I found MESE in Real Life! (Obviously an April Fool from 1st April 2013)
I'm somewhat confused right now, so I'm sorry if this post here is kind of unstructured.
I know that this sounds unbelievable for most of you, but I saw a
little yellow thing sticking out of the dirt in the garden.
I dug it out - and it was a MESE block! Seems like
connecting mesecons with the room light has opened some kind of gate
that allows minetest to get outside my computer!
(As you can see, it was a MESE
Block, no crystal/or and not deep under the surface,
it structure was not crackly, crumbly or snappy, but oddly MESEy)
My first thought that came to my mind: Can I make mesecons out of it?
I put the Mese on my workbench and tried to cut out some mesecons
with a side cutter - and I succeeded!!
I was able to make 7 mesecons out of that block.
Luckily, I had some stone in the garden and two steel ingots lying around in the basement.
What a coincidence! I could easily craft a switch out of it:
The switch worked just like in minetest... very interesting!
Some of you may wonder about the electrical properties of RL mesecons:
This part is very interesting, but I can hardly tell you how it physically works.
First of all, mesecons do
not conduct the conventional way. As you can see in the video below,
they were not conductive at all when doing a continuity check. However, when turning on the switch
and measuring the voltage, I got 3.3V:
How is that possible??
My explanation would be, that mesecons do conduct, but they conduct both poles at once in a strange way
in the same conductor - don't ask me how that physically works! The electrons seem to find their way
to the right electrode themselves.
I know that some amongst you still won't believe me - watch this video and see yourself:
I hope I could clear up any doubts now. I wonder if I can install even more mods on the real life...
Maybe the Flying Spaghetti Monster will give me SSH access to the RL server?
What mods should I install then? Their minetest version seems to be pretty outdated (according to the Mese texture). Should I update?
Cheers,
Jeija