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The Speculations forum is provided for those who like to hypothesize new ideas in science. To enrich our discussions above the level of Wild Ass Guesswork (WAG) and give as much meaning as possible to such speculations, we do have some special rules to follow:

  1. Speculations must be backed up by evidence or some sort of proof. If your speculation is untestable, or you don't give us evidence (or a prediction that is testable), your thread will be moved to the Trash Can. If you expect any scientific input, you need to provide a case that science can measure.
  2. Be civil. As wrong as someone might be, there is no reason to insult them, and there's no reason to get angry if someone points out the flaws in your theory, either.
  3. Keep it in the Speculations forum. Don't try to use your pet theory to answer questions in the mainstream science forums, and don't hijack other threads to advertise your new theory.

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  1. Hello, this is my first time posting on any science related forum, recently i have come across the idea that our entire basis of understanding in the universe may be ....lets say off lol. I am 33 years old, i didnt graduate high school (got my GED) and dropped out of college, i am not an idiot but i am not too good about putting my ideas down on paper, also not very good at punctuation i dont even know that comma was necessary! So please try not to criticize my typing or the way i put words together, im gonna try my best to put forth my thoughts. So i have always been curious about how the world works, how we got here, and why are we here which i think is pretty commo…

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  2. I know there are already some fringe theories out there that try to tie the enormous computational powers of our brain to quantum mechanics, but is it possible that our consciousness actually exists at least partly in a higher dimension? It can be argued that we are interdimensional beings since we can physically enter the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd dimensions. Although it is impossible to physically represent a 4th dimensional object, our brains are still able to imagine or see a 4D object purely in thought, which seems to me should be impossible if our brains existed only in just 3 dimensions. We are fairly certain that our consciousness originates from inside our brains, but l…

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  3. Started by SimonFunnell,

    I have a bit of a puzzle for mathematicians regarding a hypothetical universe. I am basically going to define a simple solar system with a sun and one planet. This planet, exactly like ours does, circles the sun and spins on its axis. Now in our puzzle the inhabitants of the single planet have discovered that a 'force', much like gravity, keeps their planet in orbit around the sun. Now its basically very simple (although it has crossed my mind it could be complex than I first imagined) and I am hoping that mathematicians/physists could express it mathematically quite easily, a.k.a. produce a rudimentary model. However, what I am really wondering is, is there something wit…

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  4. Started by sonjouten05,

    It's been speculated that hydrogen.. at the right pressure is a metal (been theorized since the creation of the current periodic table which is why its the only gas in the metal section, and also thought to be in Jupiter's core).. Wouldnt such a material be easier to fuse than say.. regular hydrogen gas? obviously its a solid its coulomb limit is much different, its proton's spacing being much closer than in a normal gas form. Does make interesting questions in regards to its superconductivity.. would it even reach that state? or would it be similar to pure uranium and just.. "not"

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  5. Started by DanMP,

    Time dilation is usually explained in a simple way using a "light clock" (1, 2). Here I started a discussion about gravitational time dilation, offering a simple explanation I found on internet, but in that place is off-topic and, anyway, I want to extend this discussion, including time dilation in SR. This one was explained in a simple fashion (see here) and rewarded, although the explanation is not only naive but also incomplete. So, I want to discuss this further. First, I want to "hear" how the light clock explanation for gravitational time dilation (see link above) works for up and down movement of the light. Second, I want to "hear" how the longer time needed for …

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  6. Until the current moment, mankind is not realized that there is a diverse population of intelligent civilizations living in our universe. In the current article we will deduce the occurrence/existence of extraterrestrial life by mathematical proof. I would show you that even inside our galaxy, the Milky Way, a sufficient number of alien creatures are living. The first section includes an algebraic probabilistic proof when the event of life is not highly biased and the second section includes a proof by contradiction that describes the event fundamentally. Now let's complete it and make it publishable for a leading journal by your advisement. Download the article here: htt…

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  7. Started by DanMP,

    I imagined few more tests for relativity. Please tell me if they were already performed and with what outcome. The first one is about 2 atomic clocks, one at the South pole (to be at rest in Earth's center frame) and the other in Space, around the Sun, on Earth's orbit (same distance, same speed) but far from Earth. So, both clocks are travelling with huge, same speed around the Sun, but the one on Earth "tick" slower due to gravitational time dilation caused by the Earth. This is the only difference, or the clock on Earth benefits from linear frame dragging and is not afected by the Earth movement around the Sun? Did anyone perform this, or at least apply relativit…

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  8. Started by Kaspar Orange,

    Hey everybody, as u probably gone notice, im not overly well educated in high science. Please excuse my sometimes lacky English as well. Still, i had this idea, that just blew my mind be course it sounds so plausible to me…: Dark Energy is just a made up name, for what ever makes the universe expand at an accelerating rate, so one conclusion is, that it has to produce energy in some way (also to create the Higgs-field in the new expanded space). Here’s another way to look at this: So, what if Dark Energy is in fact a phenomenon, that could also be described as an opposite Black Hole, a “Black Spring”. Black Holes are created by mashing stuff into each other u…

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  9. The alleged burning of the human body without any external source of ignition is called the Spontaneous Human Combustion or otherwise simply called as SHC. In other words Spontaneous Human combustion is simply means that complete incineration of the human body. There are so many speculations and controversies over SHC. Let us see few of them. Let us view the Spontaneous Human Combustion in spiritual terms. Spontaneous Human Combustion trigger when all the seven chakras are open resulting in kundalini activation. As enormous amount of energy is liberated in the process of kundalini activation the human body burnt thoroughly. In other words; our body is protected by t…

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  10. Started by sonjouten05,

    Its been theorized for a couple of hundred years or so, but according to my theory.. its the balanced corotation of a positron and and electron.. what makes me come to that conclusion? Where does the electrons om the sun go? Straight up creating its magnetic field. Making an electron imbalance with it and the normal "ether". Positrons, electrons and neutrino all have similar mass making them all different electrical charges of the same particle.

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  11. Started by sonjouten05,

    I believe due to the nature of the universe that life in and of itself is actually quite "common place." I believe its on all the planets and even the sun, but exists in such a way its either too primative or too advanced for us to know thats what it is. My evidence is speculative at best i know, but for one thing Extremophiles (the fact that closer to earth based life can handle such extremes), any compound whether its a molecule or a compex super organism will survive til it can't. Evidence two, storm systems by a vague definition are living things. They reproduce, grow, consume, require gases, use electrical energy or produce it, etc.. storm on jupiter? Thousand year o…

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  12. Started by Eldad Eshel,

    I have this idea about dark matter. Maybe it is space itself, and maybe space itself is not solid and static but more like a liquid, shifting and shaping all around the universe. Also changing density.

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  13. I have the solution to M-Theory...mathematical proof of "quantum entanglement" PLEASE share this information with the world. It is a vortex equation, generating projected 3d phi-symmetric matter by observation...infinitely into all dimensions. This is not an attempt to solicit...I have already been banned from another site for attempted solicitation, however I am TELLING YOU, this is the ONE and ONLY singularity matrix. Please look at my instagram page @anthonycanosa for more information...if people start commenting and want me to post the link to the information, I will, however until then, I will refrain so I do not get banned for attempted solicitation... …

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  14. The recent news of gravitational waves is quite a big turn of events. I'm curious about the implications on the randomness of quantum information in space time. As larger objects that operate under relativity seem to follow the calculations exactly. I am wondering if quanta operate differently as they are effected by a greater than 0 constant in background gravity. Much how the surface of a body of water produces waves if there are items moving around on its surface. One could imagine that a spec of dust on the surface of this body of water would be much harder to measure, and its positional change over time relative to an observer would appear much more "random" for …

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  15. The article in the 3rd link ends in this quote I don't know if you have ever tried to prove it yourself but I am skeptical of anyone saying gravity acts at the speed of light. I haven't got all the figures at my fingertips but with that binary pulsar 1913+16 it seemed impossible to understand how they could orbit each other if their gravitational field was established at the speed of light. I spent a lot of time on this and I am none the wiser but it defies the imagination if you say it is propagated at the speed of light. I had presented my workings on another forum but I never got a satisfactory answer from anyone except to be told it needed to be worked out by r…

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  16. Started by GrayPhilosophy,

    Hello there I'm a creative writer working on a worldbuilding project where I'm trying to create a typical fantasy universe, but based more on realism and "theoretical plausibility" in lack of a better term. Fictional lifeforms are designed with evolution in mind, laws of physics are consistent and so on. To an extent where it's looking more like medieval science fiction. With my limited knowledge in a lot of scientific fields, this naturally creates a few obstacles. Despite that, I'll be damned if I don't at least try. Something I've been playing around with, and what I'd love to hear some input and feedback to, is the idea of creating a type of energy or the …

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  17. This is an "invention" that ive had in my head for a while.. it is an efficient means of storage, city building, farming, and even "accelerated evolution" (due to the effects of time dilation, fitting 40 sq miles or so into the space of a matchbox will obviously have an altered effect on time, making it pass faster in the bottle than on the outside) How will it be built? an implosion bomb, detonated in outerspace outside any planets immediate rotation path ( we dont want too many unintended consequences) as the implosion happens a rotating electromagnetic container(rotating) is placed of the imploded area to contain the "spacetime" that was squeezed out of empty space…

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  18. Started by elizsia,

    Our Earth Spins, The Sun Spins, The Galaxy Spins... Because The Black Hole at the Centre of our Galaxy Spins.. 1. The Black Hole creates an Electromagnetic Field.. And It also Spins. 2. The Spin of Stars are Infleunced by the Spin of our Black Hole, because our star also has an Electromagnetic Field. 3. The Spin of our planet is influenced by the Spin of our Star, also because our planet has an electromgnetic field. Think about gears in a clock, The most Central Gear that has the greatest implact is the Black Hole, Then it causes the Gear that is our Star to spin. And then the gear of our planet Spins..... The Solar system spins also, because the Sun Spins... Ev…

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  19. Started by sonjouten05,

    You know, humans are very stupid in general and quite arrogant.. We've spent what? around 2000 years or so up in the sky for life that may or may not be wanting to wipe us out.. Yet.. you look at the sheer mass of the earth, and we don't actively inhabit 25% of that.. and the fact that we are really only about 100k-500k years old evolutionarily speaking, yet we know that many things had evolutionary head starts on us, things that adapted to those environments and very LIKELY that some of their descendants still exist with us today, either deep in the ocean depths, or even possibly "bottled time" containers that squeeze the spacetime of a city or so into the size of a bar…

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  20. Started by elizsia,

    Mass does not create gravity, Electromagnetism creates gravity... If suddenly there were no thunderstorms on the earth for a very long period of time, then the earth would start losing its gravitational pull. Lightning impacts the earth, and energizes the electromagnetic field, a weaker electormagnetic field means lower gravity.... MASS does Not create Gravity... Gravity is Electromagetism...

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  21. Started by sonjouten05,

    Ok, I posted a wild speculation yesterday that human's aren't actually the most advanced species on the planet. Were a branch of primate that deviated from a shared common ancestor with apes and chimps some 5 million years ago or so. (We didn't evolve from apes, but we share a grand father a few hundred thousand generations ago or so.) Considering that even some of the most extreme extinction events humans can conceive we still have a 70% chance of some of us surviving. Reptiles are substantially more adaptive than we are, and theyve existed here at least 150 million years before us. Im not saying definitively that a super smart sentient reptiloid has co evolved with us f…

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  22. Started by petrushka.googol,

    Being a law abiding citizen is definitely more difficult than being a delinquent because it involves mental discipline. A human in an unevolved state is like a savage highly entropic and indisciplined. With every state of mental and physical discipline the entropic state decreases and the difficulty increases. Being a researcher is less entropic than being a fruit seller and requires much more effort from the subject. Does this reflect an evolutionary pattern of socio-economic development ? Please opine.

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  23. Started by CarolAlynn,

    Humans no doubt have intelligence, and sometimes we even create little micro worlds in a little dish. If this is possible that we could recreate life in a dish is it not possible that life on earth could have been created by an intelligent form? Im not saying intelligent design is how it is and evolution is wrong, im just saying its a possiblitity!

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  24. Started by Orion1,

    Radial decrease rate between two bodies versus time: (ref. 1, pg. 20), (ref. 2) [math]\frac{dr}{dt} = - \frac{64 G^3 (m_1 m_2)(m_1 + m_2)}{5 c^5 r^3}[/math] Time decrease rate between two bodies versus radius: (ref. 1, pg. 20), (ref. 2) [math]\boxed{\frac{dt}{dr} = - \frac{5 c^5 r^3}{64 G^3 (m_1 m_2)(m_1 + m_2)}}[/math] Integration for total inspiral time from total radius [math]R[/math] to zero. [math]\tau = - \frac{5 c^5}{64 G^3 (m_1 m_2)(m_1 + m_2)} \int_R^0 r^3 dr = \frac{5 c^5 R^4}{256 G^3 (m_1 m_2)(m_1 + m_2)}[/math] Two-body total orbit inspiral lifetime: (ref. 3) [math]\boxed{\tau = \frac{5 c^5 R^4}{256 G^3 (m_1 m_2)(m_1 + m_2)}}[/math] Milky W…

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  25. Started by Moontanman,

    I have been rattling around a couple concepts in my head for interstellar travel involving using a rotating magnetic field as an propeller in the interstellar medium, I know that neutron stars often have a high speed due to their rotating magnetic fields, this is described in some detail in this science fiction book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg this is a magnetic sail http://phys.org/news/2013-01-space-one-kilometer-long-electric-tether.html other rather speculative possibilities http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/54ee3dd3291c0 https://tauzero.aero/discoveries-log/getting-there/starship-designs/propulsion-ideas/ http://www.h…

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