Speculations

I'm trying to put my figure on the nature of the experience of consciousness and the impact of death with the absolutely least number of hypothetical unknown factors - just based on what we understand about time and physics etc. My thought is: 1) right now we are conscious, and we are alive 2) before and after we exist, there is no consciousness, no measure of time or any such thing. 3) if time is just a point, such as a point in space/time there is no objective 'now' just the relative 'now' experienced by any consciousness in that moment. So really, my question is - will death have any real effect at all? It will certainly mean there are no future moments…

IS it possible to make an actual sonic screwdriver?! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_screwdriver I was thinking of a practical method in making one. I thought of buying the sonic screwdriver applying some kind of ultrasound into it. As a method of putting ultrasound in, I would get quartz ( a piezoelectric crystal) and install it within the sonic screwdriver. And then I would somehow apply an alternating current into the quartz to make it vibrate back-and-forth as to produce ultrasound. One question, how do you make alternating current from batteries? Cause batteries provide only DC current.

Imagine going beyond the stars in to deep space, travel a large distance, theres nothing stopping you traveling further forever, that's infinite space. If there is an end, lets call it a wall. How thick is this wall and what's on the other side? More space! Gafferuk, Bristol.

Is it possible to make floating cities from the concept of superconductivity? As the superconductor would exclude the external magnetic field and levitate. So this city might be able to float on our skies by having internal superconductive engines. Also if the superconductor was strong enough, it might be able to be sent into space where it can repel any space/celestial object that comes close to it. If this space object had a magnetic field of its own. I see that we have not found a superconducting material that has a high enough critical temperature for us to use it without wasting our electricity and hence money on lowering to temperature to make the superconductor…

I am hoping to work on a project. This "uberweapon" Ragnarok is a warship idea in my head. But I want to make it real. The basic concept is it's a warship of the future. Using lasers, particles, biological armours.

The Theory of Dark Matter by Kevin Morais From a Zen philosophy what can matter exist in? It can exist in it’s self. Basically the space and time we exist in is created from (matter / energy) as it accelerates faster than light. In science fiction if you go faster than light you go in the past, in this theory when you accelerate matter faster than light, it produces existence for other matter to ‘exist in’. Values DM = (Dark Matter’s Mass) as it is created from regular matters (m) interaction with space time (A) A = (Space / Time) or (Space – Time - Mass), created from matter accelerating faster than light m = Matter that we know as the regular matter a…

*steadys myself for this question. Going to be some DIFFICULT MATH!* OK, so in this question, I am going to attempt to explain to you that an ever expanding universe is impossible, and that another big-bang is unavoidable! I'll do it in steps, since I grow bored easily. Astin, you can help me with this one since you know what I want to do. If anyone else wants to help with the math on this, I welcome you too, but only if you understand what im doing, and dont guess! Corrections are good too!

Reproduction of biospheres and civilizations. Our human Civilization is the constituent part of the Earth's biosphere. We will speak here about the ways of biospheres reproduction in cosmos. It is clear that the reproduction of human civilizations is the constituent and final part of more general process, - the reproduction of biospheres. But is that possible? Let's try to answer the following questions, at first, and after, we'll try to make some conclusions, according to scientific definitions and observations. Is our biosphere a living organism? Or, is it superorganism? Is human a living organism or a living superorganism? Biosphere[1]. The concept…

If you take away the problems with some of his books. Did this man have a point and itn time will this point come to light. I happen to like his books>>>

Around three months ago i purchased 10 pairs of socks. i now only have 3 pairs left. if we assume that the disappearence of socks is a random occurance then it is likely that socks follow a decay curve not unlike a radioactive substance and decay exponentially. if we plug these numbers into wolfram alpha(or work it out by hand) we end up with a halflife of 1.72 months. in order to test this hypothesis(and get moved up into the proper science forums, which, if i'm right would be the first thread to do so) i'm calling on YOU to submit data on your socks over time so we can further refine the half life and determine if all socks have the same half life or if …

RELATIVE Let me begin by first telling you a story: Once upon a time there was a man, one day he decided to ask god a question. The man asked god “If you created me, who created you?” God looked at this man with great confusion. “What has given you the idea that I have a creator?” The man replied “Everything has a beginning. So I assume since you have been around forever you know where forever begins.” God looked at the man. “If every human thought the same as you there would be nothing unknown.” The purpose of this story is to prove that everything is manmade; everything but space and time. Time is definite, irrelevant, and relative. Space is indefinite, relevant,…

Can we develop our brain by concentration ?? Do you believe that out mind is the most powerful thing in the world?? We can do anything if we develop our minds.?? And if we delevop, in one stage we will be able to fly(i mean can go up like chris angel) , Move physical objects using mind...etc As imma Buddhist... We learn bout the lord buddha and he was a one who has developed his mind and did certain that kind of things things (For us, he has given the full permission to comment and debet about the religion.So i just wanted to talk bout this with u guyz) ... According to Buddha,we can reach into four stages by concentrating bout these following four stuff(i mean w…

Hi. First. I apologize if this thread breaks any rules of this forum. I’m working on rolling body (thin ring) problem and found interesting thing. Main question is: Could be even and odd sets transform to each other? If answer is no then it means broken rolling ring to chain would loose momentum on surface by this insufficient sets transformation. This is the main problem: The idea is very simple. If spit a rolling ring to small parts set of n elements (1,2,3,...,n) with mass m then each of them conduct linear and circular movement on surface. Each piece has constant angular velocity. And each piece has variable linear velocity at surface point. Once per…

Imagine if traveling faster than the speed of light would be possible. Then it would be quite awesome to take an extremely powerful telescope, travel into the space faster than the light does, and look back on earth with that telescope. Then we should see everything there was in the past, depending on how fast we were travelling, and how far. Wouldn´t it be cool, to see the dinosaurs, witness the dawn of man and watch the birth of the first civilizations...

DARK MATTER AS A HIDDEN VARIABLE ABSTRACT You wouldn’t believe how much of science depends on imagination Complex Numbers were announced to the world by Cardano (1501-1576), he regarded them as useless. Was he right? They were used successfully to measure power in out of phase AC current. Then Minkowski invented spacetime as x,y,z,ict, The ‘i’ being the square root of minus one and therefore imaginary. Making time a 4th dimension was done without rigorous proof (such as might have been accepted in philosophical circles), but Einstein seized upon the idea, and so we were lead into schemes of up to eleven dimensions, covering different aspects of atomic phenomena. Comple…

I'm just a layman and I don't know what I'm talking about! (Just thought I'd clear the air on that point In any case, I think I've solved the twin paradox. However, being someone who doesn't know what he's talking about, I'm sure there's something wrong with my conclusions. I hope someone will gently point out where the mistake is. Here's my conclusion...when the traveling twin arrives back on Earth he will be the same age as the twin that stayed behind. And how did I arrive that this conclusion? By applying the two relativistic effects that seem to be ignored in all versions of this thought experiment that I've read...Lorentz contraction of the traveling twin,…

A team at Cornell University has now filled in an important blank by pinpointing unique sites where the reactions take place on SWCNTs. The scientists showed that the reactions do not occur all along the tubes, but at the ends of the tubes or at defects along the tubes. I suggest this applies equally to all Casimir cavities in that catalytic action will only occur when the distance between the plates changes. A change in fractional quantum states of hydrogen is proposed by both Randell Mills from the perspective of catalysts and by Haisch -Moddel from the perspective of Casimir cavities. The lattice structures of metal catalysts and the cavity sizes of skeletal catalysts …

Hi, I don't really accept Complex Quantum Mechanics as speculative but to keep everyone happy I will post here. Admittedly the site is taking time to update and it may be some time before I show that the planets follow a sq root of 2 by a sq root of 3 ratio but you can download that info from my yahoo group. There is a FREE forum for you to join as well http://www.complexqm.com

How can anything cease, when you can ask what is beyond this point? If something as magnificent and grand as the universe was to cease, how, where and why? These are just some of the questions that become relevant when speaking of how can something or in this case anything end. When thinking of the beginning of the universe or the beginning of time you would imagine that it was to begin at the center and expand outwards into "Infinite space". Although, what if you were to imagine that it began at an arbitrary point in space and contracted to the center. The first disagreement you would probably think of is that it does not agree with the “Big Bang Theory”, although what i…

All time must move as fast as light to be existent in the present (as opposed to being in the future). Although why would it need to be faster? What if time did NOT travel in a direction of propagation much like light does. I believe it is more reasonable to think of constant time. So insteadof time keeping up with light it could be a "medium" for it.

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The universe only exists “now”. Its past is but history reflected in present “now” Its future is yet to be. It would seem that the flow of “now” would have to be at least that of the speed of light to prevent light from running into the yet to exist future. With such speed it would seem near impossible for the “now” of an event to match exactly with the “now” of its measurement or observation. This could account for Uncertainty.

Hello all, My first post here. A long time ago I had an idea, which had a rapid expansion of time-space as a result, and of course back then this was not observed and it looked like my idea was wrong... Ten years later I hear that they found quite the opposite. Time to get that old idea moving again The idea is quite simple: Everything decays. The idea is a continuation of the quantumfield theory, which states that the 'vacuum' of space isn't empty. That is is 'alive' with particle and anti-particle creating and destruction. My idea says that every mass, is in a constant state of exchange with the 'vacuum' of space, and even though the mass seems pretty much con…

I built an anti-gravity machine using coke can, cell phone with antena, 4 AA Batteries, 1CD, tape, and a dime!!!

I'd really, really like to meet Max Tegmark and hope one day I have the opportunity to. Max Tegmark proposes we live in a mathematical universe where all mathematical systems are absolute, physical things, at least in some context: http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9704009 I perhaps have a fuzzy interpretation of what Tegmark is suggesting, but two of the systems which stand out in my mind as having an absolute physical presence are: cellular automata fractals The distinguishing characteristic of both of these systems is that they provide for "unlimited novelty" despite being described by relatively simplistic rules. The underlying concept is that …