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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. Started by IAstroViz,

    I have made a theory about Relativity. It goes like this: m1 * c ÷ m2 = A time space Paradox! (I lazily did this, so don't judge me...) So if for example, you throw a clock into a strong gravitational point, time will get slower. That is what Relativity states. But what if you throw an m1 at the speed of light through a gravitational point in space. Would time either go in the past or future? I don't know, but the clock that was thrown in at the speed of light will end up in the past or the future. m1 falls in at c …

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  2. @burger97979 I have a simiiar theory about the constant growth of a black hole due to the recombination of matter while it's pulled by it's gravity. wich means, when an object is being pulled into a black hole, it desintegrates at least to a atomic level to be recombined on the core of the black hole. that contributes to the increasing mass and consequently augmenting its gravitational pull. (sorry for the bad english, i'm not a native english speaker) i do believe that our universe is a system of black holes where they orbit themselfs like a infinite dance, and collisions can happen giving birth to new galaxies. I look at a black hole as a hard-drive, insid…

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  3. Started by Justfoodforthought101,

    Needs a little bit of editing but just needed to get some thoughts on this if I'm not getting anywhere with this please tell me feel free to pick at it haha. One planet able to sustane life? No? Is singularity ever true? Never one thing a single thing is made of manny smaller things atoms then what makes up atoms? Smaller things then shouldn't those things be made up of smaller things so on and so fourth. The same idea should play out as we go bigger, as we go from all the atoms and things that make up those atoms in all of the universe or universes I should say. Let's say we start from the smallest thing possBle if (that's even possible) on earth then we bui…

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  4. Started by jag908,

    If energy is a constant, it can not be created nor destroyed, would the mind/soul be only energy harnessed by the body. This energy that is harnessed would have a certain frequency while still in the body and a certain frequency when the body dies. If one could focus on this energy frequency, couldn't this prove that there is a chance that some form of if you will "life" after death exists?

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  5. Started by IAstroViz,

    The Big Crunch theory is pretty simple to explain... Well, irony at it's best! The Big Crunch is likely to happen because the universe consists of anti-matter and anti-energy. The Big Crunch is quiet literally a universal paperball... (If you know what I mean...) This happens if all anti-matter and anti-energy gives up and lets all of the gravity fall on each other. (If you know what I mean...) Basically, as I said, it becomes a very compressed, universal Paperball and that's the big bang once more... Normaly, quantum-physically this is the process of the universe, more of the circle of life in this case. It starts again and again and again... With absolutely no end. …

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  6. Started by mpmcd101,

    I was watching a documentary a few weeks ago about Dark Energy. It was saying that Dark Energy could be thought of as a 5th force, created at the time of the big bang, that is weaker than gravity. It is the force responsible for creating space. In the early universe, it was impeded by gravity, not stopped, but much reduced. Now, at the further reaches of the universe where matter is much less densely packed, gravity has a much weaker hold on matter, so much so, that dark energy is now stronger than gravity in those regions, and so is able to create more space at a greater rate than in the regions where gravity is still stronger than dark energy. It is not a "pushing"…

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  7. Started by 1x0,

    Information about a physical unit´s lenght of existence. Exist since something is out there.

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  8. i decided to "speculate about an engine design i believe is functional and possibly being used on craft. the design is the medical caduceus coil.the indian vedas called it the mercury motor.i have no proof of them both being the same thing but when you add in the rumors of the military tr3b having a mercuryvplasma engine it starts to make sense. the idea is to have a iron tubing apparatus with liquid mercury inside. a hot plate is mounted on bottom.the mercury is boiled until it is plasma.the plasma goes to the top ball and ionizes the air.some of the plasma pours over into the coil winding and creates a magnetic solenoid.the solenoid then pulls the ionized air down an…

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  9. DIY INTERFEROMETER: Prove Einstein Wrong in 20 Minutes by Drew Paul What is light? Is it a particle or is it a wave? What an imprudent question! As we know, these are not mutually exclusive characteristics. "Particle" describes the composition of a substance and "wave" describes the motion of it. Right? But…, wait…, so…, that still doesn't answer the question… Is light a particle or a wave? Let's find out! Today, we're going to add a new piece of equipment to our laboratories and perform a mind boggling experiment with astronomical implications! First, we will be constructing an Interferometer, a useful piece of experimental optical equipment capable of …

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  10. Started by initiate,

    My point here is very simple: What if relativity and all of its implications, were just the product of context? What if we shifted the very notions and axioms that physics rests upon. Why is time important? How is then and now different? What if we did consider distance in a different context? With a different deffinition? Making such claims as: there is no difference between point A and point B, even though A=/B, the difference might be just... how we think of it. Why is distance importat? Why is distance relevant? On what do we base any given proposition for its relevance? What is distance? (in a spatial sense) My point is not about trying to rebute relaitvi…

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  11. Started by David Levy,

    There is a simple solution for the Universe enigma. This solution is based on Darwinian approach. In the past it was believed that the life on Earth had started by some sort of a blast. Darwin showed us that this assumption is incorrect. Same concept should be applied to the evolvement of the Universe. As the variety of life had been evolved step by step, the Universe also had been evolved step by step without any need to create the whole mass of the universe in the first step. Darwin gave us a simple explanation for the evolvement of life from the first ameba, without giving us a full explanation how this first ameba had been created. This solution is based on the same …

  12. After 15 years of following a chain of thought I was surprised to read in a post the other day an idea which seemed to gel with the concept of Earth formation that I had independently developed. I had contemplated that the Earth and Theia had formed at opposite sides of this torus of matter that orbited the protosun at the approximate radius of the Earth's current orbit. In my concept there were fewer planets than the hundreds of planets sometimes proposed, but within the torus there would be many (thousands) planetesimals. They would be formed but they do not need to jump from torus to torus for they are gravitationally bound within their own region. I thin…

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  13. Started by Rolando,

    The gravitational redshift is described in the literature in two ways: (1) the phenomenon is explained through the behaviour of atoms that emit radiation of lower frequency (or clocks that run more slowly) the deeper they are located in a potential well, while the frequency of the light (or photons) does not change with height. (2) the phenomenon is alternatively discussed in terms of an energy loss of a photon as it overcomes the gravitational attraction of the massive body. In this case, the frequency of the light (or photons) decreases with increasing height. Alternative (2) is rooted in Newtonian physics and it has often been repeated that it is inappro…

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  14. Started by Doctordick,

    Well, I thought I would make a post to the Speculations category which I myself see as speculation. As I have mentioned elsewhere, I have a Ph.D. in theoretical physics awarded in 1971 by Vanderbilt University. I went into graduate study in physics because, from my experiences, it seemed that only mathematicians and physicists were the only authorities who made any serious effort to explain the basis of their assertions. Clearly mathematics was pure logic and had nothing to do with reality (the issue I wanted to understand). Physicists gave me answers which seemed well reasoned out. Whenever they could not explain some aspect of the accepted theory, they would say "well y…

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  15. Started by iwbl18,

    Hi I want to talk about my theory, my theory is actually we will experience everything, we will be different persons we will taste everythink we will be killer and also a victim, we will experience all of bad and good things. think about big bang we were not exist, but something happend and now we are alive, we have consciousness lets think about end of the universe everything will be destroyed not matter how,there are a lot of theories but eventually same result, and now think after trillion years or more in someday another big bang and new universe and another end, after trillion of ends and starts eventually we will have consciousness again maybe as a animal or human a…

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  16. Started by David Levy,

    The science has an explanation for those galaxies which are located at almost 14 billion light years away from us. However, if one day we will discover a galaxy at 50 (or 500) Billion light years away (or at infinite distance) – is it going to set any change in our understanding about the age of the universe?

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  17. If you have some background in physics or you read with some frequency popular scientific articles you sure had hear about a so called "Theory of Everything"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything), some physicist think that a set of equations, beautiful equations, can describe "in principle" all fundamental forces in nature, some even try to write equations that describe the "Universe" as a whole, equations that pretend to give an idea of the evolution past, present and future of the real world where we live. Let me point out that I am not against the never ending struggle to fully understand in its fine details each natural phenomenon that is relevant to …

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  18. Started by daramantus,

    Let's consider that time is an illusion, and since time has such an intimate relationship with space, so space is an illusion as well, so is motion.... I believe the Universe is 'Dimensionless' and it is a closed Universe. Black holes cruch time and space down to nothing, gives evidence that my theory is true, this along with quantum interconnectedness.. The concept of universal wholeness points to a universe where geometry and dimensions are abstract concepts. The map of the territory but not the territory itself...

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  19. The lack of contact with reality is an almost sure recipe for failure for any theory that pretends to describe reality and today we have a perfect example of that failure in the scientific world in String Theory. A theory that Mathematically is very rich and had produced very deep results in various branch of higher Mathematics, but as a Physics theory of reality had been a failure. And the reason for that failure is clear: When compared with two great Physics theories of Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Theory we can see that the genesis of Quantum Mechanics was the synthesis of multiple and consistent observational/experimental data and in Relativity Theory was a…

  20. Hi Everyone, this is my first time on here, but I love the subject and so would like to share my thoughts, although I'm not sure it's going to answer the question. It depends on whether you believe in the multiverse theory or not. Personally I do. I think it's more then likely that the big bang happened many many times before and after the one that created our own universe and is still happening over and over again like bubbles in boiling water. Our own universe, although very very big, has an edge, a skin if you like, that is expanding. It now seems that it is expanding faster, the further out you go, giving rise to the question why? The answer (so far) seems to be…

  21. It has been suggested by many that we as humans are at the pinnacle of our growth to stature. Could it be that it is not coincidence that we have reached this condition RIGHT NOW . Everything appears to be coming together at this moment in time. For most things in the universe there is a beginning ,a first. As scientists we nearly all accept there was a FIRST around 13.7 billion years ago ( singularity, inflation, Big Bang ) a first point in time for the start of the material universe. Currently many space orientated projects are involved with looking for another life supporting world . There has to be a first . What if our world is the FIRST . ( for Sentient …

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  22. I find the article relating to the discovery of monopoles in spun ice intriguing. It appears that those scientists have overlooked one very obvious fact, that has essentially been proven by the creation of an artificial monopole magnet by the talented individuals involved with that project. Monopoles may simply be mutated elements; such as rubidium, that have reacted with other elements which has caused the atomic structure of the key element (in this case rubidium) to change and develop a singular magnetic pole. Therefore; one could assume that the monopole mutation can only occur naturally, when specific elements react with each other in the right conditions…

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  23. Simplicity is a result of equilibrium, and seeking simplicity is a human specific preference Simplicity is that a relative few theories and mathematical models can explain a number of phenomena. While complexity is the opposite where there seems to be an unending need to invent new theories. By this definition, physics and astronomy are in the former camp and social science and biology belong to the latter. Why is the universe is even understandable? This itself is hard to understand according to Einstein. I propose a line of reasoning here. Simplicity is a result of long term evolution in a close system. The resulting equilibrium gives rise to simplicity. The infini…

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  24. I understand how it can be concluded heavier elements than iron don't fuse. Seems to me the ability to form heavier elements would be proportional to the size of the star. Baryonic mater has quantititave propperties, therefor there is an upper limit to atomic neclitides size. I postulate that once this upper limit is achieved, dark matter becomes a product of the fusion process. It's easy for me to concieve dark matter production, correlates to super novae episodes. At best I have a rudimentary understanding of thermo-dynamics, can't substantiate this hypothisis, its a gut feeling...

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  25. I would be willing to believe that there is no such thing as a finite value in reality, and this might lead to some linguistic paradoxes, or misconceptions anyways. I'd be interested in any example of a finite value in reality, not an abstract or mathematical one, but a natural example of anything that maintains a distinct finite identity. I don't think it actually makes any sense to describe something this way. Therefore I don't think it makes sense to expect Zenos Paradox to be anything more than a linguistic misinterpretation.

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