Poker meets physics: project OMEGATRON
I created a time-based poker game which is time dilation resistant (!!!). It's probably the only time-based game in the world that can do that. I'm not sure whether it's important for science in general, but it kind of reminds me of the "Schrodinger's cat" thought experiment.
In the graphics below you can see the rules of the whole 1-minute poker mini-trilogy with the emphasis on game #3 - Omegatron.
I hope we can have a serious poker & science discussion here, please let me know what you think of this.
Time dilation - the difference in elapsed time as measured by two clocks, either because of a relative velocity between them (special relativity), or a difference in gravitational potential between their locations (general relativity). When unspecified, "time dilation" usually refers to the effect due to velocity.
After compensating for varying signal delays resulting from the changing distance between an observer and a moving clock (i.e. Doppler effect), the observer will measure the moving clock as ticking more slowly than a clock at rest in the observer's own reference frame. There is a difference between observed and measured relativistic time dilation - the observer does not visually perceive time dilation in the same way that they measure it. In addition, a clock that is close to a massive body (and which therefore is at lower gravitational potential) will record less elapsed time than a clock situated farther from the same massive body (and which is at a higher gravitational potential).
Source: Wikipedia
G. Jakubowicz
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I read half the OP and have no idea what's happening here. Is this a slot machine?
Ok, for those who don't feel like reading the whole thing:
It's a 3-games package you can play on almost any stopwatch device (digital watch recommended, because of buttons). You can play them even now. Although first you need to memorize the 1st "spade column" of the Cards Chart (graphic 5) - this will be enough to play. And of course you have to read the rules of all 3 games.
First two games are just normal games where you collect 5 cards. In the third game "Omegatron" you also collect 5 cards, but the whole game is "time dilation resistant". So when the time on your stopwatch runs slower, it doesn't change the game's difficulty level. This is because "Omegatron" is a fusion of other two games which act like "+" and "-".
Time dilation doesn't break the rules, so I can consider this situation happening. Imagine that the stopwatch is traveling at a very high speed away from you - time will run slower then from your perspective (on this stopwatch). It's purely theoretical and it's just a thought experiment, but it's mathematically and scientifically correct.
I think this is how it all works:
no idea what's going on here. the way you're trying to explain this game is abysmal. we don't experience objective time dilation in our day to day lives.
We also don't see things like the Schrodinger's Cat in our day to day lives, but yet science does respect it.
Astronauts do experience time dilation in space, although it's very small.
Also for example, the closer you get to a black hole, the slower the time runs. I don't know what's the point of trying to discredit theoretical physics.
It's good. Potential issue. Seems like it would be alarmingly easy to cheat with a fleet of CFP UFOs? i.e. super trivial to send a squadron of flying saucers plummeting down into the planetary atmosphere to reap max ALPHATRON EV and then simply level off and cruise peacefully over an ocean somewhere smoking cigs while absolutely nailing BETATRON hands with relative ease.
Potential solution. DELTATRON. DELTATRON cards could only be acquired while running an IV drip through a DNA sequencer measuring any epigenetic shifts in the genes of the player (at ever so slightly faster than the speed of light) to mitigate non-terrestrial cheating. Perhaps delta cards can only qualify if they are selected on a corresponding nucleitide base? eg, Adenine ♣, Cytosine ♦, Guanine ♥ and Thymine ♠, but other than that I think it has (time) legs.
Hahahaha 😀
Here is the simplified version, much easier to understand:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/15/po...
The thread you are reading now is more like the work-in-progress version.
