Speculations

Could “time” possibly be defined basically by the geometry of any particular system? Say you take the universe at any particular time, such as if you take a snapshot of a system, then not observe that system, then take another snapshot at a different time could being discrete like that still allow for say finding what governs the system? Such a simple example I think of course would just be on earth with someone dropping something. Yet as I would like to phrase my question, which is difficult for me, is can you apply such to the universe? It would seem if that laws of nature did not change in time that such should be able to explain the big bang, not saying anything …

Hello all, Wow, it's more than half a year since the last time I'm here. After a series of debates about energy theories, I seclude myself and determine to find out what was going on. I've found the answer, but that's not what I'm here for. I'm here to touch your belief system, vibrate it alittle bit and hopefully something will crack. I just want to introduce the brief history of what happened back then. It was the time of Leibniz and Newton/Descartes and their view of Force. Newton/Descartes were the creator of the formula "mv" where m=mass, v=velocity. It is now known as momentum. Leibniz was the creator of the formula "mv^2", which later modify by Corio…

I fail to see an experiment clarifying the properties of antimatter gravity and so far I've only heard of 2 speculations: i) Antimatter gravity is the same as matter gravity, as gravity is a property of mass, ii) Antimatter and matter repel each other, but antimatter pulls itself together in the same way as matter does. I'm thinking of something else: Matter gravity --> A "force" that pulls "everything" Antimatter gravity --> A "force" that repels "everything" In the beggining of the universe, a gravitational effect like this, would make the concetration of matter higher at the center of the universe "globe", while antimatter would mainly concetrate far fro…

I'm a bit of a story teller. Whilst this is not the usual kind of thing you will read, i hope it is enjoyable. 19th Feb. 3034 RADIO NEBULA - Interview with Dr. Layton 'Thank you Dr. Layton for speaking with us today on Radio Nebula. As you will know, we have asked you to come on today to explain what you and your counterpart scientists are just attempting to do.' 'Hello - thanks for inviting me on today - well, let me explain. Myself and my colleagues have now created the very first artificial intelligent computer in the lab - this discovery has now led me and my scientists into contemplating the probability of inserting human persona into the world of co…

I just had this random thought... Since electric field can be blocked by a metal sphere in electrostatic equilibrium (when there is a charge outside the sphere and the sphere reaches equilibrium, it becomes an object of equal potential, so electric field lines can't penetrate the sphere), is it possible to block gravitational field?

Does anybody know anything about these? http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/11dec_themis.htm Apparently "Magnetic Ropes" are said to connect the Sun to the Earth. I am unsure if this is similar to what happened with the Nasa Polar program. They reported 43,000 ice/methane comets pummeling the earth daily back in the late nineties but it turned out to be static noise. Are these magnetic ropes for real? Or imagined?

Today in science class we were examining vials of different elements and compounds. My friend, being the joker he is, took the vial labeled hydrogen gas and opened it. It wasn't that big, and my face was a few feet away from the vial, but I'm just wondering if I'm going to suddenly explode without warning. I haven't even written my will yet! Thanks for the help.

Is there any weight to the claim made by these web sites: http://www.water4gas.com and http://www.savefuel.ca ? They send HHO into a vacuum line of a gasoline engine and presumably you save fuel...Someone told me there was a recent Popular Science article that debunked these claims. I am really tempted to get a kit from the first site and try it. Also I heard a similar process was implemented on WWII P51 mustangs to super charge them and it worked okay - when it did work; otherwise they blew up..... any insights are appreciated.

I have studied the Grand Canyon a little bit and throughout my research many people referenced the creation of the canyon to have formed primarily via river erosion. While I do not doubt that a river has eroded the walls of the canyon I do not believe it is responsible for it's great expanse. Searching the USGS earthquake database I found the following information regarding the total amount of earthquakes having been recorded since the seventies. The grand canyon has by far the greatest ocurrances of earthquakes which suggests it has the greatest potential for tectonic movement. The Grand Canyon 36.3N -113W 300km radius 936 quakes 500km radius 9860 quakes …

The story I've heard: Earth is an experimental ground. Current human race is the latest patch of the experiment. The time has come close weather or not to destroy this patch. The discussion amongs our maters has broke out into votes: 1/ The experimental must be filter and destroy now 2/ This is a crutial time to filter out more successive ones. The reason why this experiment be destroyed because when the human race realized who they are and what kind of power they have, they are much more powerful than their own master. Thus, without achieving the standard moral necessary to control this power, humans are a threat to this universe. The story of Adam an…

I've been waiting to hear more about this conference regarding the Bosnian Pyramids. This article lists the following participants in the The First International Scientific Conference on the Bosnian Pyramids. http://www.philipcoppens.com/nap_icbp.html I followed it in from this website... http://www.bosnianpyramid.com/index_Files/News.html It mentions that the following people have validated the dig site and all members at the conference were in agreeance that the dig should be continued. "The conference was opened in the presence of the vice-president of the Federation Spomenka Micic, the minister for tourism of the federal government Nevenko H…

As this seems to be the forum for idiots to spout off half-baked ideas, I figured I'd chime in with my own two cents. So I recently (in the past 6 months or so) read Lee Smolin's now outdated book Three Roads to Quantum Gravity. The central theme of his book is that spacetime is discrete and is probably best modeled by forms like spin networks or spin foam. But Smolin's book is, at this point, some 7 years old and not exactly representative of the state of the art in modern physics. The "traditional" approach involves a continuous spacetime. There are no discrete structures, there's nothing special going on at the scale of the Planck length, and spacetime conta…

Nonsense. The heat from the sun would force the Earth away like a piston is forced down on the power stroke of an internal combustion engine. The Earth wouldn't have a leg to stand on. It would be forced away as the sun got closer.

Hi All, This is my first post here on this forum. Glad to be here. This forum looks and feels much better than PhysicsForum, and more open and tolerant. I want to give more insight about a holitic theory I developed in 2002, and of course I am open for critics and questions. My theory is about cosmology and the growth of complexity, from fundamental particles, atoms, molecules to complex organisms. Pelastration is a coupling mechanism in spacetime development. The term pelastration combines PEnetration and eLASTic and STRAtification (layers). I see spacetime as a real physical phenomenon. To me spacetime is a dynamic oscillating membrane, non-breakable…

Suppose we take the view that quantum physics is science. If we adjoin to quantum physics all of the untestable, far-reaching mathematical implications of quantum physics, would we still have a scientific theory? Shubee

duality IS physics says this retired Physicist, still internet researching/publishing at http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/2638/1MrMorganNewPhysics.doc When you can see the electron as a helical string wave of 1/h-squared Higgs particles then you have arrived at New Physics

ALERT! ALERT! DRIVEBY RANT! So ... if the universe was in bounce mode for all eternity, what happened at the beginning?

If anyone is interested: "do you have a new theory"? YES, lots. Can I tell you about them? NO; not here unfortunately, too much censorship appears to be the rule. Look for me in due course at frostcloud. I can take the calculus and pendulum equation tests there. (Thank God for Captain Panic; how do you survive this place? ) See ya all Imagine (Why does almost nobody? have apparently any lack of cowardice here???? Trying to be nice but dictatorship hacks me off ...)

On another forum a user was joking about using nuclear weapons to divert or partially dissipate hurricanes. While it's perhaps the most unfeasible and the least environmental idea ever I think the idea is sort of interesting. I looked at some hurricane data, pulled out a few variables out of my ass (which I found to be common practice in this part of the forum), did a few energy conversions and came to the conclusion that the wind energy dissipated by a matured hurricane per day could perhaps be rivaled by a thermonuclear weapon in the 30Mt range. The energy dissipated through water condensation is much larger though, so I'm not sure how that fits in. Anyway, should a cou…

Hello, this is my first post at this forum. To my knowledge, it breaks no laws, but I do not know all the laws of the world. I have a method of analysing information. It is like calculus, as it involves integration, and differentiation. I call it "math-free analysis; because it effectively makes number (or "counting") optional. You could say it "stops time"' allowing time to run as you please. The method is this: write out the problem as simply as possible. Find common ground between two of the concepts in the problem. When this common ground has been found, separate the two aspects on the common ground, usually by one step only (that is the "math-free" p…

Hello everyone, I wonder how to define light speed. Imagine a solitary particle. It isn’t moving toward or away from anything so it “looks” like its still. There is no way to ascertain if it is moving or how fast. Movement and inertia are the same. Is this the nature of light speed? I was kicked off a physics forum for twice posting this notion, so they see it as crackpottery. A generous compliment, I think.

I have for a great time been trying to find information on a subject of interest. This topic is the deminishing water supply of the world. I have put alot of thought into it and have come up with a sort of hypothosis. Given the fact that many scientists say(and their research confirms) that we only have so much water on this planet, and that the amount only veries by slight degrees. My question and hypothosis are one in the same....Could the fact that we bottle billions of gallons of water cause the depletion of water else where....as in could our bottling of water cause a small town in africa go without water because that water is no longer accessible to the overall envi…

On the McNeill- Lehrer news hour 05/05/05 there was a debate on subject topic . It was the usual 'if there is a clock there must be a clockmaker type argument " . NOBODY , however raised the obvious question host or guests , raised the question of well over a billion & half years of biological incrementalism in honing the complexity of the mechanisms of being "alive " as we understand it now . In an earlier issue of Scientific American ( I forget the issue ) there was an article on molecules capable of self replication ; surely it is not an impossible jump to say eons of natural selection on such entities could give us what we have now ? PS I totally reject the con…

We need a war on hurricanes, Brian Sandler brian334@peoplepc.com I recently received a patent on a machine designed to destroy hurricanes. At my website http://bsandler.com there is a complete description of the machine. Please contact me at the above address if you have any questions. Thanks, Brian Sandler

just had some thoughts on the issue of higgs and dark matter/energy. consciousness (not individual but universal) is pretty much energy. In terms of quantum physics it could be said that it is consciousness that collapses waves of potential matter in to localizable real matter. Furthermore it is energy (consciousness) that holds separate particles together. If i am not mistaken it is upon joining that the elementary particles gain mass. Could it be consciousness instead of higgs that provides mass, also could this be related to dark matter/energy. Although this is probably utter nonsense to a physicist it must be remembered that our entire reality occurs wit…