originally posted in:Secrets of Destiny
I bet you could do some trig by observing distances and angles of known objects around the tower and comparing it to the size of the traveler. I think your biggest issue with your calculations are that they are assuming your clearly coffee stain picture is to scale. If I know anything, it's that there have been a dozen different images of the traveler, the city, and Earth at different scales.
As far as what electroweak material is, it's likely relating to the electroweak force, a combination of the electromagnetic and weak fundemental forces (I'd say it's worth noting that the description says it [i]feels[/i] like lead, neutronium and electroweak, but I'll leave you to decide if that's metaphor or not). The electroweak force only arises when temperatures are high enough (10^15, according to Wiki), and can lead the the formation of massive (read "has mass," the opposite of "massless") subatomic particles: the W and Z gauge bosons, which are responsible for the weak force and interact heavily with the Higgs field.
That last bit might be a clue. It's proposed that most mass of an object comes from the innumerable virtual bosons exchanging energy between quarks (which make up the protons and neutrons in atoms). These particles have mass, which indicate they interact with the Higgs field, which is said to give mass to particles. Perhaps "electroweak" in this case is indicating a larger than rational presence of exotic bosons (species of bosons that are created when the electromagnetic and weak forces combined as described earlier) which may interact more heavily with the Higgs field, fitting, in a rough not-entirely-scientific way, with the inclusion of known heavy particles of lead and neutronium.
Just my guess.
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Yeah, this picture makes it look MUCH bigger than it does from the Tower. You'd have to look up to see it.
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Ya I cant even make out the tower or the mountain behind it in this picture. The scale is fluid...space magic...
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Edited by Arron Rift: 2/15/2015 12:10:41 AM[quote]Ya I cant even make out the tower or the mountain behind it in this picture. The scale is fluid...space magic...[/quote]
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Thank you
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Ya walcome
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Maybe the traveler gets bigger when it's excited?
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How does one increase their intelligence to this level?
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Genuine curiosity, lot of reading on Wikipedia, and some good books on the subject.
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Interesting. I remember taking a look at the Higgs thing on Wikipedia. I think I lasted 2 minutes before my brain hurt, and I promise I'm actually fairly smart. Cool post btw.
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I know [i] of[/i] a lot of these things, but I fully reference several pages of Wikipedia to make sure I'm right before posting. A lot of th particle stuff is so intertwined that it's easy to mix things up.
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It takes a true science fiction fan to bend real science to define a made up word. I admire your tenacity.
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Hard sci-fi is best sci-fi
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I bet. I'm sure even top scientists would have to find a reference to the Higgs thing before attempting to explain it. I just looked at it again on Wikipedia and gave up quickly lol. Those guys over at CERN are incredible. I think it was discovered there? If not, that place is still amazing.
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It was confirmed there, yes.
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>we finally got an electrical engineer in this thread >PraiseShrek.png And yea, my little doodles are for illustrative purposes only. I have top men tasked to getting me more accurate measurements as we speak.
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Top. Men.
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wtf does ninja in that orange box next to your name mean????
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He's a moderator. If you or I or DeeJ misbehave then he can remove comments and posts, and ban the poster if necessary. But as long as you follow [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/View/bungie/conduct]The Code of Conduct[/url] they are your best friends.
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Oh ok, you know lots of stuff... [spoiler]thats a good thing :)[/spoiler]
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So what's his call on Higgybunch's comment above regarding genitals?
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lol I think it all depends on whether or not lots of people report it and what kind of mood the mods are in XD
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yeah, but the report button kind of punishes you by hiding every thread that guy makes. I reported a couple people a while back for being mean to people, and then I started noticing that the website was blocking great threads from people I didn't even remember reporting. I think it may even block threads just if that person commented on it :S
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Means I am guy to ban people.
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Well, actually just a drunk Otis B. Driftwood who owns a huge TV and a meter-stick.