<![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend? - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend? - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> the ability to speak, read, and write any and all languages like a (literate) native speaker

yggdrasil

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @IrisMR: Don't worry, you can take the atmosphere with you.

antipaganda

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @IrisMR: A chance to get away from it all?

Szin

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> If you remove the law of gravity, you're getting thrown off the earth. What good would that give?

IrisMR

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I would humbly go for inertia. You can the whatever else you want :-)

tomski

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> If you cancel the second law of thermodynamics you can also create matter out of thin air and travel through time. You get three for the price of one.

FrankenPC

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> interesting, i was unaware of how may people out there are unhappy with themselves. i think we shoulkd attend therapy together and discuss all of these god complex problems that are manifesting.

and then afterwards i will crush you all with my awesome ability to control gravity. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

B1663R

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I'd settle for controlling dark energy...

Mathmos

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I'd pick super speed. Why? Because in the Flash comics, those writers could cheat and make "super speed" do anything. Fly? Check. Move though solid objects? Yep. Travel through time? Indeed.

edosan

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @Horselover Fat: Somebody is under 25.

DocGratis

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> Gambit was always my favorite X-Men.

Horselover Fat

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> Whoah, whoah, Rogue and Gambit? When did that happen?

twreckx

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> Suspending a law of physics isn't the same thing as controlling it. In fact, I'm really rather comfortable with having them always around. It's how I know the universe won't suddenly and inexplicably fall apart. If I had to get one such ability, I'd probably wind up just going insane out of fear I might use it by accident.

I'd be in some corner somewhere muttering to myself "Inertia is our friend, don't suspend inertia, we like inertia, please don't stop inertia, we like inertia..."

Balius

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> Regardless of law.. that picture of Rogue and Remy is totally HAWT! :)

Loopdilou

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @zenpoet: If I could turn any red light green, I would be so tempted to cheat at fencing. I am agreed that flying would be better though.

femto

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @icelight You beat me to it. If you've got 2-Thermo under control, the universe is your prison bitch.

And you'll get to meet Natalie Portman.

Counterglow

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I would like to have control over the Laws of Probability.

nospamsam

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I voted for second law, but now that I think of it violating conservation of mass-energy may lead to that.

Terminal-Alkyne

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @Whyaduck: I know -- it's like how I feel about prime numbers. Fuck them.

@Bluecell: They're all so great. Whenever I hear a Coldplay song, I remember Chris Martin asking if maybe the starving African children could be holding their greatest-hits CDs.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @tetracycloide: Well, I'm assuming that being aware of the future of a completely mechanistic universe, and of your own future actions within that universe, would just be really depressing. Unless you knew that you weren't going to get depressed, in which case it wouldn't be.

The real question is, could Laplace's Demon beat Werner Heisenberg in a fight?

[dresdencodak.com]

braak

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @moff: My favourite episode as a whole so far has got to be the Orland Bloom episode. I love how he's constantly bashing Johnny Depp, how Maggie doesn't find him attractive and the whole scene where that actor (can't remember his name) constantly smiles while saying "I've just burried my sister." Brilliant.

Bluecell

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> The Law of Attraction, then maybe I could get laid.

Starhuea

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @Frozen-Tex: Oy! What evil genius.

MilesFromNowhere

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @moff: Noway. I'm a perv but even I have limits. College cheerleaders, that's the ticket.

MilesFromNowhere

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @92BuickLeSabre: I always feel like Rosencrantz to your Guildenstern.

My scriven banter with you always seems to fall so embarrassingly short with your perfect vollys.

Nice return, good sir, nice return.

zenpoet

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @zenpoet: Damn. If only I could fly.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @92BuickLeSabre: I'll make it easy. I will be at the Backwards Bolivian Ping Pong tourny in St. Ives this weekend. You will just have to get through the crowd. Some guy with seven wives is always in the front row.

zenpoet

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> Speed of light could be good, but I'll go with the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Then I'll build a perpetual motion machine and win at existence.

Mister Adequate

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @Jeff-Minor: 1.815 lightyears per hour - i clocked that intergalactic mo-fo...

BlacklistedJoe

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> Does the Uncertainty Principle count?

BlacklistedJoe

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I voted for the speed of light as a constant, for practical reasons.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I now also require the power to hunt zenpoet down.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> Or what 92BuickLeSabre said, apparently. Sorry!

zenpoet

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> You're missing Brownian Motion from the poll; I know that it's a physical phenomenon and not a law, but still. That shit just pisses me off.

Whyaduck

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I want the ability to communicate with corn. Or the power to, given enough time, turn any red light green. There would be no end to the power I would wield!

Honestly? Power to fly. That way, though I could certainly cause some trouble in the world, i couldn't really do anything that could change the course of history. I don't think I would like a power that could, if used for greed or other nefarious deeds, be used to harm the world populace.

Absolute power is too much for me.

zenpoet

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> Where is the option for "talks to fish"?

girraffesack

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @DocGratis: They're from Extras, the show Ricky Gervais did after The Office. The whole Patrick Stewart episode -- actually, the whole series -- is fantastic.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @docgratis I'm guessing that's a show called "Extras" judging from the number of commercials I've seen for it lately. New-ish project from Ricky Gervais

[www.imdb.com]

darcymcgee

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @moff: That clip was awesome.. what the hell is that from..

DocGratis

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @metrophage: yes, as a matter of fact, i have and i also found it throughly enjoyable.

@braak: here's a philosophical question for you, could laplace's demon be aware of itself and if so what could it possibly do with the information it is privy too? i guess this is technically a physics question too since it's basically just another way of stating the uncertainty principle.

tetracycloide

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> It'll be a cold day in hell before I agree to obey the law of gravity!

darcymcgee

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> 2nd law of thermodynamics. You're not just altering physics, you're defying math. In other words anything, no matter how unlikely, can happen, since at its heart the second law is just a statement of probabilities. Heat and cool things however you want (as long as you have somewhere to put the heat), create objects out of quantum foam (free antimatter anyone?) or walk through walls using the probability of every atom in your body quantum tunneling simultaneously. Or fly- every molecule of air below you decides to push you upwards. And for a finale, save the universe from its otherwise inevitable heat-death.

icelight

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I'd choose to kill the weak nuclear force. Think of the fun possibilities!

aixelsyd

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @spacedcowboy: Everyone would still like Batman better. Batman is awesome.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I voted for conservation of mass energy so that I could defeat the Republicans and shut the Dems up all at once (no more need for fossil fuels) and in doing this be EVERYONES favorite superhero

spacedcowboy

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I would suspend Murphy's Law, then walk into a casino.

Rus

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @tetracycloide: Probably way more practical than being Laplace's demon.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @tetracycloide: Have you read the series "Her Majesty's Wizard"? by Christopher Stasheff. He creates Maxwell's Demon... Incredible series.

metrophage

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> Telekinesis. Then you could "fly", throw up a protective shield, etc.

metrophage

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @Frozen-Tex: The hubris, the hubris!

@moff: I have changed my mind. It's my second-favorite thing he's ever done, ever, now that I remember his SNL erotic-bakery sketch.

"It's a woman going to the bathroom."

"Yes."

"I don't think my friends will find that very sexy."

"Well, I should like to meet these friends of yours!"

moff

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I want to suspend the "hot girls aren't attracted to me" law.

B

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I want to fly. As cool as creating and harnessing vast amounts of energy to blow things up and impress chicks... flight would still be the winner. Mainly because of how cathartic taking a flight would be.

"Honey I'm going out for a fly by. Want me to grab something on my way up?"

Project Thanatos

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> i want to be maxwell's demon.

tetracycloide

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @aak7268: I think it's my favorite thing he's ever done, ever. Ian McKellen was so great, too.


+ Watch video


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moff

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @moff: Ah Patrick Stewart, such a funny man.

Mecharine

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @larry_832: But you'd have to do that for every particle,,,,that's so tedious...

Of course, if it gets you into Natalie Portman's presence, it might be worth it.

Gopherit

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I just want the ability to change the value of pi at will.

Gopherit

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I'd change the value of Planck's constant to alter basic quantum wavefunctions of the universe and change probabilities based on my wishes, so that whatever scenario I thought of would come to pass, thus making me a god, and finally allowing me to meet Natalie Portman without having those silly little TROs issued.

larry_832

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @moff: You totally win this thread for the Patrick Stewart referance.

aak7268

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @moff:
@MilesFromNowhere:

I think both of you need to combine your powers; to be invisible AND make girls' clothes fall off? You could... dare I say it... RULE THE WORLD?!


Frozen-Tex

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I don't know about these, but I'd settle for a helper monkey.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @MilesFromNowhere: But if you ever achieve it, by all means, do not go back to junior high to use and enjoy it.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> i don't think there's any biological basis which would suggest suspending the law of entropy would actually halt aging. however, even with a normal lifespan, suspending the increase of entropy required to perform work would actually open up a lot of the other possiblities listed here automatically.

tetracycloide

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> ooooohhhh - i would like to remove 'friction' from all matter -- then try to see how people would function in everyday society. It would be like drifting in outer space but without a form of propulsion -
hmmm, i guess it would just end up that everything just slip-slides down any and every incline to the lowest points on earth.-
on second thought - 'conservation of M-E' -> instant stuff all the time, everytime.

designguybrown

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @Gyrus: Or steal Scrooge McDucks fortune.

Git Em SteveDave seeks Lego build buddy. How about you?

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I have daily daydreams about being able to create objects out of thin air. Though I justify them with the law of conservation by saying its really only teleportation telekinesis: to transport raw materials from somewhere they're not needed and rearrange them into whatever I need.

grenacia

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I don't want any of these complicated powers with all kinds of implications that I have to worry about.

Just the ability to fly please. Is that so much to ask for?

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> The ability to become invisible has been my dream since junior high.

MilesFromNowhere

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> @Gyrus: What kind of fun? Like helping your best friend win a DJ contest? 'Cause that'd be loads of fun.

Frozen-Tex

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I just want to suspend the one where I make girls' clothes fall off, so that by the time they can do anything about it, it's too late -- I've seen everything.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> Stop time. That way, you can move from one place to another and rearange things. It'd be pretty fun.

Gyrus

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> Karma.

Dr. Spaceman, Esq.

]]> <![CDATA[What Law Of Physics Would You Like To Be Able To Suspend?]]> I voted to suspend the Law of Gravity, just like Rogues boobs are doing.

Frozen-Tex

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