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The Speculations forum is provided for those who like to hypothesize new ideas in science. To enrich our discussions above the level of Wild Ass Guesswork (WAG) and give as much meaning as possible to such speculations, we do have some special rules to follow:

  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.

The movement of a thread into (or out of) Speculations is ultimately at the discretion of moderators, and will be determined on a case by case basis.

  1. Started by PublicRyan,

    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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  2. Started by Doctor Whooves,

    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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  3. 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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  4. Started by ukgazzer,

    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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  5. None has tried to contact us.

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  6. Started by HerbertSu,

    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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  7. Started by Alan McDougall,

    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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  8. Started by paradigm,

    "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 …

  9. A possible model for infinity is that in an infinite multi-universe model, infinity stretches both up and down ,large and smaller lly from the viewpoint of our universe. Thus, the absolutely smallest indivisible particle in our universe’s quantum world, might make up separate tiny infinitesimal finite universes, that are the bricks or building blocks of our much larger universe There could be an infinite number of these infinitesimal universes, going ever downwards creating smaller and smaller universes, to infinity. Our universe could be likewise a tiny quantum building brick or block of a much larger universe ours. Never consolidating into one single final mega- uni…

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  10. I have no idea what to make of the recent rumors that strange sounds are being heard all over the world. I did see one professional recently saying that such sounds are quite normal and is probably caused by electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere from things like the aurora belt... If the following video has any truth behind it, I must say the sounds are very creepy. It almost reminds me of the sounds the tripods made in the film ''The War of the Worlds''. Ok so what would everyone's conclusion be... worldwide hoax? I didn't know whether to post this in speculations. I certainly can't prove anything here today, I am just reporting on it.

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  11. Started by alpha2cen,

    This theory is similar to the particle theory. How to give a mass to the particle? There is a field in the space. The field property is similar to the electric orbit in the atom. When Particles are in this field, they have a mass. When the particles increase their speed , it is required a force depending on the field effect to the particle. F=ma m is a interaction parameter(particle mass) between the field and a particle when we change the velocity. The field has no drag. When a particle has 0 mass, like a light, it has a speed C. *** At the straight line movement High velocity --- high straight line movement orbit in the space Low velo…

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  12. The Higgs boson is the source of the mass of the assumption itself is self-contradictory Zhou Jian (周坚)/ July 8, 2012 from the CMS and ATLAS Collaboration scientists announced in Beijing July 4 afternoon, they in large European Hadron Collider "God particle, the Higgs boson, we have been the major sites massive reports, ecstatic. Really, I had really thought discovered the "God particle", did not expect to know from the facts of the expert's report to confirm the discovery of the "God particle" at least more than 1 year even longer, there may be also need to create a linear electron-positron collider for further careful study. Hey, I really do not know what to say, t…

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  13. Started by rigney,

    Looking Backward into the Future I get totally exasperated at both Science and Theist’s alike for providing such a dichotomy between the two sides of this forum as to who is right or wrong in what the other believes? But as humans; we will likely be extinct long before we come up with a solution to the answer. However, regardless of which side of the plate you swing from, the universe didn’t just simply appear from nothingness. To exist as science theorizes, it still demands a supreme entity of some sort to kick off the show. But what would this absolute power be? Scientist are straight forward in their stance of providing and proving theories. Many use this ratio…

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  14. Responding To The Scientists Announced That The Newly Discovered Particles May Be The God Particl Zhou Jian (周坚)/ July 4, 2012 Beijing time, July 4 message from the CMS and ATLAS Collaboration, scientists announced that they found in Europe's Large Hadron Collider "God particle, the Higgs boson. First of all congratulations to the scientists for many years struggling to find the standard model Higgs boson, and now finally exposing the truth about the matter. We know that in the standard model Higgs boson is considered to be the key to human understanding of the universe. Physicists believe that the Higgs boson to give the quality of the composition of atomic …

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  15. Started by too-open-minded,

    I understand very little about physics at the moment so if what I'm about to say is absolute horse-shit please let me know where I'm wrong. I most likely am. Watch this 3 minute video about higgs boson particle - http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/05/12583436-the-higgs-boson-explained-in-just-a-bit-more-than-a-minute?lite So apparentley When they introduce mass to equations, the equation messes up? Well then in theory would we be able to convert mass to something else for the equations to be solved? I've thrown this around before but would a mass to gravitational field proportion help? converting mass to a gravitational field and throwing the "…

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  16. Was watching some of Tom Cruise's divorce proceedings today and wondering if Scientology gave his wife a leg up as to why? This video is a short synopsis of who L Ron Hubbard was, but not how or why his cult, or religion was founded?

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  17. I have seen in a video on 3d modeling for games, that when you copy a 3d mesh with an Array Modifier, that every copy is relative to the initial start position of the original object being copied....and that every movement thereof is relative to the original copied object's "point of origin in this case x. Since " in 3d" the origin is smack in the center of XYZ in which your 3d model is positioned "at the start of assigning a primitive cube", then should relativity take place at 1/2 of "ANY" object's size, when "copies" or duplicates are involved? In other words, if you measure "something" don't you have to start it at 1/2 of its size not the initial start positi…

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  18. Started by Abecedarian,

    Oh yes it is. You see it on films, which are the government preparations so we won't go mad when they arrive. Have you never heard of pyramidology? It is the science of pyramids. Take a sharp razor blade and put it under a cardboard pyramid. It left undisturbed, it won't go blunt in 400 years. Nice try, with your photoshopped fake, but the aliens would not just allow themselves to be photographed like that.

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  19. Avoiding the maths, I am actually doing nothing but inverting the perfect fluid tensor. This would make no different predictions than the [math]\Lambda CDM[/math] model, except you would still have to add in extra curvature to account for the dark matter. This is just mathematically consistent, whereas the current model does not seem to be mathematically, logically or physically consistent. If you happen to know whether subtracting [math]G_{\mu\nu}[/math] from [math]\Lambda[/math] has ever been historically discussed, please let me know as I cannot find it and seems to be too simple of an explanation not to have been proposed before. Particles vs Waves The Ein…

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  20. Started by Bart,

    Assume that the adopted standard of time in our region of the universe is a selected pulsar with a rotation cycle of 1 second,and that the clocks on Earth and on all other space objects, including those with very big mass, are synchronized by the pulses of the pulsar. Thus, these clocks will always indicate the same time, everywhere in space, regardless of the mass of the object upon which they are located. This example, therefore, contradicts the truth of the gravitational time dilation. Am I right?

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  21. I have truly in my opinion cracked a code that is far from completely solved but I am definitely on the right track and I believe that what I have discovered is proof to clearly state that there is in fact a God. I am challenging anyone in the World to attempt to prove or disprove the information that I have available. I have tons of information that I can readily bring to the table but am only willing to give it to you through email. I will give you an example on this forum but if you want the full story you would have to email me for additional free information, fair enough? Good, I hope that makes sense. So here is the code that I have discovered its quite sim…

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  22. The concept of dark matter involves a physical objects' internal quantum vibration exeding "cresendo point" which is 186,000 mps. Once you can achive that (it is possible by means of coherance and charge) the same vibrational framework allowing it to stay mateialized in our 3 dimensional reality spacetime, becomes inverted, resulting in de-materialization. Were does the matter go? If your talking about inversion, than you know that if you leave space-time, you end up in time-space. The matter itself will never go away. ever. Were we are now (spacetime) you have 3 dimensions of space, while time is a constant (1D), of course. Once again since inversion has occured, timesp…

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  23. Started by johnreed,

    Plain English Physics 101-1 Excerpts from Published under new title Modified Monday, May 21, 2012 johnlawrencereed jr Excerpt on Ptolemy: Where Wigner noted the "uncanny" usefulness of mathematics, I noted that the usefulness remains, regardless of the veracity of our a priori assumptions. As an example, first consider the Ptolemaic, Earth centered model of the solar system. The sole quantitative connection to the real universe in this "still useful" model is the efficient, least action, time-space property, attendant to each of the otherwise contrived, circular, cyclic and epi-cyclic orbits. A circle is an efficient enclosure of area. Equal arc length…

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  24. One idea that has been recently proposed by the pioneer Fred Alan Wolf, is that consciousness created the Big Bang. He is possibly well-known by many as being one scientist who has shined importance on the role of the observer and how things do not exist until they are observed. What you will find in many of his books however is that they don't actually define observers very well -- and anyone left after reading his books might believe that only human observers actually collapse the wave function and create the world around them. It is true a thing does not really exist until it is pulled out of its wave function. The smearing of possibilities however can collapse wi…

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  25. I am just wondering what everybody thinks happened at the start of the universe. A big question with many different theories. I'm curious to see the most common belief and the most unusual. Links are appreciated. So how do you think it all started? Personally, i believe in the expansion theory.

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