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The Speculations forum is provided for those who like to hypothesize new ideas in science. To enrich our discussions above the level of Wild Ass Guesswork (WAG) and give as much meaning as possible to such speculations, we do have some special rules to follow:

  1. 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.
  2. Be civil. As wrong as someone might be, there is no reason to insult them, and there's no reason to get angry if someone points out the flaws in your theory, either.
  3. Keep it in the Speculations forum. Don't try to use your pet theory to answer questions in the mainstream science forums, and don't hijack other threads to advertise your new theory.

The movement of a thread into (or out of) Speculations is ultimately at the discretion of moderators, and will be determined on a case by case basis.

  1. Started by Pinch Paxton,

    I have posted my example of how I would portray gravity. Here's a link. http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3164 It's very probably right, but I can't prove it.

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  2. When someone thinks of a solution that works with what they already know, does it cause it to be true? Does thought shape the universe? Or is this just a stupid idea :bs: ? What do you think?

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  3. Started by JaKiri,

    http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=90 VS http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3173

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  4. Started by fafalone,

    Just had to share this hilarious paradigm of pseudoscience with everyone: http://www.alexchiu.com/

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  5. Started by Pinch Paxton,

    Bored of the usual flat space picture? Well I am. This is how I believe that gravity works. We live in a liquid of strings...How hard to imagine? Well it is hard to imagine. My liquid is not visible, but its forces are creating gravity. It vibrates causing radiation in all directions. The peaks of this radiation push atoms outwards away from the peaks like surfers. The atoms gather together where the vibrations lessen. The atoms then pinch the liquid string like a finger pressed against a guitar string. Our planet is wrapped around the strings like a pearl, and it is trapping the vibrations, and stopping them. This causes things to gather here. Photons travel through the …

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  6. Started by aman,

    Since we can record brain activity with EEG and some day hope to interpret thoughts by specific patterns then it seems there is an external effect to thought electrically. All EM effects should be eternal since they are broadcast into space at light speed. Shouldn't some kind of encrypted form of every thought then be broadcast into space? Just aman

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  7. Started by danmoore80,

    If we evolved from a mucky soup some "billions" of years ago, and have since then continuted to evolve into homo sapien sapien, then why have they found skeleton remains of humans over 11' tall. Isn't this a little contradicting to the "theory" that we once were smaller, but now getting bigger? Also Evolution would have us believe that the earth has been here for "billions" of years. Do some research and find out how far the moon moves from the earth each year. Now that you have that figure, back the moon up and see just where it puts the moon in relation to the earth. Interesting. God Bless

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  8. Started by mooeypoo,

    While chatting innocently online (proud geeks like me do that often), I got this weird message: (21:31:51) —› fark.com: NASA doesn't want you to know about the alien skulls they've discovered on Mars (21:31:51) —› url: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/news/index.cfm?instanceid=60632 NOW. I know that tabloids rarely contain ANY kind of material that isn't completely BS *but* I also heard that any rumor has a tiny grain of truth. Not saying this si true (its one of the funniest things i've ever seen though, no doubt) I still would like to know if any of you knows what is the grain of truth in this one - or in other words, what is this article basing it's st…

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  9. Started by Anubis,

    This is cool, check out the vid. http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/2780356/detail.html?treets=bos&tml=bos_7am&ts=T&tmi=bos_7am_1_06000101212004

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  10. Guest Recusant
    Started by Guest Recusant,

    I was sitting down the other day, lazing in front of the tv when an Olay advert comes on and starts talking about "amino-peptide complexes" Now my knowledge of chemistry is purely A-level standard so maybe I've yet to learn a certain section of chemistry but if I recall correctly a peptide link is formed when two amino acids are condensed together! Now as a single amino acid, I could imagine it forming a zwitterion and becoming a dipole sufficient to form a ligand with a transition metal, but is it still even possible for a polypeptide to become a ligand? From my knowledge of chemistry so far it would appear claims of "amino-peptide complexes" are contradictory in at …

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  11. Started by Deckard,

    in the production of electricity between the fields is another field, were the electrons pass thru and become neither positive or negative they are neutral, the device we need is one that can measure the exact frequancy of the neutral field, does one exist or does anyone know if its possible to measure this field if so i would like to know if its possible to measure the EXACT int he millionths of degree's in exactness, is there anybody out there with knowledge of this field, if so please help me.

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  12. Started by Cap'n Refsmmat,

    What do you think of this? Nutty guy!

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  13. Started by eqino,

    i was just wondering where do scientist and other researchers get their ideas and inspirations from. when i mean inspiration ...its like a spark of idea ...... i read that there might be a higher consciousness at work . what do u think ...............is there a so called higher consciousness at work .?

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  14. Guest caTASHtrophe
    Started by Guest caTASHtrophe,

    Isn't it interesting how Face "skeptics," in their simplistic yet smug way, magically transform into psychologists when dealing with the artificiality issue? Espousing the "seeing faces in the clouds" explanation for the Face's 98% symmetry, wholly non-fractal (non-random) nature, and exquisite "facial" detail, has become the norm ever since astronomer-cum-psychologist Carl Sagan made it chic to do so early in the game. The fact is, before the MGS imagery came in, the Artificiality Hypothesis made specific predictions--the hallmark of the scientific method--that finer facial details would appear in high resolution images. Not things like "nose hairs" or "pimples" or …

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  15. Started by Sayonara,

    Thought I'd give this pseudoscience thingy a try. "Based on a complete lack of evidence to the contrary, I believe that the Nasca lines were built by giant squid for no apparent reason, and that the current proliferation of squid in our seas is incontravertible PROOF that they are coming back to do more of whatever it was they did. I have calculations but they're in mindSpeak__™ And the dog stole my research notes. But I know the reason I can't be wrong, so don't worry about that."

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  16. Started by YT2095,

    here`s an Idea I`ve been boucing around in my head for some time. "when it ALL ends" if you gather all the elctrons and put them into a pile and the same with neutron, protons, photons etc... all in their neat little piles and then try to make the most inert unreactive, non radioactive material you can think off and scatter it asunder throughout the space the universe ocupies, what can stop it being gravitationaly pulled back in again and blowing up? using the conservation of energy and matter theories, is it actualy possible that the "Universe" as we know it and all the particles within it will NEVER cease? the though reminded me a little from the "perpetual mo…

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  17. Started by Sayonara,

    The asteroid that supposedly killed the dinosaurs did not actually hit the earth - it passed within a few meters of the surface and was pulled around the earth in a gravity slingshot type motion. On its way the null-G field created by the lack of spin between the asteroid and the earth pulled the dinosaurs off the planet and they were carried off into space with it. The asteroid finally landed on Nibiru - the 10th planet, where the Dinosaurs and the Ancients have enjoyed a long and fruitful joint exisitence, frolicking and gambolling through the long cold nights. In 2003 Nibiru will swing by Earth, and the dinosaurs will return by space taxi at the point where…

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  18. Started by Sayonara,

    Point scoring table for Pseudo-scientists 1. A -5 point starting credit. 2. 1 point for every statement that is widely agreed on to be false. 3. 2 points for every statement that is clearly vacuous. 4. 3 points for every statement that is logically inconsistent. 5. 5 points for each such statement that is adhered to despite careful correction. 6. 5 points for using a thought experiment that contradicts the results of a widely accepted real experiment. 7. 5 points for each word in all capital letters (except for those with defective keyboards). 8. 5 points for each mention of "Einstein", "Hawking" or "Feynman". 9. 10 points for each claim that quantum mechanics is…

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  19. Started by aman,

    I watched a PBS special that showed a lot of ancient South American pottery with dinosaur depictions and shapes. Then I saw a Science Channel program that showed a Diplodocus had a stomach that could carry 50 30gal wine barrels. The stomach was filled with highly effecient bacteria which could process tons of vegetation per day. That made me wonder if a dinosaur walked into a campsite and burped or God forbid farted near a campfire the results could be catastrophic. The start of a legend? Just aman

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  20. Started by blike,

    You are fortunate. I give this knowledge to you for free. The earth is flat, all evidence that says otherwise is trash because it would contradict my hypothesis. Also, all peer-reviewed journals are wrong because it is just a meal ticket. I have been kicked out of school and professors don't like to talk to me because my evidences for a flat earth are so strong. Please visit my webpage and make intelligent comments. http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/FlatWhyFlat.htm

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  21. Started by YT2095,

    Ok, this is NOT meant to be taken seriously at all, so I stuck it in here from the Micro to the macro, nature seems to replicate certain patterns, whether it`s the fractal patern in a snowflake or the leaves of some plants (a Fern). our own solar system is remarkably like the pattern shown in an Atom. (here`s the crazy part ) could it be possible that if we had a powerfull enough microscope and took a lokk at one of these electrons that we`de see Cities and people and cars and stuff? it also raises the question when in the bible it says quite clearly that man was created in God`s own image! now that can be taken many ways. here`s one way (the caps are impo…

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  22. Started by rahul_rudani,

    Is it really true that a person has 6th sense ??? Is the person able to know what is going to happen in the future ??? I have watched some movies involving 6th sense. One of them was "final destination" that had a guy who can predict what is going to happen next. I don't believe it, but I need your opinion of what you guys think. :feedback:

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  23. Started by blike,

    http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/JUPFULLx.htm and http://www.yowusa.com/Archive/Sep2003/Jupiter_attack/jupiter_attack.htm

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  24. Started by Peter Dunn,

    What would Sir Isaac Newton, or, for that matter, Albert Einstein, have made of the recent disturbing cosmological discoveries that have required the introduction of the concepts of dark matter and dark energy into scientific nomenclature? They were both, after all, classical theorists and deeply religious men whom believed in a benign creator that had provided: for mankind, a chronographically ordered Universe that would exist forever. So how then, would their exquisitely ordered intellects have coped with the apocalyptic images: provided by the Hubble space telescope and other observational tools, of entire galaxies cart wheeling through one another or of jet galaxies…

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  25. Started by timokay,

    Consider a complicated system with a fault which cannot be located nor studied directly. How can the fault be located and corrected? The more complicated a system is, the more effects it often produces as a result of the fault. Also, the more effects there are, the more accurately the fault in the system can be targeted. So, ironically, the fault in a very complicated system can be better targeted than a fault in a less complicated system. Consider a sick person as being that complicated system with a fault (disease). If a substance can be found which produces effects (symptoms) in a healthy person which are identical to the symptoms produced by the sick …

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