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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. Started by petrushka.googol,

    I have made some earlier posts on entropy on this site but I find this aspect of physics very daunting and a tad intimidating (if i could put it that way). How could we interpret entropy to :- a)Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle b)Success and Failure in everyday life (and migraine headaches as an extension...!!) Here's how : Think of an imaginary measuring tool that iteratively scans a sub-space for a photon. As we zero in on the co-ordinates of an elusive photon, we require more iterative sub-space scans (much like the scanning lines on a TV). Programmatically it is like a loop from 1 to N where N is very large (to increase accuracy of measuremen…

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  2. Started by ADVANCE,

    Hi, I am 18 and although I know a lot about physics and stuff I am probably missing lots of knowledge and probably even simple things in physics. My idea from what I know follows physics and I think it could work maybe, I first realized it when I was 14 and still I have no proof it can't be made/work, and am obviously then wishing for it to be studied and built by the people that could test and make it. So here is my whole plan below, with I know some extreme possibilities if the beginning works, and then those extremer things might work. So here it is below... (it's a saved paste of everything) So could we under a Ultra-High-Vacuum Atomic-Force-Microscope (UHV AFM) o…

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  3. Was told to make this separate thread

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  4. Before I start check out this Physicist's Research: Fran De Aquino Maranhao State University, Physics Department, S.Luis/MA, Brazil. Copyright © 2011 by Fran De Aquino. All Rights Reserved High-power ELF radiation generated by modulated HF heating of the ionosphere can cause Earthquakes, Cyclones and localized heating http://vixra.org/pdf/1202.0044v1.pdf I would like to produce some findings here regarding HAARP, which relate to other HAARP like facilities that may interest you. First off HAARP can generate HF, VLF and ELF frequencies triggered by a phased array which lifts up the ionosphere from 3.6 Mega Watts too 5.1 Giga Watts. That being said, cou…

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  5. A few things to clarify before I get started: I am aware this is a theory I came up with, which is untested and has no mathematics behind it. I don't claim to be the only one to have thought of it either, although I never saw it discussed anywhere else and concluded it's an obscure concept. Even if my observation holds some truth to it, it's likely incomplete and not fully correct... but it might at least provide a basis for a new way of looking at the subject. I'm hoping that posting this will spark further ideas that will continue mine, and that someone who has the hardware to attempt experiments in this sense might do so as well. In essence, I believe I found part …

  6. Started by Popcorn Sutton,

    I think that gravity is extremely cold, possibly even 0 K. In a place that is as cold as absolute 0, there will be no time and no space for anything. You get can extremely close to it, but it will take you an extremely long time to get there. With this hypothesis, given the assumption that it is 0 K, we can explain why things are solid, I'd call it quantum gravitational freezing, or bubbleic solidification.

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  7. Started by Farsight,

    Whoa, guys. Time travel is science fiction. It's pseudoscience. I'm afraid you can't even travel forwards in time. People say things like "we all travel forward in time at one second per second". But it's just a figure of speech. This travel is notional, it isn't travel in any real sense. There's no motion through time, none whatsoever. Because time is a cumulative measure of motion through space. Look inside a mechanical clock, and you don't see time flowing. You see cogs and sprockets whirring. Because clocks clock up motion. Every measure of time employs motion, be it the motion of the earth, the motion of a pendulum, the motion of a crystal, or the motion of lig…

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  8. "SCHIZOPHRENIA" (an integration disorder) - the price we pay for language? Professor Tim Crow's theory suggests that schizophrenia is the price we pay for language and I wonder if the exposure to stimulus (non-verbal) - stimulus (verbal) contingencies (classical conditioning) when you with a short delay are able to restore a verbal message or interpret what subjectively seems to be a verbal message can have such a profound effect that some people develop a mental illness. Quote:"...classical conditioning is far more subtle and relevant to complex human cognitive-emotional behavior than one might first realize..." (p. 4) Source: The Imbalanced Brain: From Nor…

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  9. Started by Mr Rayon,

    Hi, Is it true that wearing working clothes for work enhances worker productivity (e.g. wearing a suit and tie at work)? Similarly, it is believed by many that wearing fitness gear (gym-wear) enhances your motivation when going to the gym for a workout. I am just wondering whether there have been any studies which have suggested that wearing a particular clothing can make you more productive at doing certain things.

  10. Started by Dekan,

    There's no such thing as "Space"! It's just a synonym for "Separation" or "Gap". So when earnest scientific posters keep talking about "the expansion of Space" - they could just as well be talking about "the expansion of Gap" Isn't it disappointing to see how easily language stops clear thinking?

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  11. Started by Popcorn Sutton,

    Traveling faster than speed of light may not be possible, but it is possible with respect to an observer. Imagine freezing yourself in a bubble of absolute zero. For you, no time passes. So wrt to observation and the speed of light, it takes the light about 8 minutes to get here when it could only take you 1 second. That is technically traveling faster than the speed of light. Duh, right? This, combined with statistics, makes time travel possible. And teleportation if you can preserve yourself during the process. Here's a new law for u guys- Nothing can travel faster than t while t = 0(o). t = time with respect to the observer. In this case it equals…

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  12. Started by Popcorn Sutton,

    I was thinking about how cool it would be to have a single music station that reflects your input, but then I was wondering if it already exists- Pandora shuffle If it doesn't exist, then computational linguistics could help make it happen. I may get into code if I end up thinking about this often.

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  13. You might have seen my Unexplained Files documentary on the Science Channel last year. I also had an article made about me on Huffington Post. It was a very harrowing experience, and I think that this is something that needs to be explored more. From my experience some things are certain ; Enzymes do not denature at high temperatures while they are inside the body. My doctor even agreed with me on this, saying if that were the case then it would not have gone so far as to causing an internal flame which became visible on the outside of my body. The doctor had diagnosed me with ''Partial Spontaneous Combustion'', and told me that I had burnt from the inside out, com…

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  14. Started by Moontanman,

    I like a British TV program called "Primeval" in this show rifts in time allow animals from various eras to invade the present. In this show usually only one or two animals come through and are dealt with in various ways. The animals from the past are generally shown to be too dangerous for modern animals to deal with them but I wonder if that is true. During the time of the dinosaurs there were no modern type Mammals and the mammals that were alive were easily dominated by dinosaurs. If the two ecosystems were truly mixed in some way would Mammals beat out the dinosaurs or would dinosaurs reclaim their dominance? I think dinosaurs would be at a big dis…

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  15. Started by sunshaker,

    Below is our star the sun, Also a human egg with sperm. I was wondering if a human egg was enlarged to the size of our sun, How would the egg look to us viewed from earth? Would we see it at its atomic structure? If i changed their colour in photoshop, could you tell difference at first glance? I am not saying our sun is an egg, just how similar they look.

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  16. Started by dijinj,

    Here is non-mass expulsion type device, which uses properties of line integral and path dependent nature of friction force. The new device can achieve near light speed using properties inherent to relativity. In cases like LHC while particle moves at light speed the force is applied from stationary. But in new device force applied from and space craft is in same inertial frame, so comparatively less energy is required to attain light speed. Details of new device are given in link https://sites.google.com/site/nonmassexpulsiontypethruster/ Please comment your views on feasibility of the above concept for a Path independent force or conservative force work done in a c…

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  17. Started by Saitek,

    I was thinking about this the other day, could evolution and natural selection prove that reincarnation exists? Basically an organism needs a constant life/death cycle to improve itself. Through DNA it can keep track of things from one life to the next. The DNA code is constantly making random changes to itself, if something is so undesirable natural selection will cause those combination of genes not to be passed on. So that particular mutation will die out. Whatever is desirable gets passed on in the DNA during procreation. What has me stumped is how its keeping track and not repeating that particular mutation. Or its not thus we have things like ident…

  18. Started by Mike Smith Cosmos,

    In response to the thread " Something from nothing " I would like to pose a Theory which I have found covers the whole Shebang, namely " the LoT " It is not stated in mathematical form. It is not some fundamental particle , force , etc. It is a lingual or language based statement: It can be built on with other principles and Mathematics as and if required. Quote I have found this works well. Covers Big Bang and before. The whole Shebang, namely " the LoT , ( including Scientific Principles that can be verified)" TRY IT OUT . It works . Edited by Mike Smith Cosmos, 11 March 2011 - 09:41 PM. . originally submitted in "Do you have a n…

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  19. Rather than thinking of space as being a stage on which the universe plays out its existence. Could not space be composed of the very stuff the universe is made of ( mainly fields ) . Can the Gold Fish not finally wake up to the fact it is NOT floating around in nothing. But rather is swimming about in water. Instead of space being nothing , can it not BE the sum total of all FIELDS . In which everything , is, moves and exists. We are in a SOUP. or are in the SOUP . Mike Ps. I have a recent 'Observation or two ' to back this up !

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  20. The gravitational field has a strong influence, but it will affect how the optics? To find the answer, we will return to the 19th century with the aether theory.

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  21. Started by otter0,

    There have been hundreds of therories regarding time travel, but which, if any, if accurate? Right now there is no known way to switch through different times in history. What is Time Travel? Dictionary.com explains it as a hypothetical transport through time into the past or the future, but is it? Many people believe that time travel must involve the ability to effect the strands of time as we know it. But, if that is true, than couldn't the slightest change effect the human races existence? And if so, couldn't people start a new crime industry, going through time and changing things that should really be left alone? Is the human race even ready for the power involved in…

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  22. Started by bigview,

    The universe is rapidly expanding, and as we know: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Gravity is a universal field effect generated as an equal & opposite reaction to the force of universal expansion. By analogy, an elevator car traveling upwards produces downwards G-force, pressing an occupant into the elevator floor. A jet accelerating forwards on a runway produces backwards G-force, which causes a passenger to be pushed into the seatback. So, upward thrust produces downward G-force, while forward thrust produces backwards G-force. An outwardly expanding universe produces inward G-force at every point within itself. This universal force pushe…

  23. Whether this post belongs to the domain of motivation theory or compound probability or sociology or game theory or even abstract philosophy is hard to determine. The gist of my argument goes thus "In a research project of n people with n1 people having a skill level of s1, n2 with s2...and so on", the optimum combination is a minimum number of n2 (where n2 > n1) with an exposure to the project lower than that of n1 (where exposure is measured in man-hours)", and others allocated along the same lines by extension of the same principle. To illustrate consider a research project done by 3 individuals. Two of these have knowledge factors of 0.5 (an index of comfo…

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  24. RESEMBLANCE AND DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO ATOMS When scientists say that disintegration of Neutron consists with an electron, one proton and one antineutrino, I make comparison with hydrogen and find the same, or quasi the same. But is it known that neutron occupy a volume very small, instead hydrogen atom a quite formidable one. For scientist, the fact of occupation of space by mass particles is a solved problem, or am I wrong? I am a layman, and I see very strange “the statements” that elementary mass particles are points and indeed without volume. I suppose that a debate about this theme will help to clear view -point of lay-mans, about “statements”.

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  25. This is the unification of the gravitational force with the electromagnetic force,Theory of Everything.The unification has been done by following two ways,the results being identical.The first way is represented by the analogue atom-supergalaxy.The second way is represented by the equality between gravitational force law and electrostatic force law.In the universe the mass of a body is represented by m=(4 x pi x epsilon0 x G)-1/2 x q and the electrical charge of a body is represented by q=(4 x pi x epsilon0 x G)1/2 x m .Using these formulas I have calculated the electrical charge of the supergalaxy,the galaxy and the solar system.For example the Galaxy has q=+-2.5 x 1031…

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