Speculations

I have heard that time dialates the closer you get to a black hole. And right at the event horizon time stops from the perspective of an outside observer. So, does this mean that, from our perspective nothing has ever fallen to a supposedly feeding black hole?

He basically suggests that to survive the coming technological singularity, we'll have to merge with AI machines in a synthetic evolution, or some such nonsense. He also suggests that: I don't think this is how evolution works. I don't think that it is going along a path to create a god-like entity, only change better suited for the current environment. Is he right? And also, as a random aside, would an AI that had achieved singularity level intellect still be able to understand anything like humans? Or would they transcend us?

I know light is the speed limit. Nothing can go faster than light! That is why this is in speculations.... So, here we are: When an airplane goes faster than the speed of sound, the sound waves bunch up and create a shockwave. If one were to go up to or faster than the speed of light, would the light waves start to bunch up and create a shockwave of light? Think about a bunch of condensed photons traveling across the land ravaging everything in its path..... yeah That is how you make a death ray, except you're gonna have a bit of trouble trying to go that fast....

To the Scienceforms Manager: I have developed a paper, A Constructive Model of Gravitation. This is based on analogies between mechanics and electrodynamics, and not on General Relativity. I have suggested an experiment to determine the sign of antimatter gravitational ass, which would help in deciding between this model and GR. This paper is on the website of the General Science Journal. In that regard I have a request. Will you permit me to put this paper on the Science Forums website? My sole desire is to solicit comments. (It’s okay, I am thick skinned.) If you wish to see the paper before hand, I can e-mail it to you. If you so decide then, how wo…

Several years ago I proposed that mass x radius = constant ; at that time I tried and failed to apply this equation to composite particles. Later the equation was amended to mr = G/2. At this point swansont advised a course of action that was beyond my ability; but as the core of my proposal is a balanced force field, I set out to show that electron shells of atoms of the elements are balanced force fields. Having achieved that I was at a loose end until I came across a table of eight baryons; on enquiry swansont replied that these were the most commonly found baryons. Next I submitted the same table extended to show that baryon mass multiplied by the adjusted ra…

Hello everyone, My goodness but this question was on my mind, and on my lips, from the time I was born! Thank God, my darling (irreplaceable) mother, was hugely brilliant and highly spiritually evolved! Because, today, I not only know who I am and where I come from, but also have a fair idea as to where I'm going. So, thank God, I have no more questions in that regard. Yet, to help others, who don't know. There is only one direction in which I can point you, namely in the direction of: The Lost Book of Enki by Zecharia Sitchin. Read this (expertly-deciphered) book, and all your questions will be answered! Essentially so tired of reading the (excessively worde…

Some people just don't want to believe.... Even with the evidence right in front of us.... Rest assure.... We will all be able to see this binary companion in the sky within the next 6 months. I don't know about all of you, but I would begin consider moving underground. It would be best to prepare yourself as well and try to find where "THEY" reside. You can start off by searching Denver International Airport. However this is not the only place, their are many spread across the US. Once people begin dissappearing; now you will know where they will be. ! Moderator Note split from http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/54869-we-found-one-new-planet/

If homosexuality is something that is genetically passed on, which culture/race will have the highest concentration of homosexuals within their population? I understand in Iran, they say that there's no homosexuals there. Could it be the case that in the Middle-East, that all the people who carried the genes for homosexuality got prosecuted to well ehm, extinction? I know in religious countries there's a fair bit of pressure to marry and make babies, but would homosexuals males in the Middle-East be able to pull of the idea that they're really straight and pull an erection when required (and a similar case for females)? If homosexuality is passed on genetically, w…

FREE ASSOCIATIVE Free Association String Theory's Mathematical Fright of the 4-D Bumble Bee Brian Greene is a Keen Flying Machine Spellbound, I will forever be under the baton of Nova's PBS broadcast Elegant Universe. Physicist Brian Greene is a Supreme and Empirical example of what it takes to become an American Idol. Anyone who can begin his fiat in real space-time with a one dimensional loop has my goat, I mean vote. There's no business like show business - like no business I know. The toughest business in the world. No I haven't stood in line to see the movie (stack it higher) yet, but I've read portions of the introduction to his book and all I can say…

According to many quantum physicists "belief" in an event, makes an event more likely to transpire in reality. Many individuals such as myself spot events in our dreams seemingly come true and yet how can this be? premonition? well I have much more scientific resolution than premonition perhaps when one enters into a dream there belief of that event increases because when you are dreaming of an event you believe it is real and that extreme belief in a mind-based event makes it much more likely to transpire in reality so when you awake the next morning you have already affected the likeleness of similar events occurring in real life and then similar events often do occur i…

Could it be possible?

I was pondering earlier in regards to magic, Their seems to be ( some ) evidence supporting the unexplainable. But most is proven illusions i know, However is it possible for levitation, disappearing whatever else is out there? Just a thought any comments or points of view would be helpful thanks.

Based upon information recently shared and/or learned I would like to suggest that a body of mass is a field of particles and particle structures (atoms) that share a unified time frame. Me and chair do not share the same time frame. Niether do we swap or share electrons. I can get up and walk across the room without breaking the chair because we exist on two seperate frames of time. I'd like to propose a thought experiment. We'll use the divisions of earth time for easy understanding. If we place two steel bars next to each other for a few hours not much will change. their independent time frames will not change much. We could pull them apart using a pretty much eqau…

When our universe began, supposedly it was accompanied by extreme heat in the millions or perhaps even billions of degrees Kelvin. Did this event actually take place? Who can say, other than scientists; who really want to solve the issue? For simplicity's sake and the fact we are here, assume it did happen as such. Being a pragmatist with nothing to accentuate or back up my reasoning, it's quite possible our world sprang from such a nothingness? If so, then wouldn't it be rational to assume it will return to that same nothingness? Don't get me wrong, this has nothing to do with science or religon, yada yada; just a question. And all of this, from a primordial soup? Yes! I…

If time went backwards then would it even exist because from the moment time first ticked it wouldn't have ticked because it wouldn't be going forward so it wouldn't even reach its first tick yet if time had always went backwards then it wouldn't even exist, I know time doesn't go backwards but just imagine in a hypothetical universe time traveled backwards if that was true then time wouldn't even exist at all.

I've said before on these forums that "Why does mass curve spacetime?" was the last puzzle piece for myself having even the vaguest understanding of how gravity works. Finally I have an idea. So I retire from science. Assumptions: 1. Time and distance are perceptually defined. They appear different depending on how they are observed. At the speed of light, they are unobservable... they essentially disappear. I assumed that it's possible to describe a viewpoint or model in which they don't exist at all. I conjecture that they are not fundamental aspects of the universe, but only observational side-effects of a consistent, 2-dimensional universe. 2. This pretty mu…

A typical interpretation of the Schrodinger's cat thought experiment is that in one reality, the cat will die, and in another it will continue to live a long and prosperous life. If every probabilistic event has each outcome realized in a different reality, the butterfly effect implies that any 2 similar realities would quickly become very different. These could be called divergent alternate realities. Special relativity can describe a much milder interpretation. If we assume that any cat must at some time die, then relativity of simultaneity tells us that that moment isn't the same for all possible observers. It's possible that for one observer the cat is dead, and f…

I ask such a question simply because I haven't arrived at an answer. I've searched and searched into everything I can imagine and have yet to find anything conclusive. If someone has a viable answer, please let me know?

If the theory of parallel universes is true then I realized that within this infinite vast sea of universes there is an infinite number of universes in which are exact copies of our universe. So the matter of these universes could be identical to our universe yet you cannot have exact copies in terms of consciousness because if that was true we would experience an infinite number of lives rather than just one. So consciousness has the ability to be individual yet matter cannot be individual so consciousness is not just a random event developed by matter it has its own laws of physics in some sense.

According to physicists once we reach a Type II civilization stage nothing known to science can destroy us. only ourselves of course or another Type II or Type III civilization and yet the second law of thermodynamics confirms we must end someday. Nothing lasts forever! But this means we must end by destroying ourselves or another Type II or Type III civilization will destroy us. And the only way a civilization can destroy itself or destroy another civilization is either via a disaster or a war. Yet I doubt a single disaster could wipe out an inter-stellar or perhaps inter-galactic civilization. So the conclusion from this is that our civilization if we survive to become …

I am not a physicist by any means; I am just any armaturewho has an interest in theoretical physics. Since time and space are one and the same, would it not be the case that the standard time of the universe would be determined by the rate of expansion of space/time? I do not mean a standard time in an absolute sense;time is relative to the observer, as I understand it. What I mean is for objects in space, which are relatively stationary, or move slow enough that the relative time these objects experience is nearly identical to the relative time experienced by all other nearly stationary objects in space. If I understand correctly, that the speed of the observer (t…

I was thinking about how time and space is consistent no matter how it is observed (related to this post: http://www.sciencefo...rves-spacetime/). As an example, suppose you could shrink the universe down to a very small size. It would continue to function consistently with the relationship between time and space being determined by the value c. You may see the universe as small, but others who may perceive it differently may see it as immense. I think this is exactly what would happen if you were to somehow "step outside" the universe. You would perceive it as small (as a black hole, I believe), while others inside it would see no change in space or time. …

Hey! For a couple of months ago I came up with a new hypothesis about how our universe was created, and made a video describing it. I am not talking about the big bang, but how the big bang was created. I have even found the answer to the question why our universe is accelerating using this hypothesis. I have also discovered if we live in a multiverse or not. But I just don't have the skills to investigate this hypothesis further, as I dont have any education in science or physics. The video is a 6 minute long video that describes my hypothesis broadly, which I hope you will take a look at and examinate. It must be said that the video is only the basics for the…

who are we? I think physics should try answer these questions much more deeply, it would seem quantum physics maybe the field to look into, although I am theorizing that maybe the true us is not produced by the brain but by something else we just haven't discovered, whatever this something else maybe I believe it maybe the experiencer, it has one ability, to experience and at birth some force created by an alive biology attracts this something else and then that something else aka the true us or experiencer experiences all the brain does. The brain/body work together to perform five major actions: 1. Observe/Sense the external world 2. Inherit the information and…

We are all traveling in time already. There are many ways and means allready available to manipulate time. There is thermo dynamic time dialation, there is gravitational time dialation, and there is relative velocity time dialation, and acceleration time dialation. Light in water slows down, therefore time in water slows down, just a fraction but still. Time traveling into the future is no mystery. Time traveling into the past should be just as easy. If we take off and accelerate to one quarter the speed of light relative to earth say for a two month loop in space. The earth would be older than two months old upon retutn. We've traveled into the future. Simple and a…