Timeline for Why can't the alien's particle shield be replicated despite using common elements?
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| Feb 25 at 12:42 | history | protected | Monty Wild♦ | ||
| Feb 24 at 13:13 | history | edited | FIRES_ICE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 15 at 22:49 | answer | added | keshlam | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 15 at 20:23 | comment | added | Philipp | From a worldbuilding point of view, do you really need an explanation? Not providing one might make the aliens even more advance and mysterious in the perception of the audience. "It's too advanced for future scientists, so it's too advanced for you readers as well" can be a perfectly fine explanation in science fiction. | |
| Feb 15 at 16:44 | comment | added | JBH | Thanks to a comment on my answer, it's worth inviting you to read my answer to How difficult would it be to reverse engineer a device whose function is based on unknown physics? It was one of my better answers and it will help you understand why you don't have a problem. (Thanks for the green check, BTW!) | |
| Feb 15 at 16:26 | comment | added | Mermaker | That looks a lot like the plot of Command & Conquer, specifically when it comes to Tiberium | |
| Feb 14 at 2:21 | comment | added | Colombo | Replicating segment of human DNA like gene is quite different to replicate the whole genome including various proteins that hold the genome together. | |
| Feb 13 at 22:12 | answer | added | ProfyTroll | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 13 at 16:17 | answer | added | WernerCD | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 13 at 12:27 | comment | added | MichaelK | @Negdo, quibble this all you want... all I need to do is point to something else that exists in nature, that we cannot build / replicate. The point is still: all stuff consists of basic elements... and without knowing the method by which to put it together, we cannot replicate it. | |
| Feb 13 at 11:23 | comment | added | Negdo | @MichaelK The main reason nobody had put together a WHOLE human genome from scratch is because it is a pointless and expensive endavor. But to say we haven't been able to make a human DNA is false. We had been synthesising human genes for decades now (and that counts as a human DNA....) | |
| Feb 13 at 11:21 | vote | accept | FIRES_ICE | ||
| Feb 13 at 9:38 | comment | added | Neinstein | Not to mention microchips. A little bit of not-so-pure silicone sounds easy to get right, ain't it? | |
| Feb 13 at 3:01 | answer | added | The Square-Cube Law | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 13 at 1:36 | answer | added | Christopher James Huff | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 12 at 21:57 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @user28434 And the potential space for those arrangements is even larger! | |
| Feb 12 at 21:16 | comment | added | user28434 | @MichaelK, entire organic chemistry is a handful of elements arranged in billions different ways. | |
| Feb 12 at 20:41 | answer | added | DKNguyen | timeline score: 12 | |
| Feb 12 at 20:30 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 12 at 18:54 | answer | added | JBH | timeline score: 43 | |
| Feb 12 at 16:30 | answer | added | Michael Richardson | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 12 at 15:47 | comment | added | John | it sounds like the FIELD holding the particles is more important than what particles you use. | |
| Feb 12 at 15:20 | answer | added | Pica | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 12 at 14:38 | answer | added | Demigan | timeline score: 37 | |
| Feb 12 at 14:16 | answer | added | Stephen | timeline score: 16 | |
| Feb 12 at 13:58 | comment | added | MichaelK | @AlexP And yet we have not been able to make human DNA being from scratch. Because — despite self-deprecating jokes — human beings are not bacteria. Which only reinforces my comment: even though we have potential method for how it possibly could be done, we still cannot do it. | |
| Feb 12 at 13:36 | comment | added | AlexP | @MichaelK: DNA printing equipment is relatively widely available. Researchers have even been able to designa and make an entirely new and fully functional bacterial DNA strand. | |
| Feb 12 at 13:31 | answer | added | M S | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 12 at 12:50 | comment | added | MichaelK | DNA consists of Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen and Phosphorus. Yet we have not been able to mash those together to make human DNA from scratch. The same goes for foods, flavours, drinks... everything you see around you is made up of atoms from the periodic table, yet nothing of that can be made, unless you know the method of how to make it. | |
| Feb 12 at 12:28 | history | asked | FIRES_ICE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |