Science Project

Blowing kids’ minds in eighteen easy installments

• Time Travel
1. Butterfly Effect
2. Grandfather Effect
3. Catching up with light rays
• Teleportation
4. Differential in pressure
5. Differential in inertia
6. If you teleport particles by instantly transporting their information, are you moving an existing thing or duplicating it with a new thing?
• The Speed of Light
7. It’s a constant even if we’re not
8. Thought experiments in which things move faster than light (ex: giant scissors)
• Multiple Dimensions
9. A dog whose perception is multidimensional but whose intellect is inferior to ours only in a four-dimensional context (i.e: How does a queen bee learn her job?)
10. Exchanging a spatial dimension for time
11. Flatland in higher dimensions
• Biology and Intelligence
12. If it’s a natural process for matter to arrange itself in organic patterns of increasing complexity, regulated by time and available resources, does it follow that as available matter increases and time elapses, so does the complexity of intelligence?
13. Intelligence as a biological phenomenon: What kind of thing is an idea?
14. Biologically-based mechanics (Nanotechnological? Sturgeon: Microcosmic God) A civilization that mapped the genome before they invented the wheel.
• Cosmology
15. Can stellar energy power interstellar travel?
16. What are the available power sources if you navigate among galaxies?
17. Theodore Taylor and nuclear power transporting downtown Chicago to Jupiter (McPhee: The Curve of Binding Energy)
• Super Powers
18. Photonucleic Effect