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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. Started by lucky45,

    Did mankind come to be from the evolution of some ameba or some single celled organisim that came together at the beginning of our planet? Or were we put here by some super intelligence from another planet? And just maybe these aliens are keeping watch over us! Who can say, Maybe all of the UFO reportings might have some truth to them.

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  2. Started by Widdekind,

    The curvature of mass-free space-time is allot like the "compensating curvatures" (my words) of a soap film, drawn out between two circular hoops, held up in the air (Wheeler. Gravitation & Spacetime). Now, for a soap film to exist in space, the soapy water must be different from the medium in which it is immersed — to wit, whilst one could create soap films in the air or in a vacuum, one could not do so "under (soapy-)water". Arguing naively from the analogy, then, the "film" of space-time must be distinctly different from the "medium" of Hyperspace. Moreover, the shapes of soap films are created by the counter-balancing of Surface Tension forces t…

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  3. Started by Phx Lord,

    My theory has just had a few holes poked through it. I would like evryone who cares jot down thier theories and supporting argument on this thread. I can then review these theories to refine my own.

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  4. Started by ecoli,

    This is probably why non-physicists shouldn't waste their time thinking about physics: So by determinism, I'm talking about the concept that if you knew the state of every particle at the beginning of the big bang, you could recreate or model the universe perfectly as well as make perfect predictions about the future. I think the concept is rooted in chaos theory. The Many worlds interpretation is, I think, considered correct by a consensus of physicists. My question is, if you knew all the causes and effects starting from initial conditions, how could the wave function collapse on an alternative to our own universe? Determinists claim that randomness is …

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  5. Started by xshen,

    Attached are the pdf and words format. Because the short article contains equation that can't paste here. Hope interesting people join discuss or e-mail me. my e-mail address is xl_shen@yahoo.com Why the Special Relativity is wrong.pdf Why the Special Relativity is wrong.doc

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  6. The lever paradox and the elevator paradox are more challenges to relativity than the twin paradox and the submarine paradox. The lever paradox was raised by Xinwei Huang about in 2001. It has be discussed for many years in China. The conclusion is that special relativity can not explain the lever paradox, unless the introduction of the gravitation magnetic field hypothesis. So Xinwei Huang raised the elevator paradox about in 2004. The elevator paradox has almost no discussion because even the gravitation magnetic field hypothesis can not explain it. To solve these two paradoxes, I put forward my own theory. It can also explain the phenomenons that be explain…

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  7. Can the Principle of Constant Light Speed be Proved by the Michelson-Morley Experiment? Please read http://api.ning.com/files/Hark62hE1uMt2uQHmYnIptCnoMSBmVwR4Gsc1ONqXXZnJOalLs3GDgRoF6fc35dYyOu1ooXfqn0SxtL*iXC4F9NTsZXu-ADT/Apaper.pdf This paper has just been accepted by GALILEAN ELECTRODYNAMICS. Dr. Cynthia K. Whitney, an editor in GED, said to me “It is understandable, and reasonable to publish in GED. Please be aware that GED pages are filled through year 2011,So this will appear in 2012, unless someone withdraws something before then.” This paper was contributed to the American Physical Society(APS), and reviewed by the editors and reviewers of PRL, PRD and …

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  8. Started by vuquta,

    Hi, I seem to have a condition in which SR measure two different values for c. Since the math is somewhat long, I've put it to a pdf file here. If you find any logic or SR errors, please feel free to point them out. Thanks in advance.

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  9. Started by padren,

    Just out of curiosity, could the manner in which we experience time, the patterns of entropy and all that good stuff be a side effect of the big bang's outward impact through space/time in which, with our perceptions being limited to this small sphere of space/time effectively appear "linear" due to how small that range is? To elaborate, lets say the big bang occurs and space/time and all matter and goodness goes flying out in every direction, in space and time. We exist at a location a certain distance from that center in both space and time. If we could "do a 180" with regards to time and head towards the center of the big bang in space, entropy would appear to go…

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  10. Started by Sleeping Troll,

    Going back some thirty odd years I began developing a theory that resolved some issues I had with the standard atomic model. I am amazed where this mental experiment has taken me. Some of the concepts seem at first bizarre, then at second glance perfectly correct... for example... 1. Gravity is an outside force acting upon the universe and not from within. 2. Time has no beginning or end. 3. The universe has no beginning or end. 4. Gravity is pouring energy into our universe at an exponentially increasing rate. 5. Time as well as space are being distorted at the same exponential rate. 6. The "Big Bang" is an illusion of our perception created by th…

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  11. With a self regulating system - entropy could be said to be decreasing, so hypothetically if a self regulating system were large enough (or capable of growing large enough) to take up a significant portion of the entire environment could it be said to violating the second law of thermodynamics? i.e. could a rapidly growing culture of intelligent life avert the heat death of the universe?

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  12. Started by Zolar V,

    Here is my take on the theory of everything. please bear with me, I take my concept of the theory of everything from Taoism, in that in everything there is balance and both sides of the that balance total to equal zero. Now taking that into account here it is: E_1 = E_2 E_1 - E_2 = 0 E_1 is energy E_2 is also energy i know that sounds ridiculous because obviously energy is going to equal energy. But you cant quite think of it like that, rather one energy is not quite equal to another form of energy. Let me try to put it into perspective. lets say that in a system you have Heat energy (denoted as H_e), Light energy (L_e) Momentum (M_E) a…

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  13. It seems to be said, fairly often, that "gravitationally bound objects experience no expansion of spacetime". For example, the incessant "stretching" of Spacetime does not "rip apart" our Solar System, nor our Galaxy, nor our Local Group. So, once a "glob" of matter becomes "gravity bound", the Spacetime it occupies (apparently) stops "stretching", and "freezes out" of the background Hubble Expansion. If so, perhaps archaic bound objects, like the early dwarf proto-galaxies (which were ~1% the mass of current galaxies) which formed in the first billion years of the Cosmos' existence, managed to "lock in" and "preserve" their local Spacetime fabric, in its original "…

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  14. Since the "Big Bang", the fabric of Spacetime has "stretched", so much so, that the resulting expansion of the universe could be called the "Big Stretch" (Carroll & Ostlie. Intro. Mod. Astrophys.). Now, when any physical object stretches, it thins out. Thus, the fabric of Spacetime could (conceivably) have been "thicker", in the perpendicular Hyperspace "w" dimension, back when the universe was younger. Now, Variable Speed-of-Light Theories posit that the Speed of Light was significantly swifter in the early universe. Thus, it could (conceivably) be the case, that the Speed of Light is faster in "thicker" Spacetime. Furthermore, Plasmas produce Index…

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  15. Started by elas,

    On the forum: http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=28102 there is an ongoing debate about Quantum theory and relativity that has within it, a debate on particle structure. The unanswered question is what is a particle? It is to answer this question that I have constructed the Constant Linear Force (CLF) model. this is posted on: http://69.5.17.59/clf5.pdf It deals only with charged particles, other papers on zero charge particles, mass, force etc will follow. The model brings together the results of numerous experiments and shows that all charged elementary particles discovered so far, can be defined as different states of a single elementary parti…

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  16. Started by inflector,

    I've been working on the ideas for a theoretical model for gravity, mass and inertia that is based on the idea that all particles are composed of 3-dimensional fractals. The fractal is built of tetrahedrons with six sides made of stretchy strings. The center of the fractal is a single tetrahedron so there are four faces or directions in which the fractal grows. The fractal branches out spherically from the base tetrahedron, with each tetrahedron connected to one larger tetrahedron, and three smaller tetrahedrons. The size of the tetrahedrons is reduced at each level by a factor of [math]1/\sqrt{3}[/math], the size of the strings is likewise reduced by the same factor. So …

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  17. Started by Ladeira,

    There is one thing that I simply hate: the personification of simple concepts, as 'nature', 'life' or 'Earth'. These concepts must be treated as natural issues. Life doesn't have a mind, it doesn't think, it's a concept that exists, it's a term, a way to describe a phenomenon, and this kind of distinction is something very rare. So... today, I opened a famous Brazilian magazine, called Época, and there was an interesting topic titled "Were the worms astronauts?". Actually, it referred to an interview with Chandra Wickramasinghe, an astrophysicist that supports the theory of us as evolved from what he calls "alien virus". Through the interview it's possible to read ver…

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  18. Started by lsparrish,

    Technology is advancing at a pretty fair clip at the moment. One of the more dramatic examples is computer processing power, which doubles in speed per unit cost every year and a half. Some people think that at some point, self-improving artificial intelligences will be invented. Alternately, or perhaps simultaneously, human minds will be emulated or "uploaded" in a way that lets them experience years of subjective time in just seconds of physical time. These will be able to discover the answers to scientific questions much faster than we baseline humans are able to. Inventing new ways to make themselves faster, smarter, and more sophisticated will become possible…

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  19. Started by galen,

    Wave energy conversions All energy (mass ,force carrier etc) moves as a wave and converts energy (interacts) at a single quantum location (ql) Waves characteristically have continuously varying field values at frequency u. They are quantised and the quantum energy is hu. Wave quanta from a source radiate forming shells of thickness equal to the quantum vibration length (medium dependant). The shell can be described as a probability wave (pw) for interaction. The quantum energy includes the invariant (generation) energy and a source vector energy component. Consider here that the latter must either be an absolute value (Universal Matrix) or an indeterminate …

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  20. Started by ambros,

    Ok. In any case, my point is that any experiments where measurements are not taken with some velocity relative to ground (airplanes, trains, satellites) can not prove anything about anything simply because "Aether" everyone is talking about is the same thing what we already call 'gravity field'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_wave_equation - "Time dilation in transversal motion. The requirement that the speed of light is constant in every inertial reference frame leads to the theory of Special Relativity." -- What I was talking about is mostly known as 'aberration effect' and is fundamental to measuring and analyzing the speed of light. =…

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  21. It seems that all matter will eventually be converted into black holes (stars form from balls of gas, which then create denser materials, which end up being black holes theoretically, after an infinite amount of time, all matter will be sucked into black holes, and the black holes will start accelerating towards each other. eventually they will collide, possibly making a bigger black hole. assuming that the theory that black holes dissipate over time, eventually the entire universe will be nothing but a singularity with infinite mass. sounds familiar? That's what the big bang was expected to have originated from. thoughts?

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  22. Started by nootelepat,

    Magic number. Another mystery of our existence. The vast majority of people living on Earth now six and a half billion fellows do not even think: why in the hour -60 minutes (rather than say, 100), and in a minute-60 seconds? Why are signs of the zodiac and the months of the year 12 (not 10, that it would be convenient). "We are lazy and not interesting" - (Pushkin). But still, even the most stupid, lazy and incurious people of today, I'll try to explain something of the secret knowledge. Although it is usually hidden from the profane! In the infinite number of numbers is an amazing case where the sum of squares of five neighboring numbers equal to each other: 10…

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  23. Started by The Bear's Key,

    ...if we're all familiar with it at least. This is a contest to define the (supposedly) undefinable. Rules. You make up a definition, post it, others guess its word, and it gets voted on -- a week from the time someone guessed it correctly, unless no one did -- in which case you might reword its definition or start giving clues. Only use only a single word. So for instance, "advanced civilization" wouldn't qualify. Points get awarded based on the following criteria.... (1-5 points each) • Accuracy/longevity. Your definition is universal, and it's timeless, covering any future scenarios we imagine today. • Standalone. It avoided using the…

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  24. Started by jeff Mitchel,

    To those of you that have no life, perhaps will remember me from a couple of years ago. I am the one that has the Galaxy Spin theory that reputes the big bang. I said I would be back, and heeere's Jeffy. "Pack up the babies, and grab the old ladies". Let me be brief: The Galaxy Spin theory is based on two premises 1: The galaxies are in orbit. 2: Gravity bends light. With those two statements all the nonsense of the big bang can be refuted; The magical singularity, dark matter, and dark energy.

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  25. Started by vuquta,

    Assume O and O' are clocks are in relative motion in the standard configuration. Assume the stationary frame is O. According to SR, when the clock O elapses t, the clock in O' elapses t/γ, thus, when the clock in O elapses tγ, the clock in O elapses t. That is simple time dilation. By the measure at c logic of SR, if light is emitted when O and O' are co-located, light proceeds spherically from the origin of each. This website shows this. http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/sr/paradox.html Now, considering O', when its clock elapses r/c, light proceeds a distance r in all directions. This is the SR measure at c logic. OK, now for the experiment, when th…

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