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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.
  2. Be civil. As wrong as someone might be, there is no reason to insult them, and there's no reason to get angry if someone points out the flaws in your theory, either.
  3. Keep it in the Speculations forum. Don't try to use your pet theory to answer questions in the mainstream science forums, and don't hijack other threads to advertise your new theory.

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  1. Started by SamBridge,

    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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  2. Started by vextryyn,

    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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  3. Started by Relative,

    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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  4. Started by wucko,

    http://www.sidis.net/ANIMContents.htm This should be a textbook in physics studies. What do you think?

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Started by granpa,

    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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  8. 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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  9. Started by Relative,

    What the title says.

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  10. 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…

  11. Started by Moontanman,

    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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  12. 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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  13. Started by vextryyn,

    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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  14. Started by kristalris,

    "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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  15. Started by zidzad1,

    Dont believe me? Read here : link removed

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  16. 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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  17. Started by overtone,

    This issue would normally be part of the flow of a thread dealing with some particular aspect or example of the field, but as that seems to have become impossible for some reason, in a manner similar to the situation with CO2 hazards (a concerted body of organized and supported denialists simply trash the issue whenever it comes up), perhaps a thread - or even, as with climate change, a subforum? - dedicated to the general topic might come in handy, bleed off the bullshit into one pond. It might also be a place where I am allowed to post in reply to some of the more obviously irresponsible or poorly motivated denialist responses to my observations elsewhere, eh? …

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  18. Started by 514void,

    I was thinking that this could be used to accelerate spaceships. Here is the hypothisis: If i have a closed system with a disk that moved up and down, and the disk was made to spin by a motor at the top of the system and made to stop spinning at the bottom of the system, the whole system would feel a force that would accelerate it upwards. The system could have a similar disk that moved up and down but spun the opposite direction than the first to stop the whole system from spinning. I have thought about how It mightn't work, such as if you spun up the disk, would it lose translational inertia? I think no, since according to relativity, there is no preferred…

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  19. Started by Sammy808,

    Hello all! New to the forum, and thought I would share some of my current theories! I have long ago started breaking down these thoughts, and now 18 years later am starting to see it coming together. I get places with this theory through skepticism from myself and others, so please comment either way! I see people today being stuck somewhere between what we see in front of us, what we see above us, what we see below us, and what we see behind us (metaphorically or literally). We know E = MC2 but how does that apply to our lives? Saying for a second Japan's mathematicians were correct in assuming we are a 3D projection from a 2D surface, and also string theory and …

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  20. Started by md65536,

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox The BanachTarski paradox as I've heard it basically says that you can "disassemble an orange and then reassemble it into 2 oranges identical to the first." You can do this mathematically on a set of points but you can't do it with a real orange because it requires taking it apart into uncountably infinite points, I think, and you can't take apart quanta of matter like that. I'm wondering if reasoning in the opposite direction is useful. Outline: 1. Assume that matter isn't quantized, and any piece can be split into several smaller pieces. 2. Find a way to partition a sphere according to the B-T …

  21. Started by Airbrush,

    Did anyone see this program on the Military channel? It is a scenario with Michio Kaku and others. Suppose ETs were headed for Earth, what are they after? The planet, and we would be in their way. So they would work at getting rid of us. First EMPs set off over all major cities would reduce us to before electricity, we would be blinded. Then they could pound the oceans with huge masses at high speed to create tsunamis to destroy all coastal populations, where most people live. Then, finally, they would develope a bio-weapon to spread on birds. In the scenario, enough humans survived to attempt to fight back with technology that was shielded from the EMPs. We were abl…

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  22. Started by Finalshine,

    im not one for been absolute on anything but after watching a TV program, that was based on time the universe an the effects of it all on the everyday day life on earth an the basic operations and physics of the universe. The program stated that time travel to the future is possible cause every eventuality is cast upon the space time continuum ready to unfold like a flicker movie showing single frame pictures, im not ruling out that it could be possible, but i think to my self that how can travel to the future be possible if time is relative, how can thing have already happened if were are now in the present what i am saying is i don't think its possible as no ones future…

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  23. Started by Lacto Bacto,

    Delete, delete, delete.

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  24. Started by cladking,

    Before the advent of complex language which gave rise to humanity the late proto-humans must have realized that some members of the tribe were less "intelligent" than others. Some individuals tended to understand and succeed and some tended to cause confusion and fail. Humans are (and were) a little more clever than most animals and could notice that this ability to succeed tended to run in families and breed true. Perhaps they attempted to breed humans for intelligence but their only parameters for measuring intelligence were closely related to the ability to communicate with nature and one another. The rise of the human speech center might not have been mutation but…

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  25. Started by ajb,

    I don't particularly want to go over old ground again here, but Gödel's theorems are proved for formal theories that satisfy some conditions. Not all systems satisfy there conditions. So in no way have you disproved these theorems at best you have systems in which you don't necessarily expect the theorems in the first place. The proviso here is that I am not exactly sure what you claims are.

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