Speculations

I ask this question because I met a kid from my school who is a street magician. He asked me to give him my dollar bill, he put his hands over it, and he made me put mine. Soon after there was my face on the bill and my signature. I still have the bill and I am tripped out. I just can't think of any way he could do that. He also took an empty beer can that was smashed. I watched the beer can straighten itself and fill with beer. This shit is crazy. I just want you scientists to explain this stuff to me.

As far as I can work out in my layman mind, If we could go forward in time to the point of 1 millisecond, there would be nothing, as time in effect, has not yet happened. There can be no future, because the now is the only time we can be in, if we could go back in time, we had already done it, as time cant be changed, you cant have 2 versions of the same piece of time.(There cant be 2 versions of 2nd oct 1960 @10.30 am), its just not possible. Does anybody agree????

First of all, just for the record, I am NOT a xenobiologist. Physcial Characteristics Chances are that a creature from a non-Earth like planet or from an ocean would have a psychology so vastly different from humans that the chances of common ground are so slim that I pretty much left my speculations to earth type planets. That being said.... Eggs and marsupals are pretty much precluded by the maturatin times required. In the case of eggs, tying the parents to some sort of nest also becomes non-viable and creates a distinct vulnerability. Cold blooded creatures are precluded by the temperature zone. Any planet where they could expand to a wide range would leave th…

The Australian government has highly advanced neurotechnology; it is currently being used by departments in the AFP. The technology enables them to have two way mental communications. They have had these capabilities for over a decade now and I have witnessed the misuse of the technology too many times. The technology is constantly being used to gather information by ears dropping on unsuspecting peoples thoughts, among other more serious acts. The purpose of this post is to generate discussion about how advanced technology is, along these lines, in the public arena.

Pure speculation as I walked home with my coffee, so don't think too much of it: Concept Device: A glass contianer is filled with a low density of a clear gas, two laser beams swivel on 2 axis much like the reader of a CD ROM. Laser one, is a simple coler/brightness beam. Laser two, is a higher powered ultraviolet beam (or infrared if you can get it to high enough energy, which may be a contraction with infrared by nature..I am not sure) Laser three, is another higher powered ultraviolet beam identical to laser two. Process: A 3D graphics system sends data for the 3D model to the base controller for the three lasers, which then target the poi…

Hey all, I have interest in this topic and I was hoping if the people at this forum could answer some questions. I have done some research online, but there is a lot of information so I may have missed the answers to my following questions: I guess the biggest question I have is what would be the most likely way we would intercept signals from another intelligent lifeform? Would it be with a radio telescope? would SETI be picking up on the broadcasts from alien television stations? how would this work? And if "Alien radio" is being broadcasted into space (like we are doing), how hard is it for SETI to pick up on it? How much of the sky and different frequ…

I just wanted to speculate a bit on the kind of dedication it takes to make 10,000 posts on an internet science forum. That kind of loyalty to the site and interest in the subject is pretty rare. And we're not talking about spammy kind of LOL=type posts. We're talking informative, knowledgeable, well-founded posts that have helped a great many people. I think that would be quite an accomplishment, don't you?

If we take 1 million monkeys and gave each of them a typewriter and they each type one word per minute, the chance of all of them combined typing one of Shakespeare's sonnet that consist of 300 words would take them 10 X 10^50 years <-that's 10 with 50 zeros behind it... "In a study published today in the journal Science, a team of researchers says the universe is between 11.2 billion and 20 billion years old." http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/age_universe_030103.html ..now the human DNA consist of 3 billion letters...how long do you think it took for it all to come about to form human life just by chance? Is 20 billion years really enough? http:/…

Explanations are paintings or drawings. If in the future we somehow lived inside a computer simulation where objects popped into existence from nowhere and then dissappeared or where we could walk on water if we said a magic formula and any other extravagant miraculous phenomena existed, then we would create a science and a description and explanations of cause and effect based on this. So the science or explanations (the causes and effects, the organizing principles etc.) would be a function of the universe we were observing. Change the rules of the universe and the science will change. Extrapolate this to the oddest and most creative combinations of phenomena we co…

An astronomical Conumdrum about the Outer Solar System: For some time astronomers have been finding new minor planets beyond Pluto, in the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt. Many of these objects have exhibited unusual properties, and anomalous orbital patterns. I favour the presence of a very massive planet lurking in the darkness beyond Pluto to explain this growing list of anomalies. Now, quite a few of the astronomers who actually hunt for these objects have noticed the pattern I’ve been arguing for. And they have hesitantly suggested something massive might be the cause of the strange behaviour of the newly-discovered minor planets. But, knowing how crazy that sounds t…

as an aside, how many people, in this forum and beyond, believe in aliens? it would be interesting if the statistics reveal that people believe both in God and aliens. i ask this because first contact with extraterrestrials could be deemed the final blow to the bible.

Hi, I found a site which verifies that modern physics is a total pseudoscience. Please see this site at http://www.physics.tar.hu address.

I don't know if this has come up before or whether its a good question at all. (e.g. I'm naive) Are humans born with a pre-programmed limit of intelligence (I use that word with latitude). E.g. - I've heard people say - Man, he's a genius. He must have been born with that brain. Does that mean you must be born with an exceptional brain to be very intelligent. You can't earn it. There is only a certain level which you can biologically/mentally attain. I would say, academically, I'm above average but there are people who are far clever than I am (who are the same age). Were these people born with a better brain or what. No matter how hard I try - I can't …

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How was the Universe created? When did it begin? Conventional wisdom has concluded the Universe must have come from somewhere, and the idea that it was ushered into being by some primordial nascent event appeals seductively to human intuition. The very process of thought is governed by the rules cause and effect, so historically it has been presumed by default that the physical presence of the cosmos began with an instance of 'creation'. The existence of nothing ostensibly requires no justification, so most popular theories of Universal origin begin with a primal void. At the beginning of time a transformation must have occurred which brought forth the material ma…

This was so hilarious I just had to share it. I love prudish douchebags who think SR/GR somehow condone moral relativism. http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/hutchison/050128

I am just a bit curious about the gills process in fish, they must do something like electrolysis to extract the O from the H2 in water, and I can only imagine that considering how long gilled creatures have existed and been evolving, that they must have some effeciency tricks that if applied, could make industrial H2 production easier, as least as it pertains to electrolysis. I don't mean bio-systems for extracting hydrogen from water, but anything they do that gives them an edge could probably be built mechanically into a system. Does anyone know if this has been looked into and, if fish are actually less effecient than our own current mechanical methods or a…

No doubt a lot of you already know about the supposed timetraveller 'John Titor'. I read a lot of stuff by people trying to disprove and show that he's hoax, but I haven't found anything especially convincing. These following predictions by John Titor were the most convincing and made me think he could be real: Plus he said there would be a woman president in 2008 (Condi Rice or Hillary?)... which would make sense for Condi, since she's an expert on Russia/USSR and John Titor predicted Russia would nuke USA in 2015... Anyone have anything that could prove him as a hoax? But please keep it simple... I don't want to go through a pile of links jus…

I was not sure where to put this topic. But since instincts are as much psychological as physical I thought this might be a good place. The idea came to me yesterday when I realized that there is no one size fits all when it comes to our instincts. There appears to be a buffer that allows for variety around an optimum. Let me just start with an example. If we look at the breathing instinct. This is the most important instinct since after about 7min without air, tragic results can occur in most people. Luckily, this instinct is done for us, unconsciously, to assure not too much tampering. Exercise, although beneficial to good breathing is not essential. Many people ca…

I assume the electron charge can be represented by a near-field which goes as (r^-1)e^-r, as opposed to an unexplained delta function singularity. Mathematically this is reasonable; indeed any potential or field quantity which goes at the origin as r^-2, or higher order, produces no residue to integration there. Charge density must rapidly fall off to nothing in the far; electric field must have the expected far field. Mathematically we are free to do this, as I show. Rather than interpret this as a 'monopole density', we can see it as a dielectric-like response from the vacuum. It is better to think of a neutral plasma of equal, massless species. Charge can thus b…

TOTAL FIELD THEORY The non-mathematical Reinstatement of Einstein's Presently Abandoned Unified Field theory. Copyright © 1959 thru 2005 by *Kent Benjamin Robertson (*Subedai Bahadur, etceteras. All rights reserved.) "It is evident that the popular conviction that a generalized field theory is unable to explain the problems of the discontinuous structure of matter and quantum mechanics rests upon prejudice." - Einstein, PHYSICS and REALITY “Everywhere, including the interior of ponderable bodies, the seat of the field is em…

I'm not sure if the unknown signal I discover could mind control, but at least it could control what you dream while you are asleep. It is wast of time and money if you don't know what have happened or changed when a paranormal is happenning. Some changes might be very slowly or quickly, or tiny, or most of the paranormal claims were happened transitorily. It might confuse you to make sure if it is caused by paranormal power. To test such phenomena indeed worthy all the skepticisms, and you might got nothing from research such phenomena. A ghostly phenomena distinctly happens everyday almost everytime around me , perhaps such phenomena is more valuable compared t…

If you've ever watched the core(whether it be for the pleasure of mocking it or because you were being tortured) you'll know about the metal/mineral/alloy called unobtanium. I think ive just found it. After my previous memory pen shattered i bought a new one about 20 mins ago. The packaging displays all the same characteristics of unobtanium as described by 'the core', when under stress it gets stronger, resistant to heat etc. etc. I tried scissors, they broke. i tried melting a corner off with my lighter, it didn't melt. i tried biting a corner off, i cut my tounge. i say we build tanks out of this stuff. P.S. i still haven't got the memory pen out.

Within the "legitimate" (research or academic ) institutional sciences, is there a field of inquiry devoted to the research of extraterrestrial involvement in the creation or evolution of the human species? If so, I'd appreciate it if someone could name it and direct me to related sites/sources. If not, I'd be curious to know the reasons, based on these thoughts: - We know that the age of our universe is between 11 and 20 billion years old. Plenty of time for other life forms to exist elsewhere in the universe, especially when considering the time it is believed that it took for life to evolve on planet Earth. - We know that, statistically, it is very likely …

This is a different discussion than the one being offered by 'the tree' on the universe being open or closed. I'd like to know if a cosmology is possible wherein there is an infinite manifold of regions coalescing or expanding, like we see in our galactic bubble structure. Think of yeasted bread dough or/and Swiss cheese. Thinking simply, if our region were approaching a wall-like attractor, couldn't we be accelerated before the beginning of collapse?