Mesina2 wrote...
Hudathan wrote...
Mesina2 wrote...
Because whoever wrote Synthesis doesn't understand how evolution works.
Btw, we don't really know how it works neither, that's why it's called a theory. Don't try to use real-world science to try and debunk anything in sci-fi, it assumes that we know everything there is to know about the universe which is absurd.
We know enough that there's no such this as the end of evolution, we either continue evolving or stagnate.
Agreed on the first part (except that evolution can be seen as an established fact by now) - there is an awful lot we do not yet know but also on the second poster here...especially since we have already met a species that has stagnated because it can adapt and does not "need" to evolve within the games - the Vorcha. Yup, galactic vermin...but tremendously successful from an evolutionary point of view...
As for the Crucible...yeah...won't work. Control and Destruction can be explained with a little work. Synthesis cannot. While M-Theory as an explanation for everything is still being worked on, accomplished scientists (Stephen Hawking, to name just one) have doubted its ability to explain every phenomenon. Plus, some finds in quantum mechanics have put to the question the idea that our universe is totally deterministic. It is, for the most part, but not completely (that is what shocked Einstein and prompted his famous saying, " God does not throw dice").
Unfortunately, that does NOT imply that everything and anything is possible. On the contrary, actually.
For this to work, the Crucible would have to factor in the position of every particle which it cannot. No matter how much calculating power it has, knowing where exactly every particle in the universe happens to be at a given point is physically impossible due to the Uncertainty Principle.
Now, how will it even change organic beings? It has to transform their atoms into different ones by removing/adding particles.
Not as easy as it sounds.
There is another mechanism in quantum mechanics called "decoherence". We should all be grateful for that because it negates, for the most part, the randomness of quantum mechanics within greater accumulations of what we call matter.
Without that little mechanism we could not exist. Now, in order to remove/add particles willy-nilly the beam has to somehow remove that mechanic or at least lessen it. Which would spell the doom of every being touched by the beam because, at worst, they completely disintegrate as their particles lose cohesion, at best, enough of their body mass loses cohesion for a terminal shock and subsequent death.
Then, the beam would have to factor in how organic and synthetic materials interact within each singular species and individual without killing them....
You know, I'll just stop here...
Modifié par GorrilaKing, 30 juin 2012 - 10:07 .
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