I don't get it.
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Try this on.
Picture this. The object's trapped by its own temporal inertia. It needs progressively larger amounts of energy to push the period between events closer, pushing the object closer to the brink. What happens when the period between events becomes shorter than the duration of a single event? Well, let's not find out, hm?
That does nothing for me… What's interesting here? What should I care about after having read this? Should I be creeped out? Anxious? Skittish? Paranoid? Why should I care if this thing finishes whatever it's doing?
Because
the energy released on it's initial detection killed an entire mining crew and was detected by systems set up to detect nuclear explosions. Imagine if something of that nature was allowed to go off over and over and over again?
yeah, but shorter time between events means less time to accumulate that energy, so if we let it to go off over and over again, the energy released would not be that big, right?
If objects that touch this tablet can't have any kinetic energy, how can they be removed from it? Wouldn't pulling something away from the tablet mean giving the object kinetic energy, which would be absorbed by the tablet?
The object absorbs kinetic energy applied to it. Pulling something away from the object would not be applying kinetic energy unless you've glued them together.
Actually, nothing would be able to theoretically touch it. It would keep absorbing kinetic energy from the air currents pushing against it, and make the air freeze by absorbing all it's thermal energy, in turn creating a small barrier of frozen gases. However, judging by the rate at which it absorbs thermal energy, it would take a while to freeze the air, making it more sluggish as gases with higher liquidating points froze, and it might be similar to pushing two magnets together. So really, air is the only thing that touches it at all.
Okay, now that you've made the changes I recommended, I've changed my vote.
Thank you to Lumine for the idea, Tox for some editing and idea concretion, Frank for some tone and clutter editing, and Mann for helping me implement some of the ideas I had for this object that wasn't stated.
This feels like a much better version of the infinite-heat-sink-cube from ages ago. Upvote.
Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
It's also a better version than an object I created as a proto-SCP writing experiment shortly after signing up here that got sandboxed and viciously torn apart.. The fact that mine was vaguely spherical and had a potential mental compulsion (or just the extraordinary bad luck to have a series of hyper-obsessive doctors) probably didn't help it.
Why not just feed it enough energy that the periods become too short to be dangerous, transforming it from a deadly tablet to a mildly radioactive tablet?
An interesting concept. In truth, one could consider the drop in temperature do still be caused by the primary effect. When something "has" heat, the atoms that comprise it are moving about, which could be considered kinetic energy. Once those atoms are affected by the nullification, they would stop all movement, thus losing all heat. Even if it is only a single layer of atoms, contact with something that is a absolute zero in temperature would rapidly cool off the surrounding atoms.
That's why I called it a secondary effect rather than an additional primary. The only it itself isn't at absolute value is that it does not affect itself, and thus, has its own temperature.
If it absorbs kinetic enrgy applied to it, then it has an effectively infinite inertia. Gravity can't hold it to the Earth, because the force that gravity should be applying gets absorbed instead. Much like Dr. Wondertainment's anti-gravity device, this should go shooting off into space (or the wall) at extremely high speed. Technically, it would be holding still and everything else would be moving around it at the Earth's orbital+rotational velocity, but it would still look to us gravity-bound observers like it was shooting off at blistering speed in a straight line.
Whenever it formed, it was already locked into Earth's gravity so I would see no reason to change that.
I used to be a TA for Physical Chemistry. This is right up my alley.
You could always have a threshold below which energy won't be absorbed. Still creepy, less dangerous, but moveable.
Perhaps a maximum amount of force which can successfully be applied at one time?
Absorbing just kinetic energy is nonsensical when thinking in terms of relativity; while energy will remain the same, the portion which is kinetic energy will shift relative to your reference frame.
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Of course, this device is apparently reversing entropy. Someone wants to tap this as a power source, I swear.
Upvote, but I see a lot more potential in this idea.
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