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The theory of Non-Familiarity This is an excerpt from a Wikipedia article which is a very coherent step towards the formulation of an equation that would suffice for a theory of everything. Properties and impasse of self-substantiation In “The Price of an Ultimate Theory”,[2] originally published in 2000, Nicholas Rescher specifies what he sees as the principal properties of a Theory of Everything and describes an apparent impasse on the road to such a theory. Properties Principle of sufficient reason First, he takes as a presupposition the principle of sufficient reason, which in his formulation states that every fact t has an explanation t': where E predicates…
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As part of a series of blindingly obvious statements , I recently made the above quoted ' OBSERVATION ' . As my friends would say, " You are just stating the B....obvious ! " This may be true , BUT within the Blindingly obvious can be 'un noticed or just unseen in front of your very eyes ' or even ignored for some unknown reason or 'blind spot' But BTAIM ( be that as it may ) , I none the less made this Blindingly Obvious observation , during a recent spell abroad , away from my home country. ENGLAND. Here is the observation : Hence the Observation stated above . We are Position orientated and indeed also this :- [ and although a different s…
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THE ELECTRON YEARS We are all "born" within these cycles of "elements", I was born of the element 101 Mendelevium 6/12/ 19/64=101 It is why we bond reacte to some better than others. My friend/companion is einsteinium 17/8/19/55 Uses of EinsteiniumEinsteinium is of research interest only. In 1955 einsteinium-253 was used to create mendelevium for the first time. Less than a picogram of einsteinium-253 was bombarded with alpha particles in Berkeley’s 150-centimeter cyclotron. (4), I use these words losely "chemicals, electrons, time", These are labels we have attached, to make sense of the "physical world", Once i realized our universe is an electron, You …
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I came up with the idea of making a machine that could manipulate the influence of the Higgs field to produce energy. My idea is that a factory could be created, and in one area, the Higgs field would have almost no influence, and in another area, the Higgs field would have a heavy influence. The area with low influence would be used to move water up, and then it would be moved to the area with a heavy Higgs influence. The water in the heavily influenced area would move down with gravity through turbines to produce energy. The, the water would be moved back to the area with a low amount of Higgs influence, and it would be raised again with less energy expended. I decided …
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I have a theory that I'd like to share. The theory is that psychology and sociology are a part of physics. I believe that they work and can be acted upon and calculated in the same way that gravity and other classical physics can. In classical physics: a computer uses electricity to operate its electrical circuits. These networks of electrical circuits are used to build higher levels of software abstraction (such as word processing, graphical user interfaces, or rendering and exploring 3d environments.) This is used to create and execute the audio, the visuals, and the user controlled experiences that the software or a video game can provide through its hardware. …
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I believe I created either faster or slower factorial algorithm than the standard bottom-up multiplication used by computers. Allow me to explain. I first started out by coming across some patterns: ((10+10)/2)^2-10x10=((20+20)/2)^2-20x20=0=0^2 ((11+9)/2)^2-11x9=((21+19)/2)^2-21x19=1=1^2 1-0=1 ((12+8)/2)^2-12x8=((22+18)/2)^2-22x18=4=2^2 4-1=3 ((13+7)/2)^2-13x7=((23+17)/2)^2-23x17=9=3^2 9-4=5 ((14+6)/2)^2-14x6=((24+16)/2)^2-24x16=16=4^2 16-9=7 ((15+5)/2)^2-15x5=((25+15)/2)^2-25x15=25=5^2 25-16=9 ((16+4)/2)^2-16x4=((26+14)/2)^2-26x14=36=6^2 36-25=11 ((17+3)/2)^2-17x3=((27+13)/2)^2-27x13=49=7^2 49-36=13 ((18+2)/2)^2-18x2=((28+12)/2)^2-28x12=64=8^2 64-4…
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Recently, I watched a very interesting live streamed video conference (warning: 1h30min long!) about the 2nd confirmed Inner Oort cloud object (2012VP113), as well as a centaur (sort of dwarf planet) with rings. I want to discuss a detail about the Inner Oort cloud objects, and a speculation that came of that. The make a long story short: it seems that the 'Argument of perihelion' for distant objects clusters around 0 degrees. For those who don't know what that means (like me, 24 hrs ago), the argument of perihelion is the argument of periapsis for the specific case of the Sun (helion). This article in The Economist is able to explain it quite well in layman's ter…
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I am wondering if the difference in the magnitudes of the Casimir force as measured in the lab, and the necessary strength of lambda, the cosmological constant, or "dark energy," could be due to the fact that it is offset by a change in guv due to the local density of matter within the galaxy, or within the Local Cluster.
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Numerology can determine a person's character and the purpose of his life.It can predict , when will the opportunities knock one's life.Numerology can calculate the Life's pathnumber.I came to know more about the numerology by visiting an [ link removed by moderator] .He provided me lots of interesting facts of numerology.
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Unless gravity effected the higher dimensional membrane that the other universes lie on... But mostly, what it's looking like isn't a multiverse in the sense of realities being inlaid in each other, but rather that because "nothingness is unstable" and there's no real reason the think the big bang itself was the start of literally "everything", the big bang we think we've found could easily just be a random fluctuation among many other random fluctuations, and because we don't know of anything that can limit big bangs from happening, we just say there could be an infinite amount of them which leads to the theory of every possible universe occurring. Assuming that's how i…
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this is just an idea that i am working on. this is just a semi clear english translation of an idea that i am reasearching my last post poeple seemed to have trouble with the title my excessive use of the word i believe. i understand now that "i believe" does not mean to you what it means to me. to me saying "i believe" is like saying "i think?" so lets get on with it. revised also for other content that i didnt think through,so thank you for all of the responses. Formation of a black hole stage 1 a star reaches its final days as it produces more and more iron. Once the star produces the iron the energy that kept the star from collapsing inward is gone. all of …
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Light Hypothesis. It is said that light is constant to all observers, current theory says that light is constant to all observers. I believe the theory to be wrong, and light may be constant to all observers, but light is not a constant. My Hypothesis is that light changes its state , changing frequencies at an incredible rate, and our eyes adjusted to the change. I have looked at the evidence in several forms, using various primitive techniques, but with understandable outcomes to all my tests. For my evidence, I have used several various light interactions. A Prism - By seemingly angle and refraction, natural light is split into waves A camera - By angle we can str…
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http://www.sidis.net/ANIMContents.htm This should be a textbook in physics studies. What do you think?
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So, I've been learning about different dimensions as of late. And I've read views and theories on time travel. From what I've read, it appears more practical to be in this dimension and attempt to travel into the future rather than the past. The reason the past is impractical or impossible in this dimension, if I've read correctly, is because of the energy requirements to reverse entropy. However, my current view eliminates that necessity and avoids the grandfather paradox. However, the time traveler becomes stuck in time. Time for the time traveller can either be erased or re-written per the time traveller. Furthermore, this makes for an interesting universe we currently…
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Okay, so I was reading about Brocard's Problem, and how there are only three known whole number solutions to it. To anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, this is the problem: n!+1=m^2 The only known pairs of numbers that will satisfy this question while staying whole and valid are (4,5), (5,11), and (7,71). Two men, Berndt and Galway, also performed calculations up to one-billion for n and showed that there where no further answers to satisfy this problem within that range. Paul Erdős has even conjectured that no other solutions exist! Naturally, when somebody reads something like this, they want to look for more solutions. I figured that, since calc…
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Water is referred to as the “universal solvent” because it can dissolve more substances and in greater quantity than any other solvent yet, paradoxically, 99.9% of the earth is insoluble in water. Rocks dont dissolve in water because a rock (even a large rock) is a single immense (covalently bonded) molecule and therefore cannot dissolve. Or, if not a single molecule, then it is a collection of long polymer-like molecules (chain silicates/Geopolymers). This is what makes lava amorphous. Chem 421 - Crystalline and Amorphous Polymers If they are allowed to cool slowly, these chains (chain silicates) can fold up into regular crystal structures but they are still l…
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a person on a social forum told me how his aunt actually survived spontaneous human combustion he said how he was there when he saw the flames appear on her and how her doctor then concluded it was coming from her cells and he diagnosed her with spontaneous combustion. he said she didnt smoke, swears on the truth, and ended the thing with 'science doesnt explain everything' ... he then said something about reactive gasses and chemicals building up in her from a bad diet caused her to start flaming up from the inside. I recall that he mentioned the production of reactive chemicals or gasses. i tried to question him , but then he questioned me if i had a PhD like the docto…
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What the title says.
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After thinking for a while, I decided that posting about this would be a good choice. Although most of this discussion can probably be classified as paranormal, I'm posting it hopes that it will be useful in a scientific manner, such as better understanding how consciousness works. So think of this as an experiment I did unknowingly. As it will be obvious, there's no way in which I can offer proof for what I will say, and the best I can do is promise that these are the real events as I recall them. I don't expect everyone to believe me either, but this is for everyone to make what they will of. If it's in the incorrect forum area also, I apologize and please move it in th…
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I thought there was another thread that mentioned life in our solar system and life on Titan specifically but I couldn't find it but I did find this great talk by Dr. Chris McKay (NASA Ames Research Center) about life on Titan told as a mystery, it's long but well worth the watch if you have the time... I was truly engrossed in the video, Dr. McKay was extremely interesting to listen to and his lecture was easy to understand. It made me think of the titan equivalent of Earth's black smokers in our oceans except with water magma and super heated methane leaching various chemicals from the magma and hot rock (liquid and hot frozen water) as water does on earth …
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When most people try to divide by 0, they either type it in to a calculator to find error, work it out on a sheet of paper to find repeating infinity (and I know writing infinity outside of calculus is against the rules, but it doesn't hurt to write it down just so you can see what will happen), or use calculus to get 'undefined'. Well, I believe that dividing by 0 is more of a philosophical process rather than a mathematical one. For instance, let's try using words to divide 10 by 2. To have one of 2 equal pieces to 10 is to have: 5 That seems to work out nicely. Let's try this with 0. To have one of 0 equal pieces to 10 is to have: Well, that's an invali…
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Element 534 I am not actually proposing that element 534 i am proposing that inside the center of a plack hole is matter. The center of a black hole is a mystery. But I believe that black holes are actually planets made of elements so heavy that they can distort space and time around them. As a star makes heavier and heavier until its core becomes unstable the core either explodes and becomes a dwarf or implodes and becomes a black hole. I believe that a star large enough could produce an element heavy enough in its core to have enough of a gravitational field to absorb the star around it. All of the elements would come to the surface around it shredded by the gravita…
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"Since the cosmic microwave background is a form of light, it exhibits all the properties of light, including polarization. On Earth, sunlight is scattered by the atmosphere and becomes polarized, which is why polarized sunglasses help reduce glare. In space, the cosmic microwave background was scattered by atoms and electrons and became polarized too." http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2014-05 Well then this is consistent with tired photons that point towards Champagne bubble cosmology as I predicted that an anomaly should be seen akin GR from distant light from one side of a distant galaxy in reference to the other side. Light doesn't travel in a straight line and th…
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Dont believe me? Read here : link removed
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Here is the abstract to a paper I wrote: Abstract A Balmer series of observed hydrogen data was compared to two geometric levels of atomic theory and modeling. The first theory compared was the Euclidean‑based, special relativistic Dirac theory, with QED corrections added. The second theory applied was a non‑Euclidean electromagnetic Kerr field theory. Each model was used to predict the Balmer series transition wavelengths, and then compared to the observed data. The statistics for the model performances were computed, and show a noticeable increase in accuracy and precision of the model predictions using the non‑Euclidean Kerr field theory compared to Euclidean Dira…
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