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Post by ryan on Feb 22, 2011 23:31:03 GMT -5
im bored....if you could have any superpower what would it be.....
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Post by Ryan on Feb 22, 2011 23:43:12 GMT -5
Telekinesis is the ultimate super power. Name any other super power and I can tell you how you can do it with telekinesis (fairly certain I can do this - there may be minor exceptions).
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Post by SwimFellow on Feb 22, 2011 23:48:11 GMT -5
ryanYou can't read minds.
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Post by Flappy on Feb 22, 2011 23:55:56 GMT -5
One or all of the following: 1-The ability to see into people's pasts. 2-The ability to change the strength of an object or things gravitational pull. 3-The ability to be a ghost (walk through walls, turn invisible, etc.) 4-The ability to teleport 5-The ability to speed up/slow down/stop time 6-The ability to concentrate fully on several different things at once (Super multi-tasking essentially) ryan: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...
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Post by Freddy on Feb 23, 2011 0:00:03 GMT -5
I'd like 3,4,5,6 or shapeshifting. ryan, add shapeshifting to the list.
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Post by krzych32 on Feb 23, 2011 0:12:26 GMT -5
The ability to feed the hungry and help the poor.
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Post by Ryan on Feb 23, 2011 0:16:22 GMT -5
You are all wrong - with the exception of perhaps #1 and #6 on Flappy's list all of those are possible with telekinesis, albeit difficult and would require much training and focus (some may even require #6 on Flappy's list - but I don't believe that it's a super power since I know that it is possible to fully concentrate on several things at once).
Through telekinesis one has the power to move objects with his/her mind. Using this ability it is equally possible for them to sense objects with their minds. After all, how do we sense motion - we feel a vibration or feel a movement through one of our senses. You could think of this sense as an analogy to echolocation in a very unique sense.
Granted that through telekinesis and training to have this sense, we could sense the motion of anything - no matter where it was. This would include - with enough focus and concentration, the ability to sense both brainwaves and neuron firings. While this would not allow a telekinetic to hear specific thoughts - as these thoughts are the products of the neuron firings based on the specific brain chemistry - they would provide information like context clues of psychology that would allow for a form of mind reading.
So - granted an incredible telekinetic power, intense focus, and a minor knowledge of psychology - a telekinetic could read minds.
#1 is impossible with telekinesis. We can always look into peoples past but that is a property of light. It's impossible for a telekinetic to "rewind" the light. However, using ideas from the proof above - a telekinetic could read memories. Slightly different.
#2 How is this not obviously directly related to telekinesis? You want an object to be heavier, push down on it, lighter pull up. If you want to increase the strength of someone, use telekinesis to increase blood-flow to the muscles, as well as the amount of oxygen in their lungs vs carbon dioxide. That would not be very hard assuming moderate mastery of telekinesis. Given advanced mastery of telekinesis, it would be possible to change the density of an object - either compact it, or add molecules/atoms to it until the density is different. This would require both knowledge of the quantum level and the ability to concentrate at these levels, but assuming a large enough object was the subject, large scale physics applies and this becomes a much simpler task (it is easier to add molecules/atoms to 1kg of an element/compound/body than it is to add molecules/atoms to a ng of an element/compound/body.
#3 the only reason we cannot walk through walls is due to a special electromagnetic force that the large clusters of atoms on both surfaces exert on eachother. A telekinetic could theoretically displace this force - which would allow them to walk through walls. The other option would be to drastically decrease the density of the wall, and then re-increase it once the wall had been passed through, using methods described above.
#4 The ability to teleport: contract space using telekinesis --> tadah teleported. This would require knowledge of space-time geometry as well as enough focus to compress and expand space, the consequences of which I do not know - but that's how it would be done.
#5 The ability to speed up/slow down/stop time: time is a relativistic function to the observer. It is based on the light that reaches the observer. Slowdown the light, or speed up the light (by contracting the space infront of the light - light's moving as fast as already possible) or stop the light, to slow down/speed up/stop time respectively.
#6...chances are this would help with the others.
Granted - all of these would require subtle mastery over many aspects of telekinesis - as well as some advanced physical knowledge, but again - quite possible.
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Post by Ryan on Feb 23, 2011 0:17:05 GMT -5
Shapeshifting is easy - rearrange your molecules - add new ones as needed. But really - if you had telekinesis why shape shift?
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Post by SwimFellow on Feb 23, 2011 0:17:38 GMT -5
Well, @freddy, I think since you can move things, that you could theoretically shapeshift.. But definitely time travel.. I want to be The Doctor! He's fricking awesome.
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Post by Flags_Forever on Feb 23, 2011 1:02:28 GMT -5
Mastery of Magnetism.
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Post by krzych32 on Feb 23, 2011 2:08:57 GMT -5
Shapeshifting is easy - rearrange your molecules - add new ones as needed. But really - if you had telekinesis why shape shift? You would most likely die from shape shifting like that.
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Post by Flappy on Feb 23, 2011 6:19:37 GMT -5
You are all wrong - with the exception of perhaps #1 and #6 on Flappy's list all of those are possible with telekinesis, albeit difficult and would require much training and focus (some may even require #6 on Flappy's list - but I don't believe that it's a super power since I know that it is possible to fully concentrate on several things at once). For #6, I mean concentrating on like several different TV's while also listening to music, and listening to someone talk to you, etc. etc. etc. No limit basically...It's not just texting while listening to a teacher. Well, the idea is to change gravitational pull without adding/taking anything away from the object. (Hence why it would be a SUPER power.) Time meaning the world as we see/experience it (I guess it's basically what you explained time as)... If you have the ability to manipulate atoms through telekinesis, you'd have to have some other ability, I think, that allows you to...I dunno, see/experience atoms in their most broken down state.
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Post by Alex on Feb 23, 2011 6:22:25 GMT -5
Mastery of Magnetism.
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Post by Nancy R. on Feb 23, 2011 7:19:40 GMT -5
Well, I'd choose to have the mastered version of the power a character has in a story that I write. She's a moving source of energy. That energy can be used for many stuff, increase her speed or her strength briefly, trap someone into place, push someone back or just kill. The mastered version would include a few more abilities, like the ability to teleport, small distance though, like transforming into pure energy and moving to another spot. It doesn't have to be logical. It's not like we'll ever have superpowers, righto?
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Post by Freddy on Feb 23, 2011 7:53:56 GMT -5
But logic's cool!
And Ryan would have wasted a lot of time writing that wall of (awesome) text!
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Post by Nancy R. on Feb 23, 2011 8:35:27 GMT -5
Freddy, I just don't understand physics and stuff like that.
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Post by Ryan on Feb 23, 2011 9:11:16 GMT -5
@ Flappy - Gravity is just a property of spacetime geometry so a detailed enough knowledge of spacetime geometry and the ability to move it would allow you to change gravitational pull.
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Post by Flags_Forever on Feb 23, 2011 10:55:17 GMT -5
Mastery of Magnetism. Exactly. Love Magneto!
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Post by newschooled on Feb 23, 2011 11:44:29 GMT -5
ryan - Meh. Sometimes it's just nice to say "what if" without over analyzing the heck out of every single variable...That being said, my super power would be to not only read peoples thoughts, but control them. That's not creepy, is it?!? lol
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Post by Lyserg Zeroz on Feb 23, 2011 12:53:11 GMT -5
^Very creepy =) ryan: I actuallyhave thought almost the same thing. When watching avatar and heroes I realised how many superpowers can relate to others xP. I think I like to either be immune to Rob's superpower, or, be the master of energy. Like being able to control energy, transform it, concentrate it in one point and then liberate it. It would have many uses and ways of use. I guess one could even use it to transfor energy into matter (alhough that would probably be very complicated and would require lots of training... maybe one can end up making the wrong particles and generate anti-matter which would explode in front of you with horrible results...)
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