Speculations
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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:
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Fair enough! You called my speculation a speculation and said to put it in with the other speculations. Furthermore (also fair!) you said to re-write it as questions. (Sort of annoyingly, you added, ". . . if you want to learn some science".) Here goes BOTH: In the dawn of time, the orbit of Jupiter (and maybe of some other gas giants) migrated. Did they therefore likely come close to the Roche limit of other planets? Would the tidal effect likely sweep up atmospheres and oceans? Would the tidal effect of even closer encounters jerk big pieces of planetary crust away? {I therefore verily speculate that such an encounter -- rather tha…
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Although this may be met with some skeptic dismissal or active rejection... isn't it possible all of the "dark" we perceive in the Universe be a result of life? Say, harnessing something like zero point energy and bringing huge amounts of excess energy into this Universe and using that to manipulate forces artificially? I would say, that's a more reasonable explanation than nothing at all. If you think about it, this could also explain the expansion of space. If by harnessing zero point energy somehow accelerates the entropy of the space, it would also explain inflation. At the inception of the Universe, all that energy would've been pulled into space and then returned …
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It's really quite simple. At the core is the best cylinder design for a gasoline engine, an opposing force one. The vapor blows into many tubes probably each a human hair width. The tubes are basically cylindrical but curved like what you would see on the tip of an old string sitting outside where water flows down it and then drops out in drops. The flame plus the photons from original ignition travels down one of the tubes and then travels to a much larger node comparatively to the width of the metal tube and from inside the node the photon packs can enter into one of the other many tubes connected to that node and onto another node. Each node can be connected to …
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Please wait! (Under construction) The egg orbit: (assumes) 1. The planets move around the sun in an egg orbit, not an ellipse. (Implying Kepler's 1st law needs fine tuning, being unacceptable (without), but viewing his anti-thesis (as acceptable): the planets do not move around in perfect circles, but instead a distortion of that (circle) we can see (=recognize) what he means (even though he didn't say it right) & so (his thesis) needs fine tuning, to an egg.) Nature is not so simple, but instead lob_sided. (Ellipses rarely occur, but instead water drop(let)s & egg shapes are most common.) 2. The period of a circula…
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It is stated: http://www.cosmotography.com/images/supermassive_blackholes_drive_galaxy_evolution_2.html "The size of a supermassive black hole appears to have a direct correlation to the galaxy where it exists. Almost a decade ago, researchers calculated that the mass of a supermassive black hole appeared to have a constant relation to the mass of the central part of its galaxy, known as its bulge (think of the yolk in a fried egg). This 1 to 700 relationship supports the notion that the evolution and structure of a galaxy is closely tied to the scale of its black hole". Hence, the SMBH and its galaxy is similar to one body. However, the rest of the word beli…
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When will most jobs be lost to robots due to automation? Are robots working and doing all the work for us a good thing? Would you be happy doing what you wanted with a guaranteed basic income instead of having to earn a living and robots making the money for us? What would you do with all the free time?
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The effects of gravity are not well understood at the large scale. Mass distorts the space around itself. Distorted space causes other mass to move into this distorted space, but why? I believe that the effect of matter in space is of displacement. That is, that there is space through- out the area that the matter is occupying but, because the matter occupies this space, space in effect, gets stacked up around the matter. The closer to a mass that other masses become the more they attract each other due to the space that is displaced and stacked around each body of matter. Therefore, more space is found around the surface of a planet than at a further distance …
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I belong to an ethnic group which is has the stereotype of being considered lazy, how will this effect my future or my children's future if I marry someone from my parent's country? Are any stereotypes true? Are asian-americans really better at math (here it says no but it is their opinion http://wileyasiablog.com/2014/06/17/asians-math-stereotype/)? If not, then what is the cause for the stereotype? Has negative stereotyping affected anyone here? Is positive stereotyping ever beneficial to anyone? Is it worth it to marry someone of an ethnic/social group who will give your children a positive stereotype advantage?
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"On a large enough scale, our position is but a wave of probability that never lingers beyond the fractal pattern of relativity." Mark Clayton Beal
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'Black holes banish matter into cosmic voids' http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Black_holes_banish_matter_into_cosmic_voids_999.html At the scale of our Universal black hole the energy described above is dark energy. The dark energy is delivered to the surrounding galaxy clusters. We are in the outflow of a Universal black hole. As ordinary matter falls toward the Universal black hole it evaporates into a superfluid dark matter. It is the superfluid dark matter outflow which pushes the galaxy clusters, causing them to move outward and away from us. The superfluid dark matter outflow is dark energy. Our Universe is a larger version of the following. …
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There is evidence of the superfluid dark matter every time a double slit experiment is performed, it's what waves. Superfluid dark matter fills 'empty' space, strongly interacts with and is displaced by ordinary matter. What physicists mistake for the 'clumpiness' of dark matter is actually the state of displacement of the superfluid dark matter. The Milky Way's dark matter halo appears to be lopsided The Milky Way's halo is not a clump of dark matter traveling along with the Milky Way. The Milky Way's halo is lopsided due to the ordinary matter in the Milky Way moving through and displacing the superfluid dark matter, analogous to a submarine moving thro…
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[( Look, all of this crap really only presupposes one little thing, which is not to say that it's not crap, but it does at least seem to be a self-consistant little pile of crap: serial instantiated existance in a real, physical discrete space. For entertainment purposes only. )] H. More on anti-matter "...on a straight count the photons have it..." (barrow, p.157) But were they all created by proton/anti-proton annihilation? Generally, say they were all created by proton-electron interactions from and since the last scattering surface. That would only be about one photon every ten years for each proton-electron pair. How is it that there are so few photons in the u…
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What is the most lucrative career in the sciences to go into? also, which study area is the most lucrative right now? will genetics be in high demand? what about astronomy with more people going to space very soon?? would it be computer science? is programming really in demand or is it really the problem solving skills that employers are after that you get from programming and not programming itself that is important? i have also heard that technology can now be produced which can program by itself so there may not be any need for any human workers in this area in the coming decades as robots and automation of the workforce happens. does this mean most p…
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Looking at the world at how it is right now or is going to be, which countries are likely to have the most number of people going into outer space with many space tourism companies sprouting their way into fruition? Some have claimed a price of $250 000 for a 2.5 hour space trip i believe? is this worth it or not? is it really realistic to see most people go into space in our lifetimes at affordable prices or is the price likely to still be too high for the most of us? what are the chances for people in the below age groups: 0-5 5-10 10-15 etc. ??
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"If you plot a fractal position for Z=Zsquare+C then you have automatically plotted it's entangled counterpart -Z=Zsquare+C." Nothing spooky about it. As long as you understand that; "one does not plot infinite particles in a three dimensional space, but rather you plot it's position on an infinitely repeating shape within realities natural fractal." Mark Clayton Beal
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First off, this ISN'T a "theory". Theories are high and holy and full of math that I don't understand. This isn't even a "hypothesis". It is what we called in the Army a S.W.E.G. (Scientific Wild-Eyed Guess). Lately a lot of Hot Jupiters have been found. That may be because they are the easiest to detect. Again, this isn't theory. (Theories are for people who know what they're doing. I don't.) PLAN A: They are near the end of spiraling down into their stars. PLAN B: They are near the beginning of spiraling up from their stars. PLAN C: They started there and they aren't going anywhere except around and around. Our own familiar Jupit…
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FREE Apple iBook downloads of The Sentient Universe for the first 20 responders: If any of you cosmic surfers want to blow your mind with a completely original way of looking at the universe then check this out. I just released a book, The Sentient Universe, which introduces a radical new theory titled Fractal Bifurcations. I will send the first 20 respondents a free code from Apple iBooks that can be downloaded from the store if you send me a request at: REMOVED Fractal Bifurcations is a new model for the universe which has the ability to resolve every one of the big questions challenging science today. Here is a short list: 1) The antecedent events within …
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Twin 1 R(t)=tp Twin 2 R(t)=tp Where R is rate and t is time and tp is Planck time. The immediate future is a Planck length away Questions? P.s I will show ''you'' who the smartest cookie in the jar is.
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The standard analogy of poker to QM: In QM fundamental particles exist in a superposition state in which all discrete combinations of properties exist at once. In poker, players must treat their opponents hand as an imaginary range of all possible hand combinations of hands that fit with the players past actions. Probability Theory: In poker, probability theory is limited in its accuracy due to it's inability to account for information lost in the muck when players hands are folded. This was something that probability theory had assumed to be too complex to be calculate. A few years back, I had managed to account for this missing information based on a simp…
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I have a question about the analysis of the MM experiment presented earlier in this forum at the link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26262175/InterpretationMichelsonExperiment.pdf Has anyone ever done this experiment again, but with the use of glass arms of the interferometer instead of the air? If so, what were the results of this experiment?
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F. Iron, Why 56? (see Organizing Principles) For atomic nuclei the component nucleons' environment is understood well enough. What is not known is just what nucleonic aspects demand what sort of complex organizing of the nuclei. (A leap of rhetoric is made here. If space had a shape, what might it be?) The question "why 56?" has been asked about the number of nucleons in the iron nucleus, and it is noted that 56 regular tetrahedra tile "loosely" forming a loose but 100% effective connectivity of "56" about an empty central slot. (Compared to "26" for the cube.) The issue is the total number of nucleons. The tetrahedron's dihedral angle is 70.528779 degrees, the arcco…
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Dear Visitors we would like to introduce you our laser curvature experiments. We are looking for the curvature on the surface of the lake Balaton in Hungary with special laser technology to detect the supposed curvature on the water surface. How much is the curvature of earth on the distance of 77kms? (47.8 miles) 465 meters! (1526 feet) that means that an object this tall in one side of the lake must not be seen from the other side. Online curvature calculator: https://dizzib.github.io/earth/curve-calc/?d0=47.845581802249&h0=0&unit=imperial But is that assumption of GE curved water surface model true? We have conducted a series of experiments and surveyed …
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Gravitational time dilation. The mechanics of the magic: Gravity is it's own anti particle. Mass accelerates graviton annihilation leaving a higher percentage of non-electromagnetic space, thus increasing the work load on the remaining gravitons that must vibrate at electromagnetic frequencies required by time thus dilating the field created. If this is true, Light, (all electromagnetic particles) is a gravitational vibration. and: Large bodies of mass have a smaller gravitational field than smaller bodies of mass and mass is most likely the product of condensed gravity in a once uniform field. If the theory is correct: Dark matter is little more tha…
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