Speculations
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I think the wiki is right, the temperature of an atom is directly related to the energy of the bounding of the electrons in the atom. When an atom absorbs EM radiation it gets "excited". You can think in terms of the equation E =mc2. According to it, and as Einstein said, a "body" of mass m can absorb some quantity ΔE of EM radiation augmenting its mass in a quantity Δm = ΔE/c2. Mass is something directly related to the internal energy of a "body" and in your case of an atom. Seems to me you are getting confused with the gases behavior in which "heat" is absorbed verifying the gases' law PV = nRT. In this case part of the energy of a radiation is transformed to some …
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Hello, Although I am posting this to "speculations", to respect forum guidelines, I am certain this will eventually be considered the new frontier in physics soon enough: When we are dealing with an unsolved physical question like for example "when the quantum superposition ends in Schrodinger's cat?", we are puzzled to find the superposition must end after the box is opened, and the observer checks the result of the experiment. On the other hand, if we consider Einstein's special relativity, the speed of light also should be constant for every different observer. And it is strange how we never truly talk about what is the observer in physics. What is …
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There is at least one other dimension beyond the physical dimension we witness daily: the hidden 'spatial' dimension where the inner voice, inner thoughts, inner images, and dreams 'reside'. For ourselves, this dimension is visible to our 'mind's eye'. We notice our inner voice, witness our thoughts and observe our dreams. However, the same dimension and its non-physical entities are not visible to us in others or in the rest of the physical world. Thus, we do not know if ChatGPT also has such an 'inner experiential world'. Such a hidden spatial dimension. We assume it in animals. We hardly suspect it in a computer component or radio. We …
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Not anyone can be a scientist. This is only for noble people. Because in the way of knowledge there are usually lots of times in which one has to recognize he was wrong. Do we agree? I'll tell you about my case. I am 27 years old, I only finished high school, but I have found the cure of autism and a lot of chronic illnesses. It has always been hidden in plain sight. Not anyone can be a scientist because intelligence is not innate to everyone. And now we will wake up to having trusted in white smocks, and in people for their diplomas, for their having been able to repeat well. And just as intelligence is not innate to everyone so is…
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Introduction This discussion is intended as a start to develop what the aerospace industry calls a concept description document, building the largely speculative basis for a conceptual model at something close to a philosophical level. It proposes a new idea as to the origin of the universe, the nature of the Big Bang and/or inflation, a new perspective on the expanding universe, and a new idea on how the universe might end. The level of this discussion is pointed towards an architectural level; defining the piece parts, the relationship of the parts, and the conceptual flow among the parts as a process. The concepts for the piece parts are almost all taken fro…
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There are some poisons called organochlorines. Some are quite known, they have some history, like DDT. What they do is mainly to keep the sodium channels of the cells constantly open. And what would this do? Well, it's all a matter of dosis. And we are talking human beings here. Because these poisons are not "pesticides", but biological weapons. That's what they have been used for, still after their "ban". What this would produce would be a state of neurotoxicity, specifically by hyper-stimulation of the cell, causing a set of symptoms that could be named in mafia-style as "autism". Has been happening. And what if these poisons be having…
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The James Webb Telescope confirms the measurements of the Hubble Telescope regarding the speed of the so-called expansion of the universe, thereby ruling out presumed errors of the Hubble Telescope. This is problematic because the ESA Planck satellite, through another, also very accurate, measurement method, came to different conclusions. (see here for more information) Personally, therefore, like an increasing number of scientists, I think there is something fundamentally wrong with the Big Bang theory and the idea of an objective expansion of the universe. As I have previously indicated on this forum, I believe that if gravitation in the theory of general…
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Mechanics of comet motion. Community of Russian scientists. url deleted A comet is born when a satellite, orbiting a planet during the new moon phase, breaks out of orbit. Having left the planet's orbit, the satellite moves against the rotation of the Sun, due to which the centrifugal force of the satellite is reduced, and as a result, the satellite rushes towards the Sun. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet If the orbital speed of the satellite is greater than the orbital speed of the planet, then the satellite moves around the Sun in the opposite direction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrograde_and_prograde_motion In the new moon phase, when the …
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Should allow AI human-form conscious: Spinnaker-class network of neurons (axons do human-neuron action potentials as opposed to 1-op or 2-op function that just adds inputs to form outputs,) + audio-processor region (multi layer, codes raw audio input to more compressed forms such as variations of tone, direction or loudnees, more layers up would code to syllables or objects, more layers up codes to words or audio-derived motions of objects around yoo) + vision-processor region (multi layer; low layers would code photons to variations of color or brightness, upper layers would code to geoooo info, such as structures or toolssss) + gustation-processor region (would …
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A long time ago on a different forum, I made the claim that only perfect black-body radiation, both in terms of its relative frequency distribution and its intensity, can have a single temperature attributed to it. Every other distribution of radiation has a pair of temperatures attributable to it. The lower temperature is defined as the temperature achieved by an absorption spectrum that minimises absorption and maximises emission, while the higher temperature is defined as the temperature achieved by an absorption spectrum that maximises absorption and minimises emission. Then one can construct an ideal heat engine based on these two temperatures to extract work from th…
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A top of a mountain has snow because the atmosphere is less dense at altitude , therefore there is less atmospheric resistance ! Yes ?
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Please, take a look at a theory I've created. This is the theory about a different space and time definition. I've really tried to take this work as seriously as possible. And will be glad to get any feedback. Here I will consider a slightly different interpretation of space and time, and try to describe how the world will look like in it, and how different laws will work. The theory based on this another interpretation (I will call it A1) is analogous to classical spacetime. But in it, in addition to the placement (of particles, objects, points, etc.) in a "space", it is also possible, through the properties of this "space" in A1, to set the laws t…
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I don't have much background in Biology and I'm not costumed to discuss in the Biology forums (more costumed to the Physics forums) but I think in some related things sometimes. I would like to discuss in this thread if the tyrannosaurus could be a species actually well adapted to live in a wetland environment. Seems to me that considering their big size and weight, their proportionally big head and their notably big feet they could not only easily survive in that environment but also have great advantages to hunt preys in the water and on the coast of the wetlands like crocodiles do. Their big size, weigh and head would be not a problem while floating in the water w…
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Is it possible to lift lets say a 100 gram kitten using only a singular balloon of a reasonable size - using any methods possible alternatives to helium etc (Also for clarification - I am NOT testing on kittens this is purely theoretical haha)
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As far as I know water_waves travel e.g. at c. How do you deal with low frequency RF? Radio_particles? (Radions?)
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I would like to know your opinion on this hypothesis? Abstract: The multiple hypotheses proposed to explain the function of sleep reflect the incomplete understanding of the subject, and through this paper I attempt to put forward an evidencesupported hypothesis on the function of sleep that has not been highlighted. In this research, I relied on previous researches, analyzed them, and linked them , And i came up with a new hypothesis of sleep function, My hypothesis says : that sleep occurs due to the accumulation of “Breathing gas” melting in the human body, and these gases dissolve more whenever the atmospheric pressure is greater, and sleep reduces the numbe…
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TL;DR: the clock's perception of frequency is, from a GPS perspective, dependent on gravitational field and motion. I will refer to "Error Analysis for Global Positioning System": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_Positioning_System From a GPS perspective, magnitude-wise, slowing down/accelerating clocks in motion/gravity is equivalent to shifting the instrument's frequency perception. This is logical: if your clock is going slower then you will perceive the frequency as higher - and vice versa. The gravity calculations presented in the article refer to an infinitely distant point (with ~zero gravity). If one inverts thes…
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Quarks (no spatial extension) experience all 3 fundamental forces plus have a fractional electric charge⚡and that's why protons and neutrons (spatial extension) have electrons orbiting around them. In Geometry any new dimension has to contain within it all previous dimensions. This holds true with it being impossible for protons and neutrons (spatial extension) to exist without subatomically containing within themselves quarks (no spatial extension). "Something (spatial extension) from Nothing (no spatial extension)".
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Has anyone noticed the 2 large asteroid/meteor strikes north and south of South America? Looks like one took out a land bridge. If you trace the strikes and imagine the tsunami wave sand.... look at North Africa, The Southern tip of Africa, and Australia. Look at the color of that sand! So many questions here! Thank you
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I am reaching out as a passionate enthusiast of theoretical physics with a deep curiosity about the fabric of our universe. Premise: My hypothesis is centered around the possibility that spacetime could undergo dramatic ruptures under conditions where an immense mass is concentrated into a scale as small as the classical electron radius, similar to singularity points in black holes. I am particularly fascinated by the idea that such spacetime ruptures could potentially trigger localized big bang-like events on the 'other side' of these singularities. Exploratory Thoughts: - Using the Schwarzschild and Kerr metrics, I've theorized how spacetime might react …
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Is anyone ready to give up on the nonsensical big bang B.S, yet (bad science , that is) ???? If not now, when? It's obvious, or it should be, that this theory's notion of some primeval atom from which everything (billions of galaxies) sprang forth in a split second is completely illogical and most of us on the outside of science looking in are getting a little tired of this big bang B.S. It's time to move on, salvage what you can and move on. Find something to replace primeval atom as the beginning. I entered my hypothesis here and was told in no uncertain terms no one here wants to hear it; that your theory might be wrong at it's core. We will never know until the …
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This comment opened the door for me. Mind is my favourite subject. I am entirely in agreement with the above indicated statement. If you assume, as I do (backed by evidence), that there are varying degrees of intelligence (a substrate of mind for me) in all living things, then it follows the there is only one kind of evolution; guided evolution; not the one guided by a supreme being, but by intelligence (primitive at first in small living things) that gives a bit of vision back to the blind watchmaker. However, intelligence is only a single piece (important one though) in the complex puzzle that is evolution. Note: If the conversation remains on non-living thin…
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You are looking at photons right now in reading this. Now just take it for granted that I entangled one of them. How would you tell it apart from the other trillions of photons, and then to prove entanglement you need to measure it which first means isolating the entangled proton, then measuring it, which would invoke Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle making an accurate measurement if not impossible, at least always suspect. Note, I am not arguing that entanglement happens, just wondering how one would find a proton that is entangled say a million miles away?
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(apparently) dead?; or stressy & still alive. Why would the Babylonians use 60 divisions, e.g. for minutes & seconds; & (=but) then (suddenly, break that pattern, &) divide the day into (only) 24 hours? That does NOT make sense (to me), unless there was something important about (also) 60 hours. 1. E.g. Anthro(a)pology? Rising (ruffly) on the 3rd day, apparent death. Recommendations exist nowadays to delay burials 1..2 days to prevent being buried alive. https://www.amboss.com/us/knowledge/death/) (PS: But accidents still happen.) 2. (Psychologically) astrologically (=Psych…
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First I want to say that I believe women have always been above, better than and healthier than men because evolution gave them 90% of everything needed to continue the Human Species well into the future. A little DNA from a man and they are equipped to do almost all the rest. Nature would not have given women these responsibilities if they were not capable of fulfilling them. The problem has always been mens beliefs and desire to dominate everyone around them. The feminist movement brought some of this to the world's attention and has made things better for women in many ways but is it possible that the immediate changes to the relationship between mother and child due t…
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