Speculations
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@ 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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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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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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Lightnings flash everyday. Can lightning be a source of electricity?
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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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Time get down to business, Alien rain! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZziAccDn4c
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Was thinking about the wording and setup of the tortoise and warrior paradox of Zeno. If you take a globe and mark a W on the equator in South America and a T in Siberia, and spin the Globe from West to East, the T will move slowly and the W will move rapidly, and the W will never overtake the T. If you put two gears on a rod and marked a W on the one an a T on the other and you spin the W fast and turn the T slowly, the W will overtake the T again and again and again, with no problem at all. Being that a Warrior can overtake the tortoise, the setup of the problem must lingually correspond more to the two gears on the rod setup, than the two marks on the Glob…
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Not just ignorance, but ignore-ance Since when does a speculations thread demand scientific proof hey?? MODERATORS?? I made a fantastic theory that no one can dis-prove, and I rely of science, anthropology, philosphy, and centuries of scientific thoery and evidence to back my claims. The moderators then move my thread to speculations, and demand I provide scientific evidence ? Well since it is in speculations, why do I need scientific evidience eh? I don't, but you close-minded slef-important, fintite atiitude, demands you are right and I am wrong, when you can provide no valid argument whatsoever. If you can I welcome it, for I am not closed to to …
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The other day when browsing on internet for news related to math, i came across an interesting paper which i thought to share with the research community. The title of the paper caught my attention and therefore out of sheer curiosity, i managed to read the paper. I found the paper to be interesting. One can find the paper on the following link provided. http://vixra.org/abs/1308.0126 This author claims that there is a fundamental error in our mathematics. It's related to the circle constant - Pi. How far this is true? If so, how does this impact our science?
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An intricate and perfect balance. Nothing and everything, existing simulataneously, every possible outcome of reality. Infinity must perpetuate itself into infinity. It does this with life and death, everything and nothing. See life has expanded, propagated into every possibile outcome, or form of existence. Just as all life we concieve of propagates, divides or splits, to become more then it orginially was. This includes many variations and mutations that stem from one cell into into potential future. Now death is always present in every moment, as nothingness, or absence, void. This space of nothingness is where life grows into, and it is the force the 'turns over' all …
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Edgard, you are right about at least one thing; there is one absolute frame of reference. It is the space in which light propagates. If one accepts that the speed of light is constant in all frames of reference, then one must accept that no reference frame is isolated from any other reference frame. Your notion of birds carrying information may be correct, but it makes my brain hurt. I believe what you are actually questioning is how we measure without touching. Unless you accept a defined frame of reference and a means of communication moving at a defined velocity within that frame of reference (and all other frames), you have no basis for consistent measuring…
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A new description is here. http://www.thephysicsforum.com/personal-theories-alternative-hypothesis/6000-time-dilation-gravity.html#post14687
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I think photons are gravity and mass is is a particle that absorbs electromagnetic radiation and photons. please don't steel the idea.
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