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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.

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  1. Started by Approachingavoidance,

    So I'm reasonably but not completely certain I have the TOE. I've believed it for over 5 years and I think it will hold up because it offers a common thread yet honors uncertainty and the evolving nature of things. It explains why energy acts like consciousness but isn't because our narcissistic observer perspective puts ourself before energy instead of vice versatile. Consciousness acts like energy. TOE explains all human behavior, addictions and disorders as it explains the patterns of all objects in space. It explains worm holes, war and grandmas nervous tic. It explains why half you believes me and half of you doubts me...reasonable doubt is unveiled. Someone please t…

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  2. Started by kgreen93,

    I expect that I am missing something that disproves my theory, so if you know something I don't, PLEASE prove me wrong: I just watched the episode of "through the wormhole" where they discussed the possibility of faster than light travel. In the episode, various people were proposing the idea that the speed of light was not constant throughout the universe, but instead, light was capable of moving faster, depending on its proximity to a cosmic string, a photon sized superhighway that snakes throughout the universe following the path of a photon released from the big bang. This is a counter solution to the cosmic inflation theory that solves the problem of how energy co…

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  3. Started by 36grit,

    It is said that we have five senses. Sight, smell, touch, hearing, and taste. Each one attached to a sensory perception organ that sends sinals to the brain for interpretation. Our eyes are sensors that interpret photon energies within the color spectrum. Two eyes gives our brain the ability calculate depth according to the photon interferience patterns relative to our position. But what if our brain intself (or some part thereof) is a sensory perception organ in and of itself. Babies are born (according some show I watched) with the perception that we are all a unified field of thought. At some point they percieve that they are individuals with like thoughts. …

  4. Started by michel123456,

    There is a very common example in litterature about entropy and the arrow of time. You keep a glass in your hand, you let it fall down, the glass breaks. You never observe the reverse situation where the broken pieces jump together in your hand: the example shows the one-way direction of the arrow of time. (except in a movie played backward) On the other hand, living organisms use overall physical entropy to organize, sometimes compared as a spark of negative entropy in the general frame of the second law of thermodynamics. So I was wondering if the example with the glass is applicable, because glass is a product we humans have made, a product of a living organis…

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  5. Started by Wildstar,

    I heard a story on coast to Coast about a guy who was driving a car down the road and someone pulled out in front of him. he was doing 90 and had no way of swerving to avoid the other car. the next thing he knew he was on the other side of the car. He looked in his rear view mirror and the guy in the other car was still sitting there looking in the direction in which the first guy came. I know that it is possible for a large macroscopic object to tunnel through a barrier but you would have to wait longer than the lifetime of the universe for such a tunneling to occur. Is it possible that this occurred somehow. Other callers also called in and related stories…

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  6. The existing view is that force acting at a distance can impart energy. But I propose an alternate view: the force does not impart energy, but causes thermodynamic changes (in the body) such as changing the speed and internal energy. An increase in speed causes a reduction in the internal energy and a decrease in speed causes an increase in the internal energy, thus the total energy remains constant. The changes in the internal energy can cause either heating or cooling. That is, unless energy is put into the body or removed from the body, a force on itself cannot impart or remove energy from the body.

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  7. Started by JohnB,

    Firstly this is pure speculation, but I thought I'd chuck the idea out there and see what happens. I'd very much appreciate comments from anyone with knowledge of Anthropology on this. I don't know what is said in the literature and haven't been able to find anything looking at this, but I could simply be looking in the wrong places, so input is welcome. There is something about human societal development that I've always wondered about. H Sapiens evolved some 120,000 years ago (give or take). They are us, same brains, same intellect. So how come they sat on their fat, hairy arses for 114,000 years before developing societies above "Hunter gatherer"? Why was …

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  8. Please read and discuss whether my theory is right and acceptable: Here, Singularity before the Big bang = S Static Universe = sa Big Crunch = bc Unlimited expansion of Universe = eu …

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  9. Started by 36grit,

    The idea is that quarks are an electromagnetic fluctuation field similar to the one that caused the BB. The velocity of two negative particles act on the acceleration potential of the positive particle allowing them to pass through each other without anihilation, binding, or deformation. Charge in tact and they pass through each other over and over creating a field of vibration energy. The vibration energy disrupts the charge field of particles passing by beaking charge field symetry. This causes them to spin. These spinning particles cause the fluctuation field (quark) to spin. The vibrating energy condenses onto the rings of angular momentum. The rings spread out. …

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  10. Started by Externet,

    Hi. Is this a diarrheical collection of scientific terms meant to confuse or makes reasonable sense to an expert ? In other words, was it written by a clown or an educated scientist ? Where was this copied from is irrelevant. My question is only about the interaction/interrelation of the terminology along the paragraphs. =========================================================== ... As a matter of REQUIRED reference, * the origins of life in the form of bacterial cells (publicly) currently dates to a little prior to 3.9 Billion Years Ago (BYA), quite an event for the early Archaean Eon * with promitochondrial en…

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  11. In various topics on this forum, I get the idea that it is still a mystery how or "why" spacetime curvature causes gravitational acceleration. Am I mistaken? Did Einstein and others who understand GR also understand that gravity immediately follows from spacetime curvature? It seems intuitive to me that it does (thus "why"), however the details are not at all intuitive, and I wouldn't even begin to know where to begin with the math. My basic "understanding" of how spatial curvature causes gravitation is as follows: 1. Movement through curved space means that the distances between remote points changes as you move through space. I think this is because distances in …

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  12. More complicated models will always be written in Ptolemaic epicycles, hence complicated explanations. The Ptolemaic model met the requirements of the church at the time concerning the Earth being the center of the universe. A simpler answer was that the sun was the center of a stellar system of planets, where the Earth was only one of the planets. This new model, only upon strong evidence, ended the idea that the church must always be the ultimate authority. Today I think we are faced with a similar dilemma. The 20th century ushered in many new theoretical models like Quantum Theory, Einstein's theories of relativity, The Big Bang model, etc. all of which have o…

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  13. Hi, The acceleration in technological development has so far been most successfully conveyed to the general public by Ray Kurzweil - especially in his 2005 book 'The singularity is near.' I have began a blog that presents a novel viewpoint. One that weaves different historical threads into a coherent picture. Please check out my first blog post and then reply to this forum www.zoologicalhistory.blogspot.com For my first post, I demonstrated that there are many points in history, that fall onto a trajectory with accelerative growth in complexity starting around 550 million years ago with the emergence of a centralized nervous system. The most recent commu…

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  14. 1. Spherical universe: The universe is spherical; the galaxy clusters are the individual units. The natural energy of any cluster is mc2/2. However, due to energy transfer, the inner clusters have shortage of energy and the outer clusters have excess energy. Part of this energy is its speed and part internal energy. The speed- internal energy ratios of all clusters are the same at any given instant. The clusters are distributed uniformly, and the speed is directly proportional to the distance from the centre of the universe. 2. Thermodynamic process: The expansion is a thermodynamic process involving internal and external energies of the clusters. T…

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  15. Started by teh,

    Photons are particles in a field around the earth, moving with the earth thru space, enclosed in the sun's ether & rotating round the sun yearly. Responsible for gravity inertia. Electrostatic & magnetic forces are distortions in the ether at right angles to each other, light being oscillations between them. Satisfies Michelson-Morley & Sagnac experiments. Relativity works if the inertial frame is aligned with the ether.

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  16. C x 10-37sec = Our relativef, time plane's min particle ? What do you think?

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  17. Started by pantheory,

    This thread is a spin-off from the thread "simple explanations have legs" This was my quote: As has been suggested by myself and others, I believe that common logic is a big failing of today's primary scientific theories/ models which is one of the causes why many do not make sense and one of the reasons why I think most will be replaced by more logical models. It was suggested that this might be an interesting topic to discuss. I hope you think so Besides all the formal logical principles involved with argument, there are also a number of other logical principles that might be adopted for a new book on formal logic. Below are a few principles that I have…

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  18. Started by Farsight,

    ajb: a "property of the configuration" is reasonable, but that just defers the question to configuration of what? I think a useful phenomena to examine here is Compton Scattering. This is from the hyperphysics website, which I think is very good: The photon gives the target electron a "kick", and is reduced in energy. The electron acquires kinetic energy and moves. If you then repeat this with the scattered photon, you tend towards a situation where you have no photon left. All you have instead is electrons that weren't moving and now are. The photon has essentially been converted into kinetic energy. Hence I think "photons are pure energy" is more reasonabl…

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  19. Started by UserX,

    Hello I am UserX, I am not a scientist and do not claim to know everything. But I do love science and in particular physics. My theories are based on based on science we can see and observe and it attempts to piece together things that elude us. My thought is that some time scientist are to close to the problem and that it takes a fresh mind to point out a something that could be helpful. This is a work in progress and I would like people who see the possibilities with this theory to test and critique anything I say here so that i can continue to develop these theories. The fabric of space time has always been a mystery to me. How it worked, what it actually was…

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  20. Something funny is afoot in the biological sciences. Labs peering into DNA are seeing things that nobody expected. And because the received view of evolution failed to predict these findings, and because it has little room to incorporate them, a crisis is brewing for the theory. Something more than selecting random variants is going on in evolution. The data coming out of DNA sequencing and analysis suggest that the something more has to do with a preferred direction in evolution. Phylogenetic descent seems now to be a developmental unfolding. Several discoveries point to this conclusion: 1. Junk DNA. This is not a particularly new discov…

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  21. Started by Pincho Paxton,

    For many years I have been posting my Bubble Theory or Black Hole Theory On the internet. I started my theory on bubbles in 2004. I also posted that I can't do maths. This starts debates on my theory being a waste of time. But I feel that I have predicted so many things now that I should be taken at least a bit seriously. Afterall, my Bubble Theory is a Theory Of Everything.. with no maths. I know that I am in for some flak, I am used to flak. This is the real Theory Of Everything... First.. the Aether exists. I have altered its physical attributes so that it doesn't show up in failed experiments. Second.. Gravity is a push from outside the Earth, a bump …

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  22. If you look at the Human brain you will notice that the Cerebrum is convulated. Apes have convulated brains also, but the brains of the nearest living relatives to the supposed common ancestor of Monkeys/Primates are relatively smooth. If you look at the brain of a Bushbaby or Tarsier you will notice that the cerebrum is smooth and does not nearly resemble that of a humans. Also the brain of a Monkey or Lemur barely resembles a Human brain. If you look at the brain of a Horse, Dog, or a pig you will notice that the brain looks very similar to a Human brain. If you look ah the cross sections of a Human and Dog brain you will notice that they are almost identical. The convu…

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  23. Started by Realitycheck,

    What causes black holes, as opposed to just big conglomerations of mass? Maybe something like a specific condition such as when a star explodes and great masses of atomic schrapnel are flung apart, coalescing into a conglomeration of atomic particles, without reforming back into the constituent atoms? I guess the particles would be too ready to reassimilate, though maybe not necessarily. Time to read this book and get caught up. Any ideas? Maybe if it had a binary of a specific makeup which it then collided with.

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  24. Illusionist The Creator closed his hands the slower a wave of negative the faster positive and right at a velocity two and half times the infamous speed of light clap two infinite bodies of energy particle-ized fluctuations slowed them down until speed and heat were realized distance created as an arena for particles to bond and collide or transform into weight when vibration and spin harmonized and if the conditions are just right two fields combine into one filled with so much momentum that it balls up and races side to side negative cannot handle the snappy changes in direction so it winds up way outside were it tumbles to meet the po…

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  25. In this post, I present 'The Finiteness Theory', a theory of everything formulated by me. Matter has a fundamental particle that has a fixed mass, fixed volume and fixed energy. The energy is in the kinetic form and the particle moves at the speed 'c'. As a reaction to the energy, force is created. Electromagnetic radiations are streams of such particles. The natural energy and the energy equivalent of the force, of any system made up of such particles, are equal to mc2/2. When the particles integrate, energy and force are used up or trapped inside at every stage, and so, the ultimate system formed has no external energy or force. The fundamental particles first i…

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