Speculations

Something occured to me while pondering the nature of wave-particle duality and it's effect on the "double-slit" experiment. Could the Universe have an intrinsic shape that is determined by the arrangement of physical matter inside it? Because the x2 slit experiment has been proven to work with single electrons, but only where there are 2 slits instead of one, could the very nature of there BEING a 2nd slit somehow alter the fabric of (I hate the word) "ether". Unfortunately my vocabulary is insufficient - but I'll try my best to explain my idea. Imagine the Universe having a "template" for wave shapes and interference patterns, so that waves will flow aro…

Before & After Field Physics: A Brief History Timeline of Electromagnetism (Re: Google. 'History of electromagnetism') Ancient times: amber rubbed with fur attracts bits of dust and hairs static electricity - spikes on cold, dry days, lightening lode stone compass 1600: English scientist, William Gilbert, publishes "De Magnete" 1700: Lectures and demonstrations given by various scientists using electricity to attract and entertain audiences 1747: Ben Franklin (1706-1790) two kinds of charges: positive and negative Like charges repel, unlike charges attract…

Okay, here’s a thought experiment… Imagine a machine that’s both universal constructor and destructor. An enormous portal that deconstructs anything that touches it, but in the process scans and builds a digital copy of. It simulates what it deconstructs/scans in realtime and the simulation can interact with the copy in the real world as if the two were joined pieces of the same physical object. For example, if you were to stick your hand into it, blood would flow from your arteries into the computer simulation, flow through the capelaries in your virtual hand, then the blood would be reconstructed and flow back into your real veins. Now, imagine that you stuck yo…

Unlike thermodynamicists who managed to camouflage inextricably their false fundamental principle (see the two references in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_thermal_and_statistical_physics ), Einstein was not so successful in camouflaging his. He did try indeed in Chapter 22 in his "Relativity" but still both the expression "The speed of light is constant, independent of..." and the value 300000 km/s remained popular. It is not difficult to see that the results of the theory of relativity fall into three categories: 1. Corollaries of the false principle of CONSTANCY of the speed of light (the c principle). Examples: symmetrical time dilation, symmetrical l…

My Mars Dillema or Imagination ? I am a dutch Student and new to these forums, and I have no degree of Astrology or Astronomy, but i'm no idiot and a lot has happend in my life. When I recently read something about Mars and that many people, also highly educated, think that the change of finding life on Mars, even today gets bigger with the months I started to get exited and wanted to know more about this beautiful "red" planet and the stories that surround it .. So me being the kind of guy that likes to know more and more about things, being kind of filosofical, I started to gather more information about Mars and I started to brainstorm a little. I was ve…

There has been lots of confusion as to why matter is dominant over anti-matter, but either I'm missing something - or the answer is pretty obvious... If one takes into account that anti-matter exhibits the same characteristics of matter that is going backwards in time, we can safely assume that this is because anti-matter IS matter than is going backwards through time (as proposed by someone who's name I forget) - because the Universe only has one time dimension, almost all matter is propelled forward through time, and therefore most matter is NOT going backwards through time, and is therefore NOT anti-matter. If there were two time dimensions then of course matte…

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp Yes folks, that's right, the strong force doesn't hold the atomic nucleus together, Jesus does. Anyone who says otherwise is advocating "a desperate theory to explain away truth"

" You can't de-evolve. Evolution cannot be planned. Merely influenced by selective pressures of the enviroment " Why can't u ? The Piramid was build a long time ago by people, if we look at it that way, smarter then us, Cause we can't even duplicate it. So go learn how to build it, and if you have, go build it, and then you have proven that you have evolutionized. But that hasn't happend has it ?? De-Evolution is here, We were all spirits, going tru time and dimension, knowing no evil and we are now "ugly" dumb humans. ( take this with a grain of salt ok ) Don't believe me, you will when it comes out that we are from Mars and humans already exists …

Why is it that ID proponents look at modern complexity of any of lifes attributes & say it could never have been arrived at by chance but had to have had a "designer " ( usually their God ) . They totally ignore the power of incremental gradualism over huge time periods in bringing about change . It was 3.5 billion years ago the prokayotes evolved ( after an large amount of time ) & then another billion or so before an eukaryotic cell became functional . All metazoa ; that is ALL , came much later . To me this says an eternity of time was there for experimentation with molecular combinations to sort themselves out & produce a functioning entity which could b…

I have a question. According to Einstein and his theory of Special Relativity, the laws of physics are the same in all references. What does this mean exactly. Does it mean that if we travel near the speed of light, life on our spaceship would go one as usual (with mass, distance and time relativity) such that if we conduct experiments they would yield the same results as someone on earth. Or does it mean that all the ions in our body, by going near C, will give off extreme magnetic fields so as to disrupt our bodies, such that the ions will behave by the laws of particle accelerator physics?

I was sitting on my balcony this morning, having a merry old chat with my flat mate. When all of a sudden, I had it. Can a vehicle be built out of organic materials (preferably still alive); given intelligence via genetic programming and/or molecular computers. Then given locomotion by the intelligence in said organic materials, (probably some kind of plant, built/grown to purpose). What is the most likely form of motion from an ordinarily stationary life form, i.e. a tree. Is it potential energy stored in curled limb/s around a central axis, to give forward motion to wheels within the structure of the vehicle. Or could energy be tapped from the plants own resour…

What if the evolution of man was planned? What if the very apes of our ancestry were merely conducting an experiment into evolution? Is it not possible that as conscious beings on the dawn of evolution, a portion of the ape race diverted from the tribe to breach more extreme habitats in search of a greater understanding. With not so much as a control variable we may have embarked on one of the strangest journeys possible, the journey to another species. Could returning to a "primitive" state be what scientists have sought since the discovery of the homo sapien/sapien. Are WE the missing link, merely on an elongated road to a higher intelligence and back? If we weren't…

I'm sure most UK residents will have seen the adverts for tissues that "kill 99 per cent of cold and flu viruses", what the hell are they basing this claim on?

In a very general sense men and women both lie for the needs of the other. Woman lie with physical illusions like makeup, hair, pushup bra, colors, etc., all of which are intended to create an illuison of enhanced beauty. Men like women to lie this way. Men would prefer natural beauty but the illusion works better than the reality of being natural average. Men, on the other hand, lie via verbal make-up, to create an illuison of enhanced personna. Women like men to lie this way. Women would prefer the weathy, ambitious, loving, etc., perfect man, but the illusion will work better than the reality of being average. Women often take advantage of male lying when t…

Okay, here it goes, the universe is like a giant video game, when you (as a representative of conscioussness in the struggle against that-which-is-not-consciousness-or-controlled-by-consciousness) get to the end and beat it it just starts over again. Essentially, the universe is made out of two things: evolution and chaos. Chaos represents a set of unsolved problems in the universe, and evolution represents the universal problem solver algorithm which appears out of nowhere yet is somehow intrinsic! Yikes, how do you rationalize that? I guess you just say it's a spontaneous emergence of self-replicating order given the natural chaotic movement of the chaos, which t…

Note: My F key isn't working very well so add an f where ever you think there should be one. When returning from university yesterday i noticed that the rate of No.36 buses going in the opposite direction was much greater than the number of buses heading in the direction i wanted. first:the bus timetable says there should be 4 buses per hour, although in reality, and not in an administrators office, it is more like 3. second: i get on the bus to the terminus which takes about 15 minutes so at most there should be 3 buses from the stop i get on at around the loop which then passes the same road only on the other side. third: no other routes go near this one until…

Here are my thoughts on the two most practical ways to bring about Singularity. This is building on ideas I've posted before. One route starts at BlueGene and takes the SAI route, the other starts at BlueBrain and takes the IA route. Scenario One: Commercial Wetware I have long been convinced that creating a marketable brain-computer interface is not only an inevitability, but is also the single most practical means to achieving Singularity. By wetware I am talking about a direct neural interface; a device which allows the brain to exchange abstract information directly with computer networks. Equipped with such a device, you would in effect have access to al…

hello could what we take for ghosts in some instances be infact recordings from the past? remember reading a long time ago about a house that some people said was haunted by a elderly woman, whom was sometimes scene in an upstairs window. two investigators decided to investigate not being believers or non-believers in the paranormal. what they found was there was indeed a elderly woman in the upstairs window, but it had nothing to do with ghosts. instead what they found was that the house had old glass windows that had a small amount of silver nitrate. as it turned out the elderly woman use to enjoy sitting at the window watching lighting storms, and condic…

This has been a rumored conversion from our current silicon technology in the near future on several sites and news groups. Scientists have recently been able to grow diamonds in labs at a rate of something like one carrot an hour, and with their supreme organised structure they are able to transfer heat very well (as far as I understand it) and this would allow immense amounts of data be transfered in milliseconds. In addition to diamond computing, others have said there have been advances in light technology, being able to slow or even stop light ( http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=458 ) and are able to transfer data on lightwaves. So, wi…

I got this in my email this morning, thought it was cute and want to share it with you guys N gals...... ********** Subject: Mid-term in Chemistry The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington Chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well. Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.…

EVIDENCE FOR THE EXPANSION OF THE LIGHT WAVES The ‘expansion of the light waves has real evidence for its support. Examples: The magnetic field patterns where the central portion is expanded by an ‘intrinsic force’ between the poles (similar monopoles?). This is also true of the electric field between its charges (by similar virtual charges mutual repulsion). The electric motor makes use of these intrinsic forces within the EM fields to generate the power for its use. The photons are primarily a compressed congregate of 'negatively charged virtual particles' that result from the magnetic pulses of radiation by the electron transitions. These magnetic puls…

CAUSE OF CMBR The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is portrayed as the clincher evidence to prove the credibility of the Big Bang Universe. The CMBR is portrayed as a perfect black body radiation curve. However, here I will provide a hypothesis that refutes the link between the CMBR and the BB. On page 266 of the Michael Zeilik book entitled ASTRONOMY, The Evolving Universe, sixth edition, is an illustration (figure 13.6) of the solar radiation curve as viewed outside our atmosphere in comparison to a black body radiation curve. I tried to locate a website with this illustration but cannot find one. Some others may have more luck. Notice that at the …

I wasn't sure if this should go in metaphysics, philosophy, or here. I chose here, because I am trying to speculate and understand more, from a scientific/physics friendly standpoint, the nature of consciousness and specifically potentially transference and duplication of an instance of conscious awareness. Some of the ideas that have been kicked around in other threads include the idea of achieving effective immortality by transferring yourself to a machine in a "Ghost in the Shell" fashion. While I think with the right technology you can tranfer a person's personality completely to a synthetic system, I am skeptical that the "consciousness" would be able to …

I had a few striking ideas hit my mind that led to putting together a massive puzzle. I know what you are thinking, that many amatures have said this kind of thing before aswell as probably PHD persons aswell. The catch is, I did not change any of equations that einstien has written or any of the scientist for that matter as far as I know. I beleive I have just only interpreted everything with more of on earth type of reality lookout. I beleive that there is 2 interpreations of 0. I think it can be negative and positive. now if you could use those mathimatical equations to project reality on a computer screen, a simple negative and positive out look of numbers would cau…

A thought experiment: Time is a tube and you are in the tube. You feel motivated to get out of the tube and you don't want to retrace your steps or move in circles. As luck would have it you have a well chewed wad of gum and a good sized ball of string. You use the gum to "stick the string to the wall" and march on down the tube till it seems to split in two. Still wanting to get the hell out of there, you figure it might pay to be consistent instead of wandering aimlessly, so if you choose left, you keep on choosing left and if you don't "cross your own string" am I right in surmising that you are moving in an outward spiral, and chosen the most likely way to get ou…