Speculations

Can the Aurora be heard? Some people report hearing sounds when the aurora is intense. Some also speculate this is connected with hearing meteors. i can sometimes hear meteors but I've never seen or heard the aurora. Can it be possible and is there a mechanism for this? http://www.damninteresting.com/the-sound-of-the-aurora

I believe the reason why it is difficult for many individuals to accept is how we programmed to think. We are pattern thinkers so in order to make the world we see make sense we created a system of language to define it. Religion was a big contributor for most of history and now we have science with a more advanced system of language to define it. We evolve at a very slow rate so its going to take a very long time for this new system to get firmly rooted in future generations.

Just about the time one of my unsolved mysteries of the universe seems close to an answer, something else always sets me back on the straight and narrow, letting me know that I'm not even in the same ball park. According to Hubble, our universe is zipping along at the speed of light. As we look deeper out into time, supposedly, 13.5 billion light years, that speed even surpasses light speed. A couple of weeks ago I came across some information on Google that many of you have likely read and understand. I'm still trying to make sense out of it. The information below got me back to a bit of rational thinking. Speed of the Milky Way in Space The Physics Factbook™ Edite…

4500 years ago builders in ancient Egypt structured the foundation of the pyramids of Saqqara with blocks that had thereon a strange hieroglyphic writing. The writing was known to them at the time - but was subsequently lost, and remained so until 1799 when one of Napoleon Bonaparte's legionaries discovered a basalt tablet (now known as the Rosetta Stone) from which Jean Francois Champollion deciphered the ancient text c1821 -22. It followed that the late Dr. R. O. Faulkner (then of the British Museum, London) translated the hieroglyphic writing and published it in English under the title, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts. It is therein that the cosmology and t…

I had an idea for a study this morning. Perhaps a few have already been done (links if you've got 'em would be great). Stress, anxiety, and fear lead to health problems. That has been reinforced by so many studies and so much research that we can take it as given. Stress and fear and anxiety are not good for our health. They consistently lead to other more serious health issues. FOX News (and others, but I'm using them as a specific study subject) magnifies, reinforces, and feeds these negative feelings among viewers. Their segments, and the way they present them, lead to significantly increased stress, anxiety, and fear levels in their audience. Their…

http://www.magtudin.org/Arkay%20Laszlo%20dr..htm What do you think of this? Is it just pseudo-scientific trash or could this be possible? I'm rather skeptical myself.

I've often been thinking about how people say that the redhead phenotype is going away. This is true in a lot of ways. However, the alleles in the genetic world pool are not going away. However, it could be said that the inability for a phenotype to be expressed in the real world means it's undergoing an allelic degradation. What I mean by this, is that the lack of phenotypic expression is tied to all the other genes in the person's genome. And all genes work together for the fitness of the individual. A gene that is not phenotypically expressed means that it has not been required for survival. As such, it undergoes degradation. It will disappear from the gene pool, becau…

1 First God made heaven & earth 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. 3 And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5 taken from: http://www.bibleontheweb.com/Bible.asp Ok, I'm not religious, and I'm not asking you to believe or anything like that. It's just a little thing I found out about the bible. A pattern. Get a pen and paper or just open paint; you could probably just picture it in your head. Begin with "First, God made the heaven the earth.…

It was recently suggested that some of my posts fall outside the realm of currently accepted science, hence were closed or moved to this speculation section. In response, and with the objective of helping others who've had the same experience - I'd like to suggest (with examples given below) that the moderator's decisions have been made more on personal bias than scientific fact. I'll not expand on that except to point out that there have been (1672) views of the item "Why has my post been moved to Speculations?" posted by swansont - Whereon it is worthy to note that there have been no responses because the moderators have blocked that opportunity I'd like to us…

It was said on another thread that ( snip ) It was also stated that gf) The purpose of this thread is to bring people's attention to the fact that both of those statements are false. They are false because it is impossible to have a force manifest itself without having encountered resistance. Without resistance force does not exist. With resistance there is deflection - with deflection there is distance traveled - with distance traveled there is work - hence no force can exist but what work has been already been performed The same is true of fluid systems - pressure cannot exist but what there is resistance down stream gf /

What would happen if in let say in a supernova explosion some of the matter somehow are pushed over the speed of light. My thinking is that to an outside observer that FTL matter will look like going back in time then instead of seeing that matter expanding we would see it contracting. Is it plausible that supernova remanant are such observationnal artifact ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BXWM3QD1n8 Now to explain what you just watched and provide evidence in support of this argument. Science is the logical examination of what we perceive. As a Deist I believe science is compatible with a belief in God. Therefore that belief must itself be logical. So what is logic, how is it derived, and how does it lead to a belief in God that is compatible with science? The phrase “I think therefore I am” is a self-referential observation that provides certain knowledge of our own conscious existence (in fact it is the only thing of which we may be absolutely certain even though it says nothing about the nature of the "I"). But that …

A thread was closed prematuraly. IMO Have you ever looked at what looks the globe without water? It is something like this You can have a look here: http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/8411/a000054.mpg To me it looks like an old apple. I have also the feeling that the Earth is shrinking. But there is no need to relate this the flood, and I don't believe it happened suddenly. It can happen smoothly, as a natural continuation of the formation of the planet Earth from an accretion disk. There are very few elements supporting the idea, since the general point of view* is that the Earth's dimensions never changed in the past and don't change today (except for …

1) A new value for proton radius found by experiment is given on: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7303/full/nature09250.html 2) Previous submissions (on ‘Speculations’) showed that mr = c where c is a constant. Further developments lead to mr = G/2 where G is the gravitational constant. I now use mr = c to show that the new experimental result for proton radius is open to question. In the tables above Codata values for classical electron radius and proton radius are underlined. Mass multiplied by radius values are shown in the extreme right column. As the Proton contains three elementary particles which according to mr = G/2 have the s…

Conventional thought as expressed by the USGS follows the line that mountains (like the Rocky Mountain range - see illustration) are formed by a process initiated by colliding slabs of lithospheric plates. That the process is invalid is demonstrated by the use of two dimensional drawings where slabs and processes appear to be functional and based on scientific discovery. In reality earth surfaces are spherical and they cannot interface (nor function) as illustrated. This lesson is learned early in the educational process when school children make top hats of construction paper. The construction requires that folding edges be cut to remove interfering material. We're …

if accelerating an object adds mass because you have to apply energy to it, shouldn't decelerating an object also add energy to it? lets say you doubled the mass of a partical by accelerating it, wouldn't decelerating it double it again?

I'm a new member - originally from Michigan and now in the land of hurricanes and alligators with my wife of many years, and our two horses. One's an Arab and the other is a dual registered Paint and Missouri Fox-trotter who thinks he's an Indian pony. One might suggest that the title I've selected Examining the "physics" in geophysics belongs in another section - but it's the physics that I want to discuss - not the "geo." An article appeared on CNN.com not long ago that discusses the issue, stating :: http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/25/u-s-students-fall-behind-international-counterparts-in-math-science-analysis-says/ Here (in part is why) :: One …

Hello Science forums...... before i state my hypothesis... let me make it very clear... i am no scientist..this is all "what if" and i only said i challenge these two great minds because i hope it makes a shocking enough title to draw enough people in what i am about to ask is simply question, i post it here because i dont know enough scientists to ask this too in real life but i promise...my hypothesis will either make you laugh... or upset you.......... my hypothesis deals with the nature of black holes.. and proposes that the universe is in fact finite one more disclaimer before you read it... i am writing this, because i literally had a dream wh…

A Theory Of Co-existence I have come to the conclusion humans were created to co-exist with the Universe, in which case the Universe was made for us, for without us it serves no purpose. Before the humans & animals came to be, you had the Universe. Space, stars, planets etc. We can be certain that the microscopic particles and atoms do not have the intelligence to comprehend their existence, correct? The humans, & a majority of animal species have what is called an eye. Light is reflected off matter, passed through the eye and converted by our brains into what we see (the visiual). We can see planets & stars, they can’t see themselves. Me…

The symptoms in some patients with uncontrollable epilepsy can be relieved by a severing the corpus callosum and thus separating the two hemispheres of the brain. A number of interesting experiments have been conducted in such patients which demonstrate that the two hemispheres each constitute separate, autonomously functioning brains. But suppose that we could overcome the immunological and neurosurgical problems of transplanting one hemisphere of such a patient's brain into another person's skull after we had emptied his skull of its own brain. Then we would have hemisphere A still in person X where it started, and hemisphere B now in person Y in whom it had been …

The atmosphere of Neptune is 80% hydrogen. How would one go about setting the whole planet on fire? More to the point, would it not just explode? That is, assuming that Neptune is just gas all the way down...which seems reasonable. Also, would not a flaming Neptune have more kinetic energy then a not-on-fire Neptune? If so it would definitely change its orbit. Clearly this is an absurd and mostly humorous thought experiment about the violent thermodynamic destruction of an entire gas giant (no Death Star required, although it seems to me that the best way to do such a thing is indeed with a giant laser), and as such I've posted it in speculations.

Hi, was thinking, could it be that the means of reality existing, is through the avenue of consciousness, whereby the very essence of existence existing is portrayed through the act of be conscious. for example, imagine a person or whoever, a conscious system standing in absolute darkness, where nothing within the context of reality can be identified or observed, as in an object, whereby light is the necessary agent for information to be transferred to temporal dimensionality and all the consciousness system can wrap itself to is the system itself, so in other words the conscious system cant come to terms with anything. However, in this, although the system ca…

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What is everyone's favorite psuedoscientific/quack/scam claim? My favorite would have to be the work of "Dr." Masaru Emoto. Claims that prayer and music imparts unique structures to the old classic...water clusters. This one just cracks me up. He takes pictures of snowflakes and writes a book about his proof of the power of prayer to influence our biochemistry. http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/nov1/cwater.htm Lets try and find the craziest psuedoscience we can. It sure beats the hell out of watching TV sitcoms.

A frequent criticism of extracting energy from Casimir cavities using gas atoms is that the energy required to push the gas into the Casimir cavity will at least equal the energy released by the photon. This argument is only an issue for those who believe the hydrino actually achieves a sub-zero state orbital and is non-relativistic. I contend that the reactionary forces are translated 90 degrees to the temporal axis where this method FORCES normally chaotic virtual particles to organize boundary conditions with gas molecules that formed while inside the Casimir cavity. The subzero like radius of the orbital was non radiative because it didn't really get smaller -the boun…