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Black-Hole-Bowling
Do NOT loft the balls! Any ball lofted more than eight feet will result in a HUGE charge to your credit card. | |
The initial eight feet of your bowling alley lane is entirely conventional The rest of the lane re-configures after every round by means of actuated rods with locks which let the remainder of the alley to develop a series of rigid gradually sloping divots. These divots can take many shapes, the
least challenging being basic circular bowls or gravity wells.
Your spherical orb will follow the curvature of theses divots and this will have to be taken into account before every release turning bowling into something much more like the short-game in golf.
More sophisticated gravity bowlers will need to navigate much more intricate gravity well shapes.
Dr. Lee’s explanation
https://www.gocomic...06?ct=v&cti=1441569
Some objects are neither spheres nor points [kdf, Nov 06 2020]
Bowling Alley Plank Length
http://www.ecojacks...lley-lane-sections/
[kdf, Nov 06 2020]
[link]
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How large a platform are the pins set upon? Are
they still arranged in a traditional pattern? |
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Is the movable part of the lane made with a rubber sheet ? |
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“rubber sheet” ...yes, I almost
typed a similar remark. Common depictions of
spacetime curvature use that analogy. |
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It will have to be some sort of elastomer capable of accommodating smooth, continuous distortion. |
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Of course, it might be simpler to just distort local spacetime using degenerate matter to form the "wells" as and when required. |
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Yes but then time-dilation effects will mean that games take ages... |
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“...will have to be some sort of elastomer capable
of accommodating smooth, continuous distortion”
-8th of 7, Nov 06 2020 |
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Relatively speaking, perhaps. But at a quantum
level things might be more discontinuous, granular,
foamy - pick any metaphor you like. The more I
think of that, the more 2fries’ original description
suggests a pointillist’s cosmology than an
Einsteinian one. |
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And then there’s Dr. Lee’s explanation (link) |
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Speed may be an overcoming factor. If one were to fling
ones balls down the alley in a speedier fashion than normal
they might slide past the offending anomalies and still
smash into the pins. |
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Replacement pins may become another expense, to say
nothing of ones balls. |
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// a quantum level things might be more discontinuous, granular, foamy // |
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Indeed, but you then have to address the issue of the granularity of spacetime as opposed to that of particles, and it's actually less than the Planck length. |
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Planck length? A different space-time metric
applies to bowling alleys - Plank Length (link). |
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Could a cone of heterogeneous ballistic gel be made big enough for a variation? Reviewed, of course. |
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Probably yes, but its mechanical durability would be extremely poor, and it would be affected by changes in humidity. It's mostly water, and the surface will quickly dry out and crack. |
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One per game. Players' tracks count. |
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Are there any rules forbidding me from setting up a stable
wormhole at both ends of the lane? |
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