Rules:
*You can teleport into and out of it at will
*It has a couple of plug sockets and can connect to internet from the region you teleported in from
*You can take objects and people with you
*As already stated, it is (3m)^3 (3m*3m*3m). The walls are plain plaster with a light in the middle of the ceiling. The pocket dimension is topologically toroidal, so if there weren’t walls and a ceiling/floor (which you can actually destroy) you would loop if you went more than 3m in any direction. Gravity, then, is artificial and can be altered to anywhere from 0 to 2g from a dial on the wall.
Edit: additional specifications
*You can only teleport out to where you teleported in from.
*Time proceeds at the same rate inside the pocket dimension
*There is an eject button for those inside to get out if something happens to you
2g weight room. I would train some rabbits to pull weights. Then take my rabbit beasts out after 6 months and have them pull me around town in a sled.
Slow down there Radagast.
it’d be a great place to grow some weed.
Guns and drugs. Mostly not at the same time.
Long trips on planes/trains/busses would be a lot more enjoyable.
Emergency supplies would be available at a moments notice including escape from the elements (camping/travel just became a breeze) .
Would you be able to free dive super deep taking each breath or a rest in the pocket dimmension?
The plane would keep moving while you left, so… you would come back in to empty space.
Wouldn’t the same logic apply to the planet moving?
I think it was the Hitchhikers books that made that joke in relation to people inventing time travel. They travel to some other point in time and die in space because the earth isn’t in that spot any more.
All the real theoretical kinds of time travel involve a physical path you have to move along with a specific start and end point, because yeah, otherwise the frame of reference would be ambiguous.
Isn’t the bends the consequence of the oxygen tank and nitrogen in your blood; and if the air in your body starts at atmospheric pressure it should be fine (though no idea about the effects on the human body from such a sudden change)
Yes. People seem to think the bends always happens on exposure to weird pressures, but it just doesn’t. I guess they’re understandably imagining it’s the same as hot or cold.
(though no idea about the effects on the human body from such a sudden change)
Well, enough delta p is entirely capable of squishing an entire person through a thumb-sized hole, and while there’s no hole here I image there’d still be some sort of shock wave, and the air already in your lungs returning to normal volume suddenly would be uncomfortable. Don’t go too deep the first time, definitely ease into it.
Interestingly just 1 atm is fairly harmless. The first time someone got caught in a vacuum chamber they weren’t sure what they’d find, but the guy just got up and said his ears hurt.
You are absolutely correct. Breathing surface air would negate the bends. It’s why freedivers can go down and straight back up from 400ft with no ill effects.
Also, would you leave a void in the water if you teleported out of it, or a big puddle in your cube going the other way?
Goddamn you physics
That’s perfect for drug smuggling
yeah im on team isolate myself in the 3x3x3 personal universe
Sounds like purgatory.
You can’t leave purgatory at will
pergatory, personal universe, semantics
If I bring luggage or a person in with me, can I leave them there for a few hours? Would they have a way to get out if something happens to me? (Travel just got easier in my mind)
Edit: also, did you mean 3m x 3m x 3m, or 3m^3, which is 1m x 1m x 3m?
3m3m3m
And time works the same in the pocket dimension, and sure there is an eject button for them to get out if something happens to you
3m^3 is 3m x 3m x 3m.Cubed is a number multiplied by itself 3 times no?While cubed is a number multiplied by itself three times, here m³ is the units, meters-cubed. So you would have 3 one-meter-cubes.
Ah I see now. Thanks.
Assuming that I can take it wherever, and when I’m in it, no one can see any trace of it…
I would find locations where valuable items would be in the near future. Go to that place, hop in my box, and wait for night fall. Then I would magically materialize in a strange masked bandit costume, rob them blind, and disappear. Then pop out a few days later in different clothes to make my casual exit.
Ideally, I’d go in and out inside a bathroom nearby so it’s less conspicuous.
Thievery and smuggling, perfectly designed for that.
I’d probably use it as having a lot of extra portable storage space, so it’d probably get filled up with a bunch of junk real fast. also I’d have the coolest battery pack
Minecraft pockets!
New Cable storage solution!
I think I’d make various uses of it, but I think I’d mainly use it as an “at-sea cabin.” Rig it up with a small bed-over-desk type situation, one of those little dorm minifridge/microwave deals, and stock it with tools/supplies etc. So basically I have a weightless camper van that’s always with me and never needs parking. Hell certain city lifestyles where your “home” is where you sleep and shit and you spend the rest of your day out and about, it’d be all you need. Only problem is no plumbing.
spend my entire life trying to fill it with poop
and piss
With Poop alone it might be difficult - It would take around 200-400 years to fill that with poop alone, so it’s more of a multi-generational project.
But if you also use urine it’s much faster - Urin alone is doable in 42 years for the average human.
thanks yeah that sounds good
This is a terrifying power, I gotta say. Like a dude could carry an entire armory around and deploy it Looney-toons-style wherever he wanted.
I would probably just put a bunch of shelves in it and use it as a personal EDC gear storage space. 3m^3 is more than enough space to store pretty much anything you might need in a jiffy.
There’s also apart of me that thinks putting a bed in there would mean not having to bring a date back to your place or to a hotel - but being real I’d probably never use it if I set it up like that.
You know, every time there’s a mass shooting in the US, a lot is made out of their big collection, but I always think about how you can only shoot one at once anyway, so it’s actually a dumb thing to fixate on.
The real evil use would be telling nobody and becoming the world’s best smuggler.
I mean, I’m not just talking about the guns. Imagine you’re at the bank, and then an individual in full tactical gear materializes behind you. He has a substantial amount of ammo and disappears every time he reloads. Molotovs, grenades, hell, you could even fit a flamethrower. You could fit a massive bomb into that space if you wanted. And you could potentially completely escape the effects of the blast inside you pocket dimension.
I’m not so sure about the smuggling thing. You would still likely be found out, since you’d have clientele and would be traceable to them either via phone, online messaging, or in-person interactions. Sure, you are immediately known about in the terrorist cases but you could pretty easily hide out pursuit, potentially getting away with multiple attacks, and there’d be little-to-no indicators of what’s about to happen for the victims until you appeared.
Like, this is some shit straight out of The Boys.
I mean, I’m not just talking about the guns. Imagine you’re at the bank, and then an individual in full tactical gear materializes behind you. He has a substantial amount of ammo and disappears every time he reloads. Molotovs, grenades, hell, you could even fit a flamethrower. You could fit a massive bomb into that space if you wanted. And you could potentially completely escape the effects of the blast inside you pocket dimension.
Okay, but it still doesn’t take more than one good hit to take said guy down - even in a vanishing tank they would eventually figure out where to direct the airstrike. And the bank would have given him the exact same cash drawer with just an imaginary gun he claims is in his pocket.
Yes, you absolutely would still get on the radar after a while as a big smuggler. Or whacked by a rival in your chosen organised crime group or insurgency. A Western government couldn’t really charge you with smuggling unless they can prove you have magical powers, though, and they would have to try and catch you doing something else illegal instead. The one exception I can think of is if you figured out something you can be the end consumer of, as well, but I don’t know what that would be.
Edit: Although, bombing might be an idea. You could fit a couple week’s supplies and and a car bomb amount of explosives in there, no problem. I doubt it would be more lucrative or safer than smuggling, though.
The thought of having literally every tool conceivable immediately available without having to move is fantastic.
I’m in love with the concept of laying under my car, while also being able to get any particular tool in my hand, without ever having to get up, or having a little pile of sockets, wrenches, and bolts next to me that I have to navigate by feel.
Well, feel like I could quite easily become a very famous stage magician a la “The Prestige” which would help make me rich while letting me keep the pocket dimension thing hidden in plain sight so to speak.
But my mind, as always, races to the limits more so than the possibilities. What would happen if I bring in more stuff than would fit? Say I bring in a decimeter cubed of concrete over and over until I no longer fit inside the cube if I’m allowed the concrete with me in? What if teleport in while driving? Does the car come with even though it doesn’t fit? And if I return to the spot I entered does that mean I’ll plopp out on the highway while my car is wrecked a ways down the road or inside my mangled car? What if the space i entered from is occupied or otherwise lethal?
What if I teleport in while under water? The void i leave in such an instantaneous fashion would behave quite interestingly if I did it at great depth.
You can’t bring in more stuff than would fit, as it just wouldn’t fit. If you did, it would become a black hole. If the space you were going to pop out at would be occupied/lethal, you instead pop out at the nearest nonlethal space. And yeah, voids underwater would be cool.
It wouldn’t be a black hole, it’d be like pushing concrete into a slab of concrete. It just would take an insane amount of force to compress, and you’d have no leverage
Conversely, what’s the range for taking things in and out?
What if you brought in extremely pressurized liquid air? Could you just take 1cc and release it next to someone’s head? If you took open cones of tungsten in, you could probably abuse it to shoot them like a bullet
What about thermal properties? If the space wraps in on itself, there’s nowhere for the heat to dissipate. You could fill it with extremely high temperature plasma, then take out a little at a time to melt/explode almost anything.
That all depends on the distance - you could fill it with thermite and burning magnesium for a trigger to fill it with extremely hot pressurized gas, but if you have to touch to take it out you’d destroy the body part that took it out… You could sacrifice a finger to blow up someone’s head, but ultimately your power would stop at being a suicide bomber
Personally I wouldn’t do any of that. It’d ruin the outlet
I would steal so many things
