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Assuming a trivial sphere model of the universe where there is a unique center (so long as there is equally a unique center in all parts of the interior of the sphere) then there is using Newtons law a gravitational equilibrium with all other gravitating systems [latex]G \equiv \frac{Rc^2}{m^{N}}[/latex] of all [latex]N-states[/latex] of the various systems of mass [latex]m^{N}[/latex] We can take from any center of origion, [latex]x=1[/latex] for simplicity and is effected by how everything else is moving (These would be physical subsystems in set algebra where the universe is a set [latex]\mathcal{S} \in \mathcal{U}[/latex] where [latex]\mathcal{S}[/late…
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Hello TJ here again, and I would like to ask the question of would it be possible to attract two significantly large objects such as stars together using quantum or "dark" masses as a way of redirecting objects in space that pose a threat to the populace of earth without sending anything into space?
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Hello, I'm back after around three weeks vacation. And I had a thought, would it not be possible to cause rapid nuclear decay via controlled neutron bombardment, or basically controlled small scale nuclear detonations? because I know that all forms of radiation come from one specific element (Or many in the case of of molecules) having too much energy at the atomic level to be stable, so it emits excess energy in the form of Alpha (two protons two electrons) Beta (Similar to electrons) Gamma (extremely potent short wavelength) and x-ray (rather short wavelength), as well as in the form of neutrons. So given this information would neutron bombardment in short bursts cause …
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A double-slit quantum eraser http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0106078v1.pdf One possible solution:backward causality #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <math.h> #include <X11/Xlib.h> Display *dpy; Window win; GC gc; double radian=(180.0/M_PI); void pixel(int x,int y,int color) { XSetForeground(dpy,gc,color); XDrawPoint(dpy, win, gc, x,y); } void line(int x1,int y1,int x2,int y2,int color) { XSetForeground(dpy,gc,color); XDrawLine(dpy, win, gc, x1,y1,x2,y2); } double sqr(double n) // x^2 { return n*n; } double doublerand() //random szam 0.0-tol 1.0-ig { return (double…
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Abstract To look at the problem of entanglement is often one thought of a mystery because it was illogical how two systems could simultaneously know which state to be in when a collapse (or measurement) is made on the system. Using four new mathematical tools [math](\gamma_3,\gamma^3,A_i, A^i)[/math] you can find an internal symmetry between two superpositioned states directly related to their Chirality [math]\gamma^5[/math]. The relationship to the Chirality of a particle was simply [math]\gamma_3 \mathbf{A}^i [/math] or [math]\gamma^3 \mathbf{A}_i[/math] but they became the definition of the four common gamma matrices with the use of a unit psuedoscalar [math]i[/m…
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Yes. Exactly. This is the nature of evolution. The bacterium(s) could survive for millions of years and evolve but without exposure to the antibiotic the off spring in a million years would probably be exactly the same in reaction to it as the current one. Mother nature is the chemist and invents millions of different ways to force things to evolve, and most of them are caused by extinctions of individuals and this especially applies to periods when the absolute number of individuals approaches zero. Evolution has little or nothing to do with survival of the smartest or survival of the fittest because every species, every individual, strives for smart and fast…
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Hi folks- I'm new here. For the past couple of years now I've been teasing out new mathematical patterning within the known sequences of orbital and orbital partials in harmonic oscillator and spin-orbit models of nuclear shell structure. My project actually started back in the late 1970's when I first noticed that one could cut out and stack the 4 orbital based blocks from the periodic table in 3D, leading to a distorted tetrahedron if one extended the atomic numbers to 120. Many years later I found online work by an independent rediscoverer who had found the same relationship and had improved upon what I'd seen. www.perfectperiodictable.com One of the improvemen…
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An empty universe possesses a potential value of 1. Because there would be nothing but itself to compare to, its mass value could also be defined as 1. Mass is another way in which we define potential energy. The potential energy of that mass could also be considered 1, because once again, it would only be comparable to itself in that singular state, and mass is the equivalence of energy as Einstein proved in e=mc^2. What we lack in an empty universe though, is a constant, so 1=1C^2 can't be verified as a legitimate resolve. Although it is easy to know the answer is either a 1 or a -1. We don't know what that means though, so it all just sounds like nonsense. If the …
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quantamagazine.org/20140827-quark-quartet-fuels-quantum-feud/ “The thing you call the ‘quark’ might have quark-antiquark pairs and glue and all the rest built into it,” We have right handed neutrino vacuum. The vertical direction is the time dimension. The particles are contact area of the space-time bubbles. If we reverse the direction of spin of one blister, we get a virtual pair of quarks.One up and anti-up pair of particles. We can do spin up one of bubble, we will get D antiD quarks. or virtual electron- positron pair. And we can do lot of things with it...
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There is a profound principal in the universe that says there is no central entity or notion anywhere, and that everything has no special significance than any other things in physics terms. This principal dispelled ‘earth-centric’ idea and later the Newtonian absolute time-space concept. It is a universally accepted principal in modern science. If math and physics are intertwined inextricably then it seems natural numbers ought to have an equal standing as any other numbers, irrational, complex, or even numbers yet to be invented. Is there any physical underlying reason for natural numbers’ special status? Or are the natural numbers just a convenient way for people to c…
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So I ever since i was interested in science the expansion of the universe didn't sit right with me, atleast the theories behind that of which i knew at the time. And I haven't heard this one so i'll just see if this theory has either already been discussed, or could at all be plausable The theory i'm basing this off is the gravitational waves one. If gravity indeed does move at the speed of light, then I'd go and say that the expansion of the 'universe' (well, the universe itself wouldn't be expanding if i'm correct) is simply how we perceive spacetime returning to it's natural state after being tugged on by the mass of the Big Bang's singularity. The increasing a…
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When considering the total energy or the total mass, or the total entropy, or the total momentum of a system, what happens when the far reaches of the system are separated by a significant distance, where light or gravity cannot get from one end of the system to the other in less than a moment? Let's say a moment is between 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 seconds, and is somehow related to how we sense and remember and think in terms of existence and cause and effect and such. A system, larger than half a million miles in diameter, would not be understandable as happening "at the same time". Any equation, like the application of the gas law, would be suspect, unless "when" the …
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I tend to think that the high-energy physics, and cosmology (including big bang theories, black holes and etc) today are closer to scams than science. The science community is in collusion to cover this up to milk public funds. “Emperors’ New Clothes” is a precise description of this phenomenon. Please correct my 'crazy' idea.
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Global warming, meteor impacts, super volcanos, can cause or end ice ages, how has this affected the relative orientation (like the lead weight that keeps you car/truck tires balanced) of the planet, seeing as how the ice caps are melting, I have heard at one time true north(not magnetic north) was over northern Germany, at some point in geological history it shifted to somewhere over hudsands bay, at around tenthousand yrs bc, it shifted again to where it is today, with the warming trend, the poles are not the only thing melting, the glaciers too are going, how has the displacement, from solid and above sea level, to a rising sea level, affected this balance, I ask cause…
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I decided to join club of authors of ToE I posted my ToE, or, more correct, hypothesis what can be framework for ToE. It can be read at my blog Please feel free to read it and critisize. Is my hypothesis contains any obvious problems or contradictions to existing well established theories?
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This discussion cropped up 12 pages into a Speculative forum post, but I wanted to start a new thread here. What was there before the big bang, if anything? When you imagine the setting before the big bang, what do you typically imagine? An ultra small, ultra energetic point of nothingness? That's kinda what ive always imagined...Apparently, in this view, there is no space yet. If you see your tiny energetic point in a big open space, its ok, you cant really see something with no spatial values, but to think the "space around" that point is spacetime, would be a misconception...and also there is no mass yet, mass is really a factor of moving and there isn't any movi…
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I made a post about this a few years ago (I think it's been deleted now), but never really resolved the argument. Well the first question is in the title... and for debating purposes, my standpoint on the answer is yes. If it takes until the end of this universe, or the creation of 10^10^10^10 universes later, anything which is at least physically possible in our current universe is possible. The "therefore" is about conciousness and reincarnation... If conciousness is nothing more than a sort of emergent phenomenon based on the configuration of particles and therefore workings that make up your brain then there is no reason that this configuration couldn't happ…
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Somebody CONDOUNDED ABOUT “ GENESIS “ It is sure that people boasting about solving problems post “genesis”, are able to solve the basements of “genesis” mathematically, so speaking. I am “confused” about many beginning things. It was an explosion? What was exploded? It was a thermal process during “expansion”? On what, those thermal processes, were applied? Now I have the right to ask the friends that are appassionato about Math. and which asks lay-mans, with aim to hush them, with problems like this: Please show in mathematical detail: a) How your model predicts the temperature and spectrum of the CMB. Sure the layman isn’t able to answers, it has not a Ph.D. Or not …
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Some studies say that theres no such thing as black eyes, and that "black" eyes are only dark brown eyes. Do you agree or disagree with that? I personally disagree, because some people who say their eyes are brown, have eyes that appear to be black.
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Genetics causes faces to appear the way they do, and it seems to me animals have less distinct looking faces than humans. I dont mean all animals look the same-animals can tell each other apart (animal scientists can also tell individual animals apart), and different animal subspecies (like wolf subspecies for example) all have very distinct looks, but even after watching animal videos on youtube, it seems to me most animals (except for domestic ones like cats and dogs-who were bred for millenia), look alike and dont seem to have as distinct and unique looking faces that individual people have.
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This can't possibly be true! I'm sure I'll look like a fool soon enough lol. A computer simulation I wrote (source code below) correctly predicts Bell's experiment results using hidden variables. Basically I wrote it as I felt the photons would behave. Both of the entangled photons polarities are predetermined before they arrive at the polarizers. Unless I've made an error, this shows that Einstein was correct. My simulation is based on a Bell's experiment in the following video: She clearly states the experiment result is 1/2, which is what my simulation gets. Further on in the video she goes over an example that uses hidden variables. She states that th…
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What are everyone's predictions for the new year? Not the obvious stuff. Technology: Tipping point for cable TV. I suspect Apple will finally release its long anticipated Television which will have built in apple TV streaming along with some form of updated iTunes that offers some free content. Separately google will update chromecast possible working directly with TV studios to create exclusive content as Netflix has. I also think it is possible Google purchases Roku as a means of shrinking the field. A comeback for Blackberry. Between the fappening and Sony hacks security will be a priory for many in 2015. Blackberry arguably still has the most secure emailin…
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A p-n_junction consists of an n-type semiconductor in contact with a p-type semiconductor. To a first approximation an n-type semiconductor only conducts electrons and a p-type semiconductor only conducts holes. When forward biased above a certain voltage, current flows easily and electrons and holes move toward and combine at the junction. In an LED the combining of electrons and holes produces photons of light. When reverse biased, current does not flow even at relatively high voltages. However when light falls on the junction of a reverse biased photodiode, electrons and holes are created and move in opposite directions away from the junction. A photon…
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Water is referred to as the universal solvent because it can dissolve more substances and in greater quantity than any other solvent. Yet, paradoxically, 99.9% of the earth is insoluble in water. Silicate rocks dont dissolve in water for the same reason that they are amorphous. They are a polymers. Chain silicates. Geopolymers. (cf. silicone). If they are allowed to cool slowly, these chain silicates can fold up into regular crystal structures but they are still long chains of covalently bonded atoms. On the other hand, if it cools too quickly then the result is an amorphous glass, like obsidian. Solid organic compounds consisting of ordinary small molecule…
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A reconstruction of Rodinia. Note how Alaska tucks into the Ross sea and Mexico curls up along Peru. The light colored area surrounding the land is the continental shelf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Sea South America, Africa, Antarctica, India, and Australia together form Gondwana. North America and Russia together form Laurasia. Gondwana and Laurasia together form Rodinia. One billion years ago Rodinia split into Laurasia and Gondwana which then moved so far apart that they actually collided on the other side of the world forming Pangea. As they came together the Tethys ocean was trapped between them. The Tethys Ocean continued to shrink until today…
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