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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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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 …

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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…

  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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 …

  12. 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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  13. 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…

  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. What if Mars was somehow made as habitable as the Earth and a group of humans was transported to it in 50,000 BC? Is 50,000 years from now until the present day long enough time for significant anatomical differences to evolve? What could they be?

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  17. What do you think about this post from reddit conspiracy from october 2016: https://archive.is/uhMtg ?Guy there claims that something special will occur 3 years and 3 months later (January 2020), and it will be thing that will change our lives. You say the event around 2020 will change the world in hours or minutesNot exactly, around 2020 an event will happen that will change the way we live. In my research this doesn't seem to be the event that will change our lives in minutes or hours. I don't see that coming until a bit later.Just let me say, up until a event that cosmological, everything that you see go on, on a major scale no matter the cost of human …

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  18. I made this analogy in the above thread, but I feel it hasn't adequately been addressed. I have since invoked the things social sciences have gotten wrong as a case against them, but such points have been dismissed out of hand. Quite frankly, I feel like it's a valid analogy. I'd like to add... if an undergraduate degree in sociology doesn't make you as employable as an undergraduate degree in engineering, doesn't that reflect poorly on either the service sociology is willing to offer, or on the customers' willingness to pay for "expert" opinions on it?

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  19. Well, a few questions I am in concern of. 1. You guys do not know where the seat of consciousness is.(possibly in the caudate nucleus) 2. You guys do not know where to modify the consciousness frequency.(possibly in the midbrain region) 3. You guys do not know how to modify the memory.(optogenetics) 4. You guys do not know how to build an empty vessel.(progesterone) 5. You guys do not know how to keep an empty vessel.(animate the body with an AI). And you guys are counting on a molecular transformer to do the job.

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  20. What happens when you replace a fertilized egg with a stem cell or skin cell?

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  21. So i've been arguing with someone on ResearchGate regarding Special Relativity and other caveats related to his own pet Aether theory. He is, as many of these non-mainstream critics of Special Relativity are, a big fan of specific interferometer results from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century as he supports his theory on the back of a re-analysis of previous results. He claims that any vacuum interferometer will give a null result and that interferometers with a medium for the light beams would then give a non-null result. Something that was analyzed in this paper here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0205070.pdf. I'm curious about what your perspectives on it a…

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  22. I am curious about this thread because I want to do ultrasound in nanometer resolution. I speculate that you can unlock all pathways and receptors with nanometer resolution. And from the math it seems a 10GHz ultrasound would do? Keep in mind I am a noob at ultrasound and I am not quite sure how tranducer(ultrasound producing device) works or if you can create a sound of that wavelength. Let me know, thanks. So the question is: 1. I want nanometer resolution of the tissue, if I can see DNA, sure. 2. Has a 10GHz/Tetrahertz ultrasound been done before with nanometer resolution? Let me know

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  23. Started by fredreload,

    As the term suggests, molecule is a combination of more than one atoms through bonds. This makes this concept a bit easier to approach, because you are not transforming the elements of an atom like giving an extra neutron or proton into the atom's nucleus which is a whole different complexity. For transforming the molecules, I would say breaking apart the bonds of the atoms an reconfigure it to your needs. For example I got a tank of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen each. I put these atoms in the precise order and I got myself a hamburger on a plate in an empty space. That is how a molecular transformer should work, where you arrange atoms in precise orders to generate what …

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  24. For years I'd been unsatisfied with the mainstream medical explanations of type 1 diabetes. Viruses cause it? Okay, which viruses, and why do they give people in some places type 1 diabetes at higher rates than others? I'd come across some theories that the ingestion of cow's milk and messing up the human immune system, and concern that both the dairy industry AND pharmaceutical industry have a mutual (between them, not for the rest of us) interest in keeping it covered up; the former to keep their cows, the latter to keep their cash cows. It's not accepted by the mainstream media, but I've been going for almond/soy/coconut based alternatives to dairy ever since. …

  25. Good Morning! Considering the Universe in a state of maximum contraction, with no spaces for the existence of wave propagation (or existence of pure energy) and completely static (to start or end any motion (expansion) any existence must be at rest), that is , without particles or interaction between them, why are there still hypotheses trying to use quantum physics or relativity to try to describe this instant for the beginning of an expansion? in short: (Google translator) Any mass at rest has a certain energy (from the interaction between the components that form it at any level). If this interaction ends, it will have all this energy equivalent to: …

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