Speculations

I was thinking about two different things: 1) From what we can see of our Galaxy, there isn't enough "visible" matter to account for the Galaxy having enough gravity to not tear itself apart. 2) If aliens are out there somewhere, why haven't we seen them? Well... what about Dyson Spheres? Suppose an advanced civilisation (or more than one) made itself a Dyson Sphere among some stars at the edge of the Galaxy, where the gravity isn't as intense as being near the core... so that the Sphere was more structurally stable. That would account for both the undetected matter holding the Galaxy together and be an explanation for why we've not detected any eviden…

Each newborn's life, like the flower of Spring, is full of freshness and imagination. We can't resist asking: for whom the flowers of life are blossoming? Different from other types of lives, human being has the conscience of seeking fairness. Where is the origin of conscience? Sometimes we feel the unknown loneliness, and sometimes we are shrouded with the fear of exploring the unknowns. What is the origin of loneliness and fear? Very lucky, these questions have simple answer, so simple that everyone can personally prove the answer with a simple piece of computer software which disassembles galaxy patterns! Only when we find the answers to these questions, will huma…

According to contemporary ideas the spin of elementary particle is a certain mysterious inner moment of impulse for which it is impossible a somewhat real physical picture to create. The absence of spin visual picture, in opinion of a number of authors leaves the regrettable gap in quantum mechanics interpretation. On the other hand, there are highly developed geometrical disciplines which are difficult to apply to specific physical theories owing to the fact that it is not always possible to point out the objects to which the geometrical notions could be corresponded.We point out to one interesting analogy which, in our view testifies to the geometrical interpretation o…

I was wondering if this is a popular theory or if it basically has no possibility. If it's already been talked about then my apologies. Specifically... Could this be possible? If not... why? I would like to research it more but would like trained minds to give insight as to it's legitimacy. Cosmology Quest 2 - Plasma Cosmology - Part 1 of 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEbatH0ssYE Cosmology Quest 2 - Plasma Cosmology - Part 2 of 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wchV5R9NhqY Cosmology Quest 2 - Plasma Cosmology - Part 3 of 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy39vI41kF4 Cosmology Quest 2 - Plasma Cosmology - Part 4 of 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…

Dear Dr Weinberg If space is discrete and time is continue,4-dimensional space-time lost its sense ? Sincerely Yuri Danoyan Yes Stephen Weinberg

As is well known all matter is made of 12 particles: 6 quarks and 6 leptons. I would like to show that some numbers in the spectrum of mass of elementary particles one way or another connected with enigmatic number N=12. Consider natural logarithms mass of quarks and exploring them: Mu=1.5- 3 Mev; Md=3-7 Mev; lnMu=0.4-1.09; lnMd=1.09-1.94 Ms=70-120 Mev; Mc=1160-1390 Mev; lnMs=4.24-4.78; lnMc=7.05-7.23 Mb=4130-4270 Mev; Mt=170900- 177500Mev; lnMb=8.32-8.35; lnMt=12.04-12.08 As we see, natural logarithms values of mass next (express in round numbers): 1;2;4;5;7;8;12. Draw attention to absent numbers divisible to 3(3,6,9) except last number N=12 .…

I was watching (well, half-watching) some ghost-hunting plumbers on Space last night and there was segment where they had a heat-imaging camera on a psychic doing a reading. They got some results that they allegedly couldn't explain...of course they didn't go to any experts in the technology looking for answers, just said they couldn't explain it. Now normally I have no trouble debunking the various photographic effects that allegedly prove the existence of ghosts, goblins, and aliens because I spent several years in the photographic industry and am pretty well-versed in what happens with cheap optics, airborne dust, and people too dim to understand basic lighting tec…

Why do men care more about sports and career then women? Sure women care too, but for many men it seems they can't live without it. Why do so many men watch and compete in sporting games every day? Why do they pursue earning money long after they have satified every basic need? The reason lies in the requirements made by our ancient environment. We lived in small groups on the African savannah. Where women made a living from gathering fruits and vegetables. And where men brought in the meat through hunting. All though the lines wouldn't be all black and white, that was the general division. Hunting is a team effort. Whether you drive small animals to your fellow h…

I was watching an episode of Nova on global dimming. The process in which particle pollutants are put into the air and block out the sun so light can't hit the ground. One result of this is water evaporates at a slower rate. This is where my thoughts come in. What if global warming is a result of global dimming. Because water is evaporating less this causes means less cooling of the air near the surface of the earth. The heat energy from the sun is still being absorbed by the earth just in the atmosphere from particle pollutants rather than the surface where water can evaporate to cool the earth. This is of course just an idea of mine. I don't have much knowledge …

For all scientists here that also like Wolfenstein 3D (the 90's DOS game): Speculative: What if there was a Wolf3D level, in which you fought a boss that was Charles Darwin himself, armed with futuristic machine guns and special, full body armor. Let's say this takes place centuries in the future from 2008. Plot: A time machine was created with help from physicists around the world. One of them went back into the 19th Century and stole Darwin right from his ship, and brought him into the year 2350 or, something. When you see him for the first time, he would yell: "Die, Allied Fish-lover!", referring to fish symbols on people's cars. And, when you …

Why do women find it important to be in on the latest fashion trends? It couldn't be just to look nice for the opposite sex, because most men hardly notice it. I believe the reason lies in our evolutionary background. We evolved as hunter-gatherers. Hunting requires plenty of skill, obviously. Compared to hunting, gathering seems a pretty simple task. What I want to show is that the occupation of gathering wild fruits and vegetables is far from simple. It is a highly information intensive occupation. A tree full of fruits is a temporary store of valuables you encounter by chance. The female that finds it comes home with enough fruits for her family, and one import…

Wouldn't it? What is American policy? Democracy. Everyone enjoys freedom. So does science, so does molecules and this chaos universe. One may say how can any form or pattern be created if we're all chaos. Look again, the earth is round, universe spiral, many natual things have geometry. They're all made up of atoms, and all atoms are chaos. Wth, how did they form circles geometry. Yeah, so why doesn't one spend more time on finding out that answer instead of holding on to the concept that chaos can't create order? I feel bad and unfair for the one of get bashed of their new ideas and thoughts. Every science level have controversy. Even Eistein level. So if th…

This is an intriguing thought from a 'proper' scientist, not a nutcase, who thought that the age of bipedal motility could be pushed back to around 21 million years ago rather than the conventional 6 million years consensus. I don't treat this as speculation but rigorous logic, yet I cannot find another slot for it: http://www.uprightape.net/ Any thoughts, disagreements, agreements?

Basic fallacy in anthropic principle. How can it say life could never evolve in anything else but here? That question has no answer in this universe yet let alone a multiverse. Yes, life physically evolves, so to assume it did this via how our universe is I do not think even needs to evoke such a principal, otherwise I think to suggest that would require life to exist outside the physical universe, such as its laws, like a human being able to fall a 1000 feet with no injury. I would also think that such a statement means that the multiverse to infinity or whatever needs to be correct for our universe to exist, and toilets. Then again life goes extinct, so the universe…

Is it possible for a planet to orbit a "group" of stars? Seems like I remember some sci-fi I read as a teenager that involved a planetary system with multiple suns. It seemed to make sense at the time, but now that I've enjoyed a little popular science in my life, not that I understand it really, it seems like it wouldn't be possible. So, what gives?

with regard to the end of the world, this might be a possible cause of the reversion of earth poles in 2012... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFttsnRHzVE&feature=related it is not just an innocent scientific device, it can also be used for disrupting enermy communications, destroying enermy missiles and planes, mind control of large areas of the population, and with enought power knock the planet off its electromagnetic equilibrium and quite possibly even destroy it. wonder why we've been having increased weather activity? with such a weapon created by the US navy and air force in the hands of president george bush and the illuminati secret organizatio…

Ok everyone hello.. I want to apologize in advance for the length of this post and put out the general disclaimer that I have no college behind me whatsoever and am nothing more than an avid fan of theoretical physics.. I read everything I can find on it and then they start throwing all those ginormous equations and what not in there and I get that deer caught in the headlights thing.. oh and Im not here tryin to sell a book or anything.. I just have a thought I’d like to share and see if anyone can at the very least understand whats going on in my head whether or not they think the idea has any merit.. that being said.. Theory of why the expansion of the unive…

I was having a discussion with someone about religion; I'm not particularly religious, that is to say I do not subscribe to any specific mythos, but I don't completely discount those ideas either. I like to defend the religious side because it is usually the tougher position to defend. Anyway, the age old paradox about an omnipotent god creating an object so big that he himself can not lift it came up and I think I answered it, but I want to make sure my reasoning is sound. I said that yes an omnipotent being could create an object so big that he could not lift it, and still be omnipotent. My reasoning was that once an object reaches a certain mass, it can no longer …

I hope the mods don't mind, but I split this from another thread, where religion was being discussed, and as this topic has nothing to do with religion, I thought it would be ok to continue. I've just posted an assignment, and currently enjoying a beer, so I'll address the points ajb raised later. However if anyone else would like to comment, especially somebody more grounded in philosophy than I am, it would be very interesting to hear some viewpoints. Here's the discussion so far... How come ? I've noticed similar comments about philosophy on here, where people seem to think that it's somehow a separate entity from science, when really it's an intrins…

Dear friends, I come to you with great respect and the respect for our science legacy where countless work made up what we are today. I would like to propose to you a new view of gravity. A view that perhalf can bring us together. When one convert potential energy to kinetic energy, he or she use the formula mgh=1/2 m v^2 . Strickly speaking, mgh = Fd = Fh , where F=ma . If we do not use this method but rather use integration, one would write Work is mgh = [math]\int Fdh[/math] . One will find the same answer mgh because the integral of dh is h, and the force is constant. Now one will do the actual experimentation to verify this fact. He or she will find …

You're all ways off from the orignal, and way way off from what He told me. Planets are form from neutron stars. It split itself into the sun and the planet forming the simplest hydrogen solar system. These system could interact with other larger systems forming a bigger larger system. All planets repel each other, only attract to the sun.

Momentum is not Energy. They're totally two different quantity. Momentum is conserve, so does energy. There are one problem that we have overlook all these time... What are the form of energy? Work, heat, electricity. Heat... however is not a form of energy, or I may say, not the correct description of its form. Work and electricity are almost 100% efficiency transformation back and forth... heat is not complete because it generate entropy. In this sense, modern science isn't wrong all these time. A perpetual machine cannot ever be made. However... it is possible. We have overlook another form of energy. It's a brother of heat.... a forgotten one that everyone…

If you look at basic observation, it appears to indicate that the DNA, although the template molecule of life, plays a support role. It is given the lead role based on an unproven assumption. That assumption is life began with some version of genetic replicators. This has never been proven but we treat it as true without any requirement of proof. We need to look at what we can prove. Cells, like red blood cells can continue to be alive without DNA. But DNA is useless without a cell body, except in the above hypothetical scenario. Based on that the hierarchy is cell body then DNA. We could take a cell, remove the DNA, spread out all the cell material, add the DNA back…

"When you think of something, it exist and becomes possible." Welcome, join me to find cases to make this flaw. I've think of the earth blow up, or even bizzard as human grows wings and fly. It's still can't dismiss this philosophy. What's yours?

The scientific method uses logic, deductive logic or the hypothetico-deductive method involving hypothesis, experiment, falsification, and then the formulation of a new hypothesis. However, IMHO, there are cases where logic cannot work and a sensible hypothesis cannot be made, leaving only speculation. For example, the map made by a Turkish Fleet Admira, lPiri Reis, seems to include a perfect map of the Northern coast of Antarctica showing the coastline UNDER ICE. A quote from the article indicates the problem: [urlhttp://http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_1.htm[/url] There are a number of other mysteries on this site. Are there cases where p…