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  1. I have a theory that explains all how all particles and forces can be unified as manifestations of a single, fundamental entity. Posing some logical conclusions from the statements of mass-energy equivalence and special relativity: Please read and attempt to understand the entire concept before arguing against any individual point of the concept. Thank you. E=m$c$2. The logical conclusion to this statement, what it "should" mean in real life, is: Energy is mass moving at $c$2. The "speed" of energy is $c$2. Understanding that this is a completely illogical statement, it does seem to be logically explained by special relativity. The logical conclus…

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  2. Please attempt to understand before dismissing - not a strictly physics debate. E=mc2. Energy is mass moving at c2. The 'speed' of energy is c2. "The best understanding we have is that it [light] is a disturbance in the electromagnetic fields of charged bodies." http://einstein.stanford.edu/content/relativity/q212.html This is a link to the most recent report I could find for experiments attempting to observe or measure a photon without destroying it. http://www.livescience.com/41465-photons-seen-without-being-destroyed.html "The photon didn't interact with the atom directly, but it did alter the atom's phase — the timing of its resonance with the cavity. The scient…

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  3. My understanding in a nutshell is that the photon travels so fast that it moves at the relative speed of time itself. This causes the Photon to not experience the passage of time, as demonstrated by the Lorentz equation saying when Velocity is the Speed of Light, Duration or Time = 0. Using the Train analogy, the Photon and Time are each trains moving at equal speeds, so relative to the Photon, Time seems to be standing still. In the local, special relativity sense, Time is the other frame of reference moving at the Speed of Light. The Photon is created, already existing at all points of its existence simultaneously, but for no amount or passing or length of time to any "…

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  4. "The best understanding we have is that it [light] is a disturbance in the electromagnetic fields of charged bodies." http://einstein.stan...ivity/q212.html This is a lecture by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Special Relativity and Light are talked about, starting at around 10 minutes. Really the whole video and series is great. https://www.youtube....b8hWNrcd2gGW6Qc This is a link to the most recent report I could find for experiments attempting to observe or measure a photon without destroying it. http://www.livescien...-destroyed.html "The photon didn't interact with the atom directly, but it did alter the atom's phase — the timing of its resonance with the cavity. …

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  5. Musing aloud,,,,, perhaps there are different flavours of gravity. Weakly interacting and strongly interacting. That given to magnetic interaction where magnetic forces add to the effect, but only to a 'captured' point of equalibrium governed by angular velocity (an electric armature for instance and it's associated field), then that of Mass gravity where the elctro-magnetic affect is modified by sheer weight of numbers of trillions of interacting magnetic fields at the quantum level. That is a field equation stretching from the Planck scale to the universe[-al] scale. I muse because of how small mass particles such as electrons arrange themselves in shell energies gr…

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  6. Is there a world to save then? Many scientists as do I think there is. We humans are systematically over-stressing the system and inevitably going for a catastrophic failure. We are overpopulating, overproducing, over selling, over expecting and "over everything" in an extremely irresponsible and mounting way. We in the past already have had two bangs one in 1914 which has eerie similarity to the situation in Europe at the moment and the situation in Asia / China resembles that of Japan before WWII. Not to mention mounting environmental problems. And the mounting political instability where by tea party Republicans are on a war footing with Democrats and vice versa. S…

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  7. If pi ratio " was" squared and = 9.8 m/s/s how would this change the whole of science? To continue, and if their was "a physical unit of measure" to prove pi ratio squared "is" = 9.8 m/s/s provided for the science community, how could this be tested to be proven physically? I am aware that frequencies waves travel exponentially to infinity either in a medium and or vacuum. I am 100% certain, that our concept of infinity " does " have an end, within a system's metric of measure. If it is true that 9.8 m/s/s is due to acceleration on the earth's surface, then the issue is defining 1 as in my findings states that 1 = 0^.5 "exponentially" in relation to accel…

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  8. -------- 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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  9. 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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  10. -What the title said. :~P

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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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…

  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. Lightnings flash everyday. Can lightning be a source of electricity?

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  19. 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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  20. Started by Moontanman,

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

  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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