Speculations
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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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The neutron is a subatomic particle with no net electric charge and a mass slightly larger than that of a proton. Outside the nucleus, free neutrons are unstable and have a half-life of 611.0±1.0 s (about 10 minutes, 11 seconds). A neutron spontaneously breaks down into a proton, an electron, and an electron-antineutrino. The radius of an electron in the ground state of a hydrogen atom is known as the Bohr radius and is equal to 0.529 angstroms. This is tens of thousands of times larger than the nucleus. It is often said, therefore, that the electron is too big to fit inside a neutron. But that is only true if the only force binding the electron inside the neu…
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The Theory of Life The Theory of Life states that to find the meaning of Life/God, one must first understand The Law of Nature The Law of Nature states that Enlightenment is the cause of behaviors. What is behavior? the way in which one acts or conducts oneself, especially toward others. What is Enlightenment? Enlightenment is a Sense of Self that is reached by the research and analysis of both The Forces of Knowledge and Understanding. What is Sense of Self? The value of which relates to how one perceives Truth or Deception. What are the Forces of Nature? Energy and Strength attributed to emotion caused by the degree of which one is Enlightened. …
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ISN’T “THREESOME” A FACTOR FOR STABILITY? Weeks ago I read in Phys.Org about an experiment upon electrons of deep cold helium’s atoms. I was impressed by the statement of authors: electron is composed by two parts, apart each other: an electric charge and a magnet. They boasted that this discovery is supported by quantum theory, or support quantum theory. First--- This “discovery “, if it is true, is in clear opposition with quantum theory, at least about view point of quantum that see electron as “ a point excitement” of electric field, without dimension. Second.--- if it is true, there must be three different electric charges, one that was apart and two that formed …
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An infinite continuum of matter, where the concept of "empty space" does not exist The Universe has infinite energy The energy fluctuations of the Universe are the cause of all interactions and motion that occur in the Universe Motion is the result of energy transferring from one location to another and not as a result of matter transferring location Motion is not matter moving through a medium with that medium being empty space Motion is energy moving as a wave through a medium with that medium being the continuum of matter This is my theory, I try to keep it brief rather than rambling into an essay and have stated the main concepts of my theory I think/hope
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Some time ago I saw some reference to virtual particle appearance / annialation creating a positive pressure in empty space, and that the presence of physical matter causes a reduction of the number of particles that can appear within matter, or proximate to matter, as demonstrated by the casimir effect. The overall thrust of the idea was that matter (a planet) shielded the force from behind any particular surface point, so the positive force would be expressed as gravity function on the surface. The effective surface gravity force would be higher with higher matter density shielding, the ultimate model being a black hole, which would shield all the counteracting pressure…
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Theory of Balance On the rise and fall of our universe Infinite expansion borders infinite shrinking and the border is unstable. Space and time have joined forces (1) in direct opposition to gravity and matter. These two hemi-wholes constantly tug at one another, trying to gain the upper hand. Skirmishes are incessant and minor victories frequent with space and time or gravity and matter torn from their hemi-wholes as captives in this essential struggle. Victories appear as surges of a sample of one hemi-whole into the other hemi-whole. Surges of gravity and matter obey the Laws of Space and Time in a universe like ours. Surges of space and time obey the Laws of Gravi…
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What do you do when you've invested so much in a theory, even proselytized others on its scientific validity, and then see every new archaeological discovery prove it wrong? You go into cognitive dissonant mode. The massive collection of fossils discovered to date show that survival of the fittest (as attributed to evolution) never happened -- the vast majority of fossils seem to represent the "fit." The "unfit," the ones that allegedly didn't survive, are practically non-existent. Yes, we all know how genetic code pass down mostly the beneficial mutations to perpetuate the hardiest of the species. But this nonsense misses the point. In scenarios of "survival …
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What do you think- my engine on the Oberth effect will work or not? I think this is the main part explaining the Oberth effect: (citation)- "Take 1/2 of m (v + vb)v2, and you get 1/2 mv2 as well as 1/2 mvb2, the kinetic energy you'd expect from adding these two speeds. On top of that, you also get m(v * vb). The pink rectangle above is Oberth gravy. For example a kilogram going 10 meters/second has kinetic energy of 50 joules; a kilogram going 2 meters/second has kinetic energy of 2 joules. But a kilogram moving (10 + 2) meters/second doesn't have a kinetic energy of 52 joules, rather (50 + 2 + (10 * 2)) joules. Starting with a 10 meter/second speed and speeding up ano…
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Sorry if I couldn't make a good title for the speculation, but that is all I had. NOTE: Religion is not, in this paper, associated with the metaphysical aspects. It is only related to its effect in a group. Also, prosperous has many definitions, but in this case has the definition of stability in relation to goals and agendas of a society. The definition in relation to the idea may change to better suit the idea. Also, this idea is still in progress. Later on, the idea may not work out in the end. however I have been thinking about the idea and thought I might post it here to get peer review. I never planned to even have the paper read by others because I have no …
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Sometimes I think that the universe is a conscious being, forged by the networks of dark matter, which are similar to the patters of neurons in a brain, thinking maybe we live in somebody's brain, while there is another universe inside my brain, that's probably why we only use a small part of our brain at a time. So we are inside eternal brains. Because the brain that we are inside is proberbly inside someone elses brain; and so on. And a billion years to us might be only a year to the the persons brain that we are inside. Which means that the brain that they're inside 1 year = 1 billion years to them is 1 billion*1 billion = "1e+18" years to us and that can go on f…
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Two Circular Iron Plates and another Heavy Circular Weight are stacked one above other. In the pattern below. The whole thing A, B & C touching each other is weighed together and weighs X. A & B are then magnetised and the arrangement put up again A, B & C once again in contact with each other. This arrangement weighs Y. Obviously A & B are stacked with compatible Polarity. Then B is inverted and the magnetic force is such that B& C are in contact but they float above A without physical contact [just like those trains these days]. This arrangement weighs Z. The Question is : Will X be equal to Y ? Will Y be equal to Z ? …
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Here is a second article where the aether is what waves in a double slit experiment. There will be more as understanding the particle always travels through a single slit and the associated wave in the aether passes through both is the most correct explanation to date for the observed behaviors in a double slit experiment. ‘From the Newton’s laws to motions of the fluid and superfluid vacuum: vortex tubes, rings, and others’ http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.3900 In a double slit experiment the particle travels a well defined path which takes it through one slit. The associated wave in the aether passes through both. As the wave exits the slits it creates wave interference. As …
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The official government report on the collapse of WTC building 7 (a 47 story skyscraper which also collasped on 9/11 as the 3rd of the day) reports that during the first few seconds of its collapse, that the building accelerated at freefall speed. This is astonishing. How could this be possible without the use of controlled demolition techniques to use explosive energy to more the matter that sits at the bottom of and directly underneath the building out of the way so that it does not provide resistance when the upper part moves through its normal path? That is, normally we use explosives from top to bottom to acheive fast collapes that are close to freefall. But no…
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These are MY PROPOSALS and LAWS OF COSMOS : Walker's Laws of COSMOS and UNIVERSE >>>>> Law 1 : There is NO LIMIT to EMPTY SPACE ! Explanation : Limit of Space/Emptiness : It is alright to seek a limit on matter/substance but why seek a limit on emptiness or nothingness. So space [in terms of Euclidean dimensions] has to be unlimited. Let us take a straight line going to infinity in both the directions. Nothing can end this process [as if something ends it what is beyond it which has to be something else which too will get termed as space] and if what is told as space-warping and bending of space takes place to result in an egg-shell s…
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'EPR program: a local interpretation of QM' http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5612 "Wave particle duality is described as the compound system of point particle plus accompanying wave (in the æther)."
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What went wrong in the proof of the theory that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light? In a “normal” size vehicle, let say with the height of the interior of the vehicle (the distance from the floor to the ceiling) is about 3 m (≈3.28 yards), the time it takes the light beam emitted from its source on the floor to hit the ceiling is 10-8 of a second – literally a split bit of a second. The right triangle used to prove in the theory above is obtained under the assumptions that: Light would travel at the constant speed c=3×108 m/s regardless of the frame of reference. From the external observer’s perspective, light would hit the ceiling of the vehicl…
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I have been researching the navigational ability of homing pigeons, which are descendants of the wild rock dove, ( Columba Livia ) and have discovered that they posses what can be considered the biological equivalent of an astrolabe...To anyone unfamiliar with Astrolabes, Wikipedia gives a good summation of what they are and their uses. There is a simple experiment that shows how this biological hardware works, which can be performed using a live homing pigeon and a 100 Watt incandescent lamp. (No harm comes to the pigeon.) Recent advances in quantum science, have shown that homing pigeons have a biological compass and I can show experimentally that they also posses a b…
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Was in the middle of reading a thread on the double slit experiment and sometimes the discussion was about photons and sometimes about electrons. Seems to me an electron is a different thing than a photon. In school I learned that an electon would drop from one energy level to another and release a photon of light of a particular wavelength and amplitude that was always a multiple of a single quantum of energy. What I never was told was what direction this pulse was released in, and always imagined it was going out in all directions like a 3-D ripple similar to the ripple in a pond caused by a pebble dropped into it. But if a photon can not be divided int…
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if time is measureable it must have a base unit which would make planck happy. at this scale, everything moves at the speed of light. massive particles can store energy and then release it. this creates a non continuous effect or "real time". it splits interactions up thus creating the effect of sub luminal velocity. the constant is a constant and will remain a constant constantly...
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Have certain scientists in the past and present been artificially and unduly elevated to a celebrity position where they were/are revered by their peers, followers, and thus, laymen with no expertise in their fields, so that the statements of such people (no matter what they claim) could not be disputed? People must learn to question what they are told: - “Do I really know what I’m being told is true, or am I just assuming that it is true?” - “Have I looked into the subject matter deeply enough or am I mindlessly accepting it?” - “Who or what are the authority figures in my life that are influencing my thoughts and behaviors – governments, parents, friends, experts, relig…
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