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  1. Started by derek w,

    Just a thought that I have had. If the big bang started as a singularity and expands outward at the speed of light,it would expand out as a sphere(bubble).The sphere has a surface the event horizon(e/h). If the rate at which the big bang expands slows to less than the speed of light e.g. from 300,000,000m/s to say 299,999,999m/s the e/h can gain thickness at the rate of 1m/s,creating an expanding universe.2 spheres 1 inside the other,outer sphere expanding at speed of light,inner sphere decelerating,space between 2 spheres expands and the rate of expansion accelerates. As the big bang decelerates the rate of expansion of the universe(e/h) accelerates. Question …

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  2. Started by rabe,

    Can we talk about a beginning of the world, if space and time are only children of a primary matter? And may energy and antimatter essentially be the same? www.ars-una.net

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  3. Started by derek w,

    Time travels forward into the future,if we say that time zero(T0) is the present moment in time,but (T0) oscillates about zero.Then the oscillations would go back and forward in time,(in 2 directions).If we divide the oscillations into quantum units 2^q where q=any whole number.For the purpose of explaining my idea,I will use q=4,therefore 2^4 = 16,that is 8 steps forward in time and 8 steps backward in time plus 2 x (T0).Say that time oscillates about zero a rate of 10^-9 seconds.Then each quantum step would be one nano second/18.This could produce 9 layers of space at a single point(singularity).9 steps forward and 9 steps backward per cycle,each cycle being 1 nano seco…

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  4. Rick Thielen's Thoery On Black Holes, The Big Bang, and Gravity When I was young I asked my second grade teacher about gravity. I asked her if she would explain what gravity was and how it worked. The teacher explained that the rotation of the earth creates gravity. I questioned her explaination in my mind. I thought to myself if I took a ball and dipped it in water, then spun the ball the water would fly off. So I thought to myself what she told me didn't make sense at all. As the years past my thought process began to develop which would help me to understand the concept of gravity. Again when I was in the sixth grade I asked my teacher the same question about grav…

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  5. Started by matty,

    Apparently, here, http://hcp2011.lpnhe.in2p3.fr/ , at the Hadron Collider Physics meeting in France, the LHC "antimatter anomaly [suggests] new physics " *********** http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/mg21228404.200 "The Large Hadron Collider has turned up differences in how particles of matter and antimatter decay that the reigning standard model of physics may not be able to explain... WE ARE here thanks to a curious imbalance in the universe. To the best of our knowledge, the universe began with equal, or nearly equal, amounts of matter and antimatter. Because these particles annihilate on contact, they should have destroyed each other lo…

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  6. Started by bbouch111,

    What is everyone's opinion? And is there any logical reason or mathematical proof behind it?

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  7. I just want to know what you guys think the final theory will look like.

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  8. Started by derek w,

    thinking in just mathematical terms I can say:- u = 1 - 1/3 = +2/3 d = 1/2 - 5/6 = -1/3 u+u+u = +2 u+u+d = +1 u+d+d = 0 d+d+d = -1 I can reverse signs and say:- -u = -1+1/3 = -2/3 -d = -1/2 +5/6 = +1/3 newtons 3rd law of motion says a force in one direction must be met by an equal and opposite force.A quantum fluctuation (+1-1=0).Conservation of energy says that if this quantum fluctuation disappears another quantum fluctuation must reappear somewhere else so as to conserve the energy,producing a quantum foam. Going back to newtons 3rd law if a uneven force is applied it must be met by an equal and opposite uneven force,a mirror image. t…

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  9. Started by divinum1,

    Ever since Isaac Newton first discovered the universal law of gravitation, not much has been added to it. Gravitation still remains a mystery, since no experiments can be performed with gravitation. What is presently known about gravitation is that this force acts upon all things in the universe. And that this force is always directly proportional to the total sum of the mass and inversely proportional to the distance separating them. This notion about gravitation is still prevailing upon all physicists and astrophysicists since it was first introduced. But the truth about gravitation is by far more different than what is now known about it. Gravitation is in fac…

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  10. Started by THoR,

    Plagiarised from my own website. Mind candy, chew slowly. I think, therefore I am. It is obvious that one must exist in order to experience, and the fact you experience is convincing proof you exist. You probably consider yourself to be a single being, which is why you call yourself "I" instead of "we". Your body; however, is a plurality - a collection of billions of separate elements or fundamental particles, each with its own individual properties. Each basic particle pre-existed your birth and will ultimately survive your demise. Each has a unique history, a separate location and physical domain. Logically this presents a conundrum. How can you be a single exis…

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  11. Started by JustinW,

    I have a problem, or it's just never been explained in a way that I understand, with the idea that there was darkness and then bang. The thought that there was a reaction so big that came from nothing or something so small. I'm curious though...could the bang just as easily have come from two objects colliding with so much force and mass. I know the scatter measurements of universes might not coincide with this, but there might be another explanation for that(even though I don't have one). Thoughts anyone.

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  12. This is a theory based on a theory. The theory it is based on is as you approach the speed of light, you will be traveling in time. My theory is a way to approach that kind of speed. The way of doing so is to use the gravitational pull of Earth to to speed something up. So if we had a probe or space-ship orbiting around the Earth and the Moon in an irregular orbit, a kind of version like that would be what I call, a catapult orbit. How this catapult orbit works is increasing the velocity by a certain percentage every full orbit. This happens by as the object in orbit, orbits around the Earth and Moon, it dips down further into the Earth in the stronger gravitational f…

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  13. Started by zerotwoone,

    It is my opinion, because it can't be verified, but I think that math = nature. Like I said before, just because you haven't found a physical analog to a mathematical expression, it doesn't mean that it can't exist in nature. So what if I told you that I have an equation, an algorithm that can produce every point between 0 (is a perception not a real value) and 1 including 1 and every geometric object from a point to an object with complexity approaching infinity? What if I told you that on a cursory glance objects appear that look like to be electrons, protons and neutrons are produced? What if I told you that something that looks like strong, weak and electro…

  14. Crappy little thought........ So Nicolaus Copernicus discovered that Earth rotates in orbit around the Sun in 1543. A year is the time it takes for the Earth to do a full rotate around the Sun. So how did anyone know about years before then. How could it be a measurement of time before it was discovered? People might say that they would know by the position of the sun in the sky, but how can there be any accurate way of knowing that?

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  15. I want to discuss this data published by the Observatory of Lisbon. (This data is from year 7 BC which is the accepted date of Jesus birth) http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php/114078-Observatory-of-Lisbon-Star-of-Bethlehem-a-scientific-fact http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qZox-G5r6_c http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction http://www.starrynig...rth&Explore=No http://www.starrynig...rth&Explore=No http://www.starrynig...rth&Explore=No http://www.starrynig...rth&Explore=No

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  16. Started by 36grit,

    Let's say a single particle of energy moves towards another single particle of energy at a velocity exceeding the speed of light. A small single cell of time dialation occurs. This cell has a relative position to other dialations in 4D space/time. Together these cells make up bodies of relativity. But since relativity is in and of itself an infinte and expanding plane governed and divided by the speed of light, relativity algorythem frequencies must exist. Literally, modulations of time frequency It is probable that at some point within the infinte fields of relativity that, everything that has ever happened, and everything that will ever happen, in the observable u…

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  17. Started by THoR,

    In spite of astronomical observations that suggest the most remote galaxies are fleeing from us faster than the speed of light, cosmologists persist in the conclusion the Hubble Red Shift is Doppler related and the Universe is inflating. I suppose that's the conventional wisdom, but - as is so common - the conventional wisdom is wrong. In fact, it flies in the face of simple logic and, in this case, it leads to the presumption the Universe began (i.e.existence is the result of cause and effect). GIVEN: In order for something to change, act or be acted upon, it must exist (any who dissent must believe in things that don't exist) IMPLICATION: Cause and effect is a "fun…

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  18. In beta decay, a down-quark decays into a up quark, via Weak Nuclear 'W Boson' emission: [math]d \rightarrow u + \left( W^{-} \rightarrow \bar{\nu_e} + e^{-} \right) [/math] Could "pair production", from ambient "vacuum energy", account for beta decay, via a "Hawking Radiation" like phenomena, wherein a neutrino-antineutrino pair "pop" into existence, "near" the down quark; the neutrino interacts, with that down quark, via W- boson exchange, and "becomes" an electron; the anti-neutrino escapes ? [math]d[/math] [math]d + \left( \bar{\nu_e} + \nu_e \right) [/math] [math] \bar{\nu_e} \rightarrow \infty[/math] [math]d : W^{-} : \nu_e \rightarrow u + e…

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  19. Started by himoura,

    Theory of Variance and the Existence of Life on Earth By Shawn Michael Ahearn Copyright 08/18/2011 The idea that life on Earth exists as a result of chance is absolutely ridiculous and unacceptable. I will use a few analogies to further explain this statement. Take the game of Poker for example. Every good Poker player knows that you can't win every game. Good Poker players are those who can minimize their losses in periods of downswing and maximize profit in periods of upswing. By downswing and upswing I mean periods in which a player can experience great losing or winning streaks. A good Poker player is defined…

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  20. Started by owl,

    Swansont wrote: "Clocks "tick" at different rates in different inertial circumstances, as proven by many experiments. does not specifically address the issue of whether it's a mechanical issue of the clock. But this issue has not been ignored — different types of clocks have been tested, and they all show the time dilation effect. So we conclude that the timing changes are due to the effects of relativity. " I'm trying to get at the ontolology of "time," like, what is "it" besides event duration between designated instants? I know that our most sophistcated clocks show what has come to be known as "time dilation," but how is that different than, as above, the fact t…

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  21. Started by superball,

    Greetings all, going out on a limb for gravity. If mass equals energy, and quantitatively energy can be derived from mass, and gravity is inherently derived from mass, is it safe to say material contains gravity as energy? Stepping on a bear trap now, if a graviton is a mass-less hypothetical particle, and has a tensor quantity to describe density, energy, and flux, could gravity actually be a particle of some size or mass? If it is spinning, then something must take the form of matter in order for it to spin. :blink:gravity wow. its spinning, its spinning, are you getting dizzy? jokingly super-ball.

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  22. Started by Dovada,

    ! Moderator Note Split from http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/60170-are-protons-and-electrons-electrical-charges-or-do-protons-and-electrons-have-an-electrical-charge/ All real particles like electrons, protons and neutrons are composed of mass which contains electric charge or combinations of electric charge. The term neutral is only applied to particles that have equal amounts of positive and negative charge. It does not mean they have no charge mass. Particles do not have the ability to remain in existence without any charge, but do have the ability combine and share their charge with other particles. When this happens the properties of the particles are ch…

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  23. Started by superball,

    The Mysteries: Greetings All. Whats going on? I thought this would be a good topic, many of us share the same Interests, and study. I love the big bang theory. Very well produced, and funny. I may not believe in the big bang itself. I love space, here I am, what am I doing here another mystery. I study Philosophy, I draw conclusions. I use the scientific method. I wonder if, I wonder Why, did I think this, did I think that? A band of brothers, are we connected? Does our thoughts spread out and propagate in all directions? Did you get the call? School of rock, school of hard knocks, school of fish. Form a union, form a sculpture, form…

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  24. Started by Mystery111,

    ! Moderator Note Split from the "is everything just photons" thread Actually matter can be made from light. Using the mass example can be overcome. Other examples such as charge can also be overcome. Some scientists have suggested all matter is made from light, and there being experimental evidence when a particle and an antiparticle of the same family comes together ''somehow'' knocks the photons out of what ever substructure they create. It certainly is not a stupid question to ask. Obviously not many physicists believe in the idea, but it is still a valid question. “Is the electron a photon with toroidal topology?”, p.9, Annales de la Fondation Louis de…

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  25. Started by rigney,

    I was watching the "History Channel" a couple of nights ago. The topic: Sasquatch. To me; this akullduggery is as laughable as little green men. Like little green men, everyone sees them, know that they are there, but never seem to get a good clean (clear) picture of one. Amazing! Same thing happens in the Himalayas. Everyone has seen the Yeti, but no one has even a snapshot of him, and people climb those mountains daily. Again, Amazing! And UFO sightings? They have started cottage industries from the north pole all the way down to the other end. Personally, I can't debunk a one of them, but; are any of you wrapped up in one of these phenomena? If so, I'd like to hear fro…

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