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edited 11th Apr '18 6:31:51 PM by dRoy
What's the trope called when a character, while not exactly a Mary Sue, is just born incredibly lucky? Not luck as in odds favor him during a card game or whatever, but the circumstances surrounding their birth makes you think "How can a person be born so lucky"
For ex. being born into a rich family, handsome, Type AB blood, athletically gifted, loving parents, etc.
New Survey coming this weekend!It's not. It's not like everything becomes opposite day in the reverse direction. That's what chirality means; you can't mirror-image the shape. Reverse the spin of the atoms in your body and the majority of the complex chemical bonds will literally fall apart because it doesn't work on a macro scale.
edited 20th Apr '14 8:37:24 PM by Night
Nous restons ici.This is more of a curiosity question, but if you had complete control over even one of the fundamental forces of our universe (gravity, electromagnetism, strong force, weak force), would you be able to resurrect the dead? If not, how many out of the four would you need?
My gut feeling says "yes", but I want a second opinion to be safe.
I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serialElectromagnetism is the one here. I assume "resurrect the dead" means "get the brain functioning again, through brute-force repairs and emulation if necessary", which is a function of biochemical and probably neurological screwery. Those in turn imply chemical and electrical reactions, which would be the domain of the electromagnetic force, since we're not messing around with the subatomic level. (Strong force and weak force, if I'm not mistaken, both come into play only if you're planning on messing around at the subatomic level; gravity can have effects at the micro and macro levels, but none that would really affect chemical reactions with the kind of subtlety you'd need.)
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.Well, I did say complete control, so really I more meant "what if you could replicate any kind of phenomenon related to electromagnetism and were Magneto on crack?"
I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serialStill electromagnetism. Perhaps in theory you could replicate chemical reactions with nanoscale control of gravity, but EM lets you actually run those reactions instead of some imitation of them. Strong force and weak force let you alter elements, but that doesn't help you, since the human brain is mostly the standard biochem mixture of CHONPS anyway, and it's the way they form molecules and react with each other—plus the electrical impulses running down the nerves—that dictates how it functions.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.Danke, that helps a lot.
I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serialSo let's assume I just got my first book published and it was called "The Blackguard" and it was about isolated racists in the desert getting run over by urban sprawl and I wanted to tell everybody about it here on TV Tropes. Where would I do such a thing?
edited 21st Apr '14 8:42:13 AM by garridob
Great men are almost never good men, they say. One wonders what philosopher of the good would value the impotence of his disciples.Make a work page for it? That would be my first call.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanScience question time, for those who understand this better than I do. I've read that a human being can tolerate localized G-forces of up to a 100 Gs as long as it's not sustained and relatively instantaneous.
So if someone with superhuman reaction times but a normal, squishy human body dodged a high-velocity projectile, what's the limit on how fast they can dodge before their body starts taking damage from the G-forces? If anyone can explain how to calculate this for me, I'd appreciate it.
I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web seriald is in meters, right?
I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serialAh jeez. Well, that pretty much settles it. Even if you had the reflexes, no normal human is dodging anything faster than a bullet.
I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serialImpatience is more of a symptom of mental illness rather than the core of the illness itself, honestly. You might be driving at ADHD or some form of unspecified anxiety disorder.
I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serial

Chirality is a + and - thing; flipping both won't make a difference, much like if the universe suddenly changed the signature of an electric charge, everywhere, it wouldn't make a difference. It makes a difference only if only one side is switched.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman