Speculations

I don't know the facts surrounding this issue, but I regularly hear that water is the only substance that expands when it freezes. (Personally I don't trust such a sweeping statement). But I also hear that we remain clueless as to why. It's the why I am speculating on. I just imagine that it has something to do with the motion of the molecules as it relates to temperature, and the hydrogen bonds that I seem to gather are an attractive force between the molecules. A lower temperature slows the motions of the molecules, and perhaps the reduced speed inhibits the expression of the hydrogen bond attractions, and conversely, perhaps the hydrogen bonds become more expressed…

I wondered if this idea had already been run through, that Saggitarius a* had an electromagnetic field so immense and powerful that it encompassed the whole galaxy and kept it from flying apart. Yeah, probably what a third grader would say, but I hadn't seen that idea in any forum, just talk that dark matter is an as yet undiscovered particle.

Once there was a man of science. Well trained in the arts of physics and cosmology. He was held in high esteem by pretty much everyone in his field. One day he decided to have a dinner party for a very special group of people; Time travelers. So he advertised the date of the party and made his intentions well known in hopes that he might find some interesting dinner conversation with those from the future and perhaps even the past, and/or different dimensions all together. The table was set and the dinner prepared and although many come to eat, there was only one time machine in the room, and it's perspective was not enough to feed them. And so they left him, b…

Perhaps infinite is a relative term. Does the photon posses infinite energy? Maybe it's not massless but rather it's infinite mass is spread out over an infinite ray of distance making it appear massless. And the Higgs boson would ofcourse be intersections of these rays whereby some part of the infinite mass/distance is converted back to energy. This would create a field where larger massive objects would have some difficulty reaching light speed. Merging rays might explain velocity time dialations. The more photons produced the faster the universe would expand, Thus dark energy. Just a thought.

Some years back I had seen a presentation titled "Power of 10" where slides detailing the realm of the very small (gluons etc) to the very large (galactic clusters etc.) were listed. I was wondering whether it is possible in theory for a subsystem to have an opposing set of laws to the macro environment. For example, could we have a subsystem where entropy increases as a subset of a larger system where the entropy increases? My answer is no for the concept of local cannot be dissociated from the whole and to enable seamless integration and conformity practical reasoning avers that the subset cannot exist independent of the whole. For example, we might be tem…

IS IT GRAVITY THE MAIN SOURCE OF MOVEMENT? MAY BE THE ONLY? Kramer, doesn’t recall where he read once that scientists are puzzled about cause that make cosmic bodies to spin around their axis. That’s very simple to solve it! “--- He told me.---- It is a known boaster that lay man Kramer. But let be patient with him and throw down step by step his mode of reasoning. Kramer say: 1 – The velocity of planets depends by gravity of sun and by the precise distance “Rsun-planet” from center of sun to the point where is the center of gravity of planet. Vg1 = ((G*Msun) / Rsun,planet.)^0.5 Is it that true? 2 – But planet is not a point. It has …

I thought what if gravity is a curve like in relativity but not in most diagrams, I was thinking since we have 3D dimension with 4D as spacetime it could be a sphere with spacetime actually pressing against the Earth. Earth: Creates curve in spacetime which is a sphere since we live in a 3D Universe with 4D as spacetime Atmosphere: Is trapped by the gravity pushing against it Red Gravity layer: It touches the surface of the Earth and the closer the more dense the gravity is. In the very edge to orange is the zone where things can orbit Earth that are small. Red and Orange Gravity layer: Larger objects are able to orbit cause the distance is farther away from earth…

Hi, I built six workable models of PMM as they should work if the physic Laws are violated. I invite you to discuss which law doesn't let to exist each of them. The video is published here Thank you

for any discretization accuracy obtain a finite number of possible variants for the lifetime of civilization / universe. for example, there is an upper limit on what we can see on the monitor for a finite interval or record a digital camera or microphone, including if they record what sees and hears people. also there are limits to what people can write on your computer (etc. all posts, messages). furthermore there is a limit on the number of possible changes in sequences of bits in a computer. or another, all computers in the world. so, variants can't be repeated periodically not, within the meaning of that its can't be unique…

To start off I don't know if this is already a forum or if this is in the wrong place. If it is then please move, delete or close it. That being said, I was thinking about the basic definitions by which we define life. It has to reproduce, evolve, be made of cells, produce waste and use reasources (I may be missing a few so correct me here if needed). Computer programs can be made to randomly mutate their code, they use processing power from other host computers, reproduce, have a code which is somewhat similar to DNA (DNA has 2 combinations of 4 base pairs, binary has 2 possible states per unit of information so the two are quite similar). My question is, at what point …

Hi I am new here. I hope I am posting this into the right forum. I was just going through science daily and found this article: Its from: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140116085105.htm I am skeptical of this whole Orch-OR model because Hameroff is a believer in Quantum Healing and things like that not to mentioned he was in What the Bleep we Know. Here is the Quantum Healing quote: Its from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/scientists-and-scholars-i_b_3543037.html Here is the original paper which the published: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571064513001188 Here is Hameroffs rebuttal to criti…

It is a theory which i m thinking about for a long time and its just made by me(self made) I think that Big Bang theory do have many limitations but i suggest that the bib bang is nothing other then a white hole or a wormhole from another universe since according to me the parallel universe exist I m remaking it because due to some bugs the older one is showing as delta1212's post so please delete the older one and keep this so what should i add or change or answer in this?

If the problems of powering such a device were ignored, what would be a method to achieve FTL space travel? I am writing a story and I am trying make it as realistic as possible.

I was talking with a friend of mine the other day about what the origins of religion might have been, and I proposed a particularly ironic idea you might find interesting. That is: What if the reason people seem to be so universally willing to believe things without evidence is because they've inherited a predisposition to it? If we look at history, we'll see that in many places, people who didn't believe in the regional deity (Or deities) were often killed or generally treated as social outsiders, which would make it particularly difficult to pass down their genetic material. People who did believe in a god, in situations like that, would be more accepted by society …

Elongated skulls after DNA tests show they were not human and couldn't interbreed with humans. Often claimed to be alien human hybrids DNA may show them to be even more interesting... http://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/545/DNA-Analysis-Of-Paracas-Elongated-Skulls-Released-The-Results-Prove-They-Were-Not-Human

Suppose that a Time Machine worked in the same fashion as rewinding a tape, where it made events occur in the opposite order that they happened. Now, suppose that the way it reversed the order of events was by 'reversing' the laws of motion--as an example, when Object A runs into Object B, the force is transferred in the direction Object A came from, instead of transferring in the direction that Object A is moving in. There's actually a name for this in theoretical physics, called Negative Mass. Therefore (if you follow), this time machine would make the positive mass into negative mass to reverse the order of events. The important thing to recognize here is that if a…

I am no physicist, my knwoledge is very small. When I was beginning to think about SR I experienced, like many others, the conclusions of SR as counter intuitive and thought that that could mean SR was wrong. I soon realized that all observations supported the conclusions of SR and that time dilation was very easy calculated. An alternative theory had to meet with the following conditions: 1 Present SR had to be incomplete or unjust 2 It had to meet the two postulates of Einstein and the clock hypothesis 3 The same observations had to be predicted and calculated in the same easy manner 4 The theory had to be consistent 5 The asssumptions it needed had …

Murphy's law states that "If anything will go wrong it will.". My rationale for the same is as follows : Argument 1 : For anything to go wrong it must have a finite probability. Argument 2 : (follows from argument 1) - A finite probability however small is greater than zero. Argument 3 : (corollary of argument 2) - If anything is impossible it has zero probability. Argument 4 : If anything goes wrong it is right in an inverted frame of reference . (anti universe). Argument 5 : That which can be measured and verifiable is real. Conclusion : (From 1 to 5) : Something can go wrong if it is destined to (at least once in the history of the universe …

I know, telepathy hasn't been proven and I'm a skeptic on the matter as well. However, Michael Persinger posited a theory: In 1974 Michael Persinger proposed that extremely low-frequency (ELF) electromagnetic waves may be able to carry telepathic and clairvoyant information. Here is the Research article I'm talking about: http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_10_4_krippner.pdf These are his other publications regarding ESP. Notice that he remains strong in his theory from 1975 to 1993 (See Below). His recent lecture http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9l6VPpDublg#t=248 (I have set the URL at the time he speaks about …

For as long as humans have looked up at the stars, we have pondered a very intricate and nostalgic question, "Are we alone?" The answer to this question has been debated for many centuries. Most skeptics conclude that if there is life out there, it is certainly not multicellular, eukaryotic life. However, we often forget the fact that there are several eukaryotic organisms that are on our planet that brave very harsh, and somewhat, inhospitable conditions. Does it seem so unlikely that there are creatures elsewhere in the universe that could use other metals and gases besides carbon and oxygen? Some beings elsewhere may use silicon and argon contrary to our own geneti…

I don't know whether this post belongs to Politics (or Sociology) or whether it even belongs to this forum at all. I was just contemplating that suppose our default skin pigment was blue and there was a minority with green skin tone..... Would racism still exist in this society? After all our biases are essentially WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) and seem to be associated with the reflex arc rather than serious introspection. Your thoughts...(provided the moderator doesn't find this post scandalous).

THE FLAVOURS OF NEUTRINOS -- AN INTRIGUING SCIENTIFIC FACT When I read about scientific fact that neutrinos change their “mass” with but-strap mode from < 3*10^-6 MeV / C^2 (electron neutrino) in < 30 MeV / C^2 ( for Tau neutrino) I was amazed and wanted to post with label “ Controversy”. That because, even though I scratched for a long time my lay-man’s head, I didn’t was able to grasp how this can happens. Everybody understands that to loose energy when you run for long time is not against nature, but to gain energy from thin air in this case is upside down. So I thought to post in this forum, ( with-out that hated “controversy” label) maybe somebody knowledgeab…

So ive been thinking this for a while and never really thought of asking anyone that may be in the know such as you guys... Why have we not dug huge holes in the ground and created some perceptual cycle that uses a huge amount of sea water/lava with some turbine in some confined environment? Therein creating a clean, renewable and i'd think extremely efficient (lava being like super mega hot and all) energy source.. I guess set up costs may be the biggest consideration but with some sort of unified program and lets just a little IMF funding (they could create a cover for the project more than easily enough though i dont really want to get into the politics of it b…

Explanation of the universal function. Removing Einstein speed limit consequentially allows to explain the universe.furthermore understanding the vacuum presence and its dynamics. feel free to download the pdf from here. explanation and references attached to each subject. https://www.academia.edu/5828233/SIMPLIFICATIONS_TOWARDS_THE_GRAND_UNIFIED_THEORY_RELATIVITY_AND_EMERGENT_DISCRETE_SPACE_TIME i created visual images and attached to the post

I think Dekan is right. I think electrons are material particles, real particles that have nothing to do with annihilation. Even interacting with positron they dance with him preserving hidden in photon own entity,. They display themselves when divorce with positron.