Speculations
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- Speculations must be backed up by evidence or some sort of proof. If your speculation is untestable, or you don't give us evidence (or a prediction that is testable), your thread will be moved to the Trash Can. If you expect any scientific input, you need to provide a case that science can measure.
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How precious (in your opinion) do you think you opinions would be if a situation arose where they did nothing to help and actually held you back?
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I have achieved the first part of a paper in which my ideas of polarization of the vacuum lead to a new understanding of General Relativity. It is not yet sufficiently finished to post at my URL but people may e-mail me for PDF.
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What is a photon? For several years I have been developing an alternative interpretation of particle experiments. The attachment deals with that part of my proposed Constant Linear Force model that may answer your question.
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Interesting thread. And here i come with my theory of the "radiant" future. I decided to post it here and not make a new thread, because it's just an idea. I'm obsessed with the idea that the future "radiates" and acts like a magnet. It either pulls or pushes events. But i'm stuck. I don't know where to go from there.
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I've always thought of the soul as an electrical signature. With death comes the termination of electrical activity in our bodies. What I've been trying to figure out then, is what would happen to your electrical self, if that is true. Would it be that without an organic interface into this temporal existence that we would no longer be traveling through time? And neither through space? Could we all then exist with other "souls" in the same reference frame, regardless of when we died? Or would we just blend in with the rest of electromagnetic energy? combined with others as a collective? Or something else...?
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Well the title of the thread is rather misleading, but I feel like churning out some pseudotwoddle just because A. I hanv't churned out any pseudotwoddle for a while and B. I feel like it. I'm going to use an example from a book by David Bohm (Wholeness and the Implicate Order), where he uses Aristolean logic and then extends on the idea by combining two attributes i.e thought [math]T[/math] and no thought [math]NT[/math]. I will then erroneously tie it with the consistent histories theory, which to be perfectly honest I don't really understand, but I've got a hunch of what it entails. So thought, doesn't require any explanation, No thought would be anything outsi…
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Amateur needs help: http://pdg.lbl.gov/2006/listings/b061.pdf gives πN→πN and πN→Nπ What is the difference between πN and Nπ. (n=pi)
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The theory of Stephen J.Gold of the pointed equilibrium, Darwin’s theory of the natural selection and finally Jung’s sincronicity, all have a sole common denominator: the extreme mathematical improbability of acasual events which characterize them. Human intelligence does not completely follow the entropy principle, it actually constantly evolves towards a state of higher order; obviously I do not refer to the intelligence of each single human being and thus to the brief useful time span (which can be exploited with difficulty) as defined by his life, which has no way of increasing itself, but I refer to the intelligence of the entire human species. At this point, it …
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MONEY EXPLAINED 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 th…
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I want to discuss this concept amongst this community. This concept attempts to take relativity that of special relativity to the next step. Please bare with me this time. When Einstien suggested to look at the world without absolute space-time it seemed rediculous to comman sense of newtonian observation. I want to express taking Einstiens space-time and move it to the next rediclous stage to our common sense. Allow me to intro with this. This greatly gives you the perspetive all this is going after. You can detect what is inside your point of observation, then make a perception of what is outside your point of observatoin based on those detections, b…
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http://zanket.home.att.net/ This guy claims to have found a small flaw in GR with the way escape velocity is described. I'm usually very skeptical about this sort of thing, and while I am of course still skeptical, all his math seems to be in order, and he claims that the expirimental evidence for General Relativity with regard to the Schwarzschild metric is valid for his idea as well. To summarize, He is basically claiming that escape velocity at a certain radius is described in the same way by both Newtonian physics and General Relativity, when it should be described relativistically in GR. The implications of this are that Escape velocity never meets or exceeds c, …
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see, Christos A. Tsolkas
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Scientific, logical or practical use of supernatural matters Stuff like "soul" or "praying" may not sound very scientific, but it may bear potential value. Praying is commonly understood as worshipping a superior being, but it also is a form of meditation which can help you relax and focus your mind to achieve better physical performance. The body is said to lose about 21 grams immediately after decease. The soul may be something intangible and unknown, yet contain explanations for various phenomena in the universe. What (theoretical) types of matter are there? I'm looking for a term that describes a theoretical unknown matter, something like "x-matter"…
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Is a psedoscientist someone who is too eager to believe, someone who is too eager to dismiss, or both?
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The original thread on the discussion of this theory in developement is located at this link. http://forums.hypography.com/physics-mathematics/9110-special-relativity-alternatives.html NOTE: -This theory has support from actual experimental evidence. -It is 100% testable, and the test aparattus is explained if you scrolll through -The last section shows a comparison chart between this theory and current special relativity, so you can see just how similar they are. -This is not an attack on any theory; it only brings up possible faults and explains the alternative if it were proved and accepted. The entire process of the theory will be located below. …
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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…
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http://www.globalorgasm.org/ I found this website hilarious. And, they seem dead serious about the science parts too.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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?
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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…
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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…
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