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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.
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  1. Started by mpc755,

    owl said, "Clocks keeping time at different rates is a different issue than asserting that "time itself" is an actual medium/entity which differes in each and every local inertia situation." Correct. Atomic clocks tick based upon the physical state of the space in which they exist.

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  2. Started by wade.daniel.w,

    Consider this, do you think it's possible the force creating life is inside of light? I know how it sounds but when you consider that light is an actual thing of matter, as (einstein believed) and also that the original life was created with both water and light from the sun, maybe some "light matter" becomes somehow connected with the water and life is created within, forming mold or whatever (plants), the only thing that could live soley off of water and light(evolution), and as we can see eventually creating... us. do you think this is within the range of plausablity. Afterall there's nothing else explaining why life starts to exist. What else could make a lifeform…

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  3. Started by Earthling,

    I don't believe any laws of physics must be revised: Briefly, the GTME (Gravity Theory of Mass Extinction) posits the following: 1. Today, the Earth's continental land masses are disributed fairly uniformly around the globe. In the distant past (e.g., when Pangea existed) the distribution did not have this uniformity. When there is a change in continental distribution, several things happen concurrently: a. A wobble of the Earth will occur. b. Nutation damping of the wobble will commence in order to return the Earth to a minimum energy status. c. The nutation damping can take different forms. If the continental redistribution changed the …

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  4. Started by rigney,

    Someone much smarter than me will have to come along later with ultimate answers, but I believe this theory is right on target. What if the stuff between our material Galaxies and throughout the universe is actually what we refer to as, dark matter and to includes anti matter, dark energy and anti energy? What if this "repulsive force" is being generated from a growing central point and whipping the universe into a hyper-drive? I know, such nonsense gives no established credence for why our universe should be speeding up, but that's exactly the case for my thoughts. If the material we speculate as halos around galaxies is dark energy, it may make the cause for what we con…

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  5. Started by skip,

    A new theory on Gravity reveals the "Missing Link" between quantum physics and relativity theory – by Skip - year 2010 To everyone. The following is a new theory on gravity and reveals a vital missing link which directly connects quantum physics and relativity theory, plus how this theory helps gets us closer to a unified theory of both physics and the forces of nature. You should find this quite interesting. My theory states that gravity is more a "pushing" force rather than a "pulling" force! This theory further states that the force of gravity does originate from matter, specifically atoms, but that gravity is not a direct pulling attraction but…

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  6. Started by md65536,

    Imagine a volume with flat spacetime, inside of which is several particles whose movement is described as a random walk. We would expect that the particles would approach even distribution, just as gas pressure approaches equilibrium in a container. Now imagine that the same volume consists of highly curved spacetime. For this thought experiment, let us suppose that the volume looks to us, as outside observers, as a long uniform cylinder, but from an inside perspective, the volume looks more like a cone, where one end of the cylinder is wide and the other narrow. From an inside perspective, we would expect that the particles would tend to evenly distribute, …

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  7. Started by Widdekind,

    GR -- dumb matter in motion dwells in static space-time ("fixed fabric") GR, ignoring the uncertainties, inherent in matter, according to QM, models matter & spacetime as a single, static 'fixed fabric', spanning all space, and all time: QM -- compounding possibilities, extrapolated forward into the future, yield a Many-Worlds-scale, ultra-multi-faceted, possibility tree According to QM, fundamental particles typically exist in a 'ghosted-out phantasmal' state, of being partially present, at many places (or, in many super-posed states), at one time. And so, the quantum 'choices' inherent, in every spacetime event (x,t), mutually compound, clear…

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  8. Started by mpc755,

    The aether is, or behaves similar to, a frictionless superfluid with properties of a solid. 'Superfluid Is Shown To Have Property Of A Solid' http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990730072958.htm "Northwestern University physicists have for the first time shown that superfluid helium-3 -- the lighter isotope of helium, which is a liquid that has lost all internal friction, allowing it to flow without resistance and ooze through tiny spaces that normal liquids cannot penetrate -- actually behaves like a solid in its ability to conduct sound waves." '"Faraday's finding was the first indication that light and magnetism were related," says William Halperi…

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  9. Started by ekul,

    The Unified Theory was attached to this post. Please read it, it is fascinating in my opinion. The Unified Theory.doc

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  10. Started by mpc755,

    Take it to the next step. There is no time. 'Scientists suggest spacetime has no time dimension' http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-scientists-spacetime-dimension.html There is a similar article which I can not find which states time is similar to money. Money has no intrinsic value. We place value on money so we don't have to barter. Same with time. Time has no intrinsic value. We place value on time so we understand past, present, and future. My analogy is a battery operated clock. You own a battery operated clock. The clock begins to tick slower. Has time changed or do you replace the batteries? You replace the batteries because you understand what occurs…

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  11. I came across a definition of a white hole as a "time-reversed black hole." I assume that a white hole would only let light out. However, this doesn't make sense to me. If you have a curved geodesic contained within a black hole event horizon, wouldn't light travel along the same path whether it was going forward in time or backward in time? It seems to me that spacetime curvature would determine whether light etc would be confined to a space, or unable to enter that space. A time-reversed black hole would be gravitationally identical to a black hole. Perhaps its spin would be reversed or something, but essentially its influence on the universe would be the …

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  12. Started by gnarledreaper,

    Would it be possible to harness energy from the orbit of moons? I had an idea about extending alternators to near the orbit of the moon and having a solar powered magnetic field generator built on the moon so when the moon passes close to each alternator it induces a current in the device, the energy then transferred back to earth, would this be possible, would the power generated by too negligible for it to be practical? If we could build that, would it work?

  13. Started by ScottTheSculptor,

    Humans, By ScottTheSculptor The evolutionary step that created humans was the ability to store emotional information in their memories. But first. The main evolutionary drive is logic. Yes, the ability to survive is underneath but the only "advancement" in that ability is provided by logic. It is logic that a stronger predator has advantage over a less strong, a faster herd animal will logically survive one that is slower. Every creature on the planet takes sensory information and "decides" the appropriate action warranted from that collected data. If food is detected a creature has to perform a logical sequence of tasks to procure it. Even an act as simple a…

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  14. Started by rigney,

    In using "red shift", (the Hubble Constant), to determine galactic distances when looking at galaxies in tandem; is one increasing in speed or the other lagging? Or is the raisin bread idea the only right answer?

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  15. Started by Chalky,

    Did anyone else here about this. Made me chuckle.

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  16. Started by Realitycheck,

    Why don't black holes combust? It's probably pretty obvious that it doesn't have a purity of combustible ingredients. Is it possible for the most massive stars to be greater than the smallest black holes? Probably doesn't even come close. So, do you think the impetus for creation of a black hole is just the amount of matter that has conglomerated and once it reaches a certain level of mass, maybe it just collapses in on itself, breaking the constituent atoms into a dense mess of particles? Without a fusion ignition occurring, this would probably take a while and have to be pretty massive before it collapses.

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  17. Started by lemur,

    No, "making Jupiter a star" doesn't have anything to do with Roman divinity and Hollywood movies. I am wondering if devoting energy and effort to transforming Jupiter into a star would be a viable means of extending the life of Earth as the sun and Earth's core cool. I realize that at some point, the sun is predicted to supernova, at which point it won't really matter to anyone on Earth what Jupiter is doing, but would it be beneficial to ignite Jupiter at some point between now and the end of the sun?

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  18. Started by Butters,

    I´m trying to work out a way to have a system of measuring the date that is not limited by the rotations of planets etc. Something that is not necessarily local and could be used to give a universal ´date´across, well everything. The problem I keep coming up against is the huge distances involved which seem to make it fairly meaningless to say it is X at this point everywhere. Because I suppose, any measurements somebody was making would be based on old light reaching them... Basically, does anyone know of this being done already. Even if not universal, at least galactic? As in something that involved the curent positions of stars according to each other, or the r…

  19. I was wondering if there was any real science behind the claims that radiation from routers and phone towers are dangerous. It would seem that the radio waves that many devices work on are lower energy than that of light. My thought is that turning a light on would be more dangerous than turning on a Wi-Fi router simply based on the energy of the radiation.

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  20. The Universe is, or the local Universe we exist in is in, a jet. 'Mysterious Cosmic 'Dark Flow' Tracked Deeper into Universe' http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/releases/2010/10-023.html 'The clusters appear to be moving along a line extending from our solar system toward Centaurus/Hydra, but the direction of this motion is less certain. Evidence indicates that the clusters are headed outward along this path, away from Earth, but the team cannot yet rule out the opposite flow. "We detect motion along this axis, but right now our data cannot state as strongly as we'd like whether the clusters are coming or going," Kashlinsky said.' The clusters are heade…

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  21. Started by Realitycheck,

    I'm going to make a prediction that dark matter is repulsive to ordinary matter, like two magnets pushing against each other, just as dark energy pushes space apart. Maybe the reason why universal expansion has sped up is because there is more non-baryonic matter compared to normal matter. We already have this mysterious phenomenon called gravity that we know so much about. Why does gravity even occur, and then maybe there is an opposing force to it, antigravity, or a cosmological constant, maybe its due to the existence of this excess proportion of non-baryonic matter, though maybe dark matter is immune to the antigravity of other dark matter. This could easily expl…

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  22. Started by lemur,

    Can it be said that any particle or object in the universe has a certain amount of force required to reach any given destination? So instead of talking about "escape velocity," couldn't one speak of "destination force?" "Escape velocity" implies that once a particle or object reaches a certain speed, it will no longer return to the gravity-well it's being launched out of, but what about its destination? If you took account of its destination, wouldn't any particle/object have a certain velocity (speed and direction) needed to escape ALL possible destinations and remain in its own gravitational frame forever? Likewise, wouldn't any other object be on a trajectory to so…

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  23. Started by lemur,

    Imagine a large cloud of hot gas. If parts of the cloud cool faster than others, those parts should densify relative to their surroundings, correct? Then, if there is no external border constraining the cloud, it could expand freely due to its own heat/pressure, right? So if the condensing parts of the cloud expel more heat due to friction among the particles, couldn't this cause the surrounding gas to warm up and expand more while the condensed particles grow colder and form a heat-sink for surrounding (warmer) particles? In this way, couldn't a body of matter form from the growing disparity between condensation and expanding surroundings and eventually condense to f…

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  24. Started by lemur,

    What if instead of thinking of the early universe of the big bang as expanding spacetime in some abstract sense, you just thought of it as a small, dense ball of matter? Then, think of the expansion of that ball as a process of stretching the contents out despite a limited amount of space between them. So instead of the contents "expanding into" space, they are actually stretching space between them like trying to expand a vacuum within the atmosphere. Another way to describe this would be to say that gravity originated as perfectly contracted spacetime and henceforth began expanding to allow more distance between particles/objects, yes some areas remain(ed) less expan…

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  25. Started by 81kg,

    1 Absolute or relative 2 Time 3 Mobel of TD-energy 4 Energy 5 Electric fields and magnetic fields 6 Particle or wave 1 Absolute or relative Theory of relativity deem that:all movement is relative,inexistence absolutely motionless,The speed of light is the highest speed,For any moving object,Constant speed of light, Light will not be accelerated by light source,The relative motion of objects time is relative expansion.It's logically contradictory that the conclusions is exist at the same time About the speed of light ,prove as follows: Suppose two objects A and B,them close to or away from each other,There are two points C and D in A,AB is perpendicular …

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