Re: Obsolete Tech Note for Wink of an Eye

Christopher Basken wrote:

Okay, but even still, at such hyper-accelerated speed, wouldn't the
(normal speed) lighting be all darker and reddish?

There was a book when I was a kid -- _Danny Dunn and the
Smallifying Machine_ -- that's probably as responsible as
anything else for my way of thinking. In this book (part of a
series where Danny, a professor, and friends have "scientific"
adventures of varying probability) Danny and friends get shrunk
somewhere near insect size. One thing they have to adjust to is
that when they start to lean over to walk they are on the ground
almost before they realize it. The author asks the reader to tip
over a matchstick and a yardstick and compare them, then imagine
a tree doing its "Timber!" routine. Two things ran through my
mind: "I never thought of that!" and "What else is there that
*they* haven't thought of?"

What else about this hyper-acceleration? Gravity? They could do
a trick of setting a teacup in the air, then reaching out for it
for another sip, but wouldn't they still feel their normal
weight? I base this on the opposite case of the Waitabits,
hyper-slow people, who, when they let go of something, have it
immediately reappear on the ground, like on the planet Mesklin,
but who are not crushed under Mesklinite gravity. Can Deela
launch herself in the air as if under a micro-gravity field?
Using the muscles that can accelerate her from 0 to 600 mph in
0.0001 seconds? How does that change if gravity is a wave or
particle rather than a property of space? (We'll ignore the
possibility that artificial gravity could be as intermittent as
some artificial lighting can be.)

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-Jack

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