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  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. Say you got a formal proof: Line # Statement Reason 1 A Premise 2 ... ... n B m, Some reason n+1 A -> B n, Deduction Theorem. Now we have proven: A -> A -> B, so we proved: true -> B = true (by truth table of "therefore"). So we proved A -> true (by deduction theorem). Now A could be false, then we shouldn't be able to derive "true".

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  2. Let a 10 m square train car (as seen when stationary) be traveling left to right at 0.866 c. Let a light beam be emitted horizontally from the back and travel to the front, and a second beam be emitted from the upper left back corner and travel to the lower right front corner. A combination of time dilation and length contraction would make time on the train car pass at half the rate of a stationary observer's clock and contract the length of the car, and horizontal beam, from 10 m to 5 m long and the length of the diagonal beam from 14.1421 m to 11.1803 m long. For simplicity, let's just say that it takes 1 second for light to travel 10 m in the stationary frame in this …

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  3. Started by Tom Booth,

    I've done nearly everything possible I can think of to block the "flow" of heat out of a Stirling engine, with the idea that if the "heat rejection" could be blocked, the engine would quickly overheat and stop running, or be unable to start running in the first place. To that end, I recently sent away for a silica Aerogel blanket, which is supposed to be very good at blocking heat. I was able to apply a propane torch to one side and not feel heat through the blanket with my hand on the other side. I also used a glass globe from a Coleman lantern to block drafts. As in previous experiments just using styrofoam or house insulation, the engine started and cont…

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  4. Started by Henrytrehub,

    You can manipulate the frequency of a neutrino by harnessing diamagnetism. If you run electrical current through a small mass of plutonium in a sodium honeycomb matrix, encased in bismuth cooled by fluorine gas you can offset the effect of earths resonance frequency and achieve cold fusion in a neutrino plasma that makes more fluorine out of thin air. The fluorine expands with the heat from the electricity running through the plutonium turning a turbine, and cooling down as its compressed before cycling through the reactor again. This plasma also produces thrust, and has the ability to dematerialize various substances and convert them into fluorine gas How does i…

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  5. Started by CrystalMagic,

    I thought to discuss a list of experiments that can deceive libra. We are talking about both conventional and ultra-precise weights. They say that a reaction with the release of more energy in a closed test tube can change the weight? Various magnetic devices are possible. They also say that there are devices that can change weight from electricity, not necessarily magnetic. What methods do you know? The topic is more humor than serious, so please do not move it from section Speculations.

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  6. You mean do the social sciences exist? Yes, people try to do that all the time. My own personal theory is that (a) the human mind is more or less entirely plastic (i.e. impressionable) at birth, so almost nothing can be said about its initial state (except that there basically is none); (b) it gradually loses plasticity during its lifetime, becoming more and more locked into various beliefs, attitudes, and habits; (c) a lot of cultural history reflects the ways in which people's belief systems are affected by those of older generations; and (d) the older generations have lost most of their psychic plasticity and are responsible for the continuity of their cultures. …

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  7. Started by ZVBXRPL,

    Wondered what people thought of this hypothesis. I remember years ago I read something somewhere about ancestors of humans living in water and this helped with our evolution. I think of it now and again, but until now didn't know what the theory was called or anything. I did a search and managed to find the name of the hypothesis I was thinking of - Aquatic ape hyopthesis. Seems interesting. If it were true it would mean that water was not only a major factor in evolution of life in general but for human evolution too.

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  8. Started by Jamey,

    We all have heard of the Island of Pangea, but was it a "collision of continents" or as I have found it forms a ball, was it a Moon that lost orbit?

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  9. Started by cpu68,

    New theory of evolution Applied by me conception derives from social theory, similarly was in the case of C. R. Darwin which used conception of T.R. Malthus when he was elaborating conspectus of his theory in 1842. Earlier, in 2008 I worked out a framework of theory of social evolution, basing on logistic conception which was discovered by P.F.Verhulst in 1838. 1. Biological evolution The term evolution introduced to biology Charles de Bonnet, Swiss naturalist from XVIII c. A biological evolution we call process of transformations of organisms within many generations, both with reference to transformations of their construct…

  10. Most of us believe that we live on a peaceful planet, where only disasters on a local scale occur. However, history knows of cases of global catastrophes that annihilated a large part of the human population and led to a deep collapse of civilization. One example is the medieval Black Death pandemic. In the 14th century, the plague killed half of Europe's population, but also wreaked havoc on other continents. Entire families were dying together. There were not enough living to bury all the dead. For the chroniclers, the plague was devastation more final than Noah's Flood. So many died that everyone believed it was the end of the world. Contemporary scientists and wi…

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  11. Just about every work I've read on air acoustics (I've read a lot) starts by assuming constant sonic velocity. I sort of understand the reasons for this, but it simply isn't accurate. The peak of the pressure wave is hotter and the trough cooler due to compression/expansion and this does affect sonic velocity. I believe it's significant enough to be a major factor in eg. developing the characteristic timbres of wind instruments which nobody seems to have got a proper theoretical handle on yet. I've made a start on developing a mathematical system modelling a spherical wave accommodating a variable sonic velocity and attached a brief summary. I'd be most gratefu…

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  12. Started by addison,

    A Brief and Definitive Analysis of Time By Addison Apology The study of time does not require an expensive laboratory or a PhD. Duration is something that all sentient beings share and for the most part take for granted. Few have given it much thought and those who have, generally, have left the subject in more of a muddle than not. Unfortunately, since Einstein, there has been a growing trend to believe that time is a fundamental ingredient of the universe like matter and space. So, it has become fashionable to glibly talk about spacetime. I personally do not find this paste up word edifying. In fact, it is confusing and meaningless. Definition …

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  13. Periside (e.g. perihelion, is the nearest distance to the sun, &) has the slowest orbit_speed, but fastest angle_speed (angular_velocity); & Apside (e.g. Aphelion is the farthest distance (away) from the sun) has the fastest orbit_speed, & slowest angle_speed (angular_velocity). I distinguish between orbit_speed (vc=Cir/T=2*Pi*r/T); versus the angle_speed f=(theta/t)*(1 [cycle]/360°) =1/T called frequency, for the angle theta in (units) [degree(s)]=[°]; t is an amount of time (duration, e.g. difference in time) in (units) [second(s)]; &amp…

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  14. Perigee (e.g. perihelion, is the nearest distance to the sun, &) has the slowest orbit_speed, but fastest angle_speed (angular_velocity); & Apogee (e.g. Aphelion is the farthest distance (away) from the sun) has the fastest orbit_speed, & slowest angle_speed (angular_velocity). I distinguish between orbit_speed (vc=Cir/T=2*Pi*r/T); versus the angular_speed (theta/T); (Disclaimer: otherwise Kepler's 3rd law is NONSENSE (for me), who(m) I pity). Tycho (Brahe) (only) measured planets'(_position): angles & time (dates); so we can calculate the(ir orbits) angular_speeds, e.g. how fast arcs (…

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  15. Started by Capiert,

    This (thread) is (about) a (syntax(_bias)) complaint. There are several kinds of KE; but only 1 is acknowledged. What does it mean to set the Kinetic_Energy(_difference)'s (KEd=m*(vf2-vi2)/2) initial_speed vi=0 to zero? KEd=m*(vf2-0)/2. (?) (I mean..) If the Kinetic_Energy(_difference) KEd=(m*vf2/2)-(m*vi2/2) is the 1st term, the final_kinetic_energy KEf=m*vf2/2 minus the 2nd term, the initial_kinetic_energy KEi=m*vi2/2 as, KEd=KEf-KEi & the initial_kinetic_energy KEi=m*02/2=0 is (assumed) zero, then we can only have the final_Kinetic_Energy KEf=KEi+KEd KEf=0+KEd …

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  16. Started by William Patterson,

    Realizing the conscience world. Now that the 2022 Nobel prize winners seemingly proved there is an abstract or alternate reality due to quantum mechanics, what grounds us in our version of reality? When observing the particles in the slit experiment, they seem to stay in line, yet when not observing they adapt a wave function. It's not so much observing them as it is becoming aware or conscience of them. It's not a function of our eyes but of our brains. In studying Sopolsky,(Robert Sapolsky, American researcher), we know that babies are born with latent imprints in their brains that allow them to learn a language, to age and eventually die from aging, among other imprint…

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  17. I examined the apparatus closely. It was a blend between a capacitor and a magnet that ran on electricity. "What's the purpose of this capacitor?" I said. This capacitor has the power to levitate," said Swansont quietly. "you mean, like a levitating shaoulin monk?" I said, curiously. "Yes, that's right," said Swansont boredly. "How does it work?" I said. Swansont began to explain. "The capacitor is powered by the force of gravity," he said. When the force of gravity is powered by the electromagnetic field, it causes a disutrbance in the gravity continuum, the field of gravity that encompasses time and space," said Swansont. "…

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  18. Is antimatter the answer? I vaguely grope at terms like antimatter, the big bang theory the matrix and parallel dimensions, as I try to find a way to build a time machine. Certainly factors like the light barrier, the theory of relativity, and quantum physics would play a role in the building of this hypothetical time machine But like Einstein came up with a formula for the traversing of the Time barrier, is it possible to come up with a technique, of hypothetical model for a time machine? Surely we can envision how to build certain parts of that time machine. And yet a lot of it's makeup would still be murky For example, "What you need to build t…

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  19. First post here on scienceforums.net. My speculation is that the universe could be desribed by the infinitely unique path of a single piece of 'string'. Along the string path itself would be negatively charged, but loops of the path would create positive charge- much like in mathematics how subtracting a negative number is the same as adding the absolute value of the number. The overall charge value of positivity to negativity would remain at zero overall to stay balanced, as we find with the periodic table of elements. Negativity is repulsed by itself, as is positivity, but opposite charges are atttacted. It seems to me at the moment to be the most plausib…

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  20. During quarantine, one of my purposes was to improve my knowledge about perpective. While I was working on it, I found something, a method that is able to convert information in 2D to linear perspective to perfection, but the most important, to viceversa too. I think that it's like if I had found how both languages are connected between them, the key to translate from one to another. And I am not sure why it works or what it represents, I just know it works. I called this method The Principle of Infinity. What I am going to expose next is the proof that it works, not how it does. You will have to wait for that for now. Let's get started…

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  21. Started by Willem F Esterhuyse,

    I feel with my heart that everything do not exist, yet I can touch them and interact with the computer.

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  22. Started by Michael C Grasso,

    Math, or better, numbers are embedded in the fabric of reality. Better yet, numbers are what makes the fabric of reality, as will be shown. By that it is meant that numbers are in effect representations of forces and their relationships. Moreover, numbers are also the best "language" system to also store and transmit information, which is an essential quality especially for complex systems such as living systems. It is becoming increasingly evident that information is the basis of the universe but especially of living systems. Physicist Paul Davies states: "Historically, matter has been at the bottom of the explanatory chain, and information has been a sort of s…

  23. Started by Capiert,

    Isn't (height h=) distance d divided by time t an average_speed va=d/t?

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  24. لطفا این مقاله را بخوانید و برای دانشجویان، اساتید و دوستان ارسال کنید تا مطالعه کنند. سلام عزیزان. (استادان، خوانندگان، دانشمندان، دانشجویان) از اینکه مزاحم وقت شما شدم عذرخواهی میکنم عذرخواهی من را برای این پست بپذیرید. من محمد یوسف ارباب از ایران هستم. مقاله مهمی نوشتم. مقاله بسیار بسیار مهم من یک فرضیه جدید از اصول اساسی انتخاب طبیعی کشف کردم که هدف از تکامل همه موجودات را به روشی جدید نشان می دهد. من می دانم که دانش فعلی زیست شناسی می گوید که هدف از تکامل همه موجودات، تولید مثل و انتقال ژن …

  25. Started by Lorentz Jr,

    Has it ever occurred to anyone that the "frozen star" model of black holes provides a simple and obvious explanation for the fact that the entropy of a black hole is proportional to the BH's surface area? (the Bekenstein-Hawking formula) If the BH is frozen on the inside, then only a layer on the surface has any unrestrained degrees of freedom. There's no need for complicated hologram theories. (a) General relativity breaks down at the event horizon; (b) the vacuum inside the BH is incapacitated by some kind of stress associated with the gravitational potential, so nothing inside the event horizon can move*; and (c) the only source of entropy is the outer layer of matter …

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