Speculations

A a dress rehearsal for deflecting a comet from Earth do we currently have the ability to affect the course of this comet so it actually hits Mars? It has a 1/2000 chance of hitting the red planet but it will pass very close for sure. Should we if we could? It could be the first step in terraforming Mars.

I don't know for sure, but what if there isn't a limit on oil at all? What if quantum mysticism is right? What if there isn't a limit on gold or silver or platinum either? I mean humans have made jewelry since at least the time of the Celts but probably back to the Egyptians, but we're sill using and having gold! And it's still plentiful enough to be sold in stores and jewelry shops! Same with silver! What if there's no such thing as a nonrenewable resource?

Black Holes are not holes, they are neither portals to other universes, it's counter intuitive to think that they are anything other than super solid objects. M theory is wrong in its current form, it assumes 11 dimensions which is counter intuitive, anything more than 0 dimensions is also counter intuitive. There are points in space that collide, thats what I know. They exist in nothing more than 0 dimensions. String theory is plausible, as long as it doesnt assume more than 1 dimension that consists of 2 zero dimensional points, both being repulsive, one being parametric. Super symmetry of black holes probably produces most matter in the universe. The universe w…

Controversial : Photon --- the place of its birth -- in the sun. Where is the place of its death? ( A puzzled lay –man) The sun is created to illuminate the earth days as a candle, in the same as the moon on the night. Here is nothing to ask because it is so evident. What puzzled me is about of the abundance in the amount photons of sun’s productions. The science now has calculated that only a fraction of fraction is used for the aim for which it is created, that is --- to illuminate the earth. But -- nobody has the right to blame the abundance…because the abundance bring the prices down. So, --- the puzzle that gave me sleeplessness is: wh…

Hi, this is my first post. I am getting more interested in quantum physics but do not have the intelligence to make any marked contribution. I am on the other hand a polymath and am experimenting with an idea that crossed my mind late one night as I dozed to sleep. I hope you can hear me out as it would be easy to dismiss me based on past histories. I will only explain completely honestly what my idea is and then throw myself to the wolves Perhaps I am bi-polar which gives at times amazing amount of creative energy or on the other side deep depressions(that has happened only once). I have been taken into mental hospital 6 times in 15 years and have always been writi…

Hi, im an 18 year old boy from Pakistan and this theory just occured to me ! i dont know if u will come to a way i see it or think im nuts any ways the thing is : LIFE AND ARTIFICAL LIFE : Well to start things i would like to prupose that all the electric appliances we have today are divided into two parts that is the software and the hardware .... and similarly the human divided is also divided into two types that is the body/hardware and software/soul ! my suggestion is that we may some day create life .. its only a matter of time .. NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE . and my believe is that we are created by a race superior then ours ... today we see advanced robotics similar t…

So far the Science was able to produce anti-matter at CERN: http://press.web.cern.ch/press-releases/2010/11/antimatter-atoms-produced-and-trapped-cern "Antimatter atoms produced and trapped at CERN" "Antimatter– or the lack of it – remains one of the biggest mysteries of science. Matter and its counterpart are identical except for posite charge, and they annihilate when they meet." "Antihydrogen atoms are produced in a vacuum at CERN, but are nevertheless surrounded by normal matter. Because matter and antimatter annihilate when they meet, the antihydrogen atoms have a very short life expectancy. This can be extended, however, by using strong and complex magnet…

Wondering why, given an origin, one could not define another position based on two parameters, distance and direction. Distance is understandable as a singular thing, in itself, with any particular unit or number or scale assignable to it. If one was to dense pack spheres around an origin sphere there would be twelve directions possible, with each of these twelve an origin of its own, with twelve surrounding "directions". Given a particular task, a sphere size could conceptually dense pack all of space and any of the spheres could be located by counting out to a particular sphere in one of the twelve directions, calling that sphere your origin and counting the s…

Note: I'm not a native English speaker so my grammar isn't perfect. It has been speculated that some black holes could work as wormholes. So wormholes are basically reverse black holes? It's a black hole on the other end and a wormhole (a reverse black hole) on the other. Black hole sucks matter in and wormhole pushes matter out. [Michio Kaku Explains String Theory: ] 1:08 so when 2 universes become in contact with each other.. happens a big bang.. when a wormhole is created between universes.. the universes become in contact with each other too. Perhaps the big bang was caused by the birth of a wormhole. Our universe is expanding because of the big bang and because…

Why can't gravity be an electromagnetic force or maybe something to do with the chemical interaction between atoms and molecules? http://www.bigbangneverhappened.org/

I was considering posting some of the arguments in the biology forum, but I think the discussion would become speculative rapidly. This topic concerns how we (society) determine whether or not an individual is responsible for an action, and for the sake of this topic the definition of responsibility is "being accountable for something within one's own power, control or management" (dictionary.com). I argue that the way in which we determine/quantify "one's own power/control" is inaccurate, and that most probably hold a mistaken view of responsibility (by thinking of it as simple discrete categories, e.g. not responsible, responsible). Before I argue this I need to…

I will start my theory here and hope to be moved to a real thread instead of starting in a physics or cosmology one and being moved here. I do not think I will be adding new physics or math with my theory, or speculation if you will, and believe that what I propose will still fit the current understanding of physics. I do not have a formal education in this area nor the ability to understand the math beyond a highschool level of physics or algebra and have had no training in geometry. If I violate a rule or formula I ask you try and explain with words or at least simple math. If more complicated math must be used I will rely on others to concur or refute. If you feel I ha…

I was reading up on this a while ago and now I cant remember the name... it's driving me nuts. It's this theory about a consciousness in space that does not have mass or matter (no I'm not talking about god, it doesn't have the power to create or destroy it pretty much imagines its whole ''reality''). It's called something brain or something mind... can't remember. any help would be much appreciated.

I believe I have found a link between the Sun and Earth’s magnetic field strength and climate history. I know what you’re thinking; crackpot. We’ll let me show you what I have and then we can judge it fairly.This hypothesis is related to my plate tectonic thread. If you have not read “Plate Tectonic Mechanism?“ you should familiarize yourself with posts # 4-8 before posting here to save time. It will introduce you to the concept and give weight to the possibilities of climate forcing from strain energy released from the mantle. I will briefly describe its basic outline to initiate this thread’s beginning. This NASA article is a good place to start.…

Elon Musk described his mass transit idea as “cross between a Concorde, a railgun and an air hockey table.” That seems to me to be a jet powered vehicle, smaller than a train, that rides on a cushion of air. Perhaps it is something like a hovercraft that rides on an asphalt roadbed that is closed to weather. The jet engines would give it high speed about 1000mph (1600kmh), but the vehicle would need to be protected from the environment and things around it protected from the vehicle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hovercraft-MVPP10.jpg http://au.businessinsider.com/what-is-elon-musks-hyperloop-2013-5

I'm interested in this. I want to fly. I want a flying car. Michio Kaku demonstrated that if you use a piece of ceramic and submerge it in liquid nitrogen(?), you can make a magnet levitate and travel seemingly without friction. I believe that EM waves are probably the most efficient waves to surf with respect to friction that we know of. Who knows, maybe we can find an alternative, but in the meantime this is my hypothesis. Freezing gas is not an option, it's much too expensive to maintain. What I notice is that the liquid nitrogen boils when it is poured into the container. The ceramic is pretty solid. I'm going to have to assume that there is a repulsive force …

i live on the conspiracy sights as yall ptobably figured out and heres what i bring for your viewing pleasure. supposedly the grand canyon was caused by a super giant lightning bolt.i laughed then thought.what if an ionized cloud got between earth and another planet or earth and the sun.would the difference between charge to mass ratios of planets cause an arc of plasma between them .would this change the orbits or extincion event from dust cloud.is any of this possible?

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This comes up every so often here in the Speculations forum: the question being can a relative unknown make a meaningful contribution. I saw this today: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/twin-primes/ a relative unknown makes a significant step forward towards proving the twin primes conjecture in mathematics. Now, that said, note one of the comments by one of the reviewers of the paper: He nailed down every detail so no one will doubt him. Theres no waffling. This cannot be emphasized enough in this section. Nail down every detail. So, so, so very often speculators come in an leave details very 'unnailed'. And when this is pointed out, they usually …

http://estfuture.blogspot.com/2010/07/time-travel-theory-in-english.html Got the idea somewhat again at nigh time when i couldnt sleep, so i wrote it down - there are lots of similar ones but does any of them actually see it that way?

think of xrays.they are expelled from a black hole.why would something with mass be expelled from the ultimate gravity?because gravity is nulled above about 35000 volts.charge a craft at this voltage or above and you are no longer relative to the things outside the craft.the bubble is around your craft.so then you can go any speed you want up to the speed of light.thats why you dont want to walk up and touch a flying saucer.the radiation is horrible.now if the shell of the craft is aluminum then because of half life in a few minutes it should be safe.

What if Dark Matter is not measurable? What if Dark matter or Dark Energy is in fact something more akin to an emotion? The amount of Dark energy may not be able to be measured like the ability to create joy, ecstasy, happiness cannot be measured. Could Dark energy be a force that comes and goes without any parameters? I mean joy is real, happiness is real but you cannot feel it, taste it, measure it or touch it and one minute it is not there and the next overcomes you or even many people at once. Also the persons ability to create this feeling cannot be measured or compared to anothers. In a library where there were 100 people sitting quietly a page being turned goes …

By dimensional analysis, the (total) energy, in the magnetic field, generated by a mass of plasma, of characteristic size-scale L, carrying a characteristic current I, is [math]B \approx \frac{\mu_0 I}{L}[/math] [math]E \approx \frac{B^2}{\mu_0} L^3 \approx \mu_0 I^2 L[/math] Now, when two opposing magnetic fields are juxtaposed, the opposing parts vanish (e.g. x-direction), and the parallel parts remain (e.g. y-direction). So, the total field energy, after reconnection, is reduced by about half [math]\left( <B>^2 + <B>^2 \; \rightarrow \; <B>^2 \right)[/math]. So, in order-of-magnitude approximation, [math]B \approx \sqrt{\frac{\mu_0 E}{L^3}}[/mat…

So I was thinking of another possible approach- which the “cost-benefit analysis” can offer to the unification of QM and GR. This will be applied to the phenomena and the model framework of predicting this phenomenon by QM and GM when reconciled with reference to the phenomena. C B A tool is quite popular in social sciences (say economics) for identifying the most appropriate choice from two or more competing alternatives(say A and B)from which we have to derive one desired alternative(say C). and its relevance extends to other sciences where two or more true alternative ideas are found to be in conflict with one another on the same phenomena to which they “can” all clai…

I was reading about eugenics and was shocked how much support it apparently had and how widely accepted it was in early 20th century. There wasn't at all an outrage, apparently, about it. There's this quote from wikipedia: In 1981 a sterilization was performed in US!!! So apparently eugenics started becoming taboo after the Nazis, and it just got me thinking, what do you think would have happened had the Nazis never happened? Again, today, we are revolted by the notion of eugenics, but, apparently, then, it didn't raise an eyebrow, so what would have changed it had it not been for the Nazis. What if eugenics were to have proceeded exclusively in a "civi…