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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.

The movement of a thread into (or out of) Speculations is ultimately at the discretion of moderators, and will be determined on a case by case basis.

  1. Started by Dean Mullen,

    If the past is just memories & the future is yet to happen, the only time you can be certain exists is the present, and the only place you can be certain exists is the place you observe. Even though it seems unlikely, there is no certainty that I was even here typing the start of this post, about 20 seconds ago. There is room for the possibility you are shifting through consciousness in other words, you are only you for a split momment of time and you observe the memories of you then leave you, although it sounds crazy, there is no way to disprove it. You cannot travel through time thus you cannot prove the past even happened, although I do believe the past did happen…

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  2. Started by Alexandre,

    Athene released his documentary ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbh5l...layer_embedded It changes ALOT in quantum science. If you need more explaination on why this discovery is groundbreaking, look at the live stream where he explains it in an easier way: www.ustream.tv/recorded/12221835

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  3. Started by lemur,

    It is assumed that absorption of a photon adds energy to the electron cloud, causing it to increase in levels. The level then drops when a photon is emitted. Could the shifting position of the electron be caused by relaxation of the electrostatic force binding the electron to the protons? In that case, would a photon actually be a packet of anti-charge? I know that photons are known to be composed of electric and magnetic fields, so no need to bombard me with the true science that contradicts my speculation. The reason I post this idea is to explore what observable consequences of modeling photon as "anti-charge" would be. I suppose it would mean that static electri…

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  4. Started by Dean Mullen,

    If consciousness essentially creates reality and observation forms reality into a defined state, then I was just wandering were is my body and thus myself when I am dreaming? I have realized that my body including my head cannot exist when I am asleep & dreaming because I am not observing it nor sensing it in anyway, this must mean that my body, brain & self does not exist when I am dreaming, yet if that is true, then what produces the dream? The only possibility I can see is that all of reality is a dream and that the dream of reality and the dreams within reality which we have every night is produced from a higher level of reality beyond this world, and that…

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  5. I'm presently trying to get my work looked at by anyone that can hopefully get my work examined in an academic community. My work which I've worked upon for around a decade (often leading me to toss everything time and time again) places the classical energy formulas of Relativity into diagram form which then gives a functional formula of gravity and all of which sums up and balances out perfectly in spreadsheet form. The work is copyright protecteded through being file at the U.S. Library of Congress but has not otherwise been published. On the second tab of my spreadsheet I have found two equations that balance out perfectly but I can't figure out what they equate…

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  6. Started by Writerstew,

    Hi there. I am an aspiring Science fiction novelist looking for some help. I was wondering, if anyone would be willing to answer a few questions. I am completely clueless here, but basically the concept is this. Using RFID technology, what are the possibilties regarding synthetic biology? What if Craig Venter's ideas fell into the wrong hands. Worst case scenario, particularly regarding weaponization of this technology. I'm looking for a virus that can be weaponized and implanted unknowingly via RFID's. Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks in advance http://www.spychips....rfid_powde.html http://www.nytimes.c...nce/21cell.html

  7. Based on the concept of the Multiverse which contains an infinite number of universe, it is imaginable that there maybe a multi-multiverse or to make things simple an M2V where two represents the number of multi's in the world which contains an infinite number of multiverses and onto M3V containing an infinite number of M2V's and all the way onto MInfinityV. The MV contains laws of physics, which vary per universe and the M2V contains laws of laws of physics which vary per MV and onto M3V contains laws of laws of laws of physics which vary per M2V. So for e.g. Each Universe: Different speed of light Each Multiverse: statement that speed & light exist and…

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  8. Started by yesvirginia,

    What are some things to say to a psychic to essentially "trap" him into saying the wrong thing? I know this sounds petty and everything, but there's this psychic who's been saying things about me to my family that have changed their views on me. I didn't bother arguing because I knew they'd somehow filter out everything I say in favor of what the psychic has said, but my family said something to me last night that ticked me off so much that I just have to do something about this psychic dude. EDIT: After re-reading the forum description, I just realized that I may have posted this in the wrong forum. Don't hold it against me?

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  9. Started by Yomomma,

    Whether you choose to believe it or not, the planet is undergoing radical changes due to the polar shift and the solar cycle. For some the reason is unclear. However here is a reason that seems to clarify the causation of the polar shift: It’s simple really. The Earth & the rest of our solar system is below the Galactic Equator. Every 26,000 years our solar system passes through it. We go up through it and back down through it like a sea saw. The Galactic Equator has a North & South polarity like a planet, especially Earth. The problem is Earths North pole is facing the North pole polarity of the Galactic Equator. So basically the Galactic Equators North pole …

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  10. Started by Marat,

    Daryl Bern, a Cornell University psychologist has presented results of nine experiments using more than 1000 subjects which he claims prove that ESP exists. His paper reporting his results in detail has been accepted for publication by the well-respected, peer-reviewed journal, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Some psychologists are complaining now that the results should not have been published since ESP can't exist.

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  11. Started by LightHeavyW8,

    And how many superluminal QSOs does it take to throw a monkey wrench into the BB Theory? Google TON 202 and see... ! Moderator Note Thread has been split from here

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  12. Hi: My favorite flame is sound-free [i.e. completely silent], char-free, soot-free, smoke-free, odor-free, ember-free, waste-free, tar-free, toxin-free, non-caustic, and ash-free. No CO2 or H20-vapor either. This flame does not emit any sonic or mechanical energy to any extent at any frequency. It is also not affected by wind or air at all. The flame does not emit any form of energy/matter other than infrared-c radiation. This flame emits IR light not out of incandescence but due to specific quantum jumps. UV and visible light can be emitted by non-incandescent sources – so can IR. The temperature of this flame is not much different from its surroundi…

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  13. Started by Basim,

    According to the big bang theory time,matter and everthing started in a split second but I don't understand something which is super heated ( something like 1 trillion trillion degrees celcius ) and eventually it created a super blast which made the universe. I still don't understand how time could actually be 'created' because it's not like matter, becuase you can't get a hold of time,you can't grasp time. I think that time wasn't atcually created it was in existence before the big bang but that still desn't answer the question,"How did time start?"

  14. Started by Vak,

    Big Bang was not. The reason of cosmological redshift — "ageing" of photons. My scientific concept does not give an occasion to Universe expansion.

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  15. Whether we talk about "the beginning" of our universe as a huge explosion or an instantaneous expansion, how could either have happened without a center? I haven't a clue, but does it matter? Perhaps some day it may. At best, and even with using the "raisin bread" scenario along with the popular expansion theory; why would there have not been a center to this whole enchilada? Unless general math forsakes me completely; somewhere there is a galaxy with people?, perhaps not unlike us sitting at the "exact center" of this expansion saying, why is everything moving away from us? But! what if it was simply a huge explosion and everything had been thrown out in all directions? …

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  16. Started by GrandMasterK,

    I have no idea if this is the right place, so my bad. I've been working on a story for the last couple of months based on similar world like this with one difference, the ability to use magic. I've been doing research and trying the best I can to have a reason for the magic to work. So it's not tradition magic, I want their to be a science behind it. Well one of the things im going over now is having more then 5 senses and I was hoping for a bit of help. Not only would like help on comming up with new senses, but help on defining if the ability can be considered a sense or not. Sensing Motion - And I mean in a way that you can still tell someone is moving aroun…

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  17. Started by rigney,

    I know! It has been mentioned, theorized, calculated and catalogued into the archives of civilized learning. But how true is it in practicality? The raisin bread theory, that is. Why do scientist insist on telling me there was no center to the universe at its conception. Anyway, in the beginning there was supposedly a Big Bang. Don't quote me verbatim, but in the first few trillionts of a second, the universe was at a temperature of perhaps billions + or - degrees F. and had grown to the size of an orange. In the next few trillionths of that second, it had grown to the size of our solar system, or galaxy, not sure which. During the next five minutes, it had stretched (gr…

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  18. Started by Widdekind,

    Plasmids are pieces of DNA, that bacteria incorporate into their own genome: Such seems superficially similar, to (lysogenic) bacteriophage virus DNA, which enters bacterial cells, and is incorporated into the cell's internal functionings. Perhaps Plasmids underlie the Eukaryotic transition to diploid-ism, representing some sort of "proto-sexual reproduction" ??

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  19. Started by dragonstar57,

    cell theory (Cell theory refers to the idea that cells are the basic unit of structure in every living thing) and that all living things have certain characteristics but those characteristics are part of the definition so any "life" that violated this theory would not actually BE life its like theorizing that all dogs bark and then redefine the word dog to mean (a 4 legged animal that barks) if there was a dog that was injured and could no longer bark it would cease to be a dog by this (redefined) definition.

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  20. Hi: I have two favorite wavelengths [colors] of visible light. These two wavelengths of light [when emitted monochromatically and perhaps together as well]: 1. Cause the least amount of stimulation [hopefully none] of the rods of the average human retina 2. Cause the least amount of stimulation [hopefully none] of the blue cones of the average human retina Wavelength-1 is reddish-green while wavelength-2 is greenish-red. Both wavelengths [even if view separately] will stimulate both red and green retinal cones, hence the terms “reddish green” and “greenish red”. However, reddish-green causes more stimulation of green cones than red cones, while greenish-r…

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  21. As an introductory note, I shall say that the theory behind my ranting and raving, or bits and pieces therein, is self consistent throughout. With reference to the above title I would like to mention that a common way of thinking is to consider time and space in their aspect of absolute quantities. Seen as physical quantities, time and space are almost always thought of: the first in terms of millions of years, and the second in terms of intergalactic space. What I have in mind instead is the smallest unit measure of time and space: the “second of time” and the corresponding “distance of space” which is 300 million metres, roughly from here to the moon. In my work, I am a…

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  22. If gravity had positive and negative poles, like magnetism, could the opposite pole be hidden because it existed in anti-spacetime? Matter tends to organize into apparently spherical bodies, but what if the center of these bodies was just a transition point between the positive and negative poles of gravitational force, where only the positive spacetime-generating side is observable? So whereas we generally think of gravity-wells bottoming-out at their centers, could the curvature of spacetime actually be continuing through some kind of virtual/shadow anti-spacetime that feeds force back into the gravity field as we know it? Think about it like being an electron l…

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  23. Started by Meneghin,

    With this first thread, I would like to put forward a proposition which science may or may not, in the near future, find it a suitable alternative to the ongoing state of things. I am specifically referring to the Relativity paradoxes and to the many unanswered questions plaguing Quantum mechanics. With both these scientific disciplines, the problem seems to rest and to lean heavily: (a) on the abstract status of «time», and (b) on the emptiness of «space». To make a long story short, the parameter «time» when applied to Science in general has been made to play the part of the interloper ever since natural philosophy became science, that is: ever since Galileo. Likewis…

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  24. Started by steevey,

    Except, how do you know that?

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  25. Started by caharris,

    I was discussing the details of what it meant to say that time was infinite, specifically into the past. The main objection that I got was that "if the past is infinite, then it would have taken an infinite of time to reach the present." My first impulse is to say "So?" and ignore it, but I was having difficulty explaining why that didn't bother me. So I'm curious as to what you guys think. Could time extend infinitely into the past? If so, what would that mean? If not, why?

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