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Posted by: IOU 720
youre all forgetting more's law. we are suspected to hit the limit in about 2020, or so i heard. ergo if we are EVER going to have A.I. it will be in about 2025.happy new year 2025 , holy -blam!--here comes cortana
Moore's law hasn't taken into account everything. It only counts for the amount of transistors on a silicon chip. The assumption only counts silicon based processors but not new technologies like quantum processors and optic processors. I believe new technologies may cause a huge bump and maybe even faster advancement on processing power.
Posted by: anton1792
FTL. All the workabouts to Relativity exist as hypotheses which exist solely to justify FTL (aka Ad Hoc). There is no evidence to support any of them. Causality, Relativity, FTL: Pick two.
What if I pick three? We can't travel faster than light in our universe but what about worm holes? There is no eveidence to support FTL travel and there is some against it but we have something that supports every crazy physics defying theory: quantum physics. Trying to understand the world of quantum physics is very hard. There are things like multidimesionality and worm holes which sound totally like science fiction. When it comes to understanding the universe we are living in, we haven't even scratched the surface.
Hand held plasma weapons like what the Covenant use, Plasma Rifle, Pistol etc. Shooting plasma in real life would be like shooting steam. Ignoring the fact that Covenant "Plasma" is not really plasma but some magic goo as revealed by Frankie 5 years ago, confining it to a magnetic field would be impractical. Your hand held weapon would have to guide the charge across the distance by manipulating those fields. Also, one has to question the power source in the weapon to A) Generate the plasma in the first place and B) Project magnetic fields powerful enough to guide the charge successfully. It would have to be fairly large. The magnetic fields from other plasma weapons would also interfere with each others plasma charges as well.
In reality if we had plasma weapons, they would shoot so fast that the magnetic field would only need to exist few milliseconds. That isn't completely impossible to achieve. Only actual problem is the source for the magnetic field.
Portable fusion packs like what MJOLNIR possesses. There is no way I can see something like project ITER being shrunk down to the size of a backpack.
Temperature of 100,000,000 degrees inside a small tank somehow rotating a turbine? This is pretty tricky. The plasma would actually need to be the rotating force of the generator as there would be no space for huge water tanks. The blades of the turbine would need to be covered somehow from the plasma. This would require strong magnetic fields around them. With current technology this looks impossible. Not really worth of researching as there are more efficient ways.
Hard Light. The Forerunner's magic indestructible alloys. Anything to do with the Precursor. Artificial Gravity (Not simulated...) and anti-gravity. Halo Rings. In fact, I would take most of the Forerunner/Precursor stuff with a grain of salt. (The closest we could probably get to anti-gravity would be to use room-temperature superconductors in the presence of a magnetic field).
Hard light, again we meet our friend quantum physics. For light to have density, photons would need a mass. We have this theoretical mass defining particle called Higgs particle. Manipulating it's properties could possibly provide answer to that problem. For anti-gravity and Halo rings I can't give any kind of answer with our current knowledge of physics.
Shields are possible but not as envisioned by Halo or most sci-fi. Plasma shields (Which exist today) would always be visible, and would be very hot. Encasing yourself in one like Spartans/Elites do would not work very well for the individual inside of it. They are also incapable of stopping lasers.
This is something I can't currently provide an answer to. My other suggestions shouldn't be taken as 100% serious as they were just quickly tought out ideas which could have many major problems that could prevent them being even remotely possible. I just cam up with those ideas to show that things are actually much more possible than they seem like. As I said: We haven't even scratched the surface.
[Edited on 05.15.2011 12:23 PM PDT]