The perfectly smooth Elephant

[pcy]

A perfectly smooth Elephant, whose weight may be neglected is operating in the outer fringes of the Gaussian Field created by a Triad of Cold Fusion Power Plants situated in Geostationary Orbit and using Water Cooled Indoctrination as their Delivery Mechanism.

The Elephant is equipped with a special pair of Hollow Tusks, filled with a Highly Vicious Liquid, into which the Elephant can secrete certain Proscribed Substances in order to control the Specific Resistivity of the Fluid.

This enables the Elephant to navigate in the Gausian Field by waving his Head about.

One day the Elephant encounters a nested, rotating Hyperspace, which it is unable to reduce by any Primitive Means.

Can you describe the effect of this Encounter on the Elephant's Lifestyle?






Peter

 

[imported_Seer]

um, homework problem? seems really weird.

 

[bobsmith1492]

What in the blue blazes are you talking about??!?

1. Cold fusion does not exist.
2. There are no cold fusion power plants.
3. If there were, how big would they be? Too big to put into orbit?
4. If they were in orbit, how big of a Gaussian Field would they produce?
5. By Gaussian field, does that mean a magnetic field?
6. If it is a magnetic field, does it interfere or interact with the earth's magnetic field? Which is stronger?
7. I could look it up, but what is "Water Cooled Indoctrination" and what sort of doctrine is it being afflicted with? Why it is capitalized?
8. Whom are using said "Water Cooled Indoctrination?" The power plants or the elephant(s)?
9. Why is the elephant perfectly smooth?
10. I see a huge leap from the elephant-thing secreting a fluid to him being able to navigate this field. Details?
11. What is a hyperspace? Star Wars version? Mathematical construct? Something else I've never heard of?
12. I may be showing my ignorance and I could look it up, but what are said "Primitive Means?" What does it mean to reduce said "Hyperspace?"
13. Does this "elephant" have intelligence such that it has attempted to reduce said hyperspace?
14. What was the "elephant's" prior lifestyle? Free-and-easy? Enjoying the scenery while tossing his head about in space?
15. Was this from some science fiction site?
16. Are you smoking something?
17. Is this a "theoretical physics for dummies" quiz?
18. Am I using the Socratic method?
19. Can I hit 20 questions?
20. Do I have too much time on my hands?
21. Which of these were not questions?
22. Anyone else have questions?

EDIT#3:

23. Is this some sort of sick joke for the gullible like me?

 

[BrownTown]

WOW bobsmith1492 you really don't get it

 

[krotchy]

Originally posted by: BrownTown
WOW bobsmith1492 you really don't get it

either that or he got it more than you realize

 

[CycloWizard]

Having been indoctrinated by water cooling, I know the answer. However, I also know from this indoctrination that if you need the answer, you would already have it.

 

[dorion]

If we assume that the Hyperspace can be represented by n+1 linearly independent vectors in the space R^n and that the Gaussian field is best represented by an orthonormal matrix having n columns, the field in fact fills the Elephant's entire "universe," ie, the space in which he exists. However, by adjusting the specific resistivity of the fluid (and therefore the electromagnetic field in his immediate vicinity) and taking into account his perfect smoothness (which, carried through to its logical conclusion, means that our "elephant" is in fact a sphere, in the form x^2 + y^2 + z^2 + ... + w ^2 = b, where b is the radius of the sphere and x, y, z, ... w form a basis for R^n) we can assume that the field has a negligable influence on his course and heading. The cold fusion generators may present difficulties when adjusting the electromagnetics of the field, but this may be avoided by moving in the n + 1 direction.

A more interesting question is, what is the effect of evaporating the water in the generators' delivery mechanisms?

 

[Cogman]

the answer is 42, duh.

 

[Mark R]

Your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

 

[Steve]

Vicious liquid?

 

[pcy]

Absolutely.


Peter

 

[Peter]

Alright, have you been at your brother's "decorative" plants again?

 

[pcy]

Hi,


Actually, No - I can dream this stuff up without need of artificial help.


I'm akin to the elephant in that respect - his body produces those "proscribed substances" quite naturally...



Peter

 

[Xyo II]

Originally posted by: Mark R
Your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

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[Xdreamer]

Originally posted by: CycloWizard
Having been indoctrinated by water cooling, I know the answer. However, I also know from this indoctrination that if you need the answer, you would already have it.

And I assume from this that those who need to be indoctrinated by water cooling would already be indoctrinated by water cooling... Thereby prevent those who do not know the answer from ever gaining the answer...

 

[Xdreamer]

the weight of an elephant can never be neglected, no mater how smooth it is

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Xdreamer
the weight of an elephant can never be neglected, no mater how smooth it is

Mass, not weight. A few numbers are missing. Field strength, mass of forementioned elephant, viscosity of said liquid, volume of tusk and liquid contained within and geostationary around which astral body.