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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.

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  1. Started by StuartLeDrew,

    As soon as we happened our “happened in” time dimension, became our past, and the speed of light became our future. We can never attain our future, and we can never regain our past. We are the present. We are the light. We have a probability of 1. Therefore: We always had to be. / Past We have to be. / Present We always have to be. / Future We exist in a twined / mirrored, dark energy / light energy Universe, on a time plane we call the present: constantly watching our pasts: as we chase our futures. A “photon of light” is in fact a twinned dark energy / light energy couple, hence the wave.

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  2. While the subject has come up a couple of times on this board, it came to mind especially lately as this site seems especially convinced of the social sciences' integrity despite some infamous polling failures in recent years. One thing that has always bothered me about the gay marriage debate is that people who call everything they dislike gay, and everyone they dislike a faggot, but support gay marriage (ie. the vast majority of people in a few towns in which I taught; though I'm sure most of you can think of such towns) are given the benefit of a doubt on being more homophobic than the average person, but that people who DON'T do so, NOR support gay marriag…

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  3. When the embryonic stem cell research debate was mainstream back in the 00s, I remember the talking point that adult/cord blood/etc... stem cells have shown better results so far, and therefore should get all of the funding, with none of it going to embryonic. (Mostly seen on webforums, but some of it still available on religious zealot websites.) Of course, I suspect that many of the people who said that were already biased against it on religious grounds and/or "life begins at conception" grounds. But obviously this isn't the only issue, or they would've been content to say so outright. Obviously to either them or, in their eyes, everybody else, future poten…

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  4. Simplifying, this is my first post of this anywhere, so bear with me. The Big Bang created space. A lot of those forces are still present, particularly in stars. Stars create space, and as more form, space is created faster. This space is being created between galaxies, and this is where missing gravity is going - We're falling through fresh space, removing potential energy, and sustaining our orbit.

  5. We hear about so called "islands of stability" in super heavy elements, what does this mean exactly? Can we really expect super heavy stable elements or are we talking about elements with half lives more like minutes or hours instead of nanoseconds?

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  6. Bonobos have a reputation for massive orgies. Female chimpanzees have a reputation for taking turns having sex with the alpha male. And yet, we as their evolutionary cousins are told; mostly by religious zealots, but sometimes by anti-theists sentimental about marriage; that we evolved revulsion to promiscuity to keep STDs at bay. I find this very hard to believe. Women so admire studs they use "virgin" as an insult. Men so admire the supposed desirability of men who get more action than themselves that they spend hours watching Bond movies that they could have spent having sex with their own wives. And as for "sluts," as much as a man may feel upset that she …

  7. There's no such thing as original thought, right? There is always a danger that you think you've invented the wheel, but then you realise that high-performance vehicles have existed for decades. But please bear with me - I acknowledge that I could be talking complete and utter claptrap. I am not a physicist but I have a theory that considers: why the universe is a cone (integrating inflation and, more importantly, the increasing rate of expansion) why rate of expansion continues to accelerate what dark matter/ energy is/ isn't (the theory being that they don't exist because there is something else that explains universal gravity and expansio…

  8. Started by howsois,

    Why humans walk upright is because of human innovation howsois Abstract Survival depends on the environment. A creature survives in a new environment, and its ability to survive is the decisive factor. Human survival ability comes from knowledge, and knowledge comes from innovation, which is the fundamental reason leading human evolution. Human upright walking is a sign of the evolution of ancient apes to humans. However, walking upright is only a result, and the reason is that ancient apes need to use their hands to solve the problem of survivability in the new environment. The evolution of human beings is fundamentally different from that of other creatu…

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  9. Started by IvoryEbony,

    initial state is well known, and there is a limited set of basic elements (qubits) that can be manipulated by a simple set of rules—rotations of the vector that represents the quantum state. But observing the system during those manipulations comes with a severe penalty: If you take a look too soon, the computation will fail. there's analog gravity immonating from my vectors, that doesn't merely rotate but moves my m-branes (pyramids in spheres) in chaotic and unpredictable ways when the algorithms are run. You don't need to guess. https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/photonic-quantum-computer-shows-advantage-over-supercomputer.am…

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  10. Started by IvoryEbony,

    Tilt one corner of a plane and you have the simplest 3D "alpha" (murphy's law) shape (source of the antiparticles gw charge direction) 3-sided pyramid. 360 degree rotation + spin yields the 3d "omega" (murphy's law) shape. Einstein scheimstein. Kill 5 birds with one stone, antimatter problem, quantum entanglement, black hole information paradox, accelerated expansion, & dark matter Using 1. Perfect sphere 2. Graphing it's quantum gravity using trivectors in the planck units of volume you'd have to look like Abigail to get this level clearance not even a shadowed photo for kmc 3. Graph perfect 3 sided triangle people have di…

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  11. Not wishing to "Hijack" another thread, but keen to help where possible by opening doors for those asking... ":How did we come from nothing" &c. ...I have assembled the following which, as far as I can see, is much better than "nothing". Read on, and Isaac Newton himself will have a few words to say which defends my efforts here. Those who are offended may...choose their own opinions. This IS speculations, although every hypothesis really is. That position I will answer quickly. As you have witnessed, Mainstream Science is not equipped to answer your very reasonable question. If I may, I will provide the answers that my research has turned up, as an uns…

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  12. Started by Danilo_Rocha2,

    Once, I heard about that the Sun releases 1,7x10^17 J per year and our most advanced solar cell can take out 43% of the energy that came form the Sun. So if we put many solar cells in Africa, specifically in the Saara Desert, that has 9 200 000 km^2 we could produce enough energy to power all Africa. But even if we just put the solar cells on top of the houses, they could still have enough power to live without power that comes from a generator that runs with oil or some kind of fuel and stops working when they need. Some kids would be able to study at night and have better grades, consequently have better lives.

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  13. Started by jajrussel,

    Aether, I know it doesn’t exist. My question is about why we know it doesn’t exist. The Michelson-Morley experiment. Which actually as I read about it doesn’t really make sense to me because if c is c invariant what exactly were they looking for? But, Einstein’s c invariant was after M&M, okay that lines up. Hmm, but what other proofs were being looked for? why was Aether assumed stationary? If they expected it to be stationary, why were they assuming a variation of c would be found? I would assume that a stationary system would have to be non-reactive. the reason I ask is because I was watching a video about dark matter, and dark energy and the r…

  14. Started by Danilo_Rocha2,

    Dark Matter is approximatly 85% of our universe, we don't know what it is so we can´t say that is matter. But imagine if Dark Matter was a distortion in the space-time fabric and those distrotions were grooves left by stars, planets or even galaxies, that were doing their thing and just did it.

  15. Started by Olorin,

    While not so many would be interested in Pangaea, Sprites may be somewhat more topical. This phenomenon has only received credence from the scientific community in the last 30 years. In fact, much of the interest is likely from the birds-eye view offered by the International Space Station: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150821.html The thread on Sprites is moved to Speculation "Split from Pangaea", since it is related to much of that material.

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  16. Firstly, understand that time is an illusion. Humans count 86400 seconds (1440 minutes or 24 hours) to make up one day and that is what is called time. Time is just numbers people give to different moments of the existential plane. So you cannot really talk about the age of the universe or whatever when really time as we know it is an illusion. I think that there is another concept beyond our reach in this dimension that would be more suited to talk about what you people call time. Secondly, time did not come into existence. Think about what people call time travel. You are different from what you were 10 years ago physiologically not because of time but because …

  17. Started by Jon O'Starr,

    About myself I have just joined this forum and wish to describe my background. Educated to M.Sc. Level, with some relevant work experience thereafter, I opted for a more mundane career some 40 years ago and have been a carpenter and joiner ever since. I have always retained an interest in many fields of science – this in no participatory manner, more by way of reading “popular science” and relevant TV viewing. Dark energy So, this is an idea that occurred to me, I would not wish to present it as a theory, more as an idea for discussion. I would be totally not surprised to find that it is not original and can be discounted fo…

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  18. Started by Muhammad Faidzul,

    Hello, Its been a couple of years since i came up with this idea. Just want to share with you a video that i made explaining this theory. Basically, it is explained from an electrostatic perspective of a neutral atom that i call the neutrostatic field. It is the parasitic electric field from a dipole atom that we consider 'neutral'. But both charge is not occupying the same space at the same time so the net field cannot be absolute zero at any distance from the atom. Since the positive nucleus and the negative electron is separated by the bohr radius, then their is always a net weak field in any space around it. Currently I'm attempting to do some simple calculation …

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  19. http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=youre_not_a_nerd So I was recently thinking about this Maddox article today, as I was trying to snap some pictures and videos of the scenic sunset. Photography is an interest of mine, but to some extent so is chemistry, so it brought to mind this article challenging the sincerity of the supposed love for science of people who love the photography brought to us by science. The first reason was "why don't you go do some." I think not everyone is willing to commit to 8 years in university, along with the subsequent "publish or perish" lifestyle to become a scientist. People say they love sex while posting on…

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  20. They never did. But could they do this in right circumstances?

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  21. Started by Hans de Vries,

    I do two things 1. I replace my entire DNA in the brain with that of someone else, let's say it's Obama. In order to prevent rejection I undergo autologous bone marrow transplant. 2. To destroy the existing gray matter structure I use some kind of technology to kill neurons in my brain and turn them into glial scars. Then I use glia to neuron conversion technology to turn those scars back to functioning neurons. Would I get a brain structure fundamentally simialr to that of Obama?

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  22. Just curious about virus reaction to fumes, like the smoking effect, maybe it is more potent for bacteria?

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  23. Started by martillo,

    Inspired in the thread "Nothing can come from nothing so something always existed!" at the Physics' Forum I'm exploring the idea that what could have ever existed is a Turing-like Machine running over a limited discrete 3D Space. And thinking in an entire Universe evolving from something very simple I think in an evolving Turing-like Machine from may be a very simple binary automata to a more complex one with time over an also evolving 3D Space. The elementary elements of the 3D Space would have some attributes which would let define elementary particles in some places. The elementary particles would obey some rules which would constitute the physics' laws of the Uni…

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  24. Started by MattReardon,

    Before I get started, let me say that I am not a scientist (that much I’m sure will be clear soon) but I am college educated in Aviation Science and I do like solving puzzles. About a year ago, I randomly started thinking about why the universe has perplexing issues with accelerating expansion and had what felt like an epiphany. It has been in the back of my mind since and I’ve been too short on time/and or courage to ask knowledgeable people their thoughts, but here I am now. My “epiphany” was that if the universe were sphere shaped and the Big Bang happened at the “North Pole” of the sphere and everything traveled south, then it would appear that different sectors of th…

  25. Started by Olorin,

    Roman Numerals present something of a mystery. While the Plebeians may have been too poor to have much use for numbers as large as 1000 or M by virtue of their poverty and limited technology, their system (excluding for the moment shorthand representations like IX for 10 - 1 = 9) is a descendant of the Egyptian system apparently without the shorthand convention, and with different characters. The beauty of it, though, was that Plebeians did not need schooling to count and learn some arithmetic tricks. The non-subtractive notation was a direct representation of results on an abacus. So how did the accountants of Patricians operate with such a limited system during the…

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