My latest and greatest crackpot idea...

[Bassdoggydogg]

No no... you guys are focused too much on temperature. I'm thinking something along the lines of freezing a bass in carbonite, like what Jabba did to Solo. Or perhaps for trekkies we could surround are basses in some sort of stasis field that would protect them from any and all elements including photon torpedos.

 

[mrjim123]

When I was a kid I got my tongue stuck on a frozen metal fence post. That was the first and LAST time I ever did that!

 

[KidAmnesia]

No no... you guys are focused too much on temperature. I'm thinking something along the lines of freezing a bass in carbonite, like what Jabba did to Solo. Or perhaps for trekkies we could surround are basses in some sort of stasis field that would protect them from any and all elements including photon torpedos.

But the movement of atoms IS their temperature. They will only stop moving around when their temperature drops to 0°K.

 

[wiscoaster]

Well, I suppose you could get yourself some liquid hydrogen, which has a temperature only slightly above absolute zero, where all molecular activity stops (as noted above), and soak your bass in that, but I really don't think you'd like the results. If nothing's moving then there's no sound, either, right?

 

[Krizz]

Okay. That means that our whole solar system could be, like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. This is too much! That means one tiny atom in my fingernail could be–Could be one little tiny universe.”

 

[ebo]

Get your bass traveling at the speed of light and time would stop, your bass would be solid and immovable forever. The note you were playing as time stood still would play for eternity. Not practical but scientifically doable. At least in my head.

 

[Honkey tonk]

How do resonances work on a truly non elastic medium

 

[Chrisk-K]

You cannot fully freeze atoms due to the uncertainty principle. Even god cannot freeze them completely.

 

[BassFishingInAmerica]

 

[red_rhino]

Get your bass traveling at the speed of light and time would stop, your bass would be solid and immovable forever. The note you were playing as time stood still would play for eternity.

Yeah, but think of the sustain!

 

[Leigh Semmens]

You cannot fully freeze atoms due to the uncertainty principle. Even god cannot freeze them completely.

How do you know? Have you asked him? To me, the uncertainty principal is certain that it is uncertain. My head hurts just trying to think about that!

 

[IamGroot]

Technically, atoms cease moving at 0 Kelvin...

Technically, you cant get to 0 Kelvin.

 

[IamGroot]

How do you know? Have you asked him? To me, the uncertainty principal is certain that it is uncertain. My head hurts just trying to think about that!

I checked in and She confirmed virtual particles are all over the place. She also said it was an oversight that She will fix when She rerents earth. The lease is almost up.

 

[devnulljp]

Well yeah, I meant if the instrument could function as intended but be completely resilient to any external changes, then that'd be pretty cool. I used freezing as a layman term.

Not really. Absolute zero, where you get minimal enthalpy and vibrational motion of particles, is -273^C, so that's pretty cold. Although you'd still not do much about the quantum motion, which is kinda what it sounds like you're talking about. Worse still if string theory turns out to be accurate, where the motion is a fundamental property.

Either way, your bass is going to be pretty cold.

 

[devnulljp]

Technically, atoms cease moving at 0 Kelvin...

Kinda, yeah. But not the quantum fluctuations induced by the zero-point energy.

 

[Killing Floor]

Technically, you cant get to 0 Kelvin.

He means you. I can.

 

[Killing Floor]

What you need is the best bass for metal.

 

[LiptonJigglers]

There is nothing but matter in motion in time and space. This motion gives rise to change, thus, making change inevitable.
"Freezing" your bass to "protect it" from change won't prevent change. It may slow it down or send it into a rest like period but ultimately it will continue to change.
Everything that comes into being, inevitably goes out of being. You, me, our pets and our bass guitars are all in an inevitable process of going out of being, of returning back to their basic elements which is primarily carbon. There is nothing in the universe that escapes this objective law of nature. Anyone who tells us differently is sadly mistaken and is out of touch with reality.

 

[retslock]

I knew I was right to join TB. I got some good ejamakation today.

 

[ahc]

No no... you guys are focused too much on temperature. I'm thinking something along the lines of freezing a bass in carbonite, like what Jabba did to Solo.

Or, you could bury it in concrete kinda like what The Mob may have done to Jimmy Hoffa.