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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 jajrussel,

    I am not happy with current explanations of the Universe. We either have to accept unreasonable events, or unreasonable explanations. A Big Bang is reasonable, but not without explanation. The universe as we no it, is not lumpy. So, we explain it away, i.e. Inflation. The thing is I am not unhappy with the thought of inflation, but with the thought that sudden inflation is needed. We don’t know what existed before the Big Bang, but current black hole models say that matter as we accept it does not allow for a Big Bang. However, the Law of Energy Conservation says matter existed. If matter existed, gravity existed. Something caused preexisting matter to mass. There is …

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  2. Started by ydoaPs,

    Let's see these mythical arguments of which you speak. Be forewarned, I've been here for ages and seen attacks from all sides of crackpottery; thus far, none have been with any merit.

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  3. Started by Zolar V,

    If we had deepspace spacecraft what would they look like, what would they have for purpulsion and why. how large would they be, if they were to connect to some sort of space station how would they and why. what type of refrence system would they have for navigation, as in where would they refrence themselves to. what types of weapon systems would they have. how would they target and how would they work when answering these please keep in mind actual physics and real solutions. but also dont leave out theoretical physics or theories that have yet to be proven such as "folding of spacetime for "warp drives"" but obviously keep out stuff like magic and imaginary stu…

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  4. Started by æτhεr φ,

    If I were to cause a collision of two high-speed particles in glass sphere, and had a high-tech camera that could record or snap a shot of the sphere a split-second before it smashed into pieces, wouldn't I be able to predict exactly where the particles would end up? If not a collision then a explosion. If this is the case, then it would be the same with the Big Bang, if I was to go back in time and place a sphere over the point where it happened, I could then predict where the particles/matter would end up? So everything that is happening now was already predicted from point 1?

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  5. Started by eleven,

    Source .a Christianity - "The Bible" Although the nature of the 'bible' may have been altered over the years, I'm going to attempt, whilst applying wisdom and logical assertions, to decode - and understand the bible, as it was understood during its origin/initial creation. It's rare to hear of somone who attempted to understand word for word what the religion symbolized; a supernatural monotheistic figure seems to be the most popular way to view the text, however it may be the incorrect view-point. Putting 'Occams Razor' to the bible in the present day is almost useless, as the book is highly ridiculed by most scientific figures/media, especially within schools/colleges…

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  6. Started by Klaplunk,

    How can God exist without time? Impossible, a thought or movement requires time - an action requires time. Therefore any God is time, as to create or be created the essense of time is required. We exist between time, never able to reach the future, never able to reach the past. Example: [] = time. [ us ] not: us [ ] not: [ ] us We are always in the present. We move and age, time doesn't. The earth spins and rotates, time doesn't. Everything equates to 0. Only 1 type of singularity exists, black holes. The black hole makes everything tick. Time is God, and time created the universe. Discuss.

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  7. Started by eleven,

    What if the universe was created by a super-massive black hole and super-massive white hole. Both gave each other proportionate attraction - a binding force alike magnets. The two collide and due to each others 'field' of attraction, the life-force produced could only be perfect - there is no way that anything can go against the rules if the only factors are two attractions with specific structures, to simply, attract. - [a.] darkmatter/gravity gravity/antimatter (I'll explain this further in, Source a). Both attractions collide and project outwards at speeds in their 'field of attraction'. What if that initial love occurred through the -attractive-will- of the initial su…

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  8. Started by gentleman-farmer,

    The Wedjat Eye of Horus is not a lineage of the Eye of Horus - nor was it Egyptian. If you add the fractions, they add up to 63/64. This has an been an enigma for thousands of years. We see the first instance of this unique pre-pyramid age Icon on p 14 of Gay Robins & Charles Shute's The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus ISBN 0 7141 0944 4 The why of the missing 1/64 can be solved - as a friend and I solved it years ago

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  9. Started by Marat,

    Electronic voice phenomena are sounds which appear to be human voices, sometimes thought to be those of dead people known to the listeners, which can be heard on any sort of sound recording device. If a tape recorder is run where there are no sounds or voices, voices can sometimes be heard when the blank tape is played back. Similar voices have been reported from radios tuned to a frequency on which nothing is being broadcast or from televisions turned to an empty channel. These apparent voices have been heard from sound recording devices which were allowed to record and play back in a room within a Faraday cage, so the possibility of stray transmissions from other sig…

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  10. The purpose of this tread is to provide an insight into the origins of some of our knowledge of astronomy. The method I've chosen to do that is to quote actual passages from some very ancient Texts so readers can see how these subjects were discussed and taught in ancient times. ABOUT ME I graduated with an engineering degree then into the Apollo moon project and nights teaching college physics. The first week of class I announced that I'd be teaching some elements of Astronomy throughout the semester. But at that point I decided to teach the history of some of our knowledge of Astronomy instead, and that I'd relate it to parts of the Apollo program. Our coll…

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  11. Started by sava.cupac,

    First of all, sorry for my bad English. Regarding the polemics about new measured proton's radius, I am informing you that I calculated it theoretically several years ago, in my yet unpublished book. That new measured value of proton's radius, mentioned in Nature 466, is 0,8768 fm which coincides with the result I have theoretically calculated in my book: 0,8876 fm. I used it for calculation of gravitational constant, with formula in the attachment I also calculated gravitational energy of proton. The rest of the book demonstrates the existence of the ether, as a mechanical fluid which fills the universe. Ether presents the basic factor of all the phenome…

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  12. Started by Butters,

    I decided that I had best put this in speculation rather than annoy people in the quantum theory section. Basically, I am a science fiction writer and in one of my novels there is a society of AI's that exist throughout the universe in virtual colonies on a series of thousands of asteroids. By virtual colonies I mean that they only exist as digitally encoded minds, although they have access to the sensory equipment of each asteroid to observe the outside world and, if necessary, affect it. Being a huge fan of bandwagons, I'm jumping on the one labelled quantum entanglement as a means for them to be connected to each other. I have the usual limited understanding, but m…

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  13. Started by Undeniable,

    Heyyyy! Some duuude posted this on /sci/ today. Claiming cubism, and all this binary mumbo jumbo. Anyone have any idea what this stuff means? Is it true, does it have a possibility of being true. Could we truly have a direct link back to the beginning of time? I kind of understand it. What it's trying to say is that we are always kept together by one thing.

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  14. Abstract The aim is to show how the 2-dimensional incompressible fractions of composite fermions theory can be found in 3-dimensional atomic structure and the result used to show the cause of the nature of the elements with supporting comments on electronegativity, electron filling order, and van der Waal’s radii. Introduction Two problems with current understanding are: 1) The problem of transferring two dimensional Composite Fermions theory into the three dimensional frame of the real world. Jainendra K. Jain[1] found that: ‘comparing Composite Fermions[1] theory with real life experiments also necessitates an inclusion of the effects of nonzero thickness of…

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  15. Started by elas,

    Several years ago I proposed that for elementary particles: mass x radius = linear force constant A recent revision proposed that: mass x radius = gravitational constant/2 More recently the proton radius was the subject of a new experiment that led to this revision it includes the proton, neutron, and fine structure constant. Col. A lists the particles. Col. B is the mass values given by Codata. Col. C gives the value of the elementary particle radii using the R^QMC equation given by Malcolm H Mac Gregor. Col. D shows the single and three particle linear force constants. (mass x RQMG) Col. E Gives the radii found when the linear force constant i…

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  16. this thing was happened two time at me . when the time im driving the car and my girl friend ask me the direction and speed. after i tell her 60km/h and east ..then she will use phone to call someone to report the direction and speed. then just some second i feel hot and sky are change color and then the rain come . and the most terrible thing is she was know a man he drive a car like mine. and that car was strike by lightning. my girlfriend use satellite to do this?

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  17. Started by Moontanman,

    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

  18. Started by kitkat,

    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.

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  19. Started by rigney,

    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…

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  20. Started by gentleman-farmer,

    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…

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  21. 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…

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  22. Started by Karu,

    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.

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  23. Started by Genecks,

    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…

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  24. Started by Klaplunk,

    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.…

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  25. Started by gentleman-farmer,

    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…

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