Speculations

ok..so one day i was sitting out side my job, looking at my shadow thinking....i live in the 3rd dimension. so what is my shadow... then i thought my shadow is a living representation of my 3rd dimensional self in 2d... my shadow has lenth and width...but it has no depth...i mean thats what the 2nd dimension means right... lenth and width....BUT no hight...strickty FLAT...the only true 2nd dimensional representation of our self is our shadow...RIGHT? then i got to thinking...what makes our shadow.....light makes our shadow...so now im thinking if i was my shadow..how would i see time..time to me, would be slices of my 3rd dimensional self moving in 2D space right...…

What are the scientific criteria for defining an entity as being "alive" and how many of those criteria are displyed in the penomenon that is the internet?

RELATIVITY+ I’ve always held Albert Einstein in the highest regard. I admire his ability to think outside the box, and empathise with his curiosity and desire to understand the world in terms we can grasp and understand. Interestingly, when you read about Einstein, you realise that some things are incorrectly attributed to him, and there have been some subtle but crucial shifts in interpretation that he wouldn’t agree with. If Einstein was still alive today, I think we would have a different interpretation of Relativity. I think he would have explained the postulates he used in Special Relativity and General Relativity, and would have united both theories i…

can you go? Temperature or thermodynamics and velocity seem to be connected at some point in my opinion. What I mean by this is it takes a great deal of work naturally to get something close to absolute zero, just like it takes a great deal of work to get something to a certain temperature. Does this have anything to do with the Gibbs free energy equation by chance? Some natural equilibrium of sorts really that requires work to go in either direction, such as hot to cold, or slow to fast? I mean if there is an absolute zero, and a the speed of light, if there an inverse of either of those, a absolute slowness something can travel? How slow can something go? What d…

Anybody here read the book on it? I've only read a couple of pages of the whole thing, but basically it talks about the possibility of warp drive and a bunch of other technological marvels seen in Star Trek. There is a whole lot to cover but I'm most curious about the energy requirements of Warp Drive, and of course if it is even possible. For those of you who don't know, how warp drive works is that it folds spacetime itself and this allows it to go faster than light, which is otherwise impossible because of the laws stated special relativity. Pretty much, being able to warp spacetime itself would provide a "loophole" around relativity so to speak. Obviously Wa…

First, I would just like to state that this theory is based on the assumption that space is an infinite plain, and we are not alone in it. I know that is a seperate discussion in itself, but for the purposes of this theory, it is true:-) . This theory can be hard to explain some times, so bear with me. The general thesis of this theory: Anything is possible through the probabilty of infinity; absolute impossibilties do not exist. Everything you can possibly think of exists within our own universe. Take, for example, a meteorite hitting you in the head and killing you exactly 5.5 seconds from now...(5.5 seconds later) nothing happened right? The chances of that e…

ok, i just like to write anything that comes to mind, so here is part of somthing i was making for a story i never finished, it was ispierd by almost everything i can remember, but this part was inspierd only on a documentary on string theory i saw on nova The Spectrum model- the model of the higher dimensional universe based on the bible an string theory, allowing for at least 10 dimensions, 3 spatial dimensions of earth, 3 of heaven, and 3 of hell, (3+3+3=9) +1 of time= 10, this is assuming that all 3 universes exist on the same time line, but according to M-theory, there should be 11 dimensions, and the bible does state that God's time is on a different scale, s…

It's hard to say what the 9/11 Truth Movement actually represents. About the only consistent claim they make is that the government isn't telling the whole story about 9/11. That's something I believe as well. However, in terms of the 9/11 Commission and the official reports released by engineers, physicists, and others who investigated the accidents, I believe the reports to be largely accurate and corroborated by hundreds of not thousands of independent scientists, engineers, and other specialists who can corroborate the official report. However, there's more to the 9/11 Truth Movement than government omission of details. I think it's safe to say that 9/11 Tr…

Look, do you have time on YOUR hands? How does cognitive science, as constructed by the embodied realists, look at ‘time’? Cognitive science examines concepts as they come ready-made from the unconscious. Language expresses our ready-made concept of time and with this the cognitive scientists constructs the mechanisms and the human experiences that have gone into the development of this living concept. I call it a living concept because some experience I have later today might very well modify it somewhat without my conscious awareness. As Rumsfeld might say ‘we take the concept we have and not the concept we might wish to have’. Events and time: oscilla…

I’d like to start this by stating that this text is to be read with a very open mind, for this work challenges our known perceptions and knowledge of the Universe. Note though that this theory does not cancel any of the present theories but in fact only unites them. For this very revised definition of the Universe we will have to start with introducing the concept of a circular reality. The Big Bang is not the beginning of Universe but any location in it. Time, Space and all the other dimensions we will introduce here develop in a circular manner, or to be more exact: as a spiral. Our souls play the central role in this universe and our souls are also the only thi…

Robot rights seem to have appeared in the news lately... Robotic age poses ethical dilemma http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6425927.stm Robots could demand legal rights http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6200005.stm Do you think robots should one day be given rights? And is there a need for something like Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics? Robot future poses hard questions http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6583893.stm For those that don't know them, they are... 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where s…

Great, I have your attention. This basically involves all the ice on the polar caps melting and how that would affect the Earth when it comes to pressure redistribution. This of course would take a century and it would be a slow increase in volcano eruptions. The Earth is oval shaped right now. Imagine all the weight of the polar ice caps gone and the weight is now evenly distributed. Equal distribution of weight allows greater pressure right? Would that also cause more pressure on the earth like evenly squeezing a ball? Then what? Volcanos? Before any of us think this is silly maybe we should leave this to the scientists. I can't find a total approx weight on all of…

Quantum Relativity Theory of Everything Alignment Theory A suggested unification of Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and Cosmology Alignment Theory is an emergent-phenomena dynamic based at the zero point energy/quantum foam level. It appears to give an inherent, automatic and very simple mechanism for all the major elements of cosmology, relativity, and quantum mechanics and quantizes relativity in the process. It seems to demonstrate the source and nature of mass, light and quantum chaos among many other things. It is based on a mixture of existing mainstream ideas and some new ones, put together in a new way. Relativity and Quantum mechanics de…

I have a hypothesis brewing that makes the sun burning a lot hotter (50-100 degrees) back in the time of the dinosaurs and before.

Thought that get your attention. Well anyway, on to the actual subject. It seems to me that astrology can indeed predict the future. No really. It can. You see, there are many, many instances in which someone's fortune has been correct. But then, as most of us know, astrology is total BS. It is so for the reason that every one of the predictions that is made is so vague they could be applied to any situation. Predictions such as "Looking for solutions with vigor and complexity will be present" or "There could be instigated actions and sabotage. This could result in political problems" aren't specific enough to really test them for legitimacy or to see if they r…

On my website I have proposed a formula that can be used to calculate the radius of all elementary particles with mass. This is achieved by assuming that all elementary particles have the same linear force (see table 2). The question then arises, why do particles have the same linear force but different charge values? To test this I made the assumption that the nominal fractional charge values given to quarks are incorrect and that in reality all particles do have the same electronic charge value. This would allow the Compton radius formula to be used to calculate the Compton radius of all particles. This is done in table 3 and the results show that the Compton radii …

What happens to photons that never interact with matter, where do they go. I mean at the very edge of our universe, what happens to the photons emitted in the direction of nothing? Does spacetime curve so extreme as to not allow this? Do photons only emit in directions that spacetime allows? I mean if energy is being emitted to never interact with anything, does that mean the universe is losing information?

Ok, if not even light can escape a black hole, then can any movement exist in a black hole? I mean if light cant escape a black hole and itself is crushed into an infinitely small point, would it be possible that such could become matter? For that matter, would it even be possible for a black hole to exist as matter? I don’t see how any bond strength could survive such, or for that matter how the strong force could persist. WTF are black holes!

This is a simple test. No peaking!!! 1. Think of a number from 1 to 10 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >2. Now, multiply that number by 9 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >3. If the number is a 2-digit number, add the digits together > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >4. Now subtract 5 from the re…

And by that I mean the Virginia Tech shooter... assuming he was in the military Where the deaths of soldiers and innocent civilians in a foreign land may garner marginal attention, I'd bet the vicarious deaths of American civilians on our home soil would be considerably more compelling.

To us, our lives do not appear to occur in an instant flash. Our lives also do not occur so slowly that everything appears to be frozen. What exactly causes our perception of the rate in which something happens? Imagine that you are watching a bird fly across the sky in an open field. It wouldn’t appear to happen in an instant flash. However, couldn’t it seem to happen instantly if your perception of all other events were at an equally higher rate? If you had a perception of the Earth’s rotation where the Sun appeared to move across the sky every few moments, the bird would move too quickly for you to notice it. Is there a type of universal time force that …

Hello Having fun trying to figure out a way to handle that pesky problem of time travel where you go back and kill your father. Most ideas put into solving this the idea of multiple timelines co-existing, which seems a bit over complicated so tried to think of a way less complicated. So how about this; not Time Travel but Time Displacement. You can go back in time, but in doing so you do not become matter in that timeline, but are matter from your own time displaced into the other timeframe. You may be in the year 1907 but your matter is still existing in 2007. Hence the energy that is, or will be you can share the same space, because you are not…

Hello, I'm new to this board, but philosophy is something I mull over constantly. I wanted to propose an interesting discussion: Is it possible that lucid dreaming is exactly the same as waking life but occurring in a different state of energy? I believe it is. In both states, you are aware of yourself and look outward towards people, events, and locations that are affected by your thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes. I learned more about reality through actually lucid dreaming than any attempt made in waking life. What do you think? For more information, check out the site in my sig - is it recruiting people to help contribute to and disseminate information …

Would privatized residential areas work, i.e you'd have large companies running districts where the residents are working for the company and the community strives for progress in that area...e.g pharmaceutical companies would run districts where the residents are made up of GP,s, neurologists, psychologists et.c Tax on wages would mean revenue would go back directly into the community, and the maintenance and services would be localised by the company, rather than tax distributed nationally et.c You'd have engineer communities, finance and banking communities et.c and so forth. It's just a thought that popped into my mind, for some reason I thought of that gross mis…

Do the current laws of physics allow for ghouls and such Like is it possible for spirits and ghosts, and demons and magic to be real