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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 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Started by hemantc007,

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

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  7. 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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  8. Started by Fonseca,

    Hallo, I have a new theory: - We all know that matter and energy can change to eachother. (e=mc2) - If matter has a weak attraction effect (known as gravity), maybe energy has a weak repel effect (dark energy?). There is some experiments that we can do to test this theory. We can weigh a block two times. At the first time we weigh it hot, and at the second time we weigh it cold. The hot block must be lighter than the cold one (becouse the hot energy repels with the gravity of Earth). We need to have a very precisely weighing-machine to do that. Another experiment is to look at the more when it is half lighted. My picture shows my idea. The illuminated side…

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  9. Started by stevensrd1,

    I been working on a few projects over the years in relation to free energy. I posted some of my schematics to some self recharging free energy battery projects on my website. Here is the link http://batteryprojects.yolasite.com/

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  10. Started by ParanoiA,

    Ok, so my wife and I were talking last night and somehow we got to talking about "thoughts" and what they are. Curious. We were debating, from absolute ignorance mind you, what dimensions they occupy. When you have a mental image, or whatnot, how does it exist? In what dimension does it exist in, if at all? I could see time as one. But I can't imagine they would exist in any spatial plane. She was saying something about memories and proteins, and that thoughts are essentially chemicals interacting with the brain or something like that, and so exist in all 4 dimensions. I thought this sounded more like the background structure that supports "thought". Ki…

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  11. This is a new and original concept AS FAR I KNOW. This concept is that if water could be changed from a liquid to a solid fast enough that the ratio of hydrogen bonds existing in this " SUPER-QUICK FROZEN ICE" would be the same as that of water close to it`s freezing point. There would be no permanent hydrogen bonds as exists in normal ice. The proof that this prior to now, unconcieved of form of ice was formed would be that it would sink in water unlike normal ice that floats in water.The reason it would sink is that it would have the same ratio of hydrogen bonds as water close to it`s freezing temperature and no more permanent hydrogen bonds than the number of hydrogen…

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  12. Started by bbrubaker,

    http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=99668 Funded by Wrigley's Science Institute™ and I'm not sure if the gum smacking students were dispersed among the non-smacking students. Seems flaky to me...but what do I know? Google results: http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS324US324&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=gum+better+at+math+tests

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  13. Started by Moontanman,

    At the end of the Cretaceous period dinosaurs were tending toward larger brains and grasping hands (some of them) In this thread lets discuss the possibility that a civilization of intelligent dinosaurs may have exacerbated the ecological collapse at the end of the Cretaceous and the proposed impactors might have just delivered the straw that broke the planets ecological back. Some say we are in the middle of a vast extinction caused by human activity, could an civilization of intelligent dinosaurs have had a similar effect? Here is a supporting thread to get the debate started. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/michael.magee/awwls/00/wls143.html

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  14. Started by devrimci_kürt,

    what is pseudoscience history?

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  15. Started by AdrianB,

    So here I am again braving it to ask you all what do you think of this.. I have been recently looking into free energy with magnets...... (yeah I know typical cliche) But I cam across the Perendev motor... web page http://www.perendev-power.com/ So I was impressed with this and also Ferro fluid (magnetic fluid) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJGBy_yygaQ Now this made me think, and I do believe I have come up with an idea on how to utilise both of these and create a three way generator. I have placed pictures in on my skydrive. http://cid-7600e8759e1cd056.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Threeway%20Generator 3-Way Perpetua…

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  16. "This video is a Neal Adams animation about his theory that the Earth is growing. This collides with the Pangea theory. Watch it, you will be amazed. " Basicly he thinks the Earth is growing. http://www.wincom.net/earthexp/n/navback.htm I think it's a bunch of bull, but would like to get a second opinion.

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  17. Started by Moontanman,

    After the intelligent dinosaur thread I think I'll go ahead and completely destroy any credibility i have and ask this question. If indeed at some point (preferably in the near future) we discover a way to travel FTL easily on the scale of the Star Trek Universe and we find the galaxy is full of very humanoid intelligent beings what does it say about the idea of intelligent design? I used to argue with a friend who said that TV shows like Star Trek were Satanic because they led people away from the idea of God. My answer was that they show is quite the opposite because if the real universe would turn out to be similar to the Star Trek universe it would pretty much pr…

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  18. Please read my article: the original HTML: http://james.freehoster.co.cc/is.html if you prefer PDF: http://vixra.org/pdf/0910.0003v1.pdf I will listen carefully to all your comments. Abstract: Some inexplicable statistical variations in Nobel Prize laureates natal data are reported and discussed, plus additional data is considered afterwards. If observed on other similar data, e.g. National Medal of Science laureates, the effect can be considered as astroanthropological. The observed strong correlation with Quaoar position is probably caused by the fact that Quaoar's cycle correlates with a non-trivial solar, lunar or terrestrial cycle. It is well known that some s…

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  19. Started by throng,

    As relativity says about simultaneity: In the universe action and reaction are simultaneous, so simultaneity does exist in that way. I guess entanglement is simultaneous too. Interesting really. Potential is a strange concept too, it basically means 'could be' so I think various possible states would exist simultaneously and it 'could be' any and all of them. Various simultaneous possibilities - potential. It led me to think that potential has a relativity of its own and the various states could be described seperately, then said to exist simultaneously. I would be interested in any scientific data or speculative reflections on this if you pleas…

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  20. Started by Lkreyna2,

    This Is a theory of mine: It is possible that the infintesimaly small singularity spark that ignited the big bang was a super element fluctuating between every isotope and when it reached critical mass of an electric charge possibly trillions of yottawatts the impossibly unstable super element exploded into every element on the periodic table with an infinite amount of elements yet to be discovered and created.

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  21. Started by radienx000,

    I was speculating on UFOs for abit, watching NASA footage of unidentified spacecraft. And I think those weird shapes of spacecraft is probably due to "aliens" using Bioships (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioship). These bioships come in a variety of sizes and shapes because the ship "grows" extra limbs or something. And I also saw "unidentified objects" in the NASA footage's appearing out of nowhere. So probably these aliens programmed these flying organisms to travel at the speed of thought. Cause physical can travel faster than the speed of light, but what about the speed of thought? Maybe the bioship has it's own brain or something.

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  22. Started by Lkreyna2,

    if you go back in time, do you continue the aging process? Like would it be possible (if time travel was a confirmed reality) to travel back to the very beginning of time, and watch the universe grow up until the point in time when you originally went back without growing any older?

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  23. Black holes are objects, whose gravity field energy, outside of Schwarzschild radius, is equal to the rest energy, mc^2, - the energy of mass m, concentrated on the Schwarzschild sphere. Magnetic holes are objects, whose magnetic field energy, outside of critical magnetic radius is equal to the rest energy, mc^2, the energy of mass m, concentrated inside the critical magnetic radius. Magnetic holes were invented by alternative-physicists, as a result, this theory will not be accepted by orthodox-physicists, as a result, microscopic magnetic holes will be created soon (may be in November 2009)… Fasten your belts… What is electric hole? ...Classical radius... Do not …

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  24. Started by cyclops,

    Have you watched your eyes?! Kindly report what you see of your own eyes, the lids, the lashes, the corners. Let us build a data-base in this forum of what we all see. There is a lot to see, By the way From among our reported experiences we will slowly evolve a home -brew eye yoga of sorts, Of beauty, of de-stress etc. For, is it not said that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder! We should have enough data to interest experts to investigate & comment and make it all real to us objectively. I need your feedback for me to have faith in watching my own eyes. Though I have found it good, I rarely remember to watch it but leap into the world forgetting all a…

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  25. Hi! A space ship lands on Earth and during the initial exchange (aided by a translator the aliens developed on their way here) this technologically superior alien makes the following statement: "So sorry Earthling but, the universe... it is not expanding!" What basic assumption have we had wrong that would allow for such a mistake? Rusty Edit: There is a correct answer.

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