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  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.
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  1. Started by RuthlessOptimism,

    Ok so I have been reviewing some old basic electricity and magnetism material (Gauss’ Law, Maxwell’s Equations etc.) in preparation of the new school year and I came up with what I think is an interesting although most likely not feasible idea, and I wondered what other people thought about it. Basically the idea is to “bounce” on top of a dielectric using an electric field. Imagine we have a metallic object situated above a flat plane made out of some dielectric material. Also imagine that we have the ability to turn on and off an extremely large electric charge on this metal objects surface, at a rate many many times the relaxation time of the dielectric material be…

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  2. Started by Externet,

    Hi. Is there any science behind ? Or is it sort of a cult ? Or only another sort of horoscope publication just to profit from something ? Does such exist in Europe ? Does it have true followers ? Supposed to predict weather well in advance, days apt for sowing/harvesting this, that, the other; fishing... On what basis ? Wikipedia does not offer much about its 'science'.

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  3. Started by Mr Monkeybat,

    I had a fairly vivid dream in which I invented something. It was a hollow copper sphere, made out of 2 hemispheres clipped together 1 meter diameter just big enough for someone to crawl in and be locked inside. Attached to it was a 300 megahertz UHF radio transmitter, so the wavelength was the same as the diameter of the sphere. When someone was was locked inside and the transmitter turned on, being encapsulated in the quantum state of the standing radio wave photon amplified the effects of morphic fields restoring people bodies to there previous forms effectively rejuvenating and healing them, even giving them some mental control over there own genes. As the device was …

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  4. Started by Lazarus,

    DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT WITH BASEBALLS First we do the experiment for single edge diffraction Make a horizontal edge 3 feet wide with a thickness of 6 inches. Then cover the 6 inch surface with 4 sided pyramids with their square bases 6 inches wide. Use pyramids with 3 different heights. 12 inches, 9 inches and 6 inches. When we drop baseballs from 10 feet above the baseballs will land in one of 3 lines on the floor as they bounce off of the pyramids. Now round off the exposed edges of the pyramids. That causes the baseballs to land in 3 wider lines to form the diffraction pattern. The next thing to do is build a double slit replica with rounded pyra…

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  5. Started by jeremyjr,

    These are some frames of a long tracking to a polymorphic anomaly on 8/6/15 at 6:59pm that lasted more than 30 minutes. Polymorphic anomalies are a very common occurence in the sky. This was taken with a 1000mm telephoto lens and a 1/2.5 sensor size 5 megapixel IP board camera, given an optical magnification of at least 140x.

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  6. Many people assume that they will be able to identify a non human build artifact, but very likely they will be wrong. Assuming that shuch artifacts are real, their very existence will challenge many of our current ideas, any intelligent being capable of moving between stars by any means will have a level of technology that we really can't imagine, the shock will be greater than the one received by a human Neanderthal confronted by current technology. Many people use current human technology as a "guide" to imagine how an alien technology may look like, but that is a very narrow way of seeing things and automatically introduce preconceptions in the interpretati…

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  7. On the Earth (and in the Internet) you can find a Triple Helix DNA... It consists from a normal (2)Double Helix DNA where is added a partial third (1)simple Helix: 2+1=3. By my Idea: On the core of the Double Helix DNA 2 Bases X-Y make 2-3 Hydrogens Bonds with each other... On the core of the Triple Helix DNA 3 Bases X-Y-Z make 3 Hydrogens Bonds with each other!!!... On the Triple Helix the Bases are Double-Bases because each Base has 3 Hydrogens Bonds with each of the other two Bases!!! By AB, CD and EF are the 3 Hydrogen Bonds which connects the three(3) Double-Bases... The Bases X(BC), Y(DE) and X(AF) do NOT mach together in any other way, with 2 or 3 H…

  8. I have my first question, so I might as well start the thread now. I began this project long, long ago, and I might as well complete it even though my interest has waned. I stopped looking at the planets' current longitudes to avoid bias, and I began writing down every day which I thought might be a Venus "transit" or Mars "transit". Two more analogous sets of dates were acquired from a journal I had kept for a few years. I won't share the dates publicly, but I'll share the results. In this instance, different outcomes for the different data sets could shed light on my bias. I also want to share the code, so testing these claims becomes easier for everyone. With…

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  9. Started by anonykidd0911,

    First timer, just to get that out there.. I've been contemplating the mysterious mechanism that triggers a nucleus to decay. Now I have no evidence as this is just an idea to be expanded upon, but the thought is that inside the nucleus of a radioactive atom there exists an as of yet undiscovered partical that carries strong and/or weak nuclear forces. As the unsuspecting atom travels through space/time flowing through the dark matter that has amassed around galixies throughout the cosmos, the as-of-yet-named partical crashes into a partical of dark matter annihilating both particals and releasing dark energy along with alphas betas and gamma radiation. Radioactive decay t…

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  10. I read quite a few of the preceding posts regarding black hole but I couldn't find any clear description of a black hole. From what I know, a Black hole is the maximal déformation of the geometry of a certain volume of space-time. That déformation of the volume of space-time extends way down to its center of gravity. Which seems to mean that the deformation in question is the result of something acting on the center of gravity itself. And that means that de déformation is not, at all, caused by the presence of a ball of matter floating in space, like a bowling ball placed on a mattress. If you look, for example, at the M31 galaxy (Andromeda) where there is…

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  11. Started by mv,

    Hello, My opinion about our Universe is presented in a short article here: http://searchwarp.com/swa562857-One-Way-To-Explain-The-Universe.htm Quotation: <<< The creation and evolution of our Universe, including its accelerated expansion, can be explained through the following logical reasoning: The photons, resulted after Big Bang, each of them having a kind of "graviton" with it (in other words, the smallest gravity unit being associated with a photon), have started to join each other, when they were "close enough" to each other, so that the smallest elementary particle can be considered the one formed by joining two photons, which were "close…

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  12. Started by sunshaker,

    Once I realized primes mirrored each side of (45) adding to 90 43/47 down to 89/1.except for the fibonacci primes 2,3,5,13,89 I was wondering if you could then use "negative primes" to predict future primes, by within this method adding 90 to negative primes(shown below) if you notice below prime -7 you add 90 you get prime 97 -7+90=97 -11+90=101 -13+90=103 -17+90=107 etc. there are a couple of gaps, prime 139 should mirror with -49 which we know is not a prime but is a prime times itself 7x7=49. I was also wondering whether there are sequences higher up in the primes where this mirroring of primes is beyond 90? by knowing the just primes up to …

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  13. Started by beejewel,

    Relative velocity is absolute, the only cause of relative velocity is relative potential, therefore relative potential is absolute.

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  14. Hi All I've been wondering about dark matter... I understand that most of the mass of a proton or neutron is not the 3 quarks that make each one up but the plethora of virtual quarks that seem to hang about inside them. So couldn't the seething mass of virtual particles that fill the vacuum of space make up a significant proportion of the so called dark matter that appears to be missing from our universal accounting of matter? I assume someone has already thought of this and knows why it can not be the case I'd love to know phil

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  15. Started by phil_newby,

    I wonder about Gravity; why is it apparently so weak and yet we hope there is loads of dark matter to explain how strong it is overall - and is it really so different from the other forces? if it is a force mediated by a particle like a graviton - similar to the photon mediating the EM force, can a graviton escape the gravity of a black hole in a way that photos can't - or do they only go inwards? i've heard speculation that gravity's apparent weakness might be that it seeps away into/through other hidden dimensions. As time is also a dimension - could gravity seep through time in a way that other forces don't seem to? Could the gravitational effects we describe…

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  16. Hi folks, It is my contention and speculation that the aphorism: "You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar." Is completely false. I contend that vinegar is very effective at catching flies, whereas honey is useless. This is due to the observation that I found I had a leakage of a honey dispenser (One of those squirty ones that sits on it cap) that had been sitting on an open shelf unattended for some time, and it had ZERO, ZIP, NADA, insects caught in it. Whereas an aqueous preparation of malt vinegar, water and dish soap, theorised by myself to mimic the odor of rotting fruit and thus attract fruit flies, catches and kills dozens of fruit flies…

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  17. Bodily/visual experience in dreams is invisible and visible in balance. Dream experience is semi-detached in relation to touch/tactile experience. Dreams are more like thought, thereby improving upon memory and understanding. Dream experience is that of the middle distance in/of space. Dreams are not a creation of thought. It is the invisible eye/body that experiences television (full electromagnetism), as television is fully detached from touch/tactile experience. Television is fully like thought, as it is a creation of thought. The distance in/of space in the experience of television is ELIMINATED/flattened. We are out of touch with reality in the experience of televis…

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  18. Points of interest? microglia-dark matter-supernova-iron-potassium alzheimers-stars supernova iron-produces potassium-microglia feed on potassium/iron cells. This is by no means a theory, but thought it fit with the universe is a brain theory. We have all heard the theory of the universe is a brain, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49971212/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/universe-may-grow-giant-brain-new-research-finds/#.Va-QeqRViko Whether you give this any credence or not it is still interesting, I came across this yesterday about alzheimers and iron found in alzheimers brains, and the role of microglia in the brain.http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/…

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  19. The time is long overdue for us to intelligently answer the question: What is a living being? The answer, if only a plausible one, could change the world...eventually. Being is the presence of one’s position-of-view (POV) as the central target of their instantiation, of one's life. Your presence in your current instantiation is not maintained by your body. Your current body is one of many living host vessels on Earth and probably elsewhere, each instantiated to another being, but only this one, only these atoms, are you. Moreover, we retain our individuality even as the atoms and molecules that compose our bodies come and go over the course of a life time. …

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  20. Hello internet. My name is Kyle, I am a third year electrical engineering student at the University of British Columbia (in Canada) and I am looking for the help of those of you who are mathematically trained or so inclined specifically within the fields of Group Theory, Lie Algebra, and Invariants. I have stumbled across a very interesting problem that I would like to either solve or see solved, but I have realized lately that it could take me years worth of research to do so while someone who is already an expert in the aforementioned fields might be able to solve this problem very quickly, that is not to say that I am giving up on trying. What I am proposing to solve I…

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  21. Started by davidelkins,

    Postulate of Preference 1: A hat can never subtract functionality. It can only add functionality. Postulate of Preference 2: Any stated functionality of a hat is a functionality that is possible without the hat. Author: David Elkins

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  22. My name is Arieh Sher. I've recently thought of a new theory regarding the structure of the Universe. I call it, the "Pivot theory". Basically, the Pivot theory is very simple. The theory claims that the whole visible Universe has a ring shape thatis rotating around a Black Hole which has an enormous mass. I refer to this Black Hole as the Pivot. One of the biggest unsolved issues in cosmology is the rotation curve flattening of stars in Galaxies. This shape of the curve is contradicting classic mechanics. Cosmologists suggested the existence of the Dark Matter as an explanation for the curve flattening. My main claim is that the same mass of the dark matter (calcul…

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  23. Started by zzzoli23,

    We have 2 hemispheres and these two sides of the brain responsible for different functions. The left hemisphere observing and responsible to do an action, the right hemisphere feel an emotion and responsible for the intuition. Each moment our brain has to choose which hemisphere it wants to use (our goal is to learn to balance it). The left side is realistic, logical, observing, analysing. Because of the analysing skill we built here one part of our personality which is the Ego. As we learn, experience and grow up our Ego is growing with us. (it is growing easier than the soul cause it is rational and we sense more rational things than emotional or fantasy) It is our so…

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  24. Today i banned from 13 other forums. As you can see there is no freedom. They was killing us when we say "Earth is nott round, it is sphere shaped" and now they are deleting all of your theories and ideas You cant speak about 11 9 2001 Twin Towers and Pentagon. They suddenly bann you and delete it. First they saying "you must not speak" than they are banning you after you read their post. Some forums banned me even before i register. They said "this email adress blongs to a spammer" You already have anti spamm image code system, you just combining all forums in internet. If you get famous they just try to buy you. All forums are sold, facebook sold, youtub…

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  25. Hello welcome to the "Whatever Theory" thread. My theory is that same species, from same geographic locations, posses certain colors and color ranges that are unique to their particular species. I believe this to be true for everything in the natural world including, all sea life, animals and insects, people, fruit and vegetables, plants and flowers, bacteria and cancer cells and may even be true with things that do not have genetic genes such as gems and minerals. I have coined this term already as (Genetic Color Code) or (GCC), but if any one here as a better idea of what it should be called, or if a term for this already exists then please let me know. I am developin…

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