Speculations

Hello. I'm new to these forums, which I stumbled upon a few months ago. Firstly, though I understand a lot more than perhaps I need to, I am only fifteen, and I'm not exactly an expert in physics, etc, so please don't yell at me. Right, anyways, I am writing a science fiction novel. I doubt it will ever be published; I'm not self delusional (is that what I mean?) and I know that the chances are slim to get it published. Still, I want to write it. I was reading Saga of Seven Suns, and I wanted to write whilst staying much truer to real science (Saga isn't bad, but such things as Star Trek, Star Wars and stuff are quite painful) I wanted to see what anybody tho…

http://www.globalorgasm.org/ I found this website hilarious. And, they seem dead serious about the science parts too.

i'm a huge believer of the hollow earth theory. The British astronomer Edmund Halley, of comet fame, proposed that the earth might consist of several concentric spheres placed inside one another in the manner of a Chinese box puzzle. The two inner shells had diameters comparable to Mars and Venus, while the solid inner core was as big as the planet Mercury. More startling was Halley's proposal that each of these inner spheres might support life. They were supposed to be bathed in perpetual light created by a luminous atmosphere. When there was an unusually bright display of aurora borealis, Halley postulated that it might have been caused by glowing gas escaping from the…

Like I mentioned in the 1st FUN WITH SCIENCE, we can have a lot of fun with most of the fields of science as long as we don’t get carried away and take it too seriously. Most people do take it too seriously. When I start one of these, I don’t know if the fun we will have is funny HaHa or funny peculiar. Does it really matter? In many of the sciences, most of the advances are theoretical. Of course, if it’s your theory that gets made fun of, you could get a little bent out of shape. This time, let’s have a little fun with mathematics. It’s about time I get back at math because, it had it’s fun with me in my younger days. I was pretty good at it then but now, anything…

We can have a lot of fun with most of the fields of science as long as we don’t get carried away and take it too seriously. Most people do take it too seriously. In many of the sciences, most of the advances are theoretical. Of course, if it’s your theory that gets made fun of, you could get a little bent out of shape. We could start with something in physics. Even that name can start me chuckling. Let’s pick on gravity. It’s responsible for things like weight and m’ass. You’ve gotta laugh at something that is pronounced m’cu in French. Now that we’ve selected a part of science, we should get to know what we’re talking about. To be absolutely frank, gravit…

taken from Newscientist.com: Humans are undoubtedly the most dominant species the Earth has ever known. In just a few thousand years we have swallowed up more than a third of the planet's land for our cities, farmland and pastures. By some estimates, we now commandeer 40 per cent of all its productivity. And we're leaving quite a mess behind: ploughed-up prairies, razed forests, drained aquifers, nuclear waste, chemical pollution, invasive species, mass extinctions and now the looming spectre of climate change. If they could, the other species we share Earth with would surely vote us off the planet. “15,589 Number of species threatened with extinction” Now just s…

Ever heard of it? Here's a link to the theory by Stuart Hameroff: http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/overview.html I want to understand this better because it seems like a few paradoxes might fall out of this. For example, Hameroff says "As qubits in the brain Penrose suggested superpositions of neurons both firing and not firing." If neurons can be in states of superposition, firing and not firing at the same time, then where does that leave the classical notion of neurons firing in response to stimulation by other neurons? Everything we know about neuroscience would have to be turned on its head! Is anyone an "expert" or QC - or even just know a few thin…

Okay for a second lets assume that there is intelligent life out there in the Universe besides us (if you count us), and these aliens want to investigate our planet for some odd reason. Such a visitation would be the cliche "Most significant event in human history." However, how would we be able to tell this event from every other UFO that turned out to be a mistake, or an aircaraft, or a hoax, or was discredited because of the involvement of conspiracy theorists?

CONSIOUSNESS BEYOND QUARKS & STRINGS By Richard D. Oxstien In the beginning there was the cosmic conscious (God, Allah, nature, science, it has been called many things). The cosmic conscious thought & created tiops (thought induced oscillation particles). Tiops are the most basic unit of existence; they are formed by creative thought and make up what we think of as reality. They are not affected by time, space, weak forces, strong forces, gravitons or any other power known. They are infinite and timeless and therefore beyond the understanding of current science and mathematics. Tiops, or rather the collective tiops of consciousness created all…

My son has Autism. There is a good-sized medical community in my town including a major medical center. None of the local doctors had a clue as to what causes Autism or how to treat it. We found a doctor in Florida who is a leading Autism expert. My son has shown tremendous improvement from his treatment. It turns out that the causes of Autism are known and validated through medical research but mainstream medicine will not acknowledge this. There are many reasons among them are; medical insurance does not want to cover treatment, the government does not want to treat medical card recipients, the vaccine manufacturers do not want the liability and profitability…

Man is different from other life on this planet, is it possible that man is only part from this planet??????

There is an old narrow road between my neighborhood and the main road. The road is surrounded by trees, and has many curves. The road is about 2 miles long, and is very dark at night because there are no houses around until you enter the neighborhood. Anyway, there are many legends and myths about the road. Different people have claimed that the road is haunted. Lots of people talk about a mysterious fog that appears on certain nights, and some people have even claimed to have seen ghosts. A school teacher who lives in my neighborhood claims that she saw a ghost on that road. She said she was driving home late one night, and a very thick layer of fog suddenly…

Could anyone explain this? See attachement Time dilation.doc

If 1000w is enough power to generate 170 litres/hour of hydrogen from saline water and the UK has a power production capacity of 77.4GW how quickly could we blow the world up? Sure it would be a lot easier to release our arsenal of warheads but thats boring. I reckon if we put the wires in the channel near france, within the hour we'd have something like 131 580 000 000 litres of hydrogen to play with. How much explosive power is this? Standby buttons alone probably account for enough to wipe out london.

I'm having a hard time understanding the multiverse theory. I thought I read some time ago, that the universe as we know it is like two plates moving away from each other, or expanding, set in motion by the big bang...and that they eventually come back together, singularity, and then big bang again..and so on. Now when I look up information on it, I see no mention of that part. Just dimensions. I'm wondering if this "expansion" and eventual "collapse" happen at different momentums, creating differences in physics and time. I would think the speed at which the plates move apart and come back together would have an impact on the vacuum within it. Is that tru…

If a nonhuman intelligence were to domesticate people would they make good pets? It seems that less intelligent animals fish dogs and cats make much better pets than more intelligent animals like parrots and monkeys. It seems that more intelligent animals have more elaborate needs and capacity for trouble.

A short while ago, in responding to another thread, I constructed a spacetime diagram and formula for the radial Doppler shift of a superluminal object. This v > c diagram mirrors two similar but entirely conventional v < c diagrams found in the text ‘Introducing Einstein’s Relativity’ by Ray D’Inverno. This diagram differs from that required for v < c in that here the photon reflected at event P crosses the t axis a period T before the path of the second inertial frame, rather than after it. The result is the inverse of the usual term for v in terms of k, and the value for k will be real only if |v| > 1, as required. How does this rela…

Hello What does Esp = Hsp mean? Simply is what some people take for extra sensory perseption actually hyper sensory perception. People are born with different abilities of sight or hearing, or even emotional perception. But usually within a range. But what if the person has heighten senses, as an example better hearing or a broader spectrum of sight than is normally found. Not extra senses, but just more of that sense than the top of the normal range. such as they would heard sounds others could not, sounds that they would react to long before you or I would with normal hearing. To others it would appear as though they are somehow knowing a…

As much as I would like to believe this is true, I call bullshit: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/09/05/telepathy.reut/index.html?section=cnn_topstories

I can't remember whether I harvested this link from these forums or elsewhere, but no matter. Here it is again. http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1 And the introductory paragraph What this article really got me wondering about was the nature of a so-called software based human, and it's on this aspect that I would like to focus. For myself, and based on no research at all, I find the idea that we will reach a sudden and dramatic turning point to be dubious at best, melodramatic at worst. I can think of no sudden and dramatic turning points in human history where the world's population was fundamentally different, pyschological…

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4848668803639628771&sourceid=zeitgeist That's right folks... mankind was the first simian, existing long before any of the others, and they've found all sorts of fossil evidence proving that man existed over 100 million years ago! EDIT: removed remark, Bascule wanting this to be posted in pseudoscience

Everything you've ever heard about AIDS is a lie!

This is one of the most stupid and obnoxious claims of 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Watch this video. It was uploaded by a conspiracy theorist: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4389019269529461803 I guess I should briefly point out how crookedly the building collapses on top. This certainly doesn't look anything like any controlled demolition I've ever seen: But all that aside: Look at the debris from the collapse. It's falling much, much faster than the rate at which the building collapses. (the video provides a much better illustration) And there you have it... simple as that.

Irish company Steorn has issued a challenge to physicists. They make three claims; 1. The technology has a coefficient of performance greater than 100%. 2. The operation of the technology (i.e. the creation of energy) is not derived from the degradation of its component parts. 3. There is no identifiable environmental source of the energy (as might be witnessed by a cooling of ambient air temperature). I can't seem to find much about them on the web, but they seem very sure of themselves. Do any of our English members know anything about them? As the company is a cosponsor of awards with the Dublin Institute of Technology, it doesn't look like they are w…

A superorganism to be precise. Just like the way all individual ants working as a single unit can be described as superorganism, the earth is too Lets call this organism Gaia, just for the fun of it. Think about it, the earth is self-regulating in a homeostatic feedback loop (<-- I can just see bascule getting all hot and bothered right now ), and even with some degree of will and complex intelligence. For instance: The mean temperature of the earth, even before people had the capacity to affect the climate, has been relatively constant, when it should be unintelligently drifting between extremes of hot and cold every year. Theres no real necessary reason why…