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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. In all honesty, I'm not really sure why I'm even making this post, as it is of direct relevance, however, I don't understand, what with the tedious clarifications of what science is, in the pseudoscience and speculations section, what is the point of the pseudoscience and speculation forum. Surely, any reasonable, and reputable speculations can be placed in their designated area, and if not, they can be placed in general sciences. Why, by creating the pseudoscience and speculation forum, isolate and encourage these kinds of thought, sharing propaganda myths, and conspiracy theories, unless you expect to attempt to enlighten the ignorant. Or is it rather some kind of isola…

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  2. Started by prateek,

    There is no doubt that ET life is out there...but are they keeping eye on us?? Thats the question. Is that form of life intellegent enough??? Logically, if we find ET life we will sent our probes like on mars. So have they sent there technologies here??

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  3. Started by reyam200,

    Many of you may not like my question because there is no definitive answer. is our consciousness simply the result of a network of neural circuits? or could it be a electro-magnetic energy "in-phase" with this space-time dimension. even still, could the brains impulses be generating that energy? or are the impulses a result of extra-dimensional em stimulation. Physicist's have already observed particles "popping" in and out of existence. apparently phasing to another dimension. so does the act of a particle in the brain coming back cause a chain of neural networks to fire? could this explain spontaneous human combustion? Hallucinations? even the visions that psychic…

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  4. It seems to me that the problem of a clean,free abundant energy supply was solved by Nikola Tesla. He also invented the first Anti-Gravity vehicle. This has also since been done by John.R.R.Searl. They have both been supressed by the powers with alterior motives, namely "The rout of all evil", money! I personaly think that the only way to beat the oil cartels and the energy cartels who are working with unlimited amounts of power and money to keep this information out of the public domain is by getting the word out at a grass rout level and working form a place where they have no controll. Places like the pub, the work place and the internet and all the other for…

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  5. Started by wvbig,

    I believe Bigfoot exists for the following reasons: 1)There have been sighting reports by European settlers dating back to 1785 & I fail to see why, or even how, someone could come up with such a creature before the discovery of the Gorilla. 2)There have been at least 20 hair samples found that, after much analysis (Years in some cases) & compaeison to hair samples of known animals, have defied identification by Biologist Dr. Henner H. Fahrenbach. These are hairs found in the vicinity of reported sightings & discoveries of alleged Bigfoot tracks. Dr. Fahrenbach has determined these hairs to be primate & always absent of a medulla. 3)There are also sc…

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  6. Started by Megabrain,

    Ok lets consider this, Suppose we establish contact with a nearby alien society and send them some everyday objects from earth among which is an elastic band. So they play with this and slowly stretch it taking readings of length, after a while they get bored, look at the data and decide that this elastic band could be stretched forever but they don't have the time to put this to the test so they mark rubber as infinitely strechable. What the hell has this got to do with the size of the universe I hear you ask well not a lot except that we seem to be applying this form of logic to where we think the universe is going. I'll explain, the data we have that su…

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  7. Started by SwampeastMike,

    I post in "Pseudoscience and Speculations", since if the answer to my question is "no", then my speculations become wild. My question: Are we positive that the 26 myr precessionary cycle plots as a circle and not half of a 52 myr figure eight? Should it be a figure eight, "up" has become "down" from at least one perspective and the wild speculation about how far this goes begins. Thank you for your consideration.

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  8. Started by GoldenEagles,

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S1ZiNCz6CA The people at Hado.Net have explained, IN THIS VIDEO, the approach taken to get photographs of the beautiful water crystals that Masaru Emoto uses in his books, "Hidden Messages in Water" and other publications. In this video, the chief researcher is shown collecting a water sample from a very beautiful location in Japan. He takes it back to the lab, and divides the sample into 50 petri dishes. The amount of water in each petri dish is 1 ml. He then freezes the lot for 3 hours at (minus) -25 deg. C (-13 deg. F). He then takes out one of the fifty petri dishes at a time, and places it under a microscope. The microscope lab …

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  9. This quote comes from the Blue Brain Project, which intends to use the world’s 9th most powerful supercomputer to create the most realistic, cellular level model of the neocortical column to date. Daniel Dennett, one of the pre-eminent thinkers on consciousness, reckons that consciousness must come about through a cumulative, distributed effect. Imagine a thriving society of pattern analyzers who like to communicate with each other by posting little bits of “thoughtstuff” (phenomenological objects, or “phenoms” to the Dennett-initiated) on a sort of community bulletin board, which all the other pattern analyzers can read and respond to. All the pattern analyzers choos…

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  10. Started by Mr Skeptic,

    So, a crazy idea has occurred to me. How can we tell whether a particle-antiparticle pair disappear after annihilating? If their energy is all in the form of potential energy (with respect to its antiparticle), all the energy will be gone after they annihilate. But how could we tell the difference whether the particles disappear of not? The antiparticle would have exactly opposite charge and magnetic moment as the particle and would be in the same place, so it would cancel out its electromagnetic field. Suppose that all throughout space there were a bunch of particle-antiparticle pairs that have "annihilated" and lost all their mass, but the rest of the particle and a…

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  11. Started by granpa,

    Manifold: if our 3d world is a manifold in a 4d world then a huge worlds could form on the surface of this manifold. smaller manifolds could form from gamma ray bursts at the centers of galaxies. fields as stess in manifold does not work: the obvious idea of simply relating stress/strain in the manifold with long range forces does not lead to an inverse square law. What would you have to do to get it to work? lets take the electric field as an example. the manifold would have to be made of particles each of which is an electric dipole. you can think of each dipole as a positive charge and a negative charge connected by a spring. now think of t…

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  12. Started by McGarr178,

    Hi, I just wrote a short article explaining how, in a way, there is a big bang inside of us all.. http://phoenix-from-the-wasteland.com/blog1.php/2009/03/30/the-big-bang-inside-of-us-all What does everybody think? Cheers, McGarr

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  13. Started by MysteriBoi,

    "Numerologists believe that events linked to the time 11:11 appear more often than chance or coincidence. This belief is related to the concept of synchronicity. Other authors believe it is an auspicious sign, and others that it signals a spirit presence. Although not an originator of the concept, Uri Geller has spoken repeatedly about 11:11, and the belief that it has mystical powers has also been adopted by many believers in New Age philosophies. However, some skeptics say that Geller's examples of 11:11 phenomenon in world events are examples of post-hoc reasoning and confirmation bias." Ok that aside, what do you really think is the 11:11 phenomenon? Why do …

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  14. Hey, this is my first thread in a while, by which time I hope I'm now able to ask actually interesting questions, even if they are still pointless. (There's a summary at the end if you want to tear some speculations up as soon as possible.) About a year ago when reading the Wikipedia article on the Big Rip scenario, I had a question as to what might happen at very late times. I wrote it up with, and I must stress this here, the explicit intention of proving it wrong and so learning from the endeavour; I expect it is entirely false and without merit, but I do not yet have sufficient knowledge, or have not yet considered it in the right way, to absolutely prove it wrong…

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  15. Started by A Childs Mind,

    How can we have distiance when i have a gf who lives states away from me and we talk on webcame and on the phone. would this make distiance irelevent

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  16. Started by granpa,

    If we suppose that 1. matter and antimatter gravitationally repel 2. gravitational time dilation is proportional to the intensity of the gravitational field (i.e. an event horizon never forms) 3. gravitational collapse to denser and denser states of matter continues almost indefinitely. (i.e. a singularity never forms) 3. the universe began with a single star that was so big that pair production was occurring in its core. As the neutral antimatter in the star made its way to the surface and was expelled the pressure at the center of the star would increase. This would cause more gravitational collapse which would create more energy which would produce still…

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  17. Started by A Childs Mind,

    Absolutely FREE ..... Please listen ... Be aware.... wake up .... steer your mind towards the Golden Age ... And please don't dismiss .... http://www.supermindevolutionsystem.com/page1/ I just wish more and more people would realize the HUman Consciousness is more powerful than people can imagine....Yes the Elite are controlling us... Most of our thought patterns are directed by them,and at the moment they are writing the script. BUT WE CAN CHANGE THE SCRIPT I believe we are ready for change. There are more people waking up realizing what is being presented is not reality. And the time has come for change.

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  18. Started by TheSolarist,

    For many years now, like 30, I have been trying to work out what kind of mechanism could have started the evolution of life on Earth, and since I cannot accept the God concept and science has been unable to identify anything specific I decided to come up with my own idea. However, I am not a scientist and have no formal qualifications in this area, but what knowledge I do have is from years of research study, my own life experience and common sense with a vivid imagination. The following is just a small portion of my complex idea, and perhaps best represents the scientific possibilities to support the idea. I believe that the solar system is just a gigantic Atom…

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  19. Started by froarty,

    I have been considering Casimir plates braced apart to form a field that "upconverts" longer wavelength vacuum flucuations. these plates are incarnated as pouous cavities in skeletal catalysts. Casimir forces increase dramatically below 10 nm so I am considering 2 nm as a good candidate for the "throat" area between the opening into the exclusion field and the strongest area of the field where the plates are closest. The upconversion means that space-time redistributes wider on the temporal axis to accomodate the squeeze caused by conductive plates in our plane. How do I assign a distance to something I have always considered a unit of time?

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  20. I wonder if and when we make actual contact with an alien being that it will be from the future creations of mankind? Possibly part computer and part biological. They have been able to transcend time with all the years of accumulation of knowledge and using that increase in knowledge to expand itself exponentionally compared to us? My idea of a movie screen play I'm working on. Think it'll sell?

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  21. Started by GutZ,

    Ok so like I have no real evidence because aliens stole it from my house, BUT I can link you to some obscure math I really don't understand myself, and relate it some how to my theory....then I am going to make a logical jump based of a wiki entry. then act like everyone else is the crazy one.

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  22. Started by froarty,

    OK this is crazy but interesting - I recall Tesla lore regarding HV fields solidifying ether to use the term originally applied - We also have tons of unsubstantiated UFO "sightings" never physical proof allowing more plausability to a "window" VS actual physical visitation. to get back to Tesla HV fields many sightings are near transmission lines or HV experiments like the space tether which would provide 1 HV field while I assume the UFO itself would provide the other in order to drive its plasma. Could two distant HV fields be oriented and deformed by "solidification" to form a temporal lens system just like gravitational bodies can be used to form a gravitational lens…

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  23. Started by starryknight50,

    Hi. First of all let me say that I've only had a few out-of-the-ordinary experiences in my life. I posted one about awake and still dreaming. Since I'm here, I may as well post this one too. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far,...wait wrong story. Actually, when I was 16 years old on a sunny day in June, I saw an object in the sky. I was standing near the edge of the road while my brother was on the porch talking to friends. I was near a tree and was staring at a jet make trails in the sky. Then something to my left caught my attention. A large blue sphere was flying along horizontally and heading toward the center of town. It made no noise and disappeare…

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  24. Started by Peron,

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  25. Started by cr4zyTh1nk3r,

    What if time and length are no longer absolutes? You’ve got your digital watch on your wrist and a ruler on your desk. These seem like absolutes: a second and a centrimetre for you must be the same as they are for me, and the same as they are on Alpha Centauri. But maybe they’re not. If I stay on my balcony while you start flying round the galaxy at an incredible speed, and if you could later whiz past my balcony so that we could somehow compare watches and rulers, my theory is your ruler would be smaller and your watch would be going slower than mine. It wouldn't seem different to you but I think the speed would make it different the weird thing is if a person went reall…

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