Speculations
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There are currently 4 known dimensions. The three spatial dimensions and time. I was wondering about the possibility of more than one dimension of time, just as there are more than one dimension of space. I'd be interested in hearing what the members of this forum have to say about this thought. You can speculate about extra dimensions of time yourself if you want.
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Please read if you like. Feel free to disagree or to agree. Discourse is welcome. Thank you. http://www.zero-2-one.com/
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The way I always saw light, was that it is a wave that excites particles in what ever medium it is traveling through. The frequency of light is was what determined the distance it would travel or the influence it has on the excitement of the particles in that medium. Light being a particle and a wave. I figured that light was just a wave, the particle side of it, was actually particles being manipulated in the medium by that wave. Due to like particles liking each other so much, that was how gravity effected light. Because gravity effects particles in the light traveling medium the wave distortion was therefore due to the excited particles moving under the force of a give…
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HI: I am new to the group and would like to introduce myself. I have a PhD in Chemistry from Purdue in 1965. I conducted industrial research for fifteen years, retired and studied Metaphysics, such areas as Astrology, Numerology, Alchemy, I Ching, Cabala, and Tarot. For the past 30 years, I have been struggling with a book harmonizing the two disciplines and now finally have something I hope would be understandable and interesting. I ask for comments on the subject matter. Numbers, Magic, Chemistry Introduction For those old enough, do you remember the sixties and the Volkswagon van with the hippy colors and the question authority bumper sticker?…
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All the other forces in nature have opposites – so what makes gravity different? I believe gravity does have an opposing force, that is, a celestial object of large enough size pushing on itself. All of the mass in the Earth pushes against itself creating a significant amount of energy. This energy, at some point, inverts into a pull (gravity as we know it) that extends about the North/South poles of the Earth as an arc. Look at the attached JPG to see what I think is happening. You can picture the gravitational field in much the same way as a magnetic field, even though the two are completely unrelated. When a star explodes, the gravitational attraction severely ove…
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Let me qualify this by saying that I am not a scientist and can offer no proof to my speculations. I have been wondering lately if the universe is not expanding but pulsing. If we are in an expansive wave of the pulse, would it not look like an expansion? If this occurred over billions of years, we would never see the contractive side of the pulse, but might be led to believe that put into reverse the expansion started at the big bang rather than the contractive side of the pulse. Perhaps some parts of the universe are currently expanding and other parts are contracting, similar to pushing in on the sides of a balloon. Perhaps the speed of light is not constant b…
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Enstein's contemporary Pascual Jordan said, "A star can be made out of nothing at all because at point of zero volume its negative gravitational energy precisely cancels out its positive mass energy." Jordan was one of the 'fathers' of Quantum Mechanics. A Scientific American article a few years old proposes Space and Time composed of quantum bits woven together. It has been proposed that quantum fluctuations in space may have created matter (with resulting gravity) .. I propose that quantum fluctuations may also have created a perfect form of nothingness, pushing the quantum bits of space and time away from each other, with resulting anti-gravity, and that the 'anti-g…
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I am training my Elephant in my back yard. Another intelligent life form is observing our planet from 10 light years away. They have advanced technology and can observe daily life on this planet. Would there observation of my yard be, a man training his animal or would they be seeing some thing that happened years ago? observation can we exist infinite based on distance?
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For some reason there's a lot more matter than anti-matter. Because there's more matter than anti-matter and it is not proven that there was a being in the creation of the universe to tamper with matter, it is the nature of the universe itself to be inherently anti-symmetrical. This is essentially just the hypothesis for the hypothesis. The way I think there is more matter than anti matter is because of how the constituents of matter work together in an absolute value or modular way. Whatever the particle or thing is that creates matter, it adds up in an anti-symmetrical way. Matter and matter are made form the same thing, however it must be easier to add up one amount mo…
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Hello, I have found something remarkable which explains the unification of mass acceleration and energy. The confusion behind this is because gravity I have found has a twin! The relation in philosophy is the Yin and Yang, Negative And Positive, Good And Bad etc... I am looking for someone whom I can "show" through theoretical mathimatics that this relation holds true. As I am about to go "public" with my find, they have told me that I need "physical" legitimacy by a "certified individual" within this category and subject. The selected person will get credit for this and shall benift from this as well. If you are interested to see this and test this in your field pl…
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According to physics weight=mass*gravity. Since mass and gravity are constants weight must be a constant too. I searched the literature and found several papers (Glaser, 1990; Dmitriev, 2003) showing weights of heated metals decrease at increasing temperatures. Glaser says air convection is responsible for weight reduction but Dmitriev weight reduction of a heated thermal insulator cast doubt on Glaser's explanation. Surely not conclusive. I propose an experiment to test this; weigh a heated metal in vacuum. If weight decreases at increasing temperatures in vacuum, as my theory predicts, F=ma is disproved. Interested to do the experiment ?
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Could anyone explain to me what are those two "lines" located in Lyra, it is probably a mistake... I'm using Microsoft WorldWide Telescope Right Ascension: 19h19m52s Declination: +38:06:59
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Is it possible to cause a change the the value for the Bohr radius? What needs to be done to effect a change if it's possible to be changed?
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Ok, here it goes.... I am a big fan of time travel movies. Except planet of the apes. That just confused me. So, I spent a lot of time in my youth (like, two years, every day... almost all the time) contemplating the plausibility of time travel. I was (and still am) a strange child. Anyway, one of my favorite things was the grandfather paradox. I'm sure you've heard of it, but just in case, here it is: Grandfather Paradox And I was thinking about stars, how the light takes a really long time to reach us, because they are so far away. So I was thinking, if you were able to go back in time, you would be seeing the light, and maybe the mass, of things that had…
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IS GRAVITY THE UNIFORM ATTRACTION OF NON-UNIFORM ATOMS ALLOWING THE COMPARATIVE CUMULATIVE RESISTANCE OF NON-UNIFORM ATOMS WE MEASURE ON THE BALANCE SCALE AND CALL MASS? by John Lawrence Reed Jr In response to a question asked by Robert Allan A Section on the Subjects of Gravity, Light, Classical, Quantum and Relativistic Physics John Reed Studies Saturday, October 01, 2011 Robert Allan> What is truth? I think that it's fair to say that truth is what can be proved and the rest is just...conjecture? johnreed> In brief: It appears that if we can envisage it as the truth and the closer we come to believing it is the truth; the greater th…
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I know the mods are gonna want to be trigger happy and flame the God keyword. But as a theist I have to say that God should be a fair and debatable topic in the realm of science. Pure science is not bias. Simply make observations, take notes, and be neutral. So when you want to introduce a concept like God, most people want to make assumptions such as God created the universe. For the purpose of this debate lets completely ignore those types of assumptions as to the "Nature of" or the "Essence of" God. Now some might argue that God cant be God if he wasn't responsible for creating the universe. My response to that is not necessarily. Something similar to our conc…
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Hi: Here is a computer chip made out of bacteria: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jul/24/bacteria-computer Reading that article caused me to daydream about a similar but speculative computer chip made of cells of the smallest existing bacterium with the following characteristics: 1. Aerotolerant-anaerobic 2. Non-pathogenic 3. Non-allergenic 4. Not gram-negative 5. LPS-free 6. Use homolactate fermentation as their only source of energy This chip uses bacterial cells and their connections in place of silicon and electric circuits. In electronic chips, electrons are what make up the intelligable signals. A bacterial chip would use chemica…
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First of all, apologies, engilsh is not my first language, so i might not have made myself clear. I have noticed a facial correspondence in people, People with prominent checkbones have slim waists (both good features), People with pugfaces have the wrong shaped bum for their gender ( both negative features), So facial beauty is a clue to if a person is a good speciman or not. So why are we not evolved to just judge thier body? As it is obvous before puberty whether a child has a bueatiful face or not ( but not body) a parent can judge which of their children is going to have good or bad body features after puberty so they can invest thier valuable…
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Hi: Here is a speculative situation involving satellite internet access A client connects to the internet through a two-way satellite modem provided by the ISP. The satellite is geostationary and uses one frequency for radio telecommunication -- 2 GHz. The modulation is AM. Both the carrier and modulation signals are completely linear. The carrier is always analog and amplitude-modulation. The modulation signal is initially digital but is converted to analog -- via a DAC -- prior to being transmitted on the carrier. On the receiving end, the analog AM carrier signal is amplified [using a 2 GHz amplifier] and is subsequently demodulated. After demodulation, the res…
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Hi: A theoretical pill to permanently cure hypertension and the non-aura stages of migraine is developed. This pill decreases blood pressure by changing the dynamics of the cardiac muscles such that: 1. When a cardiac muscle relaxes, it relaxes completely 2. The extent to which the cardiac muscles un-relax is minimal enough that the patient cannot hear the heartbeat or arterial-pulse unless he/she covers his/her ears, is in a completely-silent environment, and consciously chooses to concentrate on the sounds of the heartbeat or resulting pulses. 3. The heart rate is as slow as it can get without causing any medical concerns provided the patient is in a rest…
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Hi: I asked a similar speculative question before but am still obsessed with hi-tech measures to treat obesity. I apologize profusely if anyone is annoyed. The following is a theoretical cure of obesity I’m brainstorming about. The patient’s small intestine is populated by hypothetical synthetic bacteria that fit all the following characteristics: 1. Not gram-negative 2. Free of lipopolysaccharide 3. Non-pathogenic 4. Aerotolerant-anaerobic 5. Non-allergenic 6. Use homolactic acid fermentation as their only source of energy. These bacteria are present in a pill the patient ingests. These bacteria are designed so that they specifically feed so…
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I have the real theory of everything. I am willing to answer questions like... What is time? Where did we come from? How did the Universe begin? What happens in certain Quantum Experiments? How do you get something from nothing? Is there a God? What is a Black Hole? How do Galaxies form? Is there a multiverse? What is Dark matter? What is Dark Flow? What is Gravity? What is magnetism? Why does the Universe expand? What happened before the Big Bang? What is a singularity? What was there before the singularity? I will give you the answers, but you might not understand them. but do I cheat? No. I base everything on a single formula +1 +-1 =0.Don't ask…
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http://www.taliscope.com/Sator_en.html Was the sator square difficult to construct? All of these words create a palindrome, make a sentence, and add up to 10 using the alphabet (along with all of the other patterns). Could we easily recreate something like this? Since "arepo" appears nowhere else in Latin literature, it could have been created to complete this palindrome.... therefore maybe it's not as incredible as it appears to be. What are your thoughts? I still find it fascinating.
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The electron does not move let alone spin. It is held in something like a Lagrange point. There are 2.N2 such points. When you do Chemistry and play around with molecules you use balls with holes drilled in them at precise angles and struts, what I am saying is that in fact reflects reality, the ball is the nucleous and the combining stut the electron in its fixed location dictated by nucleous 1 and in chemical combination also occupying the fixed location of nucleous 2. In fact there is little difference between,so called Ionic and Covalant bonds ( in fact both effects are usually present ) except that ionic bonds can be easily seperated by water. This explains why you …
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Black holes are singularities. This means that they must exist as point masses, according to general relativity. The gravitational field around a point mass must have a hyperbolic potential profile, not a parabolic one as assumed by Newton’s Law of Gravity. A hyperbola is characterized by asymptotes that define the extreme behavior of the curve far from the origin. Hyperbolic curves merely approach, but never reach the asymptotes. Proper parabolas, on the other hand, approach and reach their extreme values eventually. For instance, a proper parabola will actually pass through the origin, but the equivalent hyperbola never will. The hyperbolic gravitational field a…
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