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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. Do to a detail in the fine print, I am conducting a recount.

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  2. Started by SilverRevlis,

    Telepathy is not illogical or impossible, Telepathy uses brainwaves. This can be simply more subtle, smaller and as of yet not measurable by present day scientific instruments. If the brain can send and give off brainwaves then it can also receive them, especially if you tune in...

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  3. If it's ok I borrowed this from Rixon Stuart and Richard Stone! I truly believe that Logic can come to a truth. I just don't believe science will be able to come to a truth until it is willing to engage in the fact that what people are sensing as a spiritual presence and supernatural phenomenon is real and tangible! If science always discards it as myth than science in no way can prove it wrong otherwise but each has a right to their belief. I personally believe that there is a science behind the super natural that one day will be discovered. Now its all belief and speculation for me because well I don't know jack about science and two, its a mystery to…

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  4. Started by john hunter,

    Hello, why not check out http://vixra.org/pdf/0908.0005v1.pdf This very simple theory gives a good match to data (apparent omega(m)=0.25) without dark energy. Recent COSMOS/WMAP http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0911/0911.0053v1.pdf especially Figure 12,14 and 15 shows omega(m) approx 0.266 John Hunter.

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  5. Started by Peron,

    A interesting paper I read and decided to share with you. (Had no idea where to post it.) Humans basically live in bubbles of illusion.

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  6. Started by david23,

    Quantum Gravity just a theory A star explodes in a ball of clear jelly we call space, the star explodes it creates a black hole. The black hole is shaped like a yard of ale glass, the opening would be the event horizon the tube being the singularity, and the ball end containing the new galaxy created by the star. The star that created the black hole also created the new galaxy light years away from the even horizon. like a waterfall the black hole is very similar, the water falls very fast however the water travels some distance to the sea which is greater than the waterfall. That new galaxy had a star explode to create another galaxy and so o…

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  7. Started by Peron,

    I hear people say that the big bang wasn't big or a bang, they say it was a expansion of space-time. But you can say that a explosion is a rapid expansion of hot gas and flame..... I know that space-time expanded faster than light, but what about all the energy? How fast did it expand?

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  8. Started by Luminal,

    Just wondering... I don't understand why a true 'seed' AI program has never been developed after numerous decades of this concept existing in some form or another. In it's most simple form, seed AI does this: 1) A program with preexisting functionality performs some change upon itself; any part of the program can be. The change can be entirely random or partially guided by the programmer. 2) If the program crashes or cannot compile, return to step 1. Otherwise, run the program again and test its performance against its original performance. 3) If new performance is superior in its functionality, then the new version is used and returned to step 1. If …

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  9. Started by rrw4rusty,

    Enter the world of science fiction were proof is not necessary and interesting and mind blowing is gets more points! Many Worlds responsible for Dark Energy When an ‘object’ takes action-X, all possible actions that ‘object’ could have taken form a probability wave which either collapses into action-X or the wave fails to collapse and each possible action is taken each splitting off into a parallel universe. The latter is the Many Worlds Interpretation, which exists because, so far, the wave collapse has not been detected. The Many Worlds Interpretation will be used to explain dark energy. Furthermore, M-Theory will be used and an element of this will be used t…

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  10. Dogs of CERN’s Boss threatened to put me into jail. Yesterday some man, possibly from Rolf Heuer environment, had phoned me and asked – did I threaten to Heuer. The conversation was ended by the threat to put me into jail and by saying that our phone conversation was recorded. Dear CERN leaders, I feel myself as if I am a prisoner, sentenced to be killed. Those are you, who already deadly scared many citizens of the whole Earth. They, probably, feel themselves as doomed to death. We do not know exactly the day when you will shoot us, and we do not know will we survive. Our feelings of fear are different. These feelings depend from the probability, which some…

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  11. Just wanted to encourage those whose ideas fall into this forum! Most of Einsteins work would have fallen in here first before he worked out the math 10 or so years later! The same with Newton and all great scientist who start out with intuitive thinking and imagination first!The intuitive mind always has to take the scrutiny of the logical mind but its the intuitive mind that always leads the way! I will leave you with some quotes from Einstein! "Imagination is more important than knowledge." "The only real valuable thing is intuition." "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself." "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is bli…

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  12. Started by foodchain,

    At certain energy levels forces are supposed to take on symmetry and sort of become the same, like the electroweak for example. As I understand this its basically a mechanism that is to aid science understand time leading out from the big bang to possible into it, if not "past" it in some sense. Now I am sure this is to include extant physical theories like QM and relativity. So giving the nature of it all, why would anyone expect the same forces or particles to "cascade" out on symmetry breaking. Does our current universe exclude the possibility of that in some experiment on earth. Such as when we do make an electroweak force, why does it not break down to something stra…

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  13. Started by arkturus,

    Hey there guys, I'm currently a freshman in college and I'm trying to pick a major to stay with. I decided to come to the university with a major in chemical engineering, but I'm not interested in the current material (mainly chemistry), nor what is to come (thermo, fluid, etc etc..). At this point I'm thinking of switching to electrical/computer engineering. My problem is that I don't have a lot of knowledge in the area. I didn't toy around with breadboards in high-school or build computers or amateur robots or anything like that. The reason I'm thinking of switching over to ECE is because of its future prospects. I read a bit of sci-fi, and that's really the …

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  14. Started by tar,

    There are principles involved in the way a human percieves and categorizes reality. This is augmented greatly by our history, and the work done by many to classify, define, stucture, outline and such. That is not primarily what this topic is looking to explore. If the organisations we have established and maintained were not around, there would still be life on this planet. It is the organizing principles which allowed for the establishment of life, which I am asking about. And further, the organizing principles which exist in this universe, and in our galaxy, and solar system, and planet, which would exist, or did exist, before life on this planet emerged. …

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  15. Hi, The following are exerts from my sci-fi book 'The Spiral Slayer -- Book One: Encounters' -- it is a trilogy. I've put most of the futuristic science in chapter intros so people can skip them if they like, however, the following, while introduced in a chapter intro, are two items that are related to the plot. This has actually turned out to be kind of a long post but, as my wife will kill me if I do not start on her 'honey-do' list, I'm committed... so, sorry for the bandwidth. In the following a human species (just like us) on a planet near the edge of the Great (Galactic) Wall are contacted by an alien race (The Loud) 10,000 years ahead of the humans in sci…

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  16. A new way to explain explanation. A TED talk, by David Deutsch. (In the Pseudoscience and Speculations forum because it explains why some ideas are rejected as pseudoscience immediately.) folTvNDL08A

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  17. Started by foodchain,

    Okay, say its the future and they have some kind of computer program that can put together genes to add any kind of sci-fi trait to an existing organism. To add to this your genes or the human genome has been modified basically to have genes that code for proteins and what not that can integrate these genes. What kind of an impact would that have? What if we could make it so people could run 100mph and skin could harvest solar energy for stuff? To whatever could be possible, do you think that would be the best route to take humanity really, into that kind of a world where such is possible? I do not know now if that is to far out. Evolution operating on genes seem…

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  18. Started by rrw4rusty,

    Welcome to the twilight zone... trying to bring science to fiction to science M-Theory Explains Dark Matter M-Theory brings the five different string theories together. The Theory predicts an 11th dimension, Membranes or branes and also a closed-loop zero-mass string which turns out to be a graviton. It says that branes can stretch out to enormous sizes (i.e. to the sizes of universes), that these membranes are places where strings can attach their ends, and that these different branes represent different dimensions. We can only see and interact with matter made from strings attached to, or touching our brane. We cannot detect or interact with other branes (i.…

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  19. Started by walkntune,

    Who is really controlling who? We are always finding ways of controlling energy through scientific technology to make life easier,communication unlimited,get to our destinations faster etc. As this technology increases so does our pace of life! I am really curious as to how we know who is in control. We use energy through material objects to control it , manipulate and come out with a desired effect but what (energy force) is driving us to do this! Is it possible that energy has a natural course to travel the path with least resistance so wanting to travel in and out of form as easily as possible , knowledge evolves as energy tries to make its way? Can everyt…

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  20. In my humble estimation Rudy Vaas has gone off the deep end in a very serious way: http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5579 And I think he is a force to be reckoned with because he is an editor of a German equivalent of Scientific American called "Bild der Wissenschaft". He has academic credentials as well (university faculty, Philosophy of Science, at Giessen) and he writes and edits books, that get published. So I think international public attention will be paid to his ideas, which have become very speculative---and gone way beyond what can honestly be said to be empirical testable science. Unless I'm mistaken, he is no longer doing professional Philosophy of Scien…

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  21. Started by granpa,

    Pre-space existence: Imagine a universe consisting entirely of discrete entities that have no other properties than a simple internal state that is either on or off. call them bits. each bit observes 2 other bits and changes its state (time itself would be discrete) according to what it sees. it does not matter 'where' these other 2 bits are at. (think quantum entanglement). in fact the whole concept of 'where' would be meaningless to them because space itself would not exist. To make it more interesting we would have to imagine that the bits can somehow increase in numbers by dividing in two. we could imagine that the whole thing began with a single bit which …

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  22. Started by infinitesolid2,

    We have the sun, then planets rotating around the sun and moons rotating around the planets. If there is no gravity in space(evidant by space junk floating around), how do the planets stay in orbit? 1: Gravity could be a exp sine preshure wave where each planet sits on a peak possibly shifed slitly by its weight. What do you think?

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  23. Started by infinitesolid2,

    How many people does it take to hold back a car? about 75-100? A tank of petrol would last that car about 3 hours? a tank is about 30 litres. How many litres or crude oil can 75-100 people pull on a trolly? about 10,000 litres or 100 litres per person. Thats 10,000 litres of crude oil for a tanks worth of petrol. 1 person could lift 100 litres on a pully. Not worth taking gravity in to account. So 1 tank of petrol can lift 10,000 litres of crude oil for 3 hours. A Car an do 300+ miles in 3 hours, so can lifting petrol. 1 TANK = 10,000 litres lifted 300+ miles! NO WAY A PUMP CAN DO THAT! Shout out yo if your a believer!!! Merged post follows: Consec…

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  24. Started by hemantc007,

    Does any one in this community believe in magic.....................!

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  25. Started by daniellos3,

    I was on my bus today going home from school when i was looking out the window then i figured "hmm, why do i see the things i see at the same time. Always?" then i figured that the time on earth was stable but what if our brain was 10x faster. Would we see everything around us 10x slower..? Definitely not.. I know this sounds stupid and its a very irrational thought but can someone explain to me how this is stupid?

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