:35:12 AM): like stickers starkravingnorml (2:35:15 AM): LOL pardusorientalis (2:35:18 AM): they were charged by other light pardusorientalis (2:35:23 AM): which produced heat starkravingnorml (2:35:43 AM): They don't produce thier own light but store previously stolen material starkravingnorml (2:35:53 AM): Didn't even consider them pardusorientalis (2:35:54 AM): basically pardusorientalis (2:36:15 AM): I ordered 48 superballs that glow-in-the-dark starkravingnorml (2:36:25 AM): So it would be silky & warm. pardusorientalis (2:36:28 AM): GOOD GOD IMMA TIRED pardusorientalis (2:36:30 AM): yes starkravingnorml (2:36:39 AM): 48?!!! OMG pardusorientalis (2:36:46 AM): yes starkravingnorml (2:36:49 AM): LMAO starkravingnorml (2:37:36 AM): Why you so tired? pardusorientalis (2:37:49 AM): it's 2:37 AM ? starkravingnorml (2:38:10 AM): By the way, is heat a byproduct of light or is light a byproduct of heat? starkravingnorml (2:38:19 AM): So? I'm wide awake pardusorientalis (2:38:30 AM): I didn't sleep last night starkravingnorml (2:38:34 AM): Same LOL pardusorientalis (2:38:34 AM): I think the first one starkravingnorml (2:39:00 AM): So then how about the sun. pardusorientalis (2:39:33 AM): wait...no heat and light are byproducts of various reactions starkravingnorml (2:39:39 AM): Is it both at the same time? pardusorientalis (2:39:42 AM): some are fission reactions pardusorientalis (2:39:56 AM): some are electric current passing through something reactions starkravingnorml (2:40:14 AM): I love learning things that have no practical application in my everyday life pardusorientalis (2:40:37 AM): and any biological process produces heat as a waste product starkravingnorml (2:45:18 AM): I need to save this convo BTW LMAO

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