Speculations

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.

We normally express motion of a planet in space as the distortion of local space time. This is looking from the perspective that mass is the driver and space is the agent. What if we visualize mass as the agent and space time as an intelligent matrix that "responds" to mass by creating a ripple that registers an event? In fact if we look at the early history of the universe if space was not "intelligent" (much like pliable Plasticine) it could not respond to the primordial masses that were created at the big bang and it is still being responsive (as the universe is expanding as the galaxies move further apart). Also if we assume that this Plasticine was of finite density …

Well 2D or 3D and having boundaries, if we take the position that we not assume anything then the boundaries are "visible" to the extent that that is as far as we can observe. So the cake has become larger and larger the last hundred years even without the also observed expansion. We can observe further. I thought the balloon analogy takes care of another problem concerning the space cake (this cake depicting thus the visible universe) namely that this rising cake is also "thrown / big banged" in a specific direction. In a way that resembles a balloon being blown up, of which only part is visible. I.e. if you take a paper hole puncher and perforate the balloon the ti…

I imagine a white hole would be fairly warm. Did you mean wormhole, though?

Introduction I am a physics teacher in a lower secondary school (gimnazjum). For many years I have thoroughly analysed and interpreted the results of scientific experiments in physics and confronted them with modern theories. The results of the experiments indicate that micro- and macroscopic world observe precise, consistent, explicit and clear rules. Incorrect interpretation of the structure and mechanics of the microscopic world lead to an erroneous division into quantum and classical physics. De Broglie waves and Schrodinger's quantum mechanics were introduced into physics as a result of incomprehension of the structure and mechanisms of the microscopic world. Some o…

I recently attened Dr. Michio Kaku presentation at my college (Jan. 23, 2014, 1800), as I stated in a thread we won't discuss I'm only a Programming student. One subject he spoke of now has my curiosity, Savant Syndrome. Why? Today I went and bought a book (for fun) of "Fundementals of Physics". I'm not sure of the year it was published or the Author but I can say that the First Review question(s) of the First Chapter are word puns using the SI Prefix system, hence the title of this post. The first two chapters simply state equations to measure different things, such as distance, speed, etc. However, I have never had Calculus or Trigonometry but the moment I looke…

The assumption is that the universe is the physical manifestation of mathematics. If this is true, the universe would have to behave with a mathematical model that is bounded only by itself, and to be able to predict everything about itself, simultaneously. This is my attempt to build such a model. The model is describing a structure that is bounded by 0 and 1, but has the ability to predict every point between 0 and 1 and also including 1. Not only does it have the ability to predict every point between, but also has the ability to predict every point of every point within, approaching 0, simultaneously. The paper is an excerpt from a larger paper, so it ma…

I have heard max tegmark say that in the mathematical universe, there is no "stopping point" as to the investigation of physical realities.....there is nothing that cannot come under scrutiny of the maths, since everything is math. That may be true up to a point (TOU), but where did the "maths" come from? That is a valid question to pose if you wish to deal with a true TOE that has no "givens" or at least the minimum amount of them as possible. I certainly agree in his assessment that a mathematical assignment to reality is the way to proceed, but that doesn't say why all the baroque math is "out there" to be used to cobble together this or any other universe....as I have…

Most people pursue financial gain. What if we all sought biological gain? The latter makes more sense to me. We are approaching technology that will allow for us to have control over our own mortalities. Shouldn't this be our highest priority? I have a very wealthy friend who makes a high income in finance. His job is to convince banks to loan wealthy people money interest rates that make my friend and the bank high profits. When I visited him, he took me on his expensive boat. We had a pretty good time, but I think he said that he used up about $1000.00 that day in fuel. Then we went back to his mansion. Only about 15 years ago, we would amuse ourselves…

Sorry but this is it. Occam's razor states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. The razor states that one should proceed to simpler theories until simplicity can be traded for greater explanatory power. The simplest available theory need not be most accurate. In science, Occam's razor is used as a heuristic (general guiding rule or an observation) to guide scientists in the development of theoretical models rather than as an arbiter between published models. In the scientific method, Occam's razor is not considered an irrefutable principle of logic or a scientific result. WE KNOW: We are energy and as we…