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Carl-E:
As the moecules compressed back to each other to take up the space now between them, everything would collapse to half size.
You'd get two half-sized versions of the original...
But the brain thing, yeah. They'd both be dead.
LTK:
Nah. There's a lot of redundancy everywhere. You'd lose a big chunk of IQ, but I don't think you'd die. People (although mostly children) have lived through losing half their brain (although not half of every bit of brain) and went on to live a mostly normal life.
lepetitfromage:
--- Quote from: Redball on 09 Apr 2012, 06:44 ---That takes concentration! Who was driving?
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Definitely him. I'm fairly new to vehicle operation. :-P
Skewbrow:
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--- Quote from: LTK on 07 Apr 2012, 04:03 ---I wonder what happened if you could split a person in half. Not bisecting them, or anything gory like that; I'm thinking of putting them through a sieve that catches half of the person that goes through it. Say you take every second molecule in a person's body and move it exactly three feet to the left. You'd essentially end up with two of the same person, only both are 50% less solid. In theory they'd still be able to function, but for how long?
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I'm no biologist, but isn't a lot of stuff that's stored in your brain stored on molecular size? So I think you'd go brain dead instantly. Also, I doubt the spine would be able to hold you up with half of it's original integrity. But it's an interesting concept.
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I'm no biologist either. The spine might survive - the remaining half would only need to support half the original weight. The brain most likely would not. Also, don't most cells need all (or nearly all?) of the genetic material to function properly? For the purposes of this gedankenexperiment we may treat DNA as a single molecule, but if each cell loses a randomly selected half of its chromosomes, something is bound to go wrong.
Barmymoo:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 09 Apr 2012, 14:03 ---If you have any additional search bars on a computer within my reach, it will be dealt with.
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I have a google search box, and a yahoo search bar. All the male members of my family have expressed varying degrees of horror and disgust, but it collects nectar points for me. 1 point to every 2 searches up to 50 points a month. I'm quite happy to sacrifice two centimetres of screen for free money.
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