Speculations
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Photons are massless packets of energy flying around at the speed of light. Yet, if you were to trap a bunch of photons in a perfectly reflective box, the box would weigh more with the photons inside then if there were no photons inside. Mass truly is trapped energy. Hermann von Helmholtz (ca. 1821–1894) was a German physician and physicist who studied fluid dynamics years ago. Specifically, Helmholtz studied vortexes in fluids and thought of particles as "vortexes of energy". Joseph Larmor (ca. 1857–1942) was a physicist who viewed matter as spinning vortexes. Larmor laid the groundwork for mathematically modelling the concepts of spin, precession and spin coupling. …
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Could it be possible that black holes are converting matter into dark matter? Maybe the conversion creates a type of dark energy jet as a byproduct?
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Ran across this last night on YouTube...I thought some people here might find it entertaining. Right in the beginning I noticed something that's typical of the 'christian truther' movement when it shows the 'human evolution' picture with a big 'X' on it saying "NO FOSSIL RECORD FOUND"...They really don't know that we have all kinds of even well preserved skulls of hominids like Homo erectus which are undeniable. However one thing in the video I didn't really have an answer for...and that is starting at about 10:12 there is a rocket strapped with a camera that just stops in mid air with a 'thunk?'
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Centrifugal Offset Relativistic Engine or CORE Drive. Imagine a children’s roundabout with a flat smooth base on some ice. Spin the roundabout and if it is balanced, even with no friction with the ice, it will stay in the same location. If it is not balanced, say, we put one child on it, then when we spin it, the rotational axis will describe a circle in the ice. The imbalance in weight in the system causes the whole roundabout to move along the line of the net centrifugal force. If we could keep the imbalance of weight in the same place then we could generate linear thrust. So now imagine the roundabout with a number of vertical wheels around the circumf…
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How simple it would be to unify physics if massless energy could create mass. Imagine the big bang as quantum bubble spewing out fundamental energy particles that were massless. Inflation would be no problem as they could quantum leap faster than light. There would be no issue with gravity as it wouldn’t exist in a massless universe. As the fundamental energy particles began to cool they would bond together to form sub atomic particles and then atoms. Any fundamental energy particles that didn’t bond would form back ground radiation. The atomic forces and speeds of electrons, protons and neutrons would create ‘motion mass’, this would facilitate gravity and stars co…
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I ran across this wild idea last night. It reminded me of a post on here about the universe being one huge galaxy shaped at extreme distances...
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(This thougt came in to my mind a while ago and i kept thinking about it and i want to know if i was wrong or this already is a accepted thing.) If there is a infinite possibility of parallel universes, so there must be a possibility of a uninverse that travelles to our reality and destroys us, and there must be a possibilty that some other beings from other realities that saves us from them. So my opinion is there is an endless possibility of us being alive or dead, we must be both dead and alive if that is the case, but we are not dead and alive at the same time so there is an observer that observes that exact moment, makes us escape our quantum state and makes us…
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Scientists have recently claimed that the earliest 'modern humans' date back to 160,000-200,000 years ago... Here is the Smithsonian article. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/meet-the-contenders-for-earliest-modern-human-17801455/?no-ist Right off the bat, they get the date for Cro magnon wrong, "30,000 years ago"...When the oldest Cro magnon dates 45,000+ years ago. They are claiming that Omo 1 and 2 are the oldest, but this is quite a bold claim as they are impartial skulls and we can't even see what they really looked like. Secondly most researchers already agree that Omo 2 is too 'archaic' to be considered a 'modern human.' But I am going to di…
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Hello, I wanted to share with you to new theory of gravity. Thank you for your comments, greetings.
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Bell's Inequality (in a simple, comprehensible form anyway) states that in a group of items that possess three properties, A, B, and C, the number of items that possess property A but not B plus the number of items that possess the property B but not C is greater or equal to the number of items that possess property A but not C. Assign A as Gold vs Silver, B as Large vs Tiny, C as Bright vs Dull. That leads to the trivial inequality, GTB+GTD+GLD+SLD>=GLD+GTD. Is this wrong?
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Bender. swansont. Thanks for the link & comments. I need to read more on sub-atomic stuff (QM). Naturally i will be keeping a good eye out for anything that supports my existing beliefs, namely --- quanta = ok -- antiparticles = ok -- 3 types of quark or whatever = ok -- about half of our present 60 or so particles = not ok. Without wishing to start any off-topic discussion, i might add (just to show my state of mind) that i suspect that all particles have mass (& no other type of particle exists). And that photons are the smallest elementary particle (& have mass). And there are no neutrinos. That there is a sub-quantum aether (giving our field). That we…
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I, personally, am well aware that Psychic phenomena exists and that there are, in fact, real psychics out there. If you do not believe then there is no need to participate in this discussion as it would be an impasse. Here is my questionnaire to see if you're qualified to be a part of this conversation. Do you believe that the mind is physical? (Are you a materialist?) If so, do you believe that the mind works just as the brain appears? (Neural networks, connections, etc.) If so, do you believe that information is reducible to changes in our environment? If so, do you believe that these changes in our environment are what determines the structure of the br…
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Consider if only one particle existed, then space doesn't exists because space is something in which we can move from one point to another relative to some other particle but if only one particle existed we cannot move that particle or we can't say if its moving or stationary . But if we split that one particle into two or more space is created or space comes into existence space is nothing but a result of existence of matter From this we can say that space cannot exist without two or more particles and space is infinite. Your opinions.
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M&M experiments (or very similar) using i think glass or plexiglass include..... Shamir & Fox in 1969. Report near-null result. Trimmer et al in 1973. Report near-null result. Demjanov in 1969 etc. Reports non-null results.
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I would like to discuss the implications of neuronal phase coherence in brain activity. Precisely, I would like to know your opinions on neural synchronicity and the role of (synaptic) exocytosis in the neuromodulation of emotionality and saliency. Thanks in advance. tkadm30
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I'm willing to believe energy goes through both slits as waves, but not mass.
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HOW SCIENTISTS JUSTIFIED THE FACT THAT THERE IS NO REASON TO LOOK AT ELECTRON DISTRIBUTIONS OF SUBSTANCES AS THEY APPEAR ON ELECTRON DENSITY PLOTS/MAPS GENERATED, FOR EXAMPLE BY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, TO DRAW AN INSIGHTFUL CONCLUSION ON THE SCIENCE OLD HOT SUBJECT OF ELEMENT REACTIVITIES. SODIUM AND CHLORINE REACT READILY TO MAKE SODIUM CHLORIDE BUT GOLD HAS NO AFFINITY FOR OXYGEN SO DOES NOT CORRODE. AN INNOCENT NAIVE THOUGHT IS THAT SINCE THE SPOTS OF DIFFERENT INTENSITIES AND AT DIFFERENT POSITIONS (PATTERNS) CREATED DURING THE CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC PROCESS (AT ALL ANGLES) ARE DUE TO THE ELECTRONS OF THE ATOMS OF THE VARIOUS SUBSTANCES AND SINGLE ELEMENTS UNDER SCRUTINY THERE…
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A new solution of Maxwell equations for a vacuum, for wire with constant and alternating current, for the capacitor, for the sphere, etc. is presented. First it must be noted that the proof of the solution's uniqueness is based on the Law of energy conservation which is not observed (for instantaneous values) in the known solution. The resulting solution describes the electromagnetic wave in vacuum, in wire with alternating and constant current, in magnetic circuit of alternating current, in charging and charged capacitor – flat and spherical, in ball lightning, in the vicinity of solitary electrical charge. The resulting solution allows us to explain twisted lig…
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why nobody sees it? light speed without space is just time space - is dark matter, wrong name, should be dark void space/time = speed (SPACE DIVIDED BY PHOTONS-TIME = speed of light) dark void is space, it`s expands (expands by light and matter) and shrinks - trying to get rid of photons and matter dark void fluctuation is gravity why no anti-gravity? because matter tries to turn in photons in this process matter tries to create abs void which again tries to pull together - that`s why no anti-gravity dark energy is photon sphere inside abs dark body - never seen, best example - event horizon of black hole inside of black hole is dark void, this is why black holes…
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Hi, Brain-to-brain connectivity is evidence of non-local biological entanglement. See: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042815018406 I'm looking for positive scientific inputs about the quantum-like nature (entanglement, coherence) of brain-to-brain connectivity. Also, the biological utilization of quantum nonlocality by brain (neuronal) processes is highly interesting. Thanks in advance, tkadm30
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The only thing that makes motion is Force: F. Newtons explanation for the quantity of motion was F = ma Acceleration is velocity over time: so, F = mv/t Multiplying both side by t we get Ft = mv; Newton's explanation of motion was Ft or mv; Now the professors of the world of physics say that mv can't be used to evaluate motion. That is identical to saying motion can't be used to evaluate motion. Instead the inappropriate use of two other formulas have taken momentum's place. In an absolute sense Newtonian Physics has been thrown out. If the motion of a balanced flywheel is caused by 20 newtons applied for 20 seconds; then that is the quantity o…
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Speculation: the expanding universe is creating energy and black holes are squeezing energy out of existence. Question: has this line of reasoning ever been pursued on this forum? If so can someone point me to that thread. Thank you.
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I believe after reading a few different articles on Laniakea the milky way is in a Galactic Super-cluster in a Super-cluster of its own and in each "Super" Super-cluster there a different perspectives in such a way that there is different laws of physics. Another point I have to make is the universe is not expanding its the same size as it start billions of years of go, we just are going towards the center just like solar systems and a black hole.
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in the other thread we are discussing what collapses the wave function in the double slit experiment ive been told that its collapsed by the measure instrument i agree with this but a measure instrument has an implicit observation of the measurement results how could you know the wave function has been collapsed if you dont observe the results, maybe it hasnt and you dont know you can not know for sure so if we take its the observer ultimately whom collapses the wave function seems to have been a choice of left or right slit but this is a problem to explain common reality, what if there are two observers and one collapses wave function so the photon go…
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So I've been thinking a bit lately. After the very helpful posts by people like Delta212 and Strange to name a few on my Universe is infinite only in the theoretical sense? thread, I'd like to ask a new question. Does the universe exist on the surface of a black hole? Crazy? Yes. Stupid and completely false? Probably. But let's pursue this matter anyways using some rickety but still somewhat logical points I've come up with. Hypothesis: The universe exists as the surface of a black hole 1. Question: The speed of light is the absolute limit of speed for particles with mass, Why is this? Answer: This could be the rate of the expansion of the universe, as if yo…
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