Speculations
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How does it work? From what i understand it still uses the 2nd law of thermodynamics? I can see how it being colder would reduce the half-life and how the "energy" will not dissipate as fast because the molecules are closer together. But wouldn't it take more energy to produce enough cold air sinking to turn a turbine?
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THE ZERO THEOREM, i.e you would agree with me that our mathematical system operates with the presupposition that at dt=0 nothing exist. But the truth is that given absolute relativity, and the fact that dt is strictly dependent on gravitation (twin paradox and all of einstein's codswallop), outside, and far from, earth, somewhere, there exist manifold variation of gravitational force and its effect on time space (though its space geometry and complex space geometry remains the same - somehow!). Adding all of this up, the zero theorem is simply saying that at earths dt=o, there exist, somewhere, where dt is not equal to zero. Then all our mathematical zeros becomes arbitra…
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E=mc^2 Mass can neither be created nor destroyed. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. And we know from observation of an object exploding that there is less mass after a release of energy. From this can we assume mass is stored energy? Or is mass transformed from this abstract substance into another abstract substance? Are they equal in value or two forces interacting? Before you respond let me ask you a few off topic questions. what do the curvature of a circle, the parallels of a right triangle, and many other observations of existence have in common? How do they differ from Euler's identity? E=mc^2 expanded or the theory of movement. relativit…
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Is this possible or is this blog just pie in the sky? http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/using-quantum-mechanics-we-can-reach-foreign-stars-in-a-human-lifetime
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If Higgs field really exists, we can imagine these Universes. Super Higgs field universe It contains particles which have a speed above C(the speed of light). It has a field that determines the property of other element particles, which have very high speed and not interacted with Higgs field. Twin Higgs field universe It contains particles which have a speed within or similar than C. It has a field that determines the property of other element particles not interacted with Higgs field. Above element particles have not found yet. But during LHC experiment, much energy is disappeared to somewhere.
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Hi All, Recently I came across Ron Pearson's theory about physics of survival.He reject Big Bang,General relativity...actually I'll copy and post it from the link: "Pearson’s theory is rather obscure and convoluted to read, as evidenced by the fact that his theory has been rejected by most of the scientific community; throwing out benchmarks of physics, such as constant speed of light, relativity, the cosmological constant, etc., and instead utilizing the invention of numerous types of hypothetical energies, e.g. 'positive and negative primaries', 'breeded energies', etc., said to existed and interacted at the start of the universe, along with other mathematical cont…
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Emotions Have aided animals in their survival. Anger will give an animal the courage to fight. Fear will keep the animal out of harms way. Greed will make the animal strive to sustain ones life. Love will make the animal find companionship and work together to sustain life for each other. Emotions have played a major role in our survival. How exactly we came to evolve them. what came first the chicken or the egg? I don't want to argue this. If you think emotions haven't aided survival, I will respectively listen to your argument. Side Note - I think were way more likely to survive loving each-other than we are hating each-other.
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I'm writing for a sci-fi comic, and we'd prefer to be reasonably scientific, so I and a friend of mine decided to run some stuff by you folks who know what you're talking about. A few of our aliens are (roughly) humanoid insectoids. As a rule, insectoids don't get above a certain size in an Earthlike atmosphere because they would need extremely strong winds and/or very high concentrations of oxygen to breathe. Any suggestions as to how a very large insectoid might evolve to breathe Earthlike air (with reasonable accommodations like an artificial respirator, that isn't too unsightly?) One hypothetical creature in our universe is a VERY large moth that lives on a …
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iF 1,500,000 V. at 200,000 anpes goes in a zpinch configurtion aroumd core of 5 graims of 30% Li6 &70% Li7. that is surrounded by 500 ML. of Deuterium and at the same time from the out side it is compressed to 1,500,000 psi at 27,000 F.P.S. What would the yield be?
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As human, the main reason we study on the human sex positions is only for baby conception. Today, I want to stand in the prospective of evolution to have a look at the animals' sex positions. First, we have to know how many sex positions animals have on the earth. One is rear entry (doggie style), the other is face to face. 1, Rear entry In this position, male have the penetration into vagina behind the female. It is also called doggie style, because animals mostly have sex in this position as same as dog. Of course rear entry has lots of variation, such as the standing canine, spooning, the cuissade, and so on, but the core of these positions is penetration from the…
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Throughout life, there are many things that give one pause, things that have an achievable answer, but require one to think about certain things differently. when most people approach "evolution" or "natural selection" , etc. , one tends to "in error, of course", think of these changes as being orchestrated by the complete "organism", per se. One also tends to "believe" these changes are done with only basic "instinct" and "chemical reactions/processes", etc.. But if one really approaches the "process" of actually re-coding the DNA to produce an "offspring" that "has a good chance" of dealing with the said "instance" that caused these changes or change to be initi…
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Well now our earth is doing all kinds of crazy shenanigans like having a hole in our ozone, which will end up hurting us. We can sustain life on this planet forever. So are we going to stay on this planet and go with it, or try to see what else the universe has to offer us? Living in space will ultimately be very hard on reproduction. a woman birthing a child for 9 months in 0 gravity doesn't sound like it will go very smoothly. So I don't think were going to one day just be able to say " hey lets go live in space " its something we must prepare for, and if we don't start soon it will never happen. step 1 - Living in space will give us almost no access to sunlight…
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Ozone is O3, a powerful oxidising agent. What is the cause of northern leaching. Why the southern hole, when over two thirds of humanity is in the northern hemisphere? It has been blamed on halogenated carbon compounds like freon, a refrigerant, which now attracts a tax like carbon tax for CO2 emissions. Yet carbon tetrachloride, once used extensively as a dry cleaning fluid, was also used in fire extinguishers, being non-combustible, and creating a heavy vapour to smother fires. That was until it became known that, with alcohol in the system, breathing the vapour caused instant fatal renal failure. These substances do not occur naturally, to my knowledge. Why are they bl…
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Albert Einstein (1879–1955): Zeit ist das, was man an der Uhr abliest. ''Time is what a clock measures.'' How Time Comes About I have found that there are two reasons why a sense of time may come about, a quantum field theory answer and a less fundamental answer lying within biological systems. The first quantum field theory principle which allows time to exist can be thought of the precurser for all systems, even those which have no biology to act as clocks. There are for this discussion over several topics for time - each unique and different to the next, some may exist within the context of science and others which do not. We will quickly …
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Is curvature the force of levity? def: levity upwards force syn: lift welcome to my wormhole.002
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What if the Earth is growing? As in increase in mass, total size of earth overall through time? Objects hitting Earth from space all the time can be a source of growth, or what if the Earth just grows naturally, kind of like an organism..
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Can electrons and photons or any other particle be said to have an actual shape? They are portrayed as spheres in any illustration but aren't they more blurry locations?
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Hi all, Apologies if this isn't the right forum for this question but I need some help. I'm writing a feature on whether certain videogame scenarios are realistic or not and I specifically need help with a famous scene taken from Call Of Duty 4: Here, you see a helicopter that gets caught in a nuclear blast with the pilot then crawling out of the wreckage and dying shortly afterwards. Due to my own ignorance of the subject and that events are naturally exaggerated for the sake of a videogame, I honestly have no idea how realistic this scenario is. So my questions are as follows: 1) Would the radiation from a nuclear blast kill that quickly when …
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A Theory On Causality A time machine allows you to traverse time not dimensions therefore your machine could not travel to parallel dimensions. However you can navigate into a previously unfounded "dimension" by for example going into the past and killing your grandmother before your birth. "But that a paradox" you all cry ... No actually you have just created a parallel dimension where you exist because you came back through time... Therefore putting you in a different parallel dimension still with your time machine allowing you to hypothetically travel to any parallel universe. although to travel back you would need to interfere in your own personal timeline which …
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Having read a mountain of materials, I'm still a rented mule, speaking scientifically. Came across this a few days back and was wondering how there could have been such heat in that first moment of time if nothing had yet been formed (atoms) to create such chaos? Dos any of the following make sense? If so, gimme!
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Has a dust cloud turned into 'dark matter' around TYC 8241 2652? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120705201330.htm What`s an alternative/better explanation?
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None has tried to contact us.
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So I came across this theory about why the universe is expanding and I wanted to run it by people to see what they think about it. According the the Vacuum Bag Theory, our universe is expanding because there is a gargantuan sized white hole somewhere in space (or maybe there's a bunch of them). As we all know, white holes are just the opposite ends of a black hole. Now the black hole that is on the other end of the white hole has run out of matter to suck through and now there's nothing left to suck but the very fabric of space-time and that is why our universe is still expanding. Just a theory, tell me what you think!
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Time and the twin paradox by Alan McDougall I was banned recently from a forum by putting this post under cosmology, maybe they had a point but I see nothing wrong in postion it here! Nothing is really as it seems to us and all things are subjective to the observer. Everything is relative to each person from the viewpoint. Comparative readings, of two almost unimaginably accurate precision atomic clocks located on fast moving spacecraft and airplanes and on earth, have detected this strange skewing of time and proved Einstein’s theory of relativity to be fact. Stop all the clocks in the universe and movement will continue unaffected. Stop all movement …
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"The Universeis a self-creating, self-organizing, totally connected and strictly determinedand evolving infinite process and cycle of the construction and de-constructionof matter. Fundamental to our understanding of the Universe is the phenomena ofattraction and repulsion. By establishing the true cause of attraction andrepulsion, we gain an understanding of how the Universe works at this mostfundamental level. The result in the generation of theories that challenge manyof the theories and assumptions of Physics, establishes the cause of thenuclear and gravity forces, gives rise to a new law of Physics, and presents aprofound aspect of Human existence." The above is …
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