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designing a stochastic spacetime bomb
I've got until November 1 to come up with a plausible design for a stochastic time bomb, plausible enough for fiction that is. Plausible enough for continuing my story about Matt Bisko. I also need to figure out a plausible set of effects from the explosion of a stochastic time bomb. When these bombs start going off in the year 2059, what will my story inhabitants see? What will they fear?
I'm thinking that everything within the bomb's radius will be transported to a different point in time, replaced by whatever had existed in that other point in time. For example, New York City of 2059 AD exchanged for New York City of 1359 AD, except there was no New York City back then. The different point in time would be random -- stochastic, and could be a point in either the future or the past. Could be billions of years in the future or the past.
There has to be an exchange of matter though, because you can't be zapped into a different time and space without colliding with what was already there.
Oooh, a stochastic spacetime bomb would zap you to both a different time and a different location in the universe. Most likely you'd end up in the vacuum of cold space billions of miles and years from anything. But from the point of view of the people left behind, you're just gone, most likely replaced by a temporary vacuum, into which the surrounding atmosphere roars.
The advantage of using a stochastic spacetime bomb over a nuclear weapon? No radioactive fallout, of course.
I suppose there'd have to be some sort of effect outside the effective radius of the bomb. Something like time waves. If there can be gravity waves, there can be time waves, definitely ;-)
So, time waves would radiate from the bomb. Within the effective radius of the bomb, everything would be exchanged with a different set of matter (or vacuum) from a randomly different location in spacetime. Outside the radius of the bomb, we'd be hit by decreasingly powerful time waves.
What happens to you when you're hit by a time wave? You move back and forth in time, of course, duh. If you're on the water, and you're hit by a water wave, you bob up and down, but then return to flat. Everybody struck by the time waves would bob back and forth through time, but then return to present. This would definitely be disorienting! Unless you were carrying a time surfboard ...
So how on Earth would a stochastic spacetime bomb work? Still thinking. You'd need a powerful source of time waves, some sort of time fuel, and a way to detonate the time fuel. What fuels time? Dark Energy, of course (see "expansion of the universe") . How would you detonate Dark Energy? With Dark Matter, of course. You've got this sphere of concentric electromagnetic compartments containing alternating layers of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, and when you turn off the magnets ... BOOM!
Yay! Let's all hope this scenario is less plausible than the invention of Facebook was in 2003. (Facebook was launched in 2004.)
I'm thinking that everything within the bomb's radius will be transported to a different point in time, replaced by whatever had existed in that other point in time. For example, New York City of 2059 AD exchanged for New York City of 1359 AD, except there was no New York City back then. The different point in time would be random -- stochastic, and could be a point in either the future or the past. Could be billions of years in the future or the past.
There has to be an exchange of matter though, because you can't be zapped into a different time and space without colliding with what was already there.
Oooh, a stochastic spacetime bomb would zap you to both a different time and a different location in the universe. Most likely you'd end up in the vacuum of cold space billions of miles and years from anything. But from the point of view of the people left behind, you're just gone, most likely replaced by a temporary vacuum, into which the surrounding atmosphere roars.
The advantage of using a stochastic spacetime bomb over a nuclear weapon? No radioactive fallout, of course.
I suppose there'd have to be some sort of effect outside the effective radius of the bomb. Something like time waves. If there can be gravity waves, there can be time waves, definitely ;-)
So, time waves would radiate from the bomb. Within the effective radius of the bomb, everything would be exchanged with a different set of matter (or vacuum) from a randomly different location in spacetime. Outside the radius of the bomb, we'd be hit by decreasingly powerful time waves.
What happens to you when you're hit by a time wave? You move back and forth in time, of course, duh. If you're on the water, and you're hit by a water wave, you bob up and down, but then return to flat. Everybody struck by the time waves would bob back and forth through time, but then return to present. This would definitely be disorienting! Unless you were carrying a time surfboard ...
So how on Earth would a stochastic spacetime bomb work? Still thinking. You'd need a powerful source of time waves, some sort of time fuel, and a way to detonate the time fuel. What fuels time? Dark Energy, of course (see "expansion of the universe") . How would you detonate Dark Energy? With Dark Matter, of course. You've got this sphere of concentric electromagnetic compartments containing alternating layers of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, and when you turn off the magnets ... BOOM!
Yay! Let's all hope this scenario is less plausible than the invention of Facebook was in 2003. (Facebook was launched in 2004.)