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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...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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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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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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My mom sent me this video. Any thoughts? The statements in the video actually seem well sourced (for a change) http://www.vegsource.com/news/2010/03/what-you-ate-as-a-kid-can-give-you-cancer.html Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedupdate: here's a link to a paper that he uses in the vid: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B758G-48FJGY7-2J&_user=30742&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F1996&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000000333&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=30742&md5=a6fe7956eb4e65df182b15e75b7e7579
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INHERITANCE MUDRECOV Stonehenge. The mystery of the English system of measures. Another English astronomer 18 th century Herschel (judging by the name - a Jew) suggested that the most practical system of measures must be based on the length POLE Earth's axis, which was calculated by sages in deep antiquity. Then determine the length of the circumference of the earth POLE allowed elementary formula of two Al Pi. Every circle is divided into 360 degrees. Or 21 600 angular minut.Ili 1 296 000 arc seconds. If the polar circle the Earth 39 941 km (according to NASA) to share the above 1 296 000 arc seconds - get 30,8 metra.To is almost exactly 1…
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ENGINE FOR UFO. The secret of plasma-jet engines of the 21 st century. A few decades ago at all (especially in Japan) was the development of WATER-JET engines for ships using the Lorentz force and the electrical conductivity of water. Now like all hushed up ... But plasma - ELECTRICAL like water! If you can create a program separate from the engine of the Lorentz force for the ship - then on the same principle, you can create a plasma-jet engine and aircraft! Edakii PLAZMOMETNY engine ... After all, in fact, the flames and hot gases emitted from the nozzle of a jet engine - this is also plazma.Esli on the nozzle of the engine and put the electrodes …
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AS most of us know the majority of known matter is comprised of neutrons, electrons, and protrons which are arranged into atoms, which are then usually arranged into molecules. Using nuclear fusion we can smash atoms into each other to create even bigger atoms. Because atoms are comprised mostly of the empty space between the nucleus and the orbiting electrons, a single atom with the same mass of many atoms will always be smaller, because with all of the newer atoms the empty space adds up. Now say when a star explodes, the atoms at the core collape into each other to creat a single super-massive atom with the same mass as the individual atoms that it was originally m…
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The aim is to construct a Table of Elements that demonstrates atomic structure. This is done by dividing the electron shells in half and listing the number of electrons in each half. Where there are an odd number of shells the middle shell is divided equally between the inner and outer halves. Elements 1H and 2He are the only single (1s) shell elements; the 1s shell consists of nuclear electrons and therefore not divisible into ‘inner’ and ‘outer’. This causes 1H and 2He to form a separate ‘unconventional’ group being the only group that does not begin with an Alkali metal. The first graph shows all the elements, interpretation is done using an enlargement (second graph…
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Why are alternate formalisms to physical phenomena altogether bad? For instance I don't know how to model energy, or energetic interactions. Could you use just a graph really. In terms of chemistry this is more interesting though. Why cant you try some alternate system to describe an atom, or polyatomic systems? Giving conservation laws couldn't I just try to model these interactions as noise on a number line. I mean if its regular or periodic in any way I would think this could yield patterns.
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A electric universe theorist nagged me about Einstein's famous mass=energy equivalence equation, arguing that a Italian physicist was first to propose the equation. Has anyone got any information about this topic?
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Universe/Time = 1/(∞-1) so what's wrong with this? the implied value of infinity changes over time but as it is equally impossible to count to 3 using 2 quanta as it is to count to 1000 using 999 quanta the actual value remains ∞ in each successive time frame. surely?
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Right now some scientists are running simulations of different aspects of the universe on nether computers, whether cells, weather systems, planetary movement, you name it. the biggest limitation in creating a complete simulation of a small-scale universe is processing power. so theoretically if we had infinite (or "just enough" processing power to simulate a universe, we probably could. We could simulate sentient beings that would go through their lives without realizing that they were only ones and zeros in a massive computer. following that, it is possible that we are just a simulation inside a super-massive (or infinite) computer. And if the programming was sound e…
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abstract yet another big bang theory. nuff said. proposal the universe is expressed by, or an expression of, pure number: it’s counting upwards from 1, or counting increasingly smaller fractions of 1. or: the universe is an expression of the number count we represent in standard English as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13... all the way through to 10to the power 40960000000000000000000 or whatever number we’d be at now if time was just an upward count from 1, or a downward count from derived from 1 being divided into increasingly finer fractions. the universe is expressing or an expression of the numbers 1 to ∞-1 Universe/Time = 1/(∞-1) …
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Could you engineer plants to become solar panels? Maybe it could produce film concentrated with some kind of photosynthetic mechanism. I would think you could then use the energy to produce maybe a yield of something else, perhaps usable hydrogen or what not. I would think that you could make the leaves to be transparent with some kind of a skeleton that could be connected in the form of a leaf with a film of photosynthetic organisms. Then the energy could be chained into some reactions in which hydrogen would get feed into some kind of budding organ that contains it in an accessible form. I don't know but could you model carbon nanotube structures into DNA expressio…
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in which case could that mean that there is a transition period between one state of the universe and another, kinda like the framerate on a movie?
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I was just wondering if anyone thought the action of virus material and or plasmids could be part of what lead to multicellular life. I know bacterial mats exist, but beyond that nucleated cells seem special in being multicellular. Again I wonder that if early on in evolution the action of viruses and plasmids could have been what fostered an environment for being multicellular. If selection had only brought single celled on so far, maybe reproduction keep it that way. Thus maybe beneficial traits existed in pockets or populations and would have to radiate. I think another example would be that such could have had the advantage of generating bacterial mats, …
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let's assume that either dark matter or something like that existed, and that it repels the matter that we are made up of (think opposite of magnets: instead of North repels North/South attracts north, matter attracts matter and antimatter repels matter) assuming that we could obtain antimatter could we possibly stuff an amount of antimatter into a ship or something that is equal to the mass of the ship and it's contents, therefore making it have a total mass that is negligible? that would mean that this ship would be able to leave the earth's gravitational field with only air resistance. however, the antimatter would also repel the ship and it's cargo, either making…
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