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  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.
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  1. -------- I claimed to quit. But I see, from your answers, that I can’t. In fact my post was not to discus the idea of critical density, but the forces that interact with each other. I consider the problem very simple: If you fire a rocket in “radial direction” it will move up until fuel is spent, and after--- rocket will return again in the spot you have fired. This is because the force of firing and the force of gravity are the only forces that are interacting in radial direction. When I say “ radial direction “ I mean you have eliminate step by step, the third force of inertial gravity-- (which is perpendicular with radial direction)-- with a your second antagonist fu…

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  2. Started by AnisDys2351,

    One of the fundamental postulates of special relativity, the constant velocity of light in all reference of frame, though experimentally correct, it is illogic and unrealistic to human’s mind. And this is what makes special relativity a puzzle, and for many, hard to take. I believe this velocity oddness is due to what I can call the illusion of reference of frame. Allow me to get myself clear: When we are in cars we see trees and people moving when they are not. Or, simple, we see the sun rising and setting every day when it is not moving. Now we had fallen in the same illusion: Light doesn’t move; matter shrinks on itself and makes us think that light is moving (…

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  3. -What the title said. :~P

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  4. Started by Nicholas Kang,

    Problem Statement: Recently, I ran SETI@home on my computer. I placed a white and shiny Aluminium plate underneath the heat exhaust fan lobe/openings of my CPU-something looks like the car radiator model but I don`t know the appropriate word. The exhaust lobe became hot after the PC was on for a while. And of course the aluminuim plate became hot after a while. But when I removed the plate, it became cool within not more than 30 seconds. We know that white and shiny surface is a good heat reflector and black and dull surface is a good heat radiator/absorber. My question is how is it possible that the white and shiny surface aluminium plate could turn out to be a g…

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  5. Started by Kramer,

    A confusing “elegant formula” ( Sure “ confusing” only for a lay man) It is about formula of “critic density of universes matter” ( m * ( Ho * R ) ^ 2 ) / 2 = ( G * m / R ) * ((4 * pi / 3 ) * ( R ^ 3 * ρ c )) ( Ho * R ) ^ 2 = ( ( 4 * pi ) / 3 ) * ( G * R ^ 2 * ρc ) ) * 2 My confusion is here: On the left side we have Hubbles square velocity “ (Ho * R )” caused by ????!!!.(B.B) On the right hand we have square velocity “ ( G * R ^ 2 * ρc ) “ caused by gravity. -The “ B.B velocity is a radial velocity. -The gravity velocity is a tangential circ…

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  6. Started by Relative,

    Gamma radiation. That ionises the core. ''electromagnetic waves that carry enough kinetic energy to liberate electrons from atoms or molecules, thereby ionizing them''. ''Ionizing radiation occurs in the environment from naturally occurring radioactive materials and cosmic rays''. ''Ionization is the process by which an atom or a molecule acquires a negative or positive charge by gaining or losing electrons. '' So by all the of above, the Earth reaches a thermodynamic equilibrium , the mantle etc, reaching maximum ''curie'' point of equal , equilibrium to the core of Electrostatic/Electromagnetism energy, making the ''outer casing of the motor, no longer effectiv…

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  7. L.S. I have published two for pay articles on evolution theory at Smashwords (an Internet publisher). I hope some experts at evolution theory are willing to read them, cogitate on them and write reviews about them. This in the hope that they will then get noticed and sell - because at the moment they do not sell at all. If interested, please send me a mail. The one is about the evolution of the guttural pouches of horses. That one was a spin off from the other, longer article - which is about evolution as a teleological process.

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  8. Started by barfbag,

    @ Moontanman, Why do I care if you believe or not? I must admit I do feel sorry for those who lack experience in PSI fields because they must only believe what they read in Nature Magazine. However... A person professing radio waves existed 1000 years ago would have faced the exact same burden of proof, and in my position the opinions would alter as much. Without physical tools to measure psychic phenomenon there can be no proof other than percentages and odds which are normally dismissed by anyone familiar with the Scientific method which assumes results must be replicable. So. As happy as I am to have the Burden of Proof shifted to me, I co…

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  9. Started by `hýsøŕ,

    This is just a vague speculation but .. well I wanted to see if a similar idea has already been thought of and tested and failed by professional physicists. With unifying quantum mechanics and relativity, I've heard the problem comes from trying to combine a smooth spacetime 'sheet' with a fuzzy, uncertain quantum mechanical mess. What if general relativity is only an approximation to actual spacetime, and the fundamental description of spacetime is quantum mechanical. So what I'm saying is that... could spacetime really be fuzzy and uncertain like QM says, but just appear smooth on large distance scales? (enough so that the calculations would work fine unless you g…

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  10. Started by Eric Thorson,

    If you had a Giant Robot that was, to any outside perspective, intelligent, but for every single function and process it performed it had to read a program off of the brains of hundreds of human beings wired together inside of it, would the automaton be intelligent or the Humans inside it? They say Genetic Mutation is random because countless numbers of bad mutations are discarded for every helpful mutation that manages to survive natural selection. But if that's true, Then is human thought random? Because for every good idea that we have as a collective species there are millions of bad ideas that fail every day. What if Genetic mutation is just the cognitive process of …

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  11. Lightnings flash everyday. Can lightning be a source of electricity?

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  12. It's just a thought I had. Both space's dimensions and its contents are implied once you describe the world as distances (between objects) adjusting collaboratively. To give the position of particle A is merely to describe distances AB, AC, AD, etc., nothing more. The way distances adjust gives the appearance of a space with dimensions.

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  13. Started by Moontanman,

    Time get down to business, Alien rain! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZziAccDn4c

  14. Started by reyam200,

    What would be possible if humans used 100% of their brain power? some say that we would have perfect telekinesis and telepathy. i think that humans already have telepahy, they just don't use it, thus causing it to "disappear". others have said that we could walk through walls. id like a list of what you think is possible if we used 100% of our brain. (thats also assuming the neurons work at peak efficency)

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  15. The following text will aboard a series of theoretical concepts leading to more practical and useful ideas. Light, what is it really? How does it work? Light has created significant controversy in the past few years, fueling many debates. The main interrogation was if whether or not light is made of something tangible or if it is only energy, a force, like the sound for example. In conclusion, (I think) the scientific community agreed on the fact that light is energy and not particles (also known as photons). But light still bugs us a bit, since it doesn’t behave like sound at all; sound can only travel with matter acting as a medium whereas light can travel in free spac…

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  16. Started by Bird11dog,

    Suppose we could make a sphere out some mythical material that is totally non-elastic and inside the sphere we place six balls made of the same material such that the balls almost touch the sphere but not quite. The sphere is located somewhere out in space where gravity is as close to zero as possible. We shake the sphere to start the balls bouncing around inside. Each ball has the same mass and inside the balls is a clock that we can observe. Now we use the clock of each ball to measure it's momentum just before it collides with another ball and obviously we find that the momentum of each ball is identical. Next we move our sphere close to the edge of a black holes event…

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  17. so a photon goes at the speed of light, but does anything that goes at the speed of light have to be a photon? could you have some other object which has the property it goes at/faster than light, has no mass but isn't the usual EM field oscillations that make up light?

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  18. Started by Dr. Funkenstein,

    First allow me to state that I view light in two categories, man made and Natural light. As indistinguishable as the two type's may be at times, I make the distinction. All light being electoral magnetic radiation stems from a source. In man made light, this source is reflectors, heat, etc. etc. In natural light the source is exponential heat and a combination of combustible material. this exponential and material is my distinction. To see a star in the night sky is the visible indication of a light source, now can we say for a fact that this light is traveling to our eye's receptors, or that our eye receptors have focused (reached) on the light. our knowledge of ligh…

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  19. Started by Infinityloop,

    Hi, I was watching a documentary about the "string theory" and few questions come to my mind. And here is my question, Is possible that what is vibrating is the space itself and not a string? Let me explain myself, I like the idea of that different vibrations can generate different particles. However the nature of the "strings" is very confused to me, circular strings of energy? what's energy the vibration or the string? According to this, different vibrations will generate different particles. So, I am suggesting that the vibration of the space is generating the matter. Therefore, the Einstein theory should be seen backwards. It is not the matter which generate the c…

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  20. Is it possible that our universe has no start and end? Maybe the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is just some radiation emitted from an unknown source? It might not be the evidence of Big Bang but the only clue for a new theory to emerge? Maybe the universe is just always exist or somehow we can use Darwin`s Evolution and Natural Selection Theory in this context. So, we may assume that the universe is just an evolution form an older universe, so the universe can only be old but not young, so, the universe will eventually die and fade and it is the end, no new Big Bang?

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  21. Given imaginary time being a property of real space, should we ask ourselves if there may be creatures who can navigate through imaginary time? Is this a possible explanation for real time?

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  22. Firmament dynamics, subspace radio, etc... I've come to the realization that I am a physical, real person who has a projected consciousness from wherever it originates from, but exists primarily in its physical place here where I'm sitting on the side of the road. Likely originates here until I 'die' or transgress or whatever happens, but nevertheless --- most people on this planet have been either moved into a virtual and/or simulated stasis environment, located off-planet, likely on the moon, but I haven't done any testing to see if that's where they would be redirected after a death etc... Either way, the planet is being force-wiped due to a combination of our soc…

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  23. I've been working on a theory for 'everything' for several years now. It has been very difficult because although I'm bursting with creativity, I am a novice to the quantum world despite my intense fascination with its products. The recent discovery of photonic molecules (they made photons, energy, behave like mass, by slowing it down and passing it through a cooled vacuum full of rubidium) gave me the final vindication for my Force Stream Theory. The theory has been able to explain (in layman terms) quantum entanglement, duality paradox, the uncertainty principle, black holes, and several others, as well as unite the fundamental forces. One question though, based on the …

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  24. Started by spectrum,

    I have a lot more written but basically its based just explaining how entropy = time and using logic to go backwards in entropy down this path until the beginning of entropy. Its impossible to go before that but this logic should hold true from that point until now. This probably seems obvious to a physicist or the some math experts but I never see it explained this way. In my mind I'm picturing a 3D fractal where each end point is the highest point of entropy for that specific system. When you zoom out, you see that each everything you were looking at came from something related, but simpler. This is easy to picture for something like evolution but harder for…

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  25. Started by Deepak Kapur,

    It is said attraction leads to loss of energy. suppose an electon in 2s orbital and another in 3p orbital. Doesn't the 2s electron have more energy as it is difficult to remove it from the atom as compared to 3p electron.

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