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  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.
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  1. Started by Moontanman,

    These "artifacts" have been found in coal seams and other places and seem to suggest a civilization well before humans on this planet. Here is an example. https://www.booksfact.com/archeology/300-million-years-old-cast-iron-cup-oklahoma.html Obviously pseudo science aficionados are attracted to these objects but I have an odd piece of coal I've been carrying around from place to place for many years. Ita rectangle about 16" long and 8" wide. The proportions are so close to perfect no diciations from being made of square angles can be distinguished, the edges are rounded off some but the faces are spot on for a man object but it's made of coal and I found it …

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  2. I'm looking for critiques and potentially someone reputable that's capable of doing the math to make it publishable. I'm not a physicist but have reason to believe that I'm correct.

  3. So there are two brains with the same consciousness frequency, one is awake and the other one is asleep. What does the person perceive?

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  4. Started by Rift Zone,

    We got black holes from Relativity; it was Carl Schwarzschild’s solutions of Relativity that gave us black holes. Let’s step back from what Relativity says for a moment to recognize what Relativity is. Einstein’s Relativity was born of Galileo’s Relativity (better articulated by Newton… -that there are no privileged inertial frames of reference) mixed with the “constancy of light speed” (-that all observers measure light to move at the same speed irrespective of relative motion); Lorentz transformations already existed at the time, the real innovation of Relativity was taking all observations seriously, making time and space malleable whereas in Newtonian Physics …

  5. Started by Hans de Vries,

    If I breed cats in a pressurized chamber containing more oxygen than usual, will they grow larger? I am planning on breeding the 1st generation on 23% oxygen, 2nd one in 25% etc

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  6. Since I am a Russian ufologist and at the same time a physicist, I can explain a little on this issue. From the stories of those people who were taken to UFOs and told about their propulsion drives and power devices. From their stories follows the following: Aliens get their energy from ionized radiation in outer space, that is, from cosmic radiation. UFOs are equipped with special devices that collect cosmic radiation and convert it into electricity. Something similar to our solar panels on Earth, only they collect ionizing radiation. After that, they either charge their batteries or direct electricity to the ship's propulsion system for moving in space. 😉

  7. Started by BeyondFar,

    Photons and electromagnetic waves.pdf

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  8. Started by moth,

    If you could make a "u" shape wormhole and mount it so both ends of the wormhole are side by side at one end of a tube, and then accelerate a mass from the other end of the tube through the wormhole so it comes right back to where it started... Does conservation of momentum still hold? When the projectile is launched, the tube gets accelerated opposite the projectile, and when the projectile lands the tube gets accelerated in the same direction as the projectile so all the forces act together to accelerate the tube without reaction mass. Or...

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  9. Hi everybody! What is the cause of vibration on the above system (isolated), from the moment there are no external forces?

  10. So I traced the D1 loop back to its origin, which is the substantia nigra connecting to the reticular formation(brainstem) of the midbrain all the way down to the medulla oblongata region. Why is reticular formation interesting? Because it governs all the reflex action such as breathing, heart beat, consciousness, and sneezing. The way it generates consciousness is it provides dopaminergic signal to the striaum through the substantia nigra of the D1 loop(how I trace it back to reticular formation) and provides a constant beat of signal. My question: How are the nuclei(group of neurons) in the reticular formation capable of providing(generating) a precise signal …

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  11. I think EmDrive is really a foney. But there are real developments that can get propulsive force in a non-reactive way. The problem is that the effects that these developments showed are difficult to explain from the point of view of ordinary classical physics. We still know very little about Nature and therefore can't know which side bread is buttered. 😉

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  12. How do you feel about such a model that matter has a wave nature? If it's normal, then I can give you a interesting scientific stuff that tells you about the mechanism of motion from the point of view of wave processes at the atomic level of matter. 😉

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  13. Started by IDNeon,

    I don't know where to post this but physics is most popular and these batteries are "high powered". I don't think they are theoretical either. I think they are highly classified and I'll save you the story but I think someone in a lecture on deep sea submarines accidentally revealed their existence. Their words "...and two, one-twelve element batteries..." was casually stated in listing off the specifications of a declassified briefing on a specific Russian submarine. This got me thinking what was meant. I'll spare the research and give you the conclusions. I'd love to see others help reverse-engineer this hypothesis further. Tl;Dr- 291Cn …

  14. Started by SergUpstart,

    Why not use the left isomer of sugar in the production of sweet soda. It seems like it is also sweet, but it is not absorbed by the body and therefore should not lead to obesity and type 2 diabetes and should not harm the liver as saccharin. Of course, the security would have to be thoroughly checked.

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  15. Quote from beecee : "The speed of light is a constant and always travels at "c"." [ End of Quote ] This statement has experientially proven to be incorrect. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Quote from beecee : " Space and time are both variable quantities and two opposite sides of the same coin, so to speak...without space, there is no time, without time, there is no space." [ End of quote ] It is not so. We cannot categorically asseverate that without space , for example , there's no time. Refer to Bergson's detailed discussion of the issue of time. Nor may we be absolutely certain that …

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  16. Hello for H0=67.66 km/s/Mpc i.e. tH = 4.5606*1017s, and ΩΛ = 0.68694 we have: ρc,tH = 3 / (8 π G tH2) = 8.5988 * 10-27 kg/m3. - by dimensional analysis, looking for the value of the cosmological constant Λ of dimension m-2 and with a mixture of relativity, deterministic Planck units we have: Λ = 8π ΩΛ ρc,tH lp / mp = 1.1026 * 10-52 m-2. [math]\Lambda = 8 \pi \Omega_{\Lambda} \rho_{c,t_H} \frac{l_p}{m_p}=1.1026 *10^{-52} m^{-2}[/math] - This is exactly the value of the cosmological constant of the ΛCDM model. The formula of the density of the" quantum vacuum" at our time tH0, seems to correspond to the formula of the density of the q…

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  17. I created a unified theory of our social world (from my own training and discoveries) in what I call The Laws of Social Fabrics, which represent our biological instincts (principles of survival) as well as who are consciously in spacetime. Each law is listed in order, from our most crucial survival mechanism: the 1st law, to our most complex social behavior: the 5th law. In addition, these laws are hierarchical in nature and represent the human psyche: the id, ego, and super-ego. They are classified in order from simplicity to complexity. Please see information below graphic. Spoiler The Laws of Social Fabrics (a Unified theory of o…

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  18. Started by StickySid,

    apologies for the bold - can't undo it... (fixed by mod) We’ve known for a while that something fundamental is wrong with our standard model. We’ve got the basics right and are making incredible advances in the atomic and quantum departments but something's not quite right; things just don’t add up. What if our fundamental premise about our universe is flawed - our ‘creation’ story? What if, before the instant of the ‘beginning’ of our universe, rather than nothing there was everything? What if all matter and anti-matter already existed in a stable homogenous state… impossible I hear you cry, but hear me out - let’s call it a matrix. An unimaginably infin…

  19. Started by hoola,

    if dark energy has more than one energy level, it would have a tendency to congregate the lower energy points of space to areas embedded within the overall field of predominant higher energy. The higher positive forces of that field would congregate the lower energies, making those regions attractive to matter as it is carried along with the gradient of higher energy to lower. This could mimic the appearance of dark matter, and it not be a particle, but simply areas of "weak space". If this model has any validity, a possible test of what might be to do a long term casimir experiment, in that, if a region of "dark matter" goes through the test apparatus, the casimir forc…

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  20. The magnetic force is the illusive 6th force of nature that the physicists have been searching for, they just don't know it yet. It is the unifying force that connects gravity and all of the other forces.

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  21. Started by Bill McC,

    Hello, fellow science lovers! I was just rather shocked when I went to look for the current scientific method procedures. I have had arguments on science forums for decades, and I had assumed everyone was discussing the same scientific method. I had presumed because of the outcomes of specific experiments that they were applying it incorrectly or were disingenuous in their results. However, after a thorough search of the internet, I found that the current scientific method is missing a much-needed procedure to ensure 99.99 percent accuracy. In fact, without this one line of code, I am pretty sure that I could round up some scientists to sign off on my experiment and …

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  22. According to classical mechanics for a force to lift a mass it should be slightly greater than its weight . My hypothesis is that a human body can lift itself by a force far less than its weight . It is obvious phenomenon that when lifting an object of 60 kg up , it would be extremely hard than lifting one's body " 60 kg" .while standing. This applied to many phenomenon .A body will seem to have inertia far less than its actual mass inertia , moving and walking effortlessly , standing effortlessly , lifting one's body parts easily. In this special case the Newtonian equations doesn't apply , however we could measure the ratio between the force lif…

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  23. Started by hu??,

    Some years ago i reasoned that the gravitational field must have a negative energy content. Apparently that was not a very original though. I was also speculating whether the total energy (gravitational energy + the mass_energy it originates from) would be negative, equal to zero, or positive. My guess was that it must zero but i did not know how to make a logic argument for that, let alone make calculation with that. The best answer that i could find was that is was arbitrary, but lately i stumbled upon a lecture of Lawrence Krauss in which he also reasons that the total energy must be zero (although interesting, that is not what i wanted to discuss here. He also wrote…

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  24. I dispute the experiment to prove the light bends because of gravity. I believe that the bending of light near a heavenly body is due to the ramping pressure and density gas around any heavenly body. If you could take the gas away and match the ambient pressure of deep space, near the heavenly body there would be no refraction of light. My views of how light is transmitted goes against all current teachings but was taught many decades ago here on Long Island, N.Y. but I do not want to get into trouble my first day.

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  25. Started by hoola,

    Since gravitational lensing occurs with large things such as galaxies, could black holes serve the same function? If, near the event horizon with it's high gravitational gradient, would a sharp focus of light rays occur at certain distances from the event horizon? Too far away and the gradient decreases. Too close to the black hole and the information is lost, so a precise distance vs. gravitational gradient point might give a clear image to a distant observer from something far away from it. Any observation would almost certainly be positioned at an angle to the normal lensed image shallow angle caused by a galaxy or other large object. This angle could be quite high, a…

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