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  1. Started by foodchain,

    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!

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  2. Started by MolotovCocktail,

    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…

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  3. 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.

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  4. Started by herme3,

    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 …

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  5. Started by mr d,

    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…

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  6. 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 …

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  7. Started by Royston,

    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…

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  8. 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

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  9. Started by Farsight,

    I know this might not sound like physics, but bear with me, because Time is Money, isn't it? Show me some money, I say. So you pull out a £10 note. We both know that’s money right? Wrong. Check the small print: “I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of ten pounds”. Your tenner isn’t really money. It’s what’s known in the trade as a promissary note. A mere promise to pay money. Basically it’s an IOU, but from the Bank of England. OK if you’re in the States or Oz maybe you don’t get the small print, but your buck or buckaroo is still a promissary note, a mere IOU, it’s not really money. OK you say. How about this here penny? You ha…

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  10. Started by foodchain,

    If you somehow were able to attach a line to the moon, for example a chain(does not have to be though), and then attach it to earth what would that look like visually, and also what effects would that have in a 24 hour period, and could you climb it? *I have no idea on where to place such a thread or even if its acceptable on this forum.

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  11. Started by spiritnl,

    There were some posts about this subject before. But I want to take the debate to another level. I am not looking for dumb posts like 'Crap, it's total bullshit' The reason I am posting this is to find out what people on science forums think about this subject. And to make it more interesting, I state psychokinesis is real. This topic contains a poll too. Please give your opinion. Psychokinesis Moving/affecting matter with the power of thoughts. Edit: before typing any more, please note my primary language isn't English. I'll try to type proper English.

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  12. Started by -I-,

    Philosophy of -I- There is only one identity in the universe. -I- what you are born with, an identity. What makes the living think or feel to themselves, I feel that, I want that, I am here, this is me? Darwin's theory of evolution rightly says we have a common, unbroken line back to a single ancestor. (one of the pond slime) We are all the 4.5 billion year old, (from then), children of this simple life. At some point this simple life divided its body into two living organisms, starting the process of evolution. From looking in every conceivable place I have found nobody has addressed what happened to -I- at the time of division. Simply put, if -I- am cut in tw…

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  13. Started by Farsight,

    GRAVITY EXPLAINED You probably think of gravity as curved spacetime. Surprisingly Einstein didn’t, not quite. And neither should you. To understand gravity you have to take the ontological view. You have to learn to see what’s there. And to do that, you have to put time to one side, because time isn’t the same kind of dimension as the Dimensions of space. Yes, an object passing a planet traces a curved path, but you don’t stare up at a plane and decide that it’s a silver streak in the sky. You take a mental snapshot, flash, a picture of it in a timeless instant. It’s the same with gravity. Take the time-derivative of that curved spacetime. What you get is a gradient.…

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  14. Started by ErlyRisa,

    Time .... Well thier is an Hour Hand, a 2nd and a minute hand. In the computer... it's a 'Frequncy' of switching eg. 4MHz machine. What's it look like in the universe?

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  15. Started by ErlyRisa,

    What is it..? an LED ... is it a mini Cathode Ray TV ? construction of an LED... Two peices of metal... one that has a little more 'chunk' ... the E flows to ..well actually I'm not sure? - the chunk or to the Tip (confusion arises, with actual potentila flow and circuit flow) This 'spark' produces light!!! What G pattern of the material is producing light?

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  16. Started by Ladyhelix,

    Last week a friend of mine sent me a link to 'the secret' secret seminar, I think it was on youtube I took what seemed like hours to watch it and I found it to be the same old same old I was a big fan of Oprahs change your life tv back in the late 90's and bought a shedful of self help books which turned out to be basically saying the same as each other just worded differently I was extremely disappointed to hear that 'the secret' was simply put the law of attraction However, the law of attraction can only get you so far, what you need to make the elite group however is the real secret This is what I beleive to be 'THE REAL SECRET' or should I say 'BOD…

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  17. Started by Robonewt,

    Let me start by saying I am not a physicist, I am just interested in the theoretical ideas of science. I find it amazing that we still have problems defining light, is it a particle, a wave, both or neither. These thoughts I have presented here just look at it from a different angle. I am also no mathematician and so apologise before hand if my explanations appear very simplistic. Ok with that said, let me begin. Light is always compared to water and sound for its wave properties, but considered as a particle because it can travel across a vacuum. Perhaps we should take the comparison closer instead of further away. Let me expand…… Waves on water are caused by …

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  18. Started by ErlyRisa,

    Do you 'READ' people around you like an open book? -When you do 'read' peoples feelings/thoughts... how do you use this information? --Do you use it to ur advantage? ---Do you use it to 'become at one' with the person... thinking on thier wavelength? ----If everybody cared - no-one would die (NickelBack)

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  19. Started by spunnery,

    Let me start without introduction.(Please see attachment for the figures).Let us first go through the first postulate of special relativity. This states that,”Speed of light is same for all observer’s, no matter what their relative speeds are”. It is little bit difficult to disprove this, because of the high speed of light. Let us try for any clue in any experiments that have been already performed. Let us go little deep in to the basic principle of the very same experiment, Michel son & Morley experiment, to find out the presence of Either. Please keep in mind we are analyzing only a part of the basic principle of experiment, and only considering the area of our i…

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  20. Started by soultech,

    From it's beginings pre the big bank when there was relevantic things possible not to rimember and space within the infantile universe was minor and time was irrelevant to our fast paced techno-evolutionar sphere of collective entangled and economically cannabolistic agenda! Like king's of the jungle eco-finacial feding frenzie! the economic prosperity will be marvled and praize in thousands of years to come as brilliance in the form of archetecture, science, monument law, aAND technological achevment in such a thousand long ago bygone era. Fantasti. What can you see of the future my colegues? whatever i a sure ma make heaps of posts with respect to that! ( when i say hee…

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  21. Started by Pre4edgc,

    Ok. It starts like this: Any planet that has any capable release of CO2 will release it. But after just so long, in any atmosphere, it will continue to grow until that planet is full to bursting, and then it does, bursting a hole through the atmosphere and destroying everything on the planet until it's desolate. See what I'm getting at? Our planet has been alive for 4.55 billion years, and for about half of that, or less, life has created CO2. But since we have grown, and destroyed things that reduce it, including the exponential amount of exhaust that we release. Because of this, then the CO2 will reach this critical point, and rupturing the atmosphere, and this is w…

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  22. I've heard both physicists and non-physicists claim that quantum behavior is non-deterministic. As far as I can tell, there are two basic ways this can be argued: We have no deterministic explanation for certain quantum properties, therefore they're non-deterministic. This is an argument from incredulity, and therefore fallacious. That leaves us with: Certain quantum properties appear statistically random. Therefore we conclude they're non-deterministic. However, there is a fundamental assumption here which is wrong. That is: only a non-deterministic process can produce statistically random data. There is a mathematical counterexample to this: th…

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  23. Started by JohnB,

    This post and speculation is based on the result of my general knowledge and a logical thought process. I freely admit to a lack of anything but a basic ( and possibly wrong ) knowledge of gravitational theory. However, using these basics I came to some interesting logical conclusions. Please feel free to correct any mistakes you may find. I'm not putting this missive forward as a theory or even hypothesis, it is merely speculations with ( I think ) rather unusual conclusions. I'll begin with what I understand to be the basic ideas behind Gravitational Theory. 1. Gravity is the force resulting from the exchange of the theoretical/imaginary particles called "…

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  24. Started by foodchain,

    Now there is some debate as to the role of mutation in evolution as just for fun I thought I would start this to see what replies might exist. Lets take an organism, single celled for instance. When the environment is made negative in regards to its fitness the bacteria can go into a hypermutable stage in which mutation allows via population for genetic change to increase the organisms level of fitness. Now I know that this has not been tested for all life or for all bacteria for instance. One of the reasons I think that we can label it hypermutable is simply because the bacteria may not have as much of a genetic load as say a human being for instance, that far less g…

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  25. Started by asprung,

    The "Now" Theory of the Universe Arnold Sprung 3/17/07 "Now" is the moment between the past and the future; it is what we perceive without relying on recollection. The universe (including all matter and energy) only exists "now". Its past has disappeared into "now", and its future has not yet arrived. This does not mean that the universe has vanished, it, so to speak, rolls along with "now" changing as it does so. When we look at light and other signals from the universes past, we see them as they are "now", containing their history i.e. a collection of suggestive “nows”. We are not actually piercing into the past as if w…

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