brians realm

12/8/99 - I got a letter in the mail today from some advertising agency or something... some kind of scam "happy holidays" christmas card or something. Reading it, i wondered how some people keep their jobs. Take, for example, the following sentance : "Also we would like to welcome, our newest member to the team, Evelyn, our Client Contact Specialist, for a short time, and her husband, Larry, clients from my time at Fort Knox, have recently retired in the Atlanta Area." This is grammar? Who proofread this peice of crap? Ugh.

12/7/99 - I was thinkin today in physics about something. Just a little background info for those who dont know (and i wont explain, just take these as facts)... first of all, as your speed increases towards the speed of light, your mass also increases at a proportional square of the speed. Was that too complicated? In other words, the closer you get to reaching the speed of light, the more your mass increases. Its just one of einstiens laws, okay? So, in theory, its impossible for something with mass to ever actually REACH the speed of light. Why? Because, (and try to stay with me here) we all know that for a mass to accelerate in a certain direction, it needs a force of some sort acting upon it. The larger the force, the larger the acceleration. Inversly, that also means that the larger your mass is, the more force you need to make it reach a certain acceleration. Following me? So as I said, its theoretically impossible to reach the speed of light, because as you get closer and closer to the speed of light, your mass increases and increases to the point of infinity. And the larger your mass... the more force you need to accelerate it. So we can theoretically get infintessimaly close to the speed of light, but never actually there, because WHEN you hit the speed of light, your mass would reach to infinity, which means you would have had to have needed an infintessimal amount of force to accelerate it that last tiny amount. Not many people have an infintessimal amount of force laying around anywhere, right? Right. Thats just a law, lots of people know it.
    So. On to the 2nd thing you need to know. Ever heard of black holes? Black holes are huge stars, with huge amounts of mass, that have collapsed. And when I say collapsed, i mean COLLAPSED. all their mass falls down into itself. and because it has such huge gravity, it keeps compacting itself over and over and over, until finally, all the mass of the star is about the size of the period at the end of this sentance. But, it still has all the gravity of the star, k? And as objects pass by the black hole, they are also "sucked" into it, and added to the black hole's mass, until finally, the black hole's gravity grows so large that not even LIGHT can escape from its gravitational field. So we cant really see black holes... we can just see the absence of light, which scientists theorize are black holes. Anyways! Black holes have these things called "event horizons". The event horizon of a black hole is this imaginary boundary where light can no longer escape the black hole's gravity. so.. 1) at the event horizon, any object being sucked into the black hole would be travelling the speed of light. 2) once anything hits the event horizon, it cannot escape (because it would have to travel the speed of light, and nothing can do that, remember?). Alright, next thing you need to know...
   This has to deal with time. Einstein also said something else about going the speed of light. Paying attention? He said, the faster you go, the slower your time goes. Yes, your time actually SLOWS DOWN. Dont ask me why, just accept it as a fact. Now, let me clarify things here. Time, to YOUR perspective, doesnt slow down. It only slows down when observed from, say, earth. Okay? Now, here's the part where i started thinking on my own :
     Lets say you had a ship, and you flew into a black hole. The closer you got to the event horizon, what would happen? Well, your speed would increase towards the speed of light. And, due to the gravity, your ship would start collapsing and imploding into itself, due to the great gravitational forces. But, what did we say happens when your speed begins to reach the speed of light? Right, your mass INCREASES! So as the gravity is smashing your mass down, your speed is blowing the mass up! And i'm gonna go out on a limb, and since everything else is proportionally equal... well i'd say that the force of gravity due to the black hole would exactly equal the expansion of your mass due to your speed! So... your mass actually WOULDNT change! (at least, not from your perspective). So i'm saying that two things that people have always said are impossible (1) you cant go the speed of light 2) you cant enter a black hole) are wrong! Because your mass would never collapse and your mass would never increase! BUT... there's something I haven't considered.
     There was one more thing that we said happens as your speed accelerates towards the speed of light, remember? Time. Your time slows down, remember? And anything that is going the speed of light... its time has STOPPED. Its time has completely stopped progressing. So, you're in your ship, right? Your heading towards the event horizon, right? There's space in front of you, there's space behind you. The space in front of you (the space occupying the event horizon) is going the speed of light. There fore, its time has stopped. all of its mass as increased to infinity, and has become pure energy. it is in eternal stasis, because its time never progresses. Now, the space BEHIND your ship is going FASTER than you, because the space its self hasnt accelerated to the same linear speed YOU have. So you, the casual ship captain, are sitting around in your ship. You cant hit the event horizon, because the closer you got to it, the slower your time would go, and the longer it would take for you to get there, reaching to infinity. Isnt that weird? Your are travelling at a definite linear speed, but the stuff in front of you is going slower than it is behind you. So you're just stuck there! Forever! Poor kid. So I changed my mind. Its not possible to reach the speed of light, and its not possible to reach the event horizon of a black hole.
   Of course... if anyone ever did reach the speed of light... well it would be the end of the universe as we know it. Because, as you reached the speed of light, your mass would increase towards infinity, and take up the entire universe. The entire universe would be filled up with your mass. Then when you did hit the speed of light, well all that mass would be transformed to pure energy. Plus, time would stop. So basically, it would suck! Greeeaat.
     I've got more ideas, but i'm tired. I'll type it out later.