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  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 Windevoid,

    Does the ballpoint pen match current theories of physics, or does it defy pressure, conservation of mass, etc. ? The pen I was using does appear to eventually run out of ink, but it seemed to take way too long to run it out. Maybe this is just crazy. Maybe the ball point of the pen makes more ink by spinning ink?

  2. Started by dragonstar57,

    recently I heard saw the Planck scale referred to as the resolution of reality (obviously a matrix reference rofl) but it got me to thinking would pi stop at a decimal accurate enough to calculate distances on the planck scale? (sorry if this is a really stupid question I'm not well versed in physics and a google search yielded little) also wouldn't there be a point (if not at the planck scale) that an ending decimal would be so close to pi's true value that the difference would be completely indiscernible?(like if we could calclulate a circle the size of the observeable universe down to the radius of a electron or something)

  3. Started by cladking,

    What if each of us lives in a world that is unique with unique physical laws, history, and future? I'm not suggesting this is the actuality merely that it makes more sense than the absurd and inane theories flowing from every direction. Education merely leads people to a shared reality which is based on beliefs and the foundations which produced that reality. We experience surrealism when different realities come into conflict and must resolve. This would explain how we survived our childhoods and how we are each right. It would explain how we don't even seem to notice all the confusion. Injustice is shrugged off as inconsequential. The denial of the existe…

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  4. Okay, let me first put this out there-I am simply a novice when it comes to affirming things through complex reasoning via previously assumed theories. With this said,at the very least-if you disagree with something, please state why & without the extra vulgar properties that often escape from personal opinion. -Thank-you First off, some background-I suffer from a chronic headache (of which the origin is unknown), hence I often drift into a state of a near-subconscious level that is quite strikingly peer listlessness. -During these moments of involuntariness, I am not able to focus on complex thought as far as I'm aware of (maybe a simple construct such as th…

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  5. Started by Widdekind,

    please ponder & picture a checker-board pattern, and assign clockwise currents to white squares, and counter-clockwise currents to black squares. If all currents are individually each equal to I, then each square is enclosed, by a (squarely) circular current, of magnitude 2I. So, each square would be protected, by a solenoidal field; and the whole mesh-frame-work would also be protected, by solenoidal fields that "tesselate" (for want of worthier words). So, a honey-comb mesh-frame-work, resembling a radio-dish, could be hurled through space, and the whole frame-work would be protected from space plasma, which would be funneled & shunted through the mesh, aroun…

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  6. Hi, My name is Ryoji Furui. A few weeks ago, I submitted a physics paper to a journal and finally I received a reply from editor 2 days ago with referee's comments. Before answering to referee's comments, I would like to ask here if my answers could make sense for precise communication. My submitted paper can be found at http://ryoji.info/r330a.pdf. and below is the referee's 2 comments and my draft answers. Hope anyone would help my submission process. Also it would be welcome if you have any comments about paper. ------ A referee's comment 1: As the author is well-aware, the special theory of relativity has ample ex- perimental confirmation. As a result, any viable m…

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  7. Started by lukemcleod,

    Ok so I'm not a scientist but understand most things like einstine's theory that says travel at the speed of light away from earth and back again and u will arrive in the future so I have a hypothetical question about this. It goes like this if we had a calculation to work out how many light years you would need to travel to how far in the future u go ie. 2 light years away from and back would equal 20 earth years, and if we sent a huge light emmitting miirror in to space and faced it toward earth and used a light emmitting telloscope to focus on the mirror with that mirror being 2 light years from earth if we looked through the telescope would we not see earth 20 years i…

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  8. Started by eytan_il,

    Matter, Dark Matter and Dark Energy result from the existence of a field of time, For the last 10 years I've been working on your question along with, entropy and memory of spacetime. From each event we can connect a curve to the "big bang" such that the proper time it measures along it will be maximal. On ordinary geodesic curves on the Lorentzian manifold of spacetime, only local maximum of proper time is measured. The field of time is absolute maximal time. As such, it defines a scalar field on the manifold of spacetime. This scalar field has a gradient. Where there is matter, more than one such curves of absolute maximum proper time intersect and the gradien…

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  9. "In 1913, he (Charles Richet) was awarded the Nobel Prize for his researches on anaphylaxis. He invented this word to designate the sensitivity developed by an organism after it had been given a parenteral injection of a colloid or protein substance or a toxin (1902)." http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1913/richet-bio.html It is a well known fact that vaccines contain egg, casein (milk protein), yeast and soy proteins (http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/additives.htm). I have learnt that agar (red seaweed derived) is used in the manufacture of many vaccines and injections. Red algae/seaweed can contaminate any sea food. That can explain allerg…

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  10. Started by Moontanman,

    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.

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  11. Started by Windevoid,

    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?

  12. Started by Popcorn Sutton,

    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…

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  13. 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…

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  14. Started by ste20man,

    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…

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  15. 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…

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  16. 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…

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  17. 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…

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  18. 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…

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  19. 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/

  20. Started by jp255,

    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…

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  21. 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…

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  22. Started by xander1100,

    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.

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  23. 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.…

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  24. 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

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  25. 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 …

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