Speculations
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Hysor. Stephen Crothers is a university trained mathematician and has the courage to state his beliefs, despite his sure knowledge that such beliefs are controversial. I clicked on the video link you supplied, but did not listen to it because of my limited monthly download, and because I am well acquainted with his mathematical challenges that do not receive mathematical replies from those whom claim to have found Black Holes. His ideas pertaining to the CMB are based on the findings of a professional in that field of research. During his student years, he challenged the concept that GR provided mathematical proof for the existence of Black Holes. External experts ag…
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If the DNA does not change (radically) over the life of an individual, so that changes in cellular transcription across the age? Propose a study to develop a data base with proteins that change (in amount or structure) over the age and their respective genes. This information will be available to researchers who can fix and add relevant data. In the laboratory: animal tissues in Petri dishes (or organisms). Have their cell cycle analyzed and compared with other samples epigenetically altered. The genes of the cells under study that are most active in the mature stage or elderly, will be silenced (or enabled depending on the case) for the most common genes in young bei…
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Is there anything smaller than quarks and leptons?
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What would it be like to live on a toroidal planet? Not likely to form but it would be very interesting place! http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2014/02/torusearth.html
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I wasn't sure where to put this thread. It is an environmental and political question about our long term sustainability. Grains and a variety of vegetables require less water, energy, and land to produce than meat. We often hear in the media that going green means buying fluorescent lights and driving hybrids but long term will humans need to alter our diets? Does anyone in here believe in the future everyone will be vegetarian? "It takes, on average, 28 calories of fossil fuel energy to produce 1 calorie of meat protein for human consumption, [whereas] it takes only 3.3 calories of fossil- fuel energy to produce 1 calorie of protein from grain for human consumption.…
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i think you will find that gravity is actually magnetism at a larger scale (the earth) and as all matter is possitvely or negatively charged in respect to earth we get the illusion of the so called weak gravity force present on the surface. on another related topic why is it mass is considered the measure of matter and uses the si unit of kg's ? The unit of kg's is actually a force in particular the force with the si unit newton so the equation weight(newton) = mass(kg) x accel. of gravity is totally wrong its like saying force = force x accel. of g !!! To prove this simply weigh yourself on earth motionless and then weigh yourself in freefall this removes a…
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Is it possible to travel in the form of wave? Can i just invent a special device that transform mass into energy, then I travel in the form of wave and then after reaching my destination I am reconverted back into mass- human body.
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When will we start to mine ores or minerals from other planets in our solar system?
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Have you ever thought of why your loves one may tells you Hints and How He/She Lives in Another World, especially during dreaming while sleeping? From a viewpoint of Physics(Maybe yes?), Can it be the clock that runs in the dead body at the same rate with the living body while sleeping? You see, the conditions in which a dead body in the coffin is much the same as a living body sleeping in a bedroom. In reply to those who vote down for this post, if you are not satisfy with this post. Let me explain a bit more in detail. First, Possibility You must first understand that the above thread is just a pure thought. Pure thought can be a hypothesis or a rubbish …
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We always think of using green renewable energy source as a future energy source to overcome the current energy crisis. My question in instead of building solar panels on Earth, why don`t we just build giant solar panels in space, facing directly towards sun and not effected by day and night (only when solar storm occurs). It sounds good, isn`t?
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This is not joking. How to mine the sun for hydrogen if we can master the technology from the future? Any opinion?
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I have only an Idea. I dabble my way through documentary's on Netflix. I watch my share of homemade magnetic devices and conspiracy theory's on YouTube I play the Google game to stroll through nearly endless images and Wiki pages for that spark of creativity. I am an Idea man. I know there is a tremendous gap of technicalities which would need to be understood for any plausibility, but still the Idea is simple. Firstly, solar wind is mostly comprised of protons and electrons. True? Yes. Secondly, a Hydrogen atom contains a proton (+) and an electron (-). True? Yes. Thirdly, The Great Pyramid of Giza is made of a Granite core and Limestone shell(poten…
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I just think of this question a few minutes ago. I was wondering since we move at different speed everyday, our time will slow down as speed increase. Then, if everyone is moving at a different speed, this mean everyone`s time should be different and time should be a complicating issue. I mean my time today is different from my clock. Because my clock move rarely but not I. So, I solve a mystery in science. (I think so) To determine how long you will live, despite natural and man-made disaster, our life expectancy is directly proportional to our everyday moving speed and inversely proportional to the running time. The faster you move, the slower the time, the longer you l…
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if both reactions are exothermic. then is this a free energy(not Gibbs free energy) method to split water. first reaction gives OH and second reaction gives H2 and NaOH is recycled and we will get heat energy as bonus. Can somebody give enthalpy of formation (del H f)to show that this reactions are truly exothermic or is there any catch like you cant separate Na+ and OH- from H2O (in the first reaction)
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THIS IS A RESCUED THREAD FROM ONE DISMANTLED DUE TO TOO MANY CONVERSATIONS This is one of the conversations :- NOT a discussion of A Religion but Cleverness of a Project " I deliberately have not mentioned , that I am saying , a God, A creator omnipotent being . is responsible . Whether I think these things or not. I deliberately have not mentioned these , why ? Because ,historically it seems that , it is like lifting a piece of galvanised iron sheet that has been left covering some waste land for some time. On first lifting , a myriad of ants and various creatures are exposed , who immediately flee for cover in every direction . Its as i…
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I have long thought of this question. I came out with this idea from my recent post regarding probes traveling out of the solar system. Now, my question is instead of using self-propulsion power supply unit, why done we build a special tower or space station in space that transmit energy-carrying EM radiation to a probe with a receiver. (Don`t care whether this idea is limited to the speed limit of light first.)
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This is also a pure thought. We know that nuclear energy has many usage. But, it seems that no one had ever think of this one. What about if we use nuclear energy to launch rocket and space shuttle? The nuclear energy can be installed at the launchpad (of course need strict control) or directly at the rocket itself. A strong withstand object like concrete walls(may have up to several kilometers thickness) must be installed to diverge certain amount of force exerted by the nuclear power or recycle the waste products. Since we have technology to slow down the movement of neutron with control rods in nuclear power station, I think we can indeed use the same idea to launch ro…
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We know that space is not only a mere vast vacuum. Interstellar Medium (ISM) is scattered all over the universe. Scientist always wonder how can extrasolar space travel can become possible. Now, let me post a simple question: Is it possible to use the matter (interstellar dust and plasma) or energy (maybe cosmic ray or constant radiation) to power our probes, especially cosmic ray and high energy radiation? If we have an energy magnifier, we can magnify the radiation and boost a lot of energy to power the probe, since we know cosmic rays are harmful to human bodies, there should be a good side to cosmic rays if we master the skills to use handle them well, shouldn`t it? E…
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For long scientists are looking into some economical ways to send unmanned probes to explore the extrasolar space. Now, I think this idea is a good one. Here is my proposal. First, set up a probe by usual methods and procedures just excluding the power supply unit. Next, design the power supply unit. This power supply unit is something new. It is a long but slim system. You have to stock up a certain amount of fuel, let`s say ion or xenon ion which is used by the Japanese probe Hayabusa(if I am not mistaken). The xenon ion is stored in a container or tank. Then, prepare a long pipe with 2 generators or dynamos. The size of the generator or dynamos depend on the size o…
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Did/Do we create ourselves/universe, Do we live within one of these collisions Or a future collision from next stage collider? Cern Hadron Collider The beams travel in opposite directions in separate beam pipes – two tubes kept at ultrahigh vacuum 10-6 mbar,. They are guided around the accelerator ring by a strong magnetic field maintained by superconducting electromagnets chilling magnets to 1.9k/-271.3 degrees c. Magnets create the magnetic fields in our universe, We create the vacuum of "space/particle collectors", We cool space, We supply the energy needed to create "big bang" by accelerating particles, supplying energy to particles/"electrons".
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I am going to discuss something about space in this topic. Where does the universe came about? What causes Big Bang? I think we might have found out the answer. It all lies in a brand new theory (more precisely just a hypothesis) -The Theory of Space. The Theory of Space 1. Space is everything. Nothing is outside space. 2. Space creates universe. No matter what theory might be proposed in the future, they must have relationship or originated from space itself. 3. Space is an ultimate invisible super large field, containing a vast amount of gravitions or gravitational field lines. 4. The 4 fundamental forces we know today are actually part of the gravitational …
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I myself like others have a look of a girl that is highly, attractive, when looks like the look that is. What in the brain does makes you attracted to this certain almost percise look?
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Hi, everyone. Humbly, I admit I'm not smart enough to build a time machine. I'm also not smart enough to acquire the resources - cash - to hire some of you bright folks to create a time machine for me. (Sigh. Emphasis added.) But I want a time machine. With that in mind, I can only add what I can add and perhaps indirectly inspire one of you in the quest. Everything has a natural frequency. Would it be possible to travel in time if one were to somehow disrupt the natural frequency of the universe? Could a person somehow encapsulate oneself, perhaps in a shield of energy, disrupt the natural frequency of the universe and perhaps by using certain oscillations of th…
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Hi i am going to unite the 4 forces today and im going to start by explaining 3. I think that protons and neutrons are miniature universes which do big bangs and big crunches. Which means that the strong force is gravity and the weak force is caused by the big bangs of these wave particle duality universes. Now, with this said its time to incorperate the electromagnetic force into the theory by postulating a new theory on gravity. It is that gravity is caused by dark energy which is released from stars during nuclear fusion. And after that it makes gravity stronger which is why a core of a star shrinks over time. Also, this explains why universal expansion accelerates ove…
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I found a video of one of the newer criticisms of the BICEP2 project and they sounded quite.. radical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC_KkLvG22A#t=855 the guy says that both gravitational waves and the CMB simply do not exist... im guessing a quack but im not sure :S
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