Tokitoki Channel ch13: I Tried Doing Electrical DIY and Felt Ill (Part 1)

No.2, y'see~...
is technically generation of a sort,
but I have my doubts over whether it's electricity.

It acts like electricity and can be used like electricity,

but I don't think it's electricity.

You don't get it, do you?
What are you even talking about?

125 viewers!?

Heya
I'm here to get tokitoki'd
Lot of people here today
There's more of them

Seriously?

Tokitoki 7th Stream

This is the biggest crowd I've had since I started streaming!

I guess it's because of that article?
I came here from a clip.
Eh? There's clips!? I wanna see!

Uwah, what part did they clip...
Wait, I haven't done my greeting yet!

Hey there, everyone. Good afternoon.

This is a channel in which my genius scientist roommate
Tatara Miki-san

shows off her research and inventions and surprises the heck out of all of you!
That's the concept, at least.

I came here from the VOD! The CGI was wild.
It's all real here.
There's no tricks of editing here,
though I'm aware getting you to believe me isn't easy.

Well, regardless of whether you think it's CGI or real life,
I hope you'll have fun either way!

Did you forget to turn on the monetization?
Ah, no, I have to wait a little for my application to go through...

...I'm scared.
What's this all of a sudden?

Isn't waiting for people to throw money at you...
kinda crazy?
Now you're thinking like a streamer.

Well, I've chipped in some money on someone else's stream before,
so I know the feeling of supporting someone, though.
Yeah yeah. It's all up to us in the end.
That's right! I just need do my best to convince you I'm worth it.

Okay.
Tatara-san's waiting for me, so let's go.

But first!

Look at the thing I mentioned before.
A fish tank?
Ah, that thing.

A window into a parallel world! (Tablet.)

This uses the scrambler we previously used on our walking stream to randomly show us different sceneries.

Ban-chan's here too.
She's been hanging around this spot a lot lately.
I guess she likes it.

Maybe she's standing watch?
Ah!

She did chase off that giant fish that was chasing us, huh?
Thanks, Ban-chan.

But watching all the time must tire you out, huh?
I'll buy some blinds later.

Today's Internet Day?
It is indeed Internet Day.
I told you this morning, didn't I?

Okay. Here's Tatara-san and her room, which I'm sure you're all familiar with.
I don't really want them to get familiar with it.

I could get addicted to this saltiness
So, what's happening today?
Ooh, getting right down to it!

Today's theme is
electrical power!

Electrical power!
This is what we talked about on our last stream.

This fridge wrapped up in tape
is apparently a quantum computer.

But all I know
is that it's an amazing computer and nothing else.
Please explain it for us.

It's a computer that uses quantum mechanical phenomena to make parallel calculations.

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Computers up until now dedicate a single circuit for a single calculation,
but a quantum computer can make large calculations all at once on a single circuit.

And the short version?
It's a computer that calculates really fast.

You heard her.
Now, onto the main topic.

Does this amazing computer really run on a typical house's electricity?
Tatara-san's generating the power herself, so it's not racking up on the electric bills.

Am I right so far?
Yeah, I guess.

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So,
if you can generate the power yourself, it can run on house electricity?

Well, if I use a transformer.
Here it is!

We're gonna find out was this mysterious generator is
and maybe even put it to use!

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I guess we can try a few things.

There are four ways to use it.
Four!?

Do those all involved "Internet 3"?
Yep. There's probably a lot of applications outside our objective too.

Yep.
What's Internet 3?
3? That some kind of circuit?
Yep yep.

Ah. To explain "Internet 3",

it's a network of high-dimensional energy that Tatara-san managed to connect to.
Ah, someone in the chat is explaining it too.
Thank you very much!

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Sorry for the interruption.
Please continue.
For example,

hydroelectricity
uses water to make electricity, right?

But it's not like you can just get electricity out of a puddle of water, right?
Same with steam power and nuclear power.
There's another step you need to go through.

If you think about it another way,
as long as you have that step, you can generate power from anything.

So about
that "from anything" part.
Knowing you, Tatara-san, the something you have in mind must be amusing.
No. 1.

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I guess you could call it cosmic background radiation power.

The cosmos is filled with microwaves,
but they're the same kind of waves you use in a microwave oven.

Eh? So it's like the universe is inside a giant microwave oven?
Scary.

Don't worry. Its energy output is really low.
Just a mere 2.7k (kelvins).

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It has basically no effect on the human body.
Why do these shitty waves even exist?

Language.
Nice one.
Sorry, that just slipped out.

It's said that microwaves are what remain of the Big Bang.

They say the temperature was at its highest when the universe was first born from an explosion
but grew colder as the universe spread itself.

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Got a little off topic there.
Well, even if it's weak, it's still energy,
which means you can get electricity from it.

I see.
So how do you get it to work? Or is it like solar power?
Look out the window.

It's outside?

Wah! A huge spider's web!?

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...No, wait. There are patterns here and there.
It looks like a QR code.

It's a mesh antenna that works like a circuit.
This catches the cosmic background radiation.

This is all it can receive, though.
Why, you ask?
I could get more electricity from the electromagnetic waves in this area,

but it only makes up 5% of the quantum computer's electricity.
That's dull.

Since it's dull and looks like a creep spider's web, let's go with No. 2.

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What's wrong?

The thing with No. 2
is that it's not electricity, strictly speaking.

It picks up electricity that already exists
so it's more like a universal-scaled power grid.

?
So this universe is filled with power lines?

You could think of it like that.
No way.

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Plasma cosmology.

The universe is formed by the power of electromagnetism.
Universe-scaled filaments
have huge currents known as Birkeland currents going through them.
Or so the saying goes.

That theory is so phoney.
Haah.

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The most plausible cosmology these days
is that the large-scale structure of the universe is affected by gravity.
There's no current evidence that proves otherwise.

The plasma cosmology I mentioned just now hasn't been found yet either.
It's just a hypothesis.

Filaments
Birkeland currents
Universe-scale electromagnetism

I don't get it~

So basically~... it takes electrical power that shouldn't exist?
That's right.
That's what's creep about it.

So that plasma ring thingy? Is correct?
Not necessarily.

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Compared to gravitational wave theory, the evidence is pretty scarce.
It's not something that can be explained by observational fact.
Same with the cosmic background radiation.

So it's partially correct?

In terms of science, that's a dangerous way of thinking.

A scientific theory is meaningless if it's just a hypothesis alone.
It needs to go through earnest fact-checking and verification processing
and only after enduring a large number of tests
does it become "a theory that could be close to the truth".

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Cosmology in particular involves explaining its structure and how it came to be.
The scope is incredibly wide.

Even if something looks right from a distance, if the rest is completely wrong,
it means your theory was mistaken to begin with.

If you get something wrong, you'll become fixated on a local solution and end up with something completely absurd.
Sounds harsh~

Amazing, Tatara-san. It's like you're a scientist.

I am a scientist.

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So where did that electricity come from?
If you got it, then it must exist, right?

I can take a guess.

In the universe, there's a celestial body rumbling around like a dynamo.
Like a pulsar, for example.
Or if it's bigger, a quasar.

If there's a highly developed interstellar civilization,
then they would likely use that kind of energy.

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If that can be transmitted, you have a universe-scaled power grid.
Uh-huh.

And assuming it's not limited to just this dimension,

it'd be a high-dimensional energy network.

Huh?
That's...

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"Internet 3"?
"Internet 3" and the universe scale power grid
may be two different sides of the same network.
This, too, is just a hypothesis, though.

Chat says "so you're connecting to a power grid and stealing electricity?".
Fair question. Tatara-san did connect to "Internet 3" without asking.

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I tried it out and it worked, so...

CUTE!
Cute
Cute!

This is the first time I've seen you earnestly smile like that!
...So, about No.3.

Holy cow!

Cute

No.3 is also...
Uwah~

Shut up! We're moving onto No.3!
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