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Life at its simplest remove is essentially the storage of energy. This storing (a process) does not come free; Life has to use energy to store energy. This extra comes from the environment. Life is an ongoing balance between using stored energy to find more of it, but there's no free lunch.
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Is it possible to make environments in which lifespan of particles change? I mean if you could make one that could expand a pion lifetime would that open up new ways of research? I mean just from one imaginary point of view if you will what would a mass of pion act like if you could interact with it in a variety of ways.
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I'm sure many of you know of the film The secret. There was little science in the video which would lead even mildly sceptical people to pass it off as rubbish. Briefly, it says that through the power of human emotion and thought we can bring about what ever we want in our lives no matter how big or small it is. They say in the video that this "law of attraction" is strongly linked with quantum physics. I don't quite understand the link below but I think many of you would. Dr. John Hagelin Quantum physicist presents the answer. its linked with stopping crime and stuff. http://streaming.mou.org/MOU/Dr_Hagelin/Tucsontalk.wmv If that link does not work go…
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Is all of this completely bull or are there some concepts that stand out as being possible? http://www.volkmar-weiss.de/chaos.html
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About the philosophy of the negation of the axiom of choice I refer to set theory with urelements ZFU as in "The axiom of choice", Thomas Jech, North Holland 1973. Let us assume the negation of the axiom of choice and that space of particles is U of ZFU. Let U1xU2X....XUiX...... be the void set with Ui a set of locations. We can see the Existence and the Non Existence linked, contradicting the Existence of Parmenides and the Becoming of Heraclites. We can see the Infinite and the Void tied up in an unexpected way. We can see that Non Existence is closer to the Infinite than to the finite. We can see that we can apprehend space with mathematics in a wa…
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This article caught my eye, as the company responsible for said 'Thermal Energy Cell' is just a few miles down the road from where I live. Here's some excerpts from my local paper...The Argus.
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COMPLAINT Today, various "great Physicists", Universities, reviews, forums, etc are absolutely responsible for "blocking" the evolution of Physics. Unfortunately, all the above have led Physics to a "Middle Age" for the following simple reasons: A. RELATIVITY THEORY 1. As it is known, huge amounts of money have been spent for the verification of the Relativity Theory, for instance 200,000,000 dollars for the Gravity Probe B experiment and the results obtained are being questioned! Experiment Gravity Probe b, is a great foolishness of Physicists. On the contrary, with small amounts of money, if the experiments suggested on http://www.tsolkas.gr are perform…
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I am taking a college course in yoga to meet the Physical Education requirement for my degree in Computer Science. My yoga teacher emphasizes a lot on spiritual beliefs and often teaches them as fact. She teaches a lot about spirits and the "astral plane" but never provides scientific evidence to support these lessons. She says that these beliefs are known to be true and have been proven by science. Whenever I ask her for evidence, she often says that I need to practice meditation and go there myself. I do practice meditation as she has instructed, but I sometimes have blurry vision whenever I open my eyes again. I told her that I was concerned about this, but sh…
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New metaphors can create new realities Lakoff and Johnson, coauthors of “Metaphors we Live By”, speak of a newly arrived Iranian student who had mistaken the constant refrain he heard from other students that “the solution of my problems” meant that they were talking about a metaphor that was unfamiliar to him but sounded very intriguing. This Iranian student was very disappointed when he discovered that these other students were speaking in frustration rather than of a new and wonderful metaphor. He had mistaken this ‘solution of my problems’ was some kind of chemical mixing bowl, “which he took to be a large volume of liquid, bubbling and smoking, containing al…
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NEWTON IS WRONG!!! The three laws of Newton are wrong !!! see:http://www.tsolkas.gr/english/document1/gr...gravital-1.html Regards, Christos A. Tsolkas
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Our world is composed of four dimensions. However if each component of space has individual "time", what would happen especially on the electromagnetic phenomena? Of course those times must be almost equal with each other since we haven't yet observed any break of isometry of time in the space. I tried to introduce those virtual three times into Maxwell's equations as; http://hecoaustralia.fortunecity.com/maxwell/maxwell.htm
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According to a scientist named Albert Roy Davis, magnetism consists of two separate energies with opposite effects. The North pole has a counterclockwise spin and causes matter to contract while the South pole has a clockwise spin and causes matter to expand. Davis and Rawls describe in their first book, Magnetism and Its Effects on the Living System, that the currently accepted method of showing the lines of force of a magnet (Faraday's) is incorrect. There are other incorrect conclusions according to Davis and Rawls regarding the directional flow of magnetic energy. Here is what they have to say about Faraday's method. "The use of a flat piece of paper with iro…
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Critical Self-Consciousness I once asked a professor of philosophy what is philosophy about, she said “philosophy is about radically critical self-consciousness”. I have decided that CT (Critical Thinking) is the first important step on to this stage of critical self-consciousness. CT is philosophy light. Our mind tends to be dominated by the ego and the group when we have not yet become critically self-conscious. I am not an expert in these matters (such has never hindered me from expressing my considered opinion) but from the things I read regarding critical self-consciousness they make sense to me. Ego influences me by: I think it is true therefore it …
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FREE FALL OF BODIES 3-body problem (special case) According to the Newton's Mechanics: Let us consider a mass M of radius Ro. At a distance h from the center of this mass M, we place a spherical shell (e.g a spherical elevator) of mass m1 and radius R. Moreover, at the center of the spherical shell we place another point mass m2, (m1 ≠ m2). Now t= 0 (Phase I), we allow these three masses m1, m2, M to move freely under the influence of the force of universal attraction. Let us also assume that after a time dt (Phase ΙΙ), υ1, υ2 and V are respectively the velocities of masses m1, m2 and Μ, relative to an inertial observer Ο. Note:Masses m1, m2, and M are c…
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There is no 3-dimensional edge to spacetime. There is an "edge" to its expansion, which is the "arrow" of entropy. The expansion and the "fact": the universe has no (Euclidean) boundary, are related. The "vector" of time (Time's arrow) is obviously not a real quantity, but belongs in the imaginary realm. Is it still logically consistent to say the vector (of time) is measurable? Of course. How should it be modelled? Do we only have a single point we can consider? This last seems to, in fact, be the case. We need to invent, for ourselves, some point; a reference, to be able to take the pulse of anything we call "motion": the movement of mass -(ourselves, with our sing…
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This will be very quick, but I would be interested to see what those here can come up with... it is more of a brain game for the cosmologically inclined (ie. how could you test this crackpot theory? ): What if the Brane and Big Bang theories actually can coexist? If for instance the "big bang" was less about matter, and more of an explosion of physical law? In this thought of mine, energy+law= a universe. I would therefor not define the result of the big bang as a "universe", but more of an instantaneous definition of the laws under which this universe exists. A tabula rasa onto which the matter has yet to be "written". I will call this portion of the univ…
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During my recent research endeavors I came across an intriguing concept; that of zero point energy. I have spent hours attempting to learn more and gain a better grasp, however I cannot find any reliable unbiased web sites from which to gather further information. If anyone could provide a reliable site or elucidate on the topic it would be much appreciated.
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For the sack of agurement, lets say that once a person dies there is no heaven or hell for him to go to, lets even say thats the end of him( lets call him Max), so once Max dies the only thing remaining of him in the universe is his memory which is stored in living ppls minds and pictures:eyebrow: Now Max who just die would'nt feel anything right since nothing remains, and the consence being which once stated himself as (me) is no more, this is one possible part, next it could be that he finds himself saying i again,,, but this time in a different newly consence being (and this time he goes by the name Maxter) ALL OF THE ABOVE IS purely based on that saying which g…
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Is ATP use on its own a factor in evolution. To what extent I mean is by use of ATP do biochemical pathways and interactions chiefly carry from. Giving the idea of epistatis and norm or reaction is the use of ATP dynamic in consequence of overall species metabolism in relation to the environment. I can think of some ways that such might be tested for but I was wondering if someone has already come across such research also before I do speculate.
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About the philosophy of the negation of the axiom of choice I refer to set theory with urelements ZFU as in "The axiom of choice", Thomas Jech, North Holland 1973. Let us assume the negation of the axiom of choice and that space of particles is U of ZFU. Let U1xU2X....XUiX...... be the void set with Ui a set of locations. We can see the Existence and the Non Existence linked, contradicting the Existence of Parmenides and the Becoming of Heraclites. We can see the Infinite and the Void tied up in an unexpected way. We can see that Non Existence is closer to the Infinite than to the finite. We can see that we can apprehend space with mathematics in a wa…
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How Can U Say It Wouldn't Truly Be The Universe If It Ended, The Universe Means Nothing It's Just A Name Us Humans Gave It. The Universe Doesn't Mean That It's Everything Accept For What We Can See/know Which Could Possibly Described As Everythng, It's Easy Just To Say The Universe Is Everything But Until We Have Gained The Technology To See Beyond The Horizons Everyone Is Going To Have To Keep Guessing. Who Know There Could Be A Totally New Universe Where Fire Is Cold An Ice Is Hot, All Our Intelligence On The Subject Is Gatherd On What We Know And What Is Normal Like The Universe Can't Go On Forever That Is Jus How We See Things We Find It As Abnormal, But Gravity Is Ab…
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Just in case you think no-one's got any understanding of the new quantum world: ...And still bouncing
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Ok, this was an idea I came up with one day while being sick. If you were to put a mechanical/chemical object down in say a body of water, say 100 feet down. Say you had it explode releasing a fine mesh of carbon nanotubes(I added the tubes recently) holding together a hydrophobic gel. Could the pressures along with the mesh hold a dome of the gel together, say the pressure was caused by maybe differentiation of the gel along with various layers of the mesh screen to create and internal environment for people to occupy. Basically you have the initial pop, it starts to expand the gel which in turn is meshed with the tubes that give a skeletal structure of sorts f…
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Synopsis A thought experiment is used to investigate the effects of the invariance of the velocity of light in a Newtonian environment. This reveals an apparent inconsistency, in that two observers can receive different time signals from a distant transmitter, even though they are adjacent at that moment. The inconsistency is resolved by adopting a novel conceptual framework, a simultaneity-time continuum, in which the physical relationships between macroscopic objects remain Newtonian but the observed relationships can, and will, differ. Introduction Galilean Invariance (which is also referred to as Newtonian Relativity) is a form of relativity that was or…
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Hi ! Could you tell me what you understand about sixth sense and according to you, when does a normal person at one time having his (her) sixth sense ? Thanks !!!
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