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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 akillys,

    I was watching a documentary on holographic reality. Long story short the person speaking said that what we see could possibly be a hologram that is projected from a black hole. This got me wondering if the human eye could in a since be acting as a black hole. When you think about it, light enters the pupil and does not exit. light is made up of photons which have mass which in turn makes it mater. When we see things, we are seeing the reflection of that object. Technically the photon is encoded with information from the objects the light is being reflected off of allowing us to see it. My question is this, what happens to the matter that enters your pupil, is your eye in…

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  2. Started by Weirdmaskman,

    *The evolution of plants has resulted in increasing levels of complexity, from the earliest algal mats, through bryophytes, Lycopods, ferns to the complex gymnosperms and angiosperms of today. *MAIN HISTORY. ~Probably an algal scum formed on land 1,200 million years ago. ~In the Ordovician period, around 450 million years ago, the first land plants appeared. ~The fruits of their diversification are displayed in remarkable detail in an early Devonian fossil. ~By the middle of the Devonian period most of the features recognised in plants today are present, including roots, leaves and secondary wood. ~By late Devonian times seeds had evolved. ~Late Devonian plants had…

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  3. the so-called ether that it is a medium for light has been considered to all flood in the equipotential three-dimensional space for a long time, but the view of the thesis is that the ether floods in a piece of more than three-dimensional space in fact. Explores the difference between__ Light wave and Sound wave from space dimensionality.doc

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  4. Part 1: Slow glass... From a thread in the Relativity forum: http://en.wikipedia....ight_in_fiction "'Slow glass' is a material where the delay light takes in passing through the glass is attributed to photons passing '...through a spiral tunnel coiled outside the radius of capture of each atom in the glass.'" Suppose you had complete control over the path of light through some volume. Even with light traveling at c, a long curving path would take longer for light to travel, and could be used to delay light. A fractal path on an arbitrarily small section of a plane can have an infinite length. Quantum limitations might make a true fractal path impossible…

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  5. I was reading over at science news about "The End of Space" by I Got Wisdom (or some such ) but not allowed to comment (topic locked). Since God showed this to "Got Wisdom" I won't bother to pursue this one too closely. One thing did bother me and that was that on The Onion they were talking about the Hubble Kaleidoscope (Is A Kaleidoscope for real ?) and how astronomers have recently observed total "Weirdness" out in space with this thing. What is the Hubble Kaleidoscope and is The Onion reporting valid/serious science/astronomy news ? I went over to http://www.astronomy.pomona.edu/penprase/BEPresearch.website/Default.html This one has links to somet…

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  6. Elementary proof of the FLT The designations of the numbers, which participate in the proof, become clear from the following relationships after the elimination of the general cofactors 0°) - let us assume that this is possible, - in the numbers A^n, B^n, C^n (for the beginning AB is’not divisible by n): 1°) A^n+B^n=C^n, 2°) A^n=C^n-B^n=(C-B)P=a^np^n=(ap)^n, 3°) B^n=C^n-A^n=(C-A)Q=b^nq^n=(bq)^n, 4°) C^n=A^n+B^n=(A+B)R, 5°) A+B-C=U=(A+B)-C=A+(B-C)=B+(A-C)=ap-a^n=bq-b^n=uabc*, where c* - greatest common divisor of the numbers C and A+B (it’s obviously that c*>1), from here 6°) C=A+B-uabc*. 7a°) It’s obviously that the numbers A^n+B^n, C^n-B^n, C^n-A^…

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  7. Started by rigney,

    As a bachelor, when going to the market yesterday I bought only 2 ears of corn. Brought 'em home, shucked them out and left them on the kitchen table to steam for supper. Didn't use them, so they lay there last night. Thought I'd put them in the fridge this morning but, "Zap", there's a "big" golden spider claiming one of the ears as if it belonged to her. It became a Mexican standoff, so I took the ear and her outside and shook the girl off my porch. Since I spray my entire home with insectiside each spring in early May and havent seen any evidence of spiders or other critters til this morning. Tell me? Is that instinct, good olfactory glands, or what?

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  8. Started by Mandevu,

    Is it conceivable that dark matter is composed of antimatter? I realize theoretically the two cannot coexist without annihilating each other, but what if the antimatter exists within a slightly different time space?

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  9. Started by PlayingGawd,

    Hello SF, I'm new and wasn't sure where to post this so sorry if it's the wrong place. I assume most of you genii know of the Endosymbiotic Theory (mitochondria and plastids originally being individual organisms). Well since chloroplasts were/are likely alive and decided to live in plants, would it be possible to place them into other organisms and have a symbiotic relationship form? Or could we give an archaeon or bacterium some mitochondria and see what happens? Could we give ourselves chloroplasts and photosynthesize? Would we need to add chlorophyll to our skin pigment to be able to? Is it at all possible?

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  10. Started by ydoaPs,

    Many people only see the God Helmet in terms of explaining some religious/out of body/alien experiences. I, however, think it might eventually be possible to use the basis of this technology for more constructive uses. Two things to note: 1)The technology creates mental experiences. 2)People remember the experiences. Number two is very relevant here. If we have a complex enough helmet with sophisticated programming, could we not use it to imprint a database on the brain of the user? Given several exposures to the same database imprinting, could this not be used to ultimately upload the database from the computer to the user? One could learn Kung F…

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  11. Started by elas,

    Unfortunately the forum will no longer allow image installation, instead the following message appears: You are not allowed to use that image extension on this board. (i.e. the 'insert image' button) therefore I have resorted to referring readers to a pdf file. http://69.5.17.59/graphene3.pdf

  12. Started by lemur,

    Once upon a time, sailing ships dominated intercontinental transit. Today, passenger jets have replaced the function sailing ships once had. Do you think it would be possible for sailing ships to bear all intercontinental traffic once again? If they did, do you think intercontinental travel would decrease due to the inconvenience or do you think sailing ships could provide sufficient convenience to satisfy modern consumers despite the long travel duration?

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  13. Started by Jacques,

    I called neutronium the matter inside a neutron star. I was wondering if we could take a teaspon of neutronium, and bring it outside of the gravitationnal field of the star, what would happen ? I know that it would be almost impossible to do that, a teaspon would weight many tons here on earth and I have problem to imagine how it would weigth on the neutron star ! Will the neutronium turn into a neutron soup and neutron decay into a proton and an electron and form hydrogene H1-1 ? Will it create super heavy hydrogen isotope like for example H1-10 ? Just curious

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  14. Started by Belin Cvetkov,

    Could you share your opinion on the method of registration of absolute motion. RAM US.doc

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  15. We know that during the big inflation that distance was spreading faster than light. So I'm thinking that maybe the big nothing that existed prior to the universe was an infinate flow of faster than light expansion existing along side fields of faster than light contractions. Perhapse charge, wich can exist without time or distance per my understanding, comes from the friction of these two fields of basically nothing more than momentum. Perhaps the positive and negative charges canceling each other out causes a disturbance and this momentum to spin into tiny little vortexs. The low preasure zones of these vortexes might cause like charge to condense into electrons and pos…

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  16. Started by 36grit,

    It has recently come to my attention that space and time are not the same thing. So I'm wondering if time is an energy that occupies space? Does it eleminate the true vacuum of space? is it some kind of force field residing in and disrupting the true vacuum of space? If so does this field have an associated particle like all fields according quantum mechanics? Are length, width, and depth, dimensions relative to the time field density they occupy? Do you think virtual particles exist in virtual (nontime) space and that when they hit the surface of a timed space they draw together and pop like and air bubble coming out of a field of water? could the universe be descri…

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  17. Started by kaeksen,

    Atoms with its electrons, Properties of the nucleus in the atoms, makes the potensial wave electrons. I belive gravity on a small scale inside the neucleus makes the potensial wave electrons outside.The electrons is like a "ghost" particle which only can have potensial energy, it will never acrete matter to it, instead it directs the formation of molecules. Planet is like a big atom, outside it has its electron (moon). The moon was first a potensial moon, a "ghost", because i belive gravity made the potensial moon, so it could acrete matter to it. Sun is like a huge atom, and our planets are its electrons, they of course also started as potensial planets aka "ghosts…

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  18. This hypothesis is based on the fact that, in terms of the general theory of relativity, space-time is curved according to non-Euclidean geometry. Especially noteworthy here is that the curvature of space-time is applied uniformly to all physical phenomena of the micro- and macrocosm. In this way, elementary particles can be described in approximation as "Einstein-Rosen bridges in miniature format" which have both particle character as well as wave character. But in addition,the development and structure of the universe can also be depicted based on this understanding in this paper. Thus, with the help of the general theory of relativity, this hypothesis succeeds in des…

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  19. First of all, I am taking the liberty to send my thesis. It is known that Einstein's theory of relativity is established on Michelson interferometer experiment. However, people have great difficulties in finding a more satisfying answer to explain some unaccountable paradoxes like “Queer circle of grandparent and grandchild” or “Self murdering of newborns” derived from this theory. In that case, my thesis will temporally give up questioning the logical issues. Instead, it will propose a new theoretical viewpoint according to the optical homodyne of Michelson interferometer experiment from a perspective of space dimensionality. This new point can help to explain all questi…

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  20. Started by Brian30024,

    What Caused the Big Bang? We know that a Big Bang happened, but how did it happen. Nobody really knows, but I will hypothesize one idea. My idea is that we were created by another universe with a black hole and any universe with a black hole can create another universe. So, how is it possible that a black hole can create another universe? Let’s begin on how a black hole is created. A Black Hole is created when a heavy star, more than 25 times heavier than the Sun, has no means to withstand its own gravity as it dies; collapsing into a black hole. So, now how can a black hole create another universe? If the weight of the heavy remnats of the star, causes the …

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  21. Started by Mr Rayon,

    Hey guys! Is it true that one's handwriting as an adult is genetically predetermined before birth?

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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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