Speculations
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I was just wondering if anybody knew how to get a discussion going on a speculative theory? I have been working on one for a few years now and have been trying to break it, by looking at various experimental data, but everything I find just re-enforces the theory. I am quite happy for anybody to read it, but it is approximately 100 pages, although I have written a few short papers, if that is of help. In fact the reason I wrote the papers in the first place was to try and discuss my idea with lecturers at various universities, as well as seeing whether journals would publish them. However I’m currently having no luck. Therefore any comments and suggestions w…
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An alternative interpretation of the consequences of Special Relativity Does Time exist in any real sense? There is no direct evidence that time is actually part of the fabric of the universe. It is probable that human beings dreamt up the notion of time as a convenient way of 2 or more people being in the same location to share a task. For example an agreement for 2 people to meet for a hunt at sunrise on the bank of a river next to a large rock is in effect a synchronisation of the event of sunrise with 2 people and a unique geographical point on the planet. The human notion of time serves the purpose of accurately synchronising events for a species that owes m…
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i have a question about time travel. i posted it on youtube a while ago. my questions at 0:56 of my vid i wanna know what you all on the scientism forum think -
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When a black hole sucks something up and an object crosses the event horizon, the event horizon is temporarily deformed bear that point where it crossed, until the matter reaches the center. This notion is important because it says that the shape of the black hole in a way mimics that of the shape of the internal structure. Since a black hole on it's own is at least a sphere, the singularity must be at least sphere in order to warp space time to creat a sphere. But, the warping of space is a little more complex than that, the warping of space mimics a conical structure as well, however it is a cone from every side, so the internal structure must also be infinitely cone-li…
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Ive posted to many forums even, then i get replies or emails saying thats not possible,,or that im faking it and so on. And I think to myself,,hey these people are either trying to hide the truth,,or there igits. And yes I mean that in the worst possible way,,why? Because I am an igit. So what does that tell ya. Anyway ok sorry about that, just got an email and well.. I mean its not like I said oh give me money or I wont tell you how its done. Sure I have a donate link,,every bit helps further other project. But I tell exactly how its done, how to run things on water. I made videos on youtube showing how. I even have a live cam that runs 24/7 now showing different things …
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Article here http://www.telegraph...-new-study.html The article is garbled nonsense but wind farms do cause warming because they slow down the circulating air which cools the earth. That is obvious they take energy from the cooling currents and slow them so they cool the earth less. Simples. Again the article is bad science which is right and wrong at random much like a monkey typing like this:- doejd uhf erfooireo fkler to e e dhwed the lwjrjwer werewjf r ehre ohlljhrere jflsjdfjs fis cfdokkfdp is wejf er;fon tree frhtg rtg t r car ijto;j;ej;t I expect the usually thumbs down but you can deny the truth but it will be true nonetheless
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Hello, John D. Norton (1993). General covariance and the foundations of general relativity: eight decades of dispute, Rep. Prog. Phys., 56, pp. 794, pp. 835-7. "...the question of precisely what Einstein discovered remains unanswered, for we have no consensus over the exact nature of the theory's fondations. Is this the theory that extends the relativity of motion from inertial motion to accelerated motion, as Einstein contended ? Or is it just a theory that treats gravitation geometrically in the spacetime setting ? ... Of special importance for our purposes is that each frame of reference has a definite state of motion at each event of spacetime" My document pr…
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The Last Days of Living in a 3-dimensional Universe I write this speech on the last day of living in a 3d world. Tomorrow, I will post the proof of a fourth spatial dimension in the form of a science rap video experiment. The video/written report will introduce a 4D calculator I named the Universal Grid. It will be an upgrade to the Cartesian 3-space graph which will allow for hyper-dimensional graphing and visualization. It's been almost 7 years since I've made the discovery, and as a layman, I have no other avenue whereas I can publish this historical discovery. So I come to the sites where scientific minds casually meet and in your hands I leave this information. …
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How do we work out the amount of matter inferred by the light we see in the universe? How do we work out the amount of matter from the light? The little I remember about spectroscopy was that you could find the amount of stuff by the intensity of absorption bands-but that was small samples in equilibrium. Looking in any direction into space gasses are at different temperatures so we`ve got emission bands superimposed on absorption bands and vice-versa. So surely using spectroscopy we`re only looking at the difference between emission and absorption and there isn`t a way of determining the amounts of material spectroscopically. So is there another way of finding the amou…
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Hello, first time posting here. I had an idea that was irking me and I would like as much input as possible. I'll just copy-paste something that I put on another forum (not this site). I'm sure some people will be disgusted at some of the logic, but I just want clarification. I do realize that it's all hypothesis with no real mathematical proof, I simply don't have enough knowledge in mathematics to even get close to trying. I'm all ears though, so if there is some mathematical formula to shed some light then I'll try my best to understand it. The basic question I want answered is, "Is Zero a real number?" (insert gag reflex) My train of thought first…
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Sorry for the vague descriptions, it's all I really have. Essentially my friend watched a documentary that he didn't remember the name of, and someone who is considered a psuedo-scientist who claims to have done reverse engineering an alien spaceship parts said that aliens traveled faster than light with an element not far from ours in the periodic table which could distort the fabric of space time in a special way as to allow the passage between points faster than light. Mathematically however, this has been confirmed to be theoretically possible, but this was before the "warp drive" or when Star Trek become popular or before it was even invented really. There's also r…
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@ most of the velocity is in the time dimension : i am toying with a notion that spacetime is made of: time and space, in which space is discrete and in between theese discrete 'points' of space time is building up.http://www.sciencefo...ns/#entry675842 @ standing still in time (as it does) while the rest of the "solid" universe speeds away : the dilaltion as measured by cosmological redshift is in my oppinion an effect of the buildup of time in a discretely spatial space-time. Again both notion seem similar. But when you say "stands still in time" you are actualy reffering to my "travells ony thru space-dimension of space-time". @ has been liberated from…
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Just a whim. Everybody here has an opinion. What if science were totally objective in the sense of no personal opinions about what is correct science?... Just the most classical epistemology of what we know and how we know it? That would be a whole new 'science forum', and I have never seen one that was impersonal, beyond opinion, and encouraging *civil* discussion of all science, including all disagreements. Alternative titles were 'subjective vs objective' science and 'what is objective science?' I've seen no transcendence of personal opinion yet in this forum. This discussion can become more specific, but I'll leave it open for now. I'm not allowed t…
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A hypothetical de-synthetisation of spacetime as a synthesys of space and time. Question: is there space for time? Answer: Only if space is discrete. The hypothesis: In spacetime space is discrete, time is a quantity that is building up between points of discretely distributed space. Gravity holds things in place localy, but on the scale beyond gravitational effect, time has an effect of "stretching the spacetime" noticed by cosmological redshift. The universe is getting "bigger", but only in the sense of buildup of time. This gives us infinite time in both directions. The galaxies in this stretching space-time are drifting apart from each other faster than …
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hey now i will point u all 2 a real proof of astrology there is a scholar from harvard named richard tarnas and he wrote a book that is like my bible called COSMOS and PSYCHE it is not refutable i will give u all the link - http://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Psyche-Intimations-World-View/dp/0452288592/ u skeptics can NOT disprove this many have tried none have won
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srry i was absent ive been working on my own thing ill respond to u all soon but ive been working on my proof of ufo
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Hi: I'm currently thinking about a fabric with the following characteristics: A. Water-proof B. Oil-proof C. Liquid-proof D. Grease-proof E. Stain-proof F. Particulate matter – such as dirt, ash, dust, sand, mud, etc -- do not stick to the fabric to any extent G. Drops of any liquid – water, oil, alcohols – do not stick to the material to any extent [even if sugar is dissolved in them]. They slide right off. H. Air-proof – air molecules does not be able to go through the fabric I. Odor-proof -- material does not absorb or let odors through it F. Non-shiny G. As elastic and tough as spider-silk F. Smooth enough to act as a solid lubricant [one should be …
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I have been thinking about a great idea to make use of a largely untapped source of energy to get free energy and thus reduce global warming. Here is how it goes. A lot of household heating systems are gravity fed, ie they have a boiler at the bottom which heats water, that hot water rises and passed through pipes and through radiators cooling along the way until it is eventually fed back into the bottom of the boiler where it is re-heated to begin the journey round again. Now (drum roll) here is my brilliant idea......... What you do is place mini turbines inside the pipe and so they produce electricity from the waterflow through the pipes!!! …
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I can already feel the blood thirsty stares directed at this thread (and possibly at me too), ever ready to pounce and fire the stockpiles of accumulated arsenals for topics like these. The fact that this is my first post in this forum doesn't help very much, does it? I would like to state that this thread would require a bit of, for the lack of a better term, open-mindedness. Warning: This is going to be a very long starting post, and there are reasons for this. You've been warned! Before I proceed to the main body of the discussion, allow me to state a few qualifiers, and perhaps even set a few parameters for discussion, as a topic such as this can…
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Science took a wrong turn. It all took a wrong turn with the missed understanding of the double slit experiment in the 20's. And along with the discovery of the universe is expanding that took everyone away for Einstein's work that was right ON , but no one would pay attention to him any longer. Well with the new MIT very high speed camera I know that the 1920's experiment can be turned around and be totally understood and fully predictable. And GR and QM can be expressed in a consistent language. Part #2 And yes Einstein’s Cosmological Constant can explain a static; 1. The planet moon systems. 2. The solar systems. 3. The galactic…
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Theory of Time.pdf In addition partial derivatives of this function can betaken to find the change in time based off the change in frequency, acceleration,and mass. I will put a 3D version of the graph on later when Ican make one. Tell me what you think of this. The first page of the pdf will need to be rotated, but the rest are right side up.
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What about this then. I belive that once a photon has been liberated from an atom it no longer has any velocity in the time dimension. All matter is traveling through spacetime at c, in the case of matter most of the velocity is in the time dimension. When a photon is emitted from an atom it is mearly dropped off in 3D space, standing still in time (as it does) while the rest of the "solid" universe speeds away at c, giving the observer the impression that it is the photon that is moving away at the speed of light. The photon, being an oscilating electromagnetic wave, appears to any observer wizzing by to be a sine wave, but that is only the view of the observer (simi…
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The Big Bang theory is a mathematical model that has to rely on two principal observations to be seen as fact-but both of those seem unsafe. 1/Redshift-From the redshift of spectral lines we can conclude that objects are generally receding. Dark matter,dark energy inflation all rely on the assumption that redshift is a reliable indicator of radial velocity- I can`t see how it can be. 1/Critics mention Compton Scattering as a contributor to redshift 2/The K Trumpler effect,known since 1911-The well documented,accepted,but ignored apparent phenomenon that O,B type stars are receding to a much greater extent than other spectral classes. I must also mention that I…
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When I watch these pop-science shows with people like Michio Kaku, I keep seeing them say say that the universe originally expanded faster than the speed of light because it's actually bigger than 13.7 billion light years, which they try to explain with various theories such as dark energy, but with a pretty universal property in quantum mechanics, couldn't that infinitely small thing that it was at the moment before it big banged be very or perhaps infinitely delocalized and thus make the universe bigger than what light would expand to be? I suppose you would need to be able to describe the entire universe as a single equation though... High mass in conventional QM woul…
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The link below, I think, is a well-written discussion of the theoretical problems in cosmology today. This topic and thread is for the discussion of these problems. Discuss known alternatives such as MOND etc., or speculate without bringing up too many details of an unknown model such as your own or providing links to such models. For this, your own new thread would be better http://www.scilogs.e...k-matter-crisis
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