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  1. . EULER's DISC Parts of the heavy steel disc, keep falling under gravity towards the level mirror surface ( 90 degrees to radial gravity field line towards centre of the Earth ) . See picture. The disc keeps falling around its circumference , but never makes it. So the disc continues to spin a long time. Only the surface contact resistance uses up the potential and kinetic energy , for it to eventually stop. ( Not really a spin , more a slow turning as the fast falling oscillations occur. ) I have made a related observation : occasionally if china dishes are haphazardly laid on a hard granite surface , one plate will occasionally , rock back and forwar…

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  2. Now most of us have heard of black holes and how they (in the common knowledge I've come across) have mathematical properties that should make them tiny in comparison to the event horizon if not infinitely so from the fact that it's gravitational pull is so great that it trumps over the other forces keeping it from being defined 3-dimensional, but I have to ask," Why does it have to be so different from the common model of our other heavenly bodies?" I've looked at the possibilities of what a black hole must be since i was the age of nine and the more i learned about forces and the capabilities of atoms the more unlikely it seemed to be anything like the infinite speck t…

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  3. Recent comments by an Astronomy orientated Researcher Dr Paul J Abel (Patrick Moore Sky at Night Fame ) (see ajb blogg), has posed questions as to whether maths should be leading the resolution of the ( Quantum Gravity issue), which it is, in string theory and other maths orientated research., Yet ( he indicates ) what is really required is a New Einstein ! Observers, Thinkers , and Hypothesis, to lead the field and then the mathematicians can follow and tidy up the details. ! Post script. P.S. . hypothesis : " a suggested explanation for a group of facts, accepted either as a basis for further verification or . …

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  4. Started by randomc,

    Supply and demand dictates they are already here. The rich, seekers of prolonged life - why not if your rich enough - will have been sold the potential of organs that their immune systems will routinely accept decades ago. The earliest of the clones could be in their 30's, right?

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  5. Started by IResnick,

    The entire universe is expected to decay at approximatly one google years(10100). At this time, every planet, star, black hole, etc. will be broken down into their basic particles. These particles will never again interact with one and other. Seeing that time relative, once all of the universe's components have been broken down, time itself will be destroyed along with it. Thus leading to an occurence where a non-physical dimension is destroyed.

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  6. Started by TheDivineFool,

    This is from a'book on math I read. 1. Solve x + 4 = 4 x + (4 - 4) = 4 - 4 x = 0 2. Solve x = x + 1 x - x = x + 1 - x 0 = 1 What's the value of x? I understand that there's no solution to this equation. But if someone were to ask you ''What is the value of x?'' and you must reply in the following format...''The value of x is_____'' what would you write in the blank space? You can't write ''nothing'' because ''nothing'' is zero and zero is definitely NOT a solution to the problem. Or is 'zero' different from 'nothing'? Your valued comments please.

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  7. Started by TheDivineFool,

    I'm just a novice in maths. So, I read this elementary book on math and my knowledge on the topic is summarized below... 1. Infinity is not a number. Infinity is to us is like googol to a calculator...overflow. It's an unquantifiable. In that sense, I always saw infinity to be closer to a quality such as color than say the number 4 or 5 etc. 2. Definition of infinity (using sets) Definition 1: A finite set is a set equivalent to the set {1, 2, 3,..., n}. An infinite set is NOT an finite set. Definition 2: An infinite set is a set that is equivalent to a proper subset of itself. A finite set is a set that is not infinite. Question: Which…

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  8. Started by beejewel,

    Continuing on from the Humpty Dumpty thread, where we were discussing the stored potential of matter, and the similarities between the gravitational field and the electrostatic fields, I proposed that the following equation be true; Eq.1 [latex] \gamma=\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-\frac{v^2}{c^2}}}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-\frac{\phi^2}{\Phi^2}}} [/latex] Where [latex]\phi[/latex] represents the observers potential and [latex]\Phi[/latex] represents the potential of the proton. First I want to explain my reason for suggesting this to be true. I am speculatively proposing that the proton-electron are particle-antiparticle dispite their obvious difference in mass, and that the…

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  9. Started by Pymander,

    I have a question. Planets on either side of Earth have scanty water, but we have oceans of it. Why is this so?

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  10. I envisage that the most enlightened souls of our time (Bodhisattvas in Eastern mysticism) were what I choose to define as black box personalities. They took learning as an unbiased venture and absorbed all stimuli as an attribute of additional wisdom. This is much like children who are very receptive and good learners. This is unlike adults who have preconceived notions and biases which affect sound judgement. A black box can absorb as well as radiate maximum radiation. Same is true of the above mentioned personality type. Please opine.

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  11. To begin with I must confess that I am completely self taught on the matter and hope you forgive me for saying this. I have noticed that all things come in as a cycle of 3, steel cans for example begin as iron oxide ore, this gets processed in phase 2 into steel cans (phase 3) which over time begin to transform themselves via rust back into their original form as iron oxide ore. The same things happen all over the place, copper for example and silver all oxidezes back into their original form. Life also had a beginning at conception where we grow older and die only to turn back into the raw components from which we came from, potash carbon and other trace elements. Ev…

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  12. Started by BehindtheTimes,

    Ok let's try this again Mr. Bond. If you ask for evidence why do you delete it or block it? Now if you take this article.... http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/565315/Scientists-at-Large-Hadron-Collider-hope-to-make-contact-with-PARALLEL-UNIVERSE-in-days You will notice they state that " The staggeringly complex LHC ‘atom smasher’ at the CERN centre in Geneva, Switzerland, will be fired up to its highest energy levels ever in a bid to detect - or even create - miniature black holes. If successful a completely new universe will be revealed – rewriting not only the physics books but the philosophy books too." First they won't accomplish this because they don'…

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  13. Started by legmog,

    Hey guys. MASSIVE Science newb here. But recently I've REALLY started to get into it. Been watching lots of interviews / documentaries etc... I would LOVE to get answers (or just enter into a dialogue) concerning my questions from people who know their stuff! I've read that on account of the Big Bang,the universe is expanding, and that one day, galaxies and stars etc, will be SO far away, the night sky will be dark and no telescopes will be able to pick anything up insofar as light goes. So I cooked up this theory in my mind.... IF the nature of infinity is more akin to a circle rather than a straight line (i.e... If I set off in a spaceship, and travel straigh…

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  14. Started by Lazarus,

    Red shift of light can be calculated from the changing energy required to go from one atomic shell to another. Consider the electron in the elliptical Bohr hydrogen atom going from shell 2 to shell 3. With the atom at rest a photon released will have a wave length of 656 nm and energy of 30e-20 joules. The when the atom is moving the latent energy doesn't change but the kinetic energy of the electron does. That means the energy of a photon released at the apogee of the ellipse will diminish as the velocity of the atom increases. The energy of the photon is equal to the change in the latent energy minus the change in kinetic energy. The similarity of the c…

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  15. Started by hoola,

    there is a u-tube that some might think worth watching....[ George F. R. Ellis, on the nature of cosmology today (2012 Copernicus Center Lecture) ]. Here is an excellent discourse on some of the things I have been trying to approach in the "why anything" question, especially a good critique on Krauss's "quantum fluctuation" idea....

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  16. An opportunity exists for a major infrastructure project on a par with THE CANAL REVOLUTION ; THE SHIPPING REVOLUTION, ; THE RAILWAY REVOLUTION : THE FLIGHT REVOLUTION. A new opportunity awaits for various TRANSIT orbitals ranging from 100 meters to 10,000 meters . Two opposing CYLINDERS of ACCESS offer the opportunity for a NEW TRANSIT REVOLUTION. See Following Diagram : - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ Such a system if developed could prove : Energy efficient Economic Boost Employment Boost Economical use of R…

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  17. Started by ernst39,

    In the paper "GRAVITATION AND ELECTROMAGNETISM - Introduction to the THEORY OF INFORMATONS by Antoine Acke" - published on http://www.wbabin.net/astro/acke2.pdf - a new theory is presented about the phenomena and the laws of the gravitational and the electromagnetic interactions. The term information is introduced in physics by narrowing its everyday meaning to a physical concept. It is given a specific sense by defining it mathematically. The THEORY OF INFORMATONS starts from the idea that a physical object manifests itself in space by emitting informatons. Informatons are dot-shaped mass and energy-less entities that rush away with the speed of light ca…

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  18. Started by Bilal Hussain,

    On the southern coast of Peru lies the desert peninsula of Paracas. This barren landscape is where Peruvian archaeologist Julio Tello made an astounding discovery in 1928. His efforts uncovered a massive and complex graveyard buried under the sand and rocks. In these tombs Tello found some of the most controversial human(?) remains in history. The bodies had the largest elongated skulls in the world and have since been called the Paracas skulls. Tello found a total of more than 300 skulls and they have been dated at around 3,000 years old. A recent DNA analysis performed on some of those skulls has presented amazing results that could challenge the current perspective o…

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  19. Infinity does not exist. It is a finite system with a starting point and an evolving exact size. If something like space or time is infinite doesn´t that mean that energy and so mass and matter has to be infinite too? If infinity is existing why would the Universe evolve?

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  20. We are working with infinity because making sense of nothing is more difficult. Make sense of nothing and you have to provide explanations for the inspected physical and metaphysical values and a cause and causality reasoning on the evolution until the inspection. With infinity we can take things granted and we do not have to explain how that thing is there. Just it is not true. Infinity obscure the human brain. Inspect the origin as the physical zero state which is a Space(time), Energy(matter) Information free nothing. The exponential evolution of space and and energy and the linear information about them provided by time suggest that the system started fr…

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  21. Started by dbick123,

    Is gravity a weak force due to its interaction across other parallel universes... Is dark matter just gravity from other universes acting on ours... Could relativities prediction of infinity at the centre of black holes be explained by the singularity existing in other universes... Could super massive black holes be the cause of galaxies not the big bang...

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  22. My father used to laugh at the funny theories of Einstein; the most ludicrous residing within Relativity. The Universe stands for everything and everything cannot expand into itself, for that would not be an expansion. There would have to be something else out there to expand into, beyond three dimensional space. And since we would be expanding it to it, it would have to be bigger than 3d space, so we would have to redefine Universal to mean less than half of everything. I have performed 3d graphics for too many years on computers and I have developed an innate ability to visualize in 3d accurately. If you are expanding all of three dimensional space, it would include…

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  23. Started by ogmios,

    Superconductivity is misunderstood as well as misnamed by science. Tests were done at White Sands, thatindicate semiconductors are superconducting when the atoms are in North-to-South alignment. This is a new state of matter, similar to solid liquid gaseous and plasma; a state of alignment. This state is an example of the Science of Harmonics or Sympathetic Vibrations; for we either have atomic content working together and creating one larger EMF field or they are not in harmonic cooperation and have many separate smaller EMF fields competing with each other. We know the electron always go in the south pole of an EMF field and exits the north end. So when superconducting …

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  24. Objective, repeatable procedure to spot atmospheric anomalies. This will describe a method that can be used to observe objects located within the atmosphere that have an anomalous behaviour. We will be basing the procedure on the known fact that the sky scattering of visible light in daylight have a masking effect, the effect that makes the stars not visible in daylight normally, but it is known that this scattering decrease with the light wavelength, the reason why the sky is blue, so that scattering will be lower in the red portion of the spectrum but even lower if we move to the infrared or even the short radio wavelength, so observing the atmosphere in the red se…

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  25. Mike the links below are to former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer, He definately believes we are being observed! Is He a Fruit cake (cherry & walnut) or telling the truth? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/10560418/Former-Canadian-defence-minister-Aliens-among-us.html

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