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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.
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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Started by tar,

    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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  11. Started by serloco,

    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 …

  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. A new description is here. http://www.thephysicsforum.com/personal-theories-alternative-hypothesis/6000-time-dilation-gravity.html#post14687

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  16. 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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  17. By conventional methods it is difficult to justify Bell's theorem. However we all know that a particle of zero spin can decay into 2 particles of +1/2 and -1/2 spin. Using string paradigm this could be visualized as the unwrapping of 2 strings from the same parent in much the same way that a dna double helix de-couples. These strings then get separated by a space like separation but the parent information is encoded in the children. (not sure why?). The strings resonate with each other by a natural symphony and their resonance is reflected in their respective spin orientations and complementary and predictable behaviors. This symphony is not bound by t…

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  18. Started by petrushka.googol,

    Physics defines nature as a vibration of strings. Is human personality then a symphony of strings encapsulated in dna? Do these strings resonate with the cosmos? These constitute the backbone of my "alpha personality theory..."

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  19. I would like to speculate,:- That although REALITY itself is absolute, (Full Stop! ). It is , or can be, modelled by a host of different means, for different purposes. Pictorially ! By Language ! By mathematics ! By physical constructed models! By Computer simulation! And no doubt a host of other types of models I have not mentioned yet. We might be tempted to feel that one or two or three sorts of models are better or more important ,than any other? Might it encourage a better understanding if we used either a single specific model , a set selection of models or as many models as possible, so as to focus on a detail of reality OR , in order to gain a ' a wider , a mor…

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  20. Started by sunshaker,

    As we all know matter is basically made up of "empty space", I was reading that you can compress the human race to fit inside a sugar cube, But still this is only compressing the space between electrons/protons/neutrons, But quarks are also empty space, Yet this "empty space" makes up 90% of a protons mass, This empty space is made up of "virtual particles" that appear and disappear from nothing, Similar to how we are led to believe our "universe" came into existence appearing from nothing, We also know that 90% of the mass we cannot see between stars/galaxies is "Dark", Perhaps virtual particles that are there but are not there, Maybe why we cannot see this dar…

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  21. Started by Tityroi,

    I'm feeling a bit paranoid here. I was trying to boil some water on my stove, and used a nonstick pot, that is to say a pot with teflon or polymer. I forgot about the whole thing, and 45 minutes later I came back. The windows of the house were steamy, and about half the water was gone. I had been heating it on max temperature. Afterwards I've felt a bit groggy, with a mild cough and a tightness to my throat. Is it possible these are the sympthoms of polymer flu fever, which happens if you heat teflon above a certain temperature? The teflon layer was not decomposed in any way, and was always in touch with water. But is it possible it could have been heated to dangerous lev…

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  22. At first,we derive out energy-momentum equation,E=mc^2,from quantum mechanics. That is,Special Relativity Theory can be derived out from quantum mechanics. Special Relativity Theory is included in the quantum mechanics. Start from the new thinking,we derive out a new energy-momentum equation. In low energy region,the new energy-momentum equation can transition to E=mc^2. E=mc^2 is only approximate of new energy-momentum equation. The new energy-momentum equation can derive out GZK cut-off and Lorentz symmetry breaking. The new energy-momentum equation take another result.Energy have maximum value.Momentum have maximum value. From this thinking,the scattering problems in q…

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  23. Is it possible to have a third charge apart from the ordinary positive and negative? Maybe the third charge would be a charge that can alter or shift its charge from positive and negative at a specific interval or simultaneously?

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  24. GR & QM as an mathematical extrapolation assume a mass-less, absolutely straight flying photon. This has never been observed. So it is a galloping unicorn that probably is preventing marrying these two best laws (not theories) we humans have ever had. Logic dictates that striving for a TOE you discard all boundaries and there is one in between GR & QM. So we can as a speculation replace one galloping unicorn by another. we can assume an infinite amount of unspun gravitons in a field and an infinite amount of larger slower Higgs particles being spun into Gluons (Gravitons causing spin two in stead of having that) whereby all mass is un-splitable un-compressible ye…

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  25. Is there any other possible way to transmit heat apart from conduction convection and radiation? How and Why?

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