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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 fredreload,

    I'm thinking of creating a group for brain scientists from across the nation, of various ethnicity and races, for a joint discussion, to make people sleep better.

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  2. Hello forum, I have many friends that love science but they believe a lot of pseudoscience as well. I see this article popping all over my feed. I read it, there is not much data so it's not so clear but still... Please share your thoughts on this... http://www.thescinewsreporter.com/2018/04/break-researchers-at-cern-break-speed.html Hope this isn't an April fools joke

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  3. Started by interested,

    Can any one explain how quantum entanglement works, and the limits of what is achievable through quantum entanglement.

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  4. Started by MaximThibodeau,

    Will this concept do it ? With this as a circuit: you should notice that this circuit is the equivalent of an antenna.

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  5. Started by Capiert,

    Kelvin 1900 vs M&M & (K)E is m*(c^2)/2 Wed 2018 03 28 02:48 PS Wi 6.9 C https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_papers In 1900, Lord Kelvin, in a lecture titled "Nineteenth-Century Clouds over the Dynamical Theory of Heat and Light",[5] suggested that physics had no satisfactory explanations for the results of the Michelson–Morley experiment and for black body radiation. As introduced, special relativity provided an account for the results of the Michelson–Morley experiments. Einstein's theories for the photoelectric effect extended the quantum the…

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  6. Started by Alexslack,

    Okay I don’t have a scientific background but a question that has bugged me for weeks now. if we travel the speed of sound and an object was dropped, the sound would never catch us right? could this principle be used for light? this later lead me to research a lot about black holes as originally I thought that a black hole could just be the end of light. However over time I reasearched into black holes, if we have a force such as electro magnetic force which is considerably greater than gravity then this could affect light in ways which we see. Therefor it took me on a learning experience. What if electro magnetism created the dark m…

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  7. Started by David Paul,

    Perhaps dark energy/cosmic expansion is simply an affect of a big crunch? Allow me to elucidate: When a 'crunch' condenses below its Schwarzchild Radius, I propose a duality is formed, being the Lorentz Transform imaginary (complex number) values associated with <Sr distances. We know time = 0 at an event horizon; therefore, beneath this 'boundary', t becomes a dualistic positive/negative ..... basically, the inner convergence co-manifests as retrograde, outriding expansion. This suggests our universe may indeed be cyclic /wavicle like, and delightfully explains why the expansion rate is steadily increasing, as the condensing crunch would produce exponetially increas…

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  8. There are the lower, basic emotions such as a feeling of excitement from getting a new movie, feeling sexually aroused, or a feeling of panic from being in a dangerous situation. I think we call these emotions the instinctive emotions. These emotions are actually the perception of value. In other words, they are mental states where we perceive things, moments, people, and situations as beautiful, horrible, good, bad, or disgusting depending on which emotion we feel. I have come up with a formula that attempts to translate emotions into value. Our pleasant emotions are the reward wanting and liking in the brain. When you want and like something, this means it …

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  9. Started by ChowCK,

    For years I believed Positive and Negative were the main Duality of this world. Recently however, I begun believing Male and Female is the main deeply rooted Duality. Male and female does NOT necessarily mean Man and Woman in this case. Including Neutral, everything we do or experience falls under one of these three categories. A Star is the symbol of the Female while a black hole is the male symbo; one is to give in abundance while the other is to take. F attuned people are friendly and work together with other F people and is the modern style. M is more about competing with everyone and everything demanding domination, older style. In other words, what I the…

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  10. You have to back your statements up with evidence. ✓ Anecdotes are not evidence. ✓ Being challenged to present evidence is not a personal attack.✓ Calling the people in who challenge you "brainwashed" or "stupid" does not further your argument. Neither does throwing a tantrum.✓ Published research (peer-reviewed) is more credible than the alternative. But peer-review is not perfect.✓ When you have been shown to be wrong, acknowledge it.✓ Just because some paper or web site agrees with you does not mean that you are right. You need evidence.✓ Just because some paper comes to the same conclusion as you does not mean your hypotheses a…

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  11. Started by interested,

    Due to a thread on the Abercrombie drive I have another question Also involved was this link on zero point energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy If gravity is caused by the absorption of virtual particles/gravitons by mass (giving the appearance of stretched space), is there a way of generating virtual particles at one side of an object whilst allowing or increasing absorption on the other, creating a gravitational gradient as in warp drive, or putting it another way, rather than having a uniform stretching of space in all directions round an object due to gravity, create a distortion in the stretching of space. Is there any way of absorbing v…

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  12. Started by gunfun777,

    I had to make an English speech, so i wrote about how i think about time and how it could be sped up. Download the file to see the text. Living your fantasy englisch speech time travelling.docx

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  13. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle tells us that length and energy are related: l * E = ħ / 2 and using natural units where c = 1= ħ, we can deduce that 2*10-16 m = 1 / GeV. My question is, how is energy conserved when length contracts and time slows? Is it still contained within that smaller space, making the space hotter or is it released in some form? Also, would the slower rate of time have a cooling effect by reducing frequency? Tks

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  14. Started by fredreload,

    Like a time capsule. I write something, put it in a capsule, bury it underground, in hope that someone in the future sees it and send it to the past, is that possible? At our current time frame, receiving a message from the past is easy, receiving a message from the future is hard

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  15. definition of the Observer effect (physics) - Wikipedia “In physics, the observer effect is the fact that simply observing a situation or phenomenon necessarily changes that phenomenon” definition of Quantum entanglement - Wikipedia “In quantum physics, entangled particles remain connected so that actions performed on one affect the other, even when separated by great distances. The phenomenon so riled Albert Einstein he called it "spooky action at a distance.” Therefore based on the above two definitions, the observer effect changes the state of one side which must change on the other side through entanglement. The setup: Alice and Bob are l…

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  16. Greeting everyone. I'm not a scienticant. And this ideas, well more like dreams of poor guy from 3rd world country. I guess, this topic will be fist one and last one... Warning! If you, my unknown reader think I silly or crazy person you're true. It's all reflections in my insane brain, dreams of man without enought education who lives in "bad" corner on ours Earth. That's all. I you're steel reading this topic, fellow to continue. This text originally writed using words of russian language. My English is grammarly not accurate. Presenting two script, fist one in English (translation by "Google Translator" web service, and my notes to made script more…

  17. ooops, I made an error direction trash please

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  18. Started by Butch,

    I have considered ways to explain my methodology and goal in this topic... without success, so, I will just begin and I believe it will become evident. Space is composed of an infinite set of points.

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  19. Hi everyone my name is Youcef and I'm kind of new here. The question of light as a data carier in a processor is not new but few people know about it. In fact it's actually quite rare to find anyone discussing this topic on the net. So I thought I just bring it here, as a matter of fact I dedicated a website with an introduction to the hyphothetical optical processor as I call it myself. In this introduction I present a concept which demonstrates that light could be used in a processing unit using it's unique properties. The introduction can be viewed at this dedicated website: You tube introduction video: links removed

  20. Started by Spyroe Theory,

    Hello Check out this concept, it could be a great idea. <link removed by moderator> What do you think?

  21. Started by BahadirArici,

    Universe is more than three times older than Earth. So, if there is life outside of Earth, there must be Type 3 civilisations that are billions years ahead of us. With our very limited technology, we keep observing everything, from animals to black holes in the Universe. We observe and even tag the migratory birds, wolves, lions and many others and try to understand everything about them. Furthermore we record and even name each individual of these animals. We observe them very personally. Now lets step back and think how a Type 3 civilisation might be observing us.

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  22. Started by beecee,

    UFO sightings! There have been literally thousands of them!! While around 95% have been explained by weird weather phenomena, military aircraft of sorts, refraction/reflection of light, cloud formations, sprites, vivid imaginations, hallucinations, illusions, skullduggery and trickery etc, there is that lingering 5% that remained unexplained. Have we been visited by Aliens? The best we can say is that at this time, we have no convincing evidence to show earth has been visited or that any life actually exists off this earth at all. In saying that, let me state that I firmly accept that life off this Earth, must exist at some time and/or in some other place. The e…

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  23. 1) There are no Aliens. Even if we ruled the UFO enigma out, in a Universe with quadrillion stars, the probability of life existing apart from Earth is way higher than the opposite. 2) Even if there are Aliens, we must be the most developed civilisation. Earth is 4.54 billion years old and the Universe is about 13.8 billion years old. So if there are Alien races, some of them must be billion years ahead of us. 3) We shouldnt try to contact with Alien civilisations because they might harm us if they know about us. This is absurd. How can it be possible that a Type 3 civilisation will know about us only because we tried to contact with them. If we are obse…

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  24. Here is one I am sure you folk can help me with. The length of a meter must adjust with the rate of time to maintain c. I take this to mean that if we cut the rate of time by .5, we have to double the length of the meter. If the rate of time appears to approach 0 at the event horizon of a black hole, shouldn't a meter seem to approach infinity in length? If so, why do we perceive a compression of space instead instead of an expansion of space? Do Lorentz contractions explain it? Thanks

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  25. The moderator shut down my thread on a 1 s/s difference in the rate of time when I stated that Einstein's field equations did not rely on mass or energy. I misstated. Einstein's TENSOR does not rely on energy or mass, except in that the time dilation is related to mass in gravitational or velocity-induced dilation gradients. And yes, acceleration mimics a gravitational field. I had asked the folk to find a single energy or mass element in the field equations in his 1915 paper I provided a link to. I should have asked them to find them in Einstein's tensor, though he does not describe it as such in his paper. I am starting to think you folk don't know enough to relate…

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