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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.

The movement of a thread into (or out of) Speculations is ultimately at the discretion of moderators, and will be determined on a case by case basis.

  1. Started by sunshaker,

    Been wondering about light/photons passing through different mediums, I believe light is still c relative to each medium, But from our perspective light is slowed down. I believe light can be slowed to a walking pace through a Bose Einstein condensate, I was wondering if a single photon/beam pulse was passed through a Bose Einstein condensate how would those photons exit condensate?, if one photon was still in condensate and nearest photon as just left condensate returning to c relative to us, would they exit cause a strope effect?(3) Or would photon "stretch?(2) I believe that the photons within condensate may be "spaced", Could you perhaps then pass another photon…

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  2. Started by naturephysic2345,

    So that you can go about playing Elitest bullies to others who feel inferior enough about themselves and their models to take it.

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  3. About motion of single electron in atomic hydrogen you can read in the article http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=49252#.VFoXwxYTOUl

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  4. I have come here today to present a revised, and better version of the "Universal creation and rebirth speculation." My theory has several important points. 1. Black holes are relatives of the big bang. Essentially a black hole if large enough could create another big bang, although the amount of matter and energy this would take is enormous. 2. Particles with enough velocity (Theoretical particles (tachyons) and possibly neutrinos in special cases) can escape the event horizon because black holes do not have infinite gravity or mass. (Pet theory, Ultra-high velocity ejection) 3.The universe as we see it today is part of an endless cycle of universal implosio…

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  5. Person-a travels on circumference c1. Person-b travels on circumference c2. There will be time-dilation. Person-b will age more slowly relative to Person-a. However... say that Person-a & Person-b can look at each other throughout the rotation, and light travels between them at c, do we not have an impossible situation of relativity? Please explain in plain English.

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  6. Universe homogeneous/isotropic?, Is near enough good enough? I believe it was a good model, that now needs remodeling, Not stating has "gospel", As our understanding increases certain models "have" to change, Some will always resist change. And hold on tight to a model that as served well. I am not saying I have the answers, but I do believe sometimes you have to look with fresh eyes and without baggage. Mordred quoted but there are values that far exceed this 120Mpc, and there must be many we are yet aware of. coherent oscillations strongly support the idea that the first inhomogeneities in the universe were seeded during the accelerated…

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  7. Calling all proponents of all models.. to the debate! Reference: “Can String Theory be tested?” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2012/09/can-string-theory-be-tested/ <-----Andrew Zimmerman Jones is a known member of organizations such as American Mensa and the National Association of Science Writers. Having earned a degree in physics from Wabash College and a master's degree in Mathematics Education from Purdue University, he has gone on to such disreputable activities as becoming the Physics Expert at About.com Physics and co-authoring String Theory For Dummies, and occasionally publishing works of philosophy, reviews of board games, and other leisurel…

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  8. Started by beejewel,

    "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the kings horses and all the kins men, couldn't put Humpty together again." The well known rhyme mentions nothing about how tall the wall was, or even if Humpty ever hit the ground, what if there was no ground, and Humpty fell right through into the abyss? Let us imagine the wall was a doughnut shaped structure around a black hole with the mass of the earth, with a radius equivalent to the earth. What was Humpty's potential before the fall and what happened to him after the fall, making it so difficult to reassemble him? Steven

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  9. I believe that a more refined understanding of the power("force") of observation can endow us with a more effective way of discerning that nature is expressing supersymmetric relationships. I call this supersymmetric system the Recursion Scenario. I will be drawing attention to a recursive mechanism that allows information to be self similar, as well self replicative at every point within the system. This 'renormalization' of information, as existing on a reflective surface or horizon, then undergoing infinite propagation; is expressing the mirror to mirror relationships. I will describe Euclidean space as the 'Dark Energy (Isometry/Vector A)' side of the relationship,…

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  10. Please consult thoroughly with it. links deleted

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  11. Started by Torchlrm,

    Brief Outline of a New Theory. I was planning to write two articles, one more serious, the other styled in a less serious tone. Here, however is the brief outline of an article that outlines a theory of mine. We may examine a point in a System to be displaced. In going across or going up of a point B to point A it causes a force of displacement to A (therefore, if F=ma is correct, each point which has a mass and acceleration can be the cause of motion as a "force"). The functions can be moving up or across, but they have to be calculated simultaneously to occur; a hypotenuse is implied in the equation so changes in the formula for Area (1/2 bh, or 1/2 of the area …

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  12. Hi everybody, The topic was about the process of evolution being a scientific method, but the real questioning was about the theory of evolution being a scientific method. I find the topic interesting as it is, so I risk a question about it even if it is a bit off topic, and you tell me if I should start a new one. Evolution is a trial and error process, and to me, scientific method too, otherwise, we would not be natural, because we would be able to predict any future, thus to predict our own evolution, and to drive it the way we want. If, like me, you think that we are not, why are we making a fundamental difference between the scientific evolution process and any o…

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  13. Started by I-try,

    I follow the many attempts on science forums, to provide an understanding of the nature of gravity or gravitation; also such phenomena as the nature of the known forces. Because there is a requirement that a discussion on subjects such as mentioned above must not involve speculation, I am left to wonder why such subjects are allowed in the general physics category. Mainstream science has an almost religious belief and for practical reason for the General Theory of Relativity. Even so, and despite the statements made by GR regarding gravitation being an illusion, and gravity only existing because matter has the ability to warp space, there is a lingering belief that grav…

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  14. Started by CWingfield,

    As I understand it, an electron is hard to get a good read on because it is appearing/disappering very quickly and also appears to be jumping orbits indiscriminately. I was wondering if there was any possibility that electrons could be in stationary orbits around a nucleus, which acting something like our sun, was throwing out flares in all directions. Once these flares hit an orbiting electron it would briefly "light it up" (something like an aurora borealis, for lack of a better example) allowing us to see/read the electron for the brief time it was "lit up". Now I am more than likely misunderstanding how an electron/nucleus interact, as well as seeing patterns …

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  15. . Like nada OR -1 + 1 = 0.

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  16. Started by mcompengr,

    [( Any theory topologically similar to this silly crap (Serial instantiated existance in a real, physical discrete space), would allow for everything and complement most others without conflict (almost). )] "Multiverses"; could be multiplexed with ours by space and/or time. Or, the vacuum energy could be like our carrier wave among many. Or, maybe there's a universal backplane/ground somehow, that our infinitely-small "goes" to, a place that connects to and supports other universes. Likewise infinitely far away. Our little universe would be part of God's cat's cradle. (imagery) One thing is for sure, if data ever shows that an other Universe exists, then comm…

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  17. In twin frame gamma=dt/dt' and in twin' frame gamma=dt'/dt It all says that gamma isn't a coefficient of relative slowing of time , gamma is here a coefficient of non-simultaneity.

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  18. Even i am a layman , that has shallow knowledge about physic, i found it interesting like something new approach.One question: in nature we observe only spherical surfaces., except mirrors created by humans and some peaceful lakes. How can you use your ideas in objects like particles? Sorry to tell but mathematical surfaces created by mathematicians , are for me, fantasy.

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  19. Initial Conditions; Inflation by head-start with 10-to-the-80 (+/-) incompressible neutrons, having no "unoccupied" discrete spaces between them in a volume the size of the horizon of a black hole were it to have that mass, whose equilibrium then gets disrupted (bang). Such a mother-of-all black holes would have the lowest possible "Hawking temperature". (Keeping in mind that heat is not a form of energy, but energy transfer.) By itself the knowledge that all the "stuff" in the early universe was in an extremely small space doesn't really say anything about its early microscopic kinetic energy. Its temperature could have been near zero followed by a massive …

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  20. Are these virtual particles but universes many orders of magnitude smaller than our own, To us blinking into existence in a time span to short for us to observe, But universes just like ours, with all the physics/science and life that exists within ours. Our own universe but a virtual particle in another universe many orders of magnitude larger than our own. Perhaps each universe expanding until meeting/touch another expanding universe that touch and then annihilate each other like particle pairs.

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  21. is it possible for something like the universe, consists of many stages of formation,atoms,elements,compounds, biological systems, to exist by one single bang?

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  22. Started by Jkemp,

    The universe creates energy by creating life. Regards, Jason Kemp

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  23. Started by yahya515,

    The theory of rotation within rotation: "Every object moving in a circular path, or even a curve , will possess internal motion, particularly regular one (rotation), the law of directions is simple, counterclockwise circular path will give counterclockwise rotation, clockwise circular path will give clockwise rotation, for objects on the surface of earth, north the equator will give counterclockwise rotation, south the equator will give clockwise rotation. The rotation of earth around its axis is due to such effect, and direction law applies for the earth and the other planets and the moons. This rotation has constant speed, an object starts at rest and continues at …

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  24. I am going to post a summary of what I've written here which is in bolded words (just in case everything I've written here is too long for you to read and that you only have time and patience to read the summary itself). But everything I've written here is very interesting and important. So I would recommend reading all of it. Summary: God only exists in the form of a concept and this concept exists in the form of the functioning of the neurons in people's brains that have created this concept (and possibly in other objects based on their grouped atoms, but I am not too sure on this). But God does not exist at all in any other sense (whether it be supernatural or in…

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  25. After a previous thread got closed "Earth as a living organism", I thought I would look more into the beginning of life on earth. I see this "soup" proteins/rna/dna as earths stem cells, containing all the building blocks for life that was to come, But there is also the theory that life began near heated sea vents It seems to be at the moment take your pick which you prefer, Whichever one or neither still leaves us with life "evolved on earth", Can life adapt to new worlds?. What I was thinking if we do start colonizing other planets, And stem cells react differently to different gravities and environments from the word go, There will come a tim…

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