Implications (Part 4)
Who am I, and where am I?
I am a small part of an irregular whole of almost identical stuff, I am very, very, VERY old. A long time ago I used to be a short distance away, but have been here for a long, long time. I experience a huge energy imbalance, alternately a lot of incoming energy, then none. Close by there is a small spherical object.
What is in my short and long term future?
Who am I, and where am I?
I am a small part of an irregular sphere, composed of many disparate stuff, I am very young, I used to be a long, long distance away. I have only been here a short time. I experience a huge energy imbalance, alternately a lot of incoming energy, then none. Close by there is a large irregular object.
What is in my short and long term future?
The Logician’s question; will these objects suffer the same fate, and if so over what sort of time frames?
Michael (Logician)
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Baffled Bernie
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Moon? Comet? Meteoroid?
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jerry krause
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Hi Michael,
Following the lead of Baffled Bernie.
Big Bang, Radiation (photons) from Distant Stars, Radiation (photons) from lightning, cloud, cloud droplets, stable atomic nucleus, unstable atomic nucleus, hydrogen, water, universe, planets
Big problem, no quantitative definition of: small part, long time, very, very, very old, long, long time, huge energy imbalance, a lot, small, irregular, etc.
Summary: Riddles too poorly defined.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Michael Clarke
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Seems that was too hard, so here are a few more clues.
First object is natural and a very small part of an irregular shape about 5 grams total.
Second object is a very small part of a manufactured object with many disparate parts and about 5 grams total.
Time frames Short about 50 years, long, as long as you want over 1000 years.
The question is quite serious as I am curious as to what happens over short as opposed to long time frames.
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Michael Clarke
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I am disappointed!
The two objects. A molecule of moon rock on the ejecta from the nearby crater over 2 billion years old.
A molecule of the surface of the only golf ball on the moon.
I really would like to know what will happen to those objects in say 50 years and 5,000 years time..
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jerry krause
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Hi Michael,
Finally you give us something that we can recognize. You should not be disappointed unless you believe we are mind readers. Which I am not.
First, using words as usually defined in my experiences, a ‘molecule’ on the moon rock’s surface, which you are only imagining was ejected from a nearby crater over 2 billion years old. We know that the moon has craters. But we have no idea when the crater was formed. And the fact that no one knows when the crater was formed is very important. Some people wrongly conclude because we can think we can know everything. Not true.
If you would read Newton’s ‘book’, you would find that he did not know the cause of gravity because he had observed nothing that suggested what the cause might be. If you read Richard P. Feynman’s best seller–“What Do You Care What Other People Thinnk?”–you will find that his father, an uniform salesman, taught him that we do not know the cause of ‘inertia’, which his son (Richard) accepted as fact when years later told the story of his experiences with his father.
But your comparison of the piece of moon rock and the only golf ball helps me see that if the maximum temperature of either is not sufficient to launch either from their surface, there are very energenic (sp?) particles (photons) from stars possibly capable of doing this. But I don’t claim to know this, I only claim I can imagine the possibility. And as to when, I have no idea.
Have a good day, Jerry
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jerry krause
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Hi Michael,
Now as I submitted the previous comment, I see that I missed reading you previous clue. Too much activity on PSI so one cannot keep informed about recent comments.
The necessary evil of providing a uncensured platform for my and your essays and comments.
Have a good day, Jerry
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