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Fake_William_Shatner t1_jasw9x5 wrote

Reply to comment by 96_doomer in TIL "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" is an example of an impossible task. The idiom dates at least to 1834, from the Workingman's Advocate: "It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots. by meat-juice

It didn't REACH the "real world" I just wrote up a lot of designs and ideas that became real world by someone else.

A method for amplifying signals by using lasers passed through a ferro-fluid lens shaped by magnetism (which diverts the laser when the signal is passed through it, and then the detector can work with the MORE dimensional aspects of the signal -- but, probably obsolete, however, the lensing system is still useful). 3 kinds of 3d printers. Using maser effects to burn tumors without an operation. Ultrasonic destruction of kidney stones. Noise cancellation. Light pipes to funnel light from a collector around a building. Targeted ultrasonics. Motion dampeners used in skyscrapers. When I was working with a start-up for international trade that bypassed most of the need to export currency, they wanted a clearing house and I thought it would be good to create a system for auctioning (what we might call Ebay today, but with a better guarantee of the quality of a product buyers and sellers). Fiber optics used inside bodies and expanding arteries (I used a parasol instead of the inflated bag, because I figured you'd also want to scrape and vacuum the lining). Holographic interference to increase CDs to an Ectabyte (or, well just a lot more) -- nope, sorry, that one isn't REAL yet, but I use some of the same techniques in a holographic storage sphere). Hydraulic tires.

That's just a bit I off the top of my head from 30 years ago. Mostly a lot of predicted physics like that the Hubble constant wouldn't be constant but accelerating when I was ten. That gravity is a byproduct of space-time. Most of that "gadget level" stuff was before I was 14.

Since then it was stochastic printing techniques. Robotic printers which -- wow, are inkjet printers we know and love because they stuck them in a box with a ribbon cable. My idea was using a hex grid and special wheels and the inkjet printer traveled, over a billboard or a house -- I didn't just want to reinvent a printer. Boring!

Virtual currency -- I thought it would be crazy to do something without some tangible asset it was chained to. And the process allows people to pay a discounted rate and use tricks like multinationals do to get around realizing profits or trade barriers. Still want to do my version of it. Anyway, it uses tricks with financial instruments to I think be legal, and immune to some of the crackdowns that surprisingly never happened with virtual currencies we have today -- which is probably because they WANT to enable organized crime, money laundering and tax shelters.

Pretty sure a lot more will be proven true like that there is more than one quantum field and that gluons are just extra dimensional products of quarks and the three other primary forces are also space-time but in different dimensions than gravity. The "missing mass" in galaxies doesn't require dark matter to explain, but that spinning black holes have much of their gravity in orbit around their mass and that makes the galaxy seem more massive as a whole than it otherwise appears internally. The coldest possible object would actually be vibrating in sympathy to the Universal carrier frequency -- which, we can't directly detect because it's "spacetime itself giggling" -- best to describe this as a drawing on piece of paper doesn't seem different to the sheet of paper if it's blowing in a breeze. We will only know this VERY HIGH frequency when we get it right.

This last one I think is easy to prove. When I learned a few months ago that light can orbit a black hole AND that gravity and light travel at exactly the same speed -- I realized that "duh" gravity has to be orbiting black holes, otherwise observations showing it's within nanoseconds over millions of light years would not be possible because the light would be subject to the influence of gravity wells and arrive much later -- so, gravity is ALSO subject to gravity wells. So, if I had someone good at math apply the Lorentz functions to the time dilation of a galaxy and factor in the "missing mass" of it's apparent gravity, that should give us a starting point for predicting the spin rate and mass of the black holes within the system. Observation of a few galaxies might find the factors involved; but it's relativity.

I'd really like to implement an idea for mass production of single atom sheets of matter. And, thinking about this, has led my to an idea of how to influence the quantum carrier wave aspects of space-time. And, this lead me to predict yet another state of matter; coherent matter. Pretty much exactly like coherent light. But, I it can now be put into a "phase" and potentially phase through other matter.

The difficulty of putting sheets of lasers very close together (since the photon field is larger than the atoms), and that led me to think we might be able to use a constructed "inverse hologram" that allows for the selective release of laser energy (used in projecting a hologram), by removing the interference embedded in the hologram. Of course, this might require a zero gravity situation to pull off if we wanted to print in 3D all at once particulate matter with different types of atoms selected by frequency.

I don't want to get into the more advanced ideas and predictions. It's not being wrong that bothers me, it's all the things I've been right about and not having an outlet for it. I'm not quite Nickolas Tesla, but I can relate to him. If I didn't try and slow my brain down and NOT invent I wouldn't be able to keep a job. I'm barely able to force myself to do the boring work I do now. I think learning game development and AI and great videos on astrophysics on YouTube have kept me sane.

Anyway, this isn't to brag. Because I doubt one person in a thousand believes any of it. These weren't done at the material science level -- so, there's a hell of a lot of work before an idea (correct or not) can become a reality. It's just, that, having the foresight to know what should work -- I think that's kind of cool and means I might know something of value.

TL;DR >> Great ideas aren't even a small factor in success. Is Mark Zuckerberg like the tenth guy to allow multiple users to put pictures and comments on a website? Very few billionaires had original ideas - they just implemented them. How? With tenacity, money and luck. With ruthlessness, they don't even need to be above average.

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96_doomer t1_jas6qnl wrote

Reply to comment by Fake_William_Shatner in TIL "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" is an example of an impossible task. The idiom dates at least to 1834, from the Workingman's Advocate: "It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots. by meat-juice

Could u share Some of the solutions u made for tech that reached the real world? Like I'm curious.

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Fake_William_Shatner t1_jas418g wrote

Reply to comment by 96_doomer in TIL "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" is an example of an impossible task. The idiom dates at least to 1834, from the Workingman's Advocate: "It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots. by meat-juice

I have found many solutions and have had massively great ideas my entire life. Portions of these good ideas have become major companies in technology and services. It hasn't made me a dime.

It really takes having a mentor or something that teaches you how to make a concept a reality AND THEN lot's of luck and access to money.

I'm not blaming it ALL on luck, but, not saying that people who are successful are lucky, is creating a sense of entitlement and hubris in rich assholes who are surrounded by people making apologies for their greed.

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MEaster t1_jarrb8q wrote

Reply to comment by byllz in TIL "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" is an example of an impossible task. The idiom dates at least to 1834, from the Workingman's Advocate: "It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots. by meat-juice

For those wondering how this is solved, a simplified explanation is that when the processor leaves its reset state, it starts executing from a fixed address in memory, which is connected to a permanent storage instead of RAM, and which holds a small program that then loads more complex software off a disc.

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