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I thought about it quite a while ago but it was kind of interesting so i want to ask the opinion of experts, The theory of evolution says organisms adapt to change through variations. In a more concerted view, let us assume that at a point of time there were organisms that had no visual perception of the world. (I personally think the first sense developed by any organism was touch and the last maybe sight. Reason, feeling gives idea of danger only at impact, smell then follows suit we can know danger next best with our nose, the trough sound. Our most developed organ in danger perception are our eyes. ) So till this point of time sound, touch and maybe smel…
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Hello I am new to the forums and I really wanted feedback on this concept. I apologize if I make mistakes in my writing and please feel free to correct misinformation, thanks. The concept's main idea is the transition of gamma ray energy in to dispersed energy spread through the ejection of electrons. This is a hypothetical example question and how the idea would "help" it. For this example I am trying to reduce the energy and widen the wavelength of a gamma ray. Example: You start with a gamma ray with 20 KeV and it collides with an electron that takes 13 KeV to excite it enough to eject its electron. After the electron and the photon collide you are left with a …
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It has recently come to my attention that everything must be, a matter of the relative perspective of the algorythems of consciousness. Let me explain, we (and everything that is) is made up of tiny particles traveling at the speed of light. At the speed of light time stands still, therefore these particles already exist eveywhere all at once relative to their own perspective. It is only through conscious observation that things can achieve a status of place, momentum, wieght, entropy, and order. If this is true than the structure of all things, from the smallest entities which entertain the dynamics of strings and heat to the very large dark matter that holds gal…
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When define heat engine efficiency as:n = W/ W1 , that is, replacing Q1 in the original definition n=W/ Q1 with W1 , W still is the net work the heat engine applied to the outside in one cycle,W1 is the work the heat engine applied to the outside in the cycle,let the element reversible cycle be Stirling cycle , if circuit integral dQ/T =0 is tenable,we can prove circuit integral dW/T =0 and circuit integral dE/T =0 ! If circuit integral dQ/T=0, dW/T=0 and dE/T=0 really define new system state variables, the three state variables are inevitably different from each other; on the other side, their dimensions are the same one, namely J/K, and they are all state variab…
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Has anyone heard of Dr. Joseph M. Brown and his unified theory of physics? I saw this book in my school's bookstore, but I could only find places to purchase it online rather than any actual scientific discussion or commentary. He really thinks that he has it figured out. Here is the description from the website: This book completes the theory of physics as outlined in Principles of Science. The postulates make up an ether gas of identical, perfectly elastic, smooth, spherical particles. Inhomogenieties of this gas exist in volumes with a diameter in the order of the mean free path. These inhomogeneous assemblies are neutrinos. Neutrinos generally have straight paths …
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Hi I'm new here, I've joined this forum as I want to explore cosmology with people who are educated in this field as I do not have any great educational knowledge in this area. This is a video I've been watching on youtube as part of some amateur research I am doing into the Big Bang theory .... I found it extremely interesting as I have doubts about the singular Big Bang theory. What are your views on this subject?
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Hi: I have a medical sci-fi question. Let’s say I’m a 27-year-old man who is completely healthy, physically-invincible, and totally-immortal. All the A-delta fiber nociceptors supplying the peripheral somatic tactile *afferent* nerves in my body are stimulated by a magical source. They are all stimulated at the same time. The intensity to which they are stimulated [measured by their firing rate or frequency] are all in sync with each other. This intensity of stimulation starts of to small-enough extent that the effects are not noticeable. In a smooth, sine-wave-like manner this intensity gradually increases such that it reaches the maximum possible in 30 minut…
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There are a lot of things flying around in the particle verse. One might speculate that all those things moving around at, and near the speed of light might cause a whole lot of acceleration, and velocity time dialtions. One might even speculate that, these dialations form an algorythemic pattern or lattice work of force that flows and moves accoriding to the laws of conservation. Kind of a "little distance garden" Or, if you prefer, expasion frequencies of space and time. These distance expansion frequency waves allow paricles time to react and collide with each other. And when this expansion becomes a plane relative unto itself, a four force particle will form o…
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Hello, like many people here I have a a theory that I want some feedback on. I have posted my theory on a blogsite and can provide the address if anyone is interested. If that is not allowed in this forum I could post the whole theory here. I have a question first though. My theory explains some things like why the speed of light is a factor in the mass/energy equation, why distant points are observed to be accelerating away from us and why the speed of light is a constant. I have not seen anything that adequately explains any of these other than saying the math works. Has any one seen a theory that does explain this?
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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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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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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. …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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C x 10-37sec = Our relativef, time plane's min particle ? What do you think?
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