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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.
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  1. Started by Moontanman,

    Could complex life exist on a rocky world with an extensive hydrogen atmosphere? This wiki article suggests hydrogen breathers might possibly exist.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogenosomes A rocky planet with more mass than the earth but with a hydrogen atmosphere would retain heat due to the super greenhouse effect of hydrogen and could maintain liquid water on it's surface much further away than the Earth is from our sun... In fact, I am going to speculate that hydrogen breathing life forms are likely more abundant than oxygen breathing life forms... We have already found several large rocky exoplanets, so far they seem to be more common than small roc…

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  2. Based on the below simulation wheel gifs The general description of the concept of the wheel 1. the light swinging weights provide extra torque force on the left side (descending) 2. the wheel, in order to balance itself by increasing torque on right (decreasing on left), raise up the heavy ball on the right side (ascending) 3. when the heavy ball is lifted high enough to roll inward (or roll outward) while also push up the swinging weight, the result is an increase of torque force on left, decrease on right 4. the wheel, to balance itself again, rise up the heavy weight again, heavy ball roll inward/outward again..... and so, the process repeat over & over Questio…

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  3. Started by Tom O'Neil,

    1) 1st assertion is that on a Grand and Quantum scale Gt varies as mc2/e. This to say the greater the energy < time and low gravity threshold. Likewise with less energy >Gt! 2) 2nd assertion defies common logic regarding four known laws, but reduced them to 3 known laws(i.e. electromagnetism, strong nuclear and weak nuclear)! 1 Graviton ∝ 10 femto Joules 3) An assumption of mine is that light, energy and gravity share properties unknown yet to man on a quantum and grand scale. G t ∝ mc²/e

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  4. What if, 66 million years ago, that asteroid did not wipe out the dinosaurs? Would mammals still have displaced the dinosaurs? Could dinosaurs develop childcare, complex societies, and adaptive intelligence?Those are properties we subscribe to mammals...

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  5. Started by fredreload,

    I want to create my own bat sense so I would like to see something else besides photon(light), is that possible?

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  6. Started by stevecastleberry,

    We live on the skin of a planet whose gravity influences our rate of time. Researchers have demonstrated one of Einstein's theories of relativity - that the further away from the Earths center of gravity you are, the faster time passes. Einstein was proven correct when two synchronized atomic clocks were placed on different floors of a tall building. After a year, the clock further from the Earth`s center of gravity gained time quicker. By moving about 10 feet to the top of the stairs, you would age sooner by just under a millionth of a second! ...Also, we live here on Earth in a "changing" rate of time, due to moving bodies of mass around us. Along with lifting th…

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  7. I wasn't sure where to post this but I presume that the answer to my question is either very simple or there is no answer so I decided to go for speculations. I apologise in advance for the crudeness of my argumentation: If I kick a ball, my body is depleted of a certain amount of energy which is being transfered onto the ball. If an atom of U235 is being struck by a neutron it falls apart emmiting energy but at the same time its loosing some of it's mass. The mass is depleted and transformed into energy. If a star emmits radiation it looses some of it's mass which exactly correlates to the amount of energy that it emmited. Again, the stars mass is depleted. As far as I …

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  8. Started by fredreload,

    Now don't call me stupid here I've looked at how LCD monitor works. But in my head I am looking for a fiber optic display. Fiber optic transfer light, but it sounds a bit weird having to beam the light on each fiber precisely on the side of the screen to generate an output in comparison to running electricity and changing voltage for an LCD monitor. But hey, the theoretical result is this monitor can act as both a display and a touch screen like this display here without the camera and it lasts a long time. I'm looking into this because of the flexible display design here that peak my interest. Eventually I want to apply this technology to an AR glasses. Now graphene is i…

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  9. I have been , and still am , reading about the thrust by the 10 great scientists of history , in their endeavour to understand " How and why the universe works ,the way it does " ? These are :- Isaac Newton, Niels Bhor, Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein, James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Faraday, Marie Curie, Richard Feynman, Ernest Rutherford, Paul Dirac. Of course there are other scientists of note, but these lay the structural basis for our current understanding of how and why the universe works the way it does . Although not individually stated one thing becomes clear most of them worked from the idea that it was the immediate neighbouring item that caused …

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  10. "A study done several years ago showed that the universe's energy is decreasing. What if gravity, too, has been getting weaker?" --- Dark matter, in a nutshell, is a theoretical force envisioned by scientists that would explain the behavior of galaxies that seem to be spinning fast enough for some of their stars to fly out of their orbits but do not. For galaxies to remain intact they would have to have a greater gravitational pull than their visible mass suggests. Scientists therefore theorized, as far back as the 1930s, that there must be some invisible matter -- dark matter -- that's holding galaxies together. The problem is that as hard as we try to detect dark matt…

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  11. Hi. I am new to this Forum, but have followed this and similar stories. Cold Fusion is now called Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) among other terms. This is because instead of fusing two items (which is reported to occur mildly), several atoms give off parts which then fuse into a third unstable atom which then Beta Decays into IR heat. I know it will take a ruler upside most of the heads here before anyone will look at this seriously but this thread was started in 2011 and a lot more information is now available. The claims of Andrea Rossi in 2011 were so alarming that a lot of CF research was redirected towards Nickel/Hydrogen variations with much succ…

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  12. I keep coming across scientists and intellectuals who are entertaining this idea, that the world around us is some type of Matrix. Could it be that we are trapped in someone else's video game? Testing this hypothesis would be very difficult with today's technology, but some scientists think it's possible.

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  13. I would argue that space has nothing to do with time. Masstime seems closer to the truth to me. If mass where creating time and gravity then that would explain dark matter, dark gravity, and redshift. Redshift as in with this school of thought all distant galaxies would appear to be moving away, even if they where moving toward us. So as you approach a black hole there's a lot of mass/gravity which means lots of time. The same would go for the speed of light, the faster you go, the more massive you become and the more time you have. What I mean by more time is, time moves slower so you have, more time.

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  14. Maybe it's just me, but I've never really followed the logic behind this experiment. (They also did another experiment like this but with the atomic clocks inside of planes that flew around the world.) It seems like theoretically the only way you could make "time" go faster is if you went into a dimension that has a different set of 'laws' than this reality, and then transitioned back to this dimension...As in you would spend 1 day in the other 'dimension' of time and space, then come back and it would be 10 years later in this reality.

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  15. I believe that, both, dark matter and dark energy are "created" within black holes... I will speak, specifically, about supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies.... Perhaps, when matter enters the black hole, "torsion" occurs at such a high rate, that on the "other side" (south pole) of a black hole, dark matter is spit out in a sort of reverse accretion disk. As the size of a supermassive black hole, at centers of galaxies, are relative to the size of the galaxy, it could explain why dark matter is appears to be hovering on the outscirts of galaxies, not in empty space .....Perhaps the fourforces are combined with matter and light in a way…

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  16. Welcome on a journey into theoretical physics revealing that exacly the same "mysterious force" which in a heated kettle "magically transforms” liquid into gas substance ...is responsible for uprising the universe structures and expansion of material cosmos. ......... "THERMONUCLEAR SCATTERING IN COSMOLOGY, AN INTRODUCTION TO NEW ATOM MODEL”......... At the beginning of the twentieth century Albert Einstein made a great breakthrough in “variable time and space nature" perception. Unfortunatelly an innovative vision called "General Relativity" does not break with Newtonian model foundations and in practice "new revolutionary theory" (GR) becomes only narrow …

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  17. Started by Moontanman,

    For some reason over the years just before a hurricane I get extreme bouts of depression. I'm not sure if it's psychological or physiological. Could dropping air pressure before the storm be a connection?

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  18. Started by michel123456,

    Let's take a rod. A hollow cylinder. Let's put it horizontaly, with a laser device at one end. The rod is standing still at rest. Let's open the laser for a time T so that light travels inside the cylinder a distance D. In Spacetime, light goes from point A to B, having travelled the interval X. Something like fig.1 here below: In this diagram, speed of light, C, is the angle of the line AB. It is expressed as a fraction: meters/seconds. Because we are measuring light, we can pose that [math] D=CT [/math] (1) From the diagram, using Pythagoream theorem, we can pose that [math] X^2 = D^2 + T^2 [/math] (2) Replacing (1) in (2) we get [math] X^2 = C^2 T^2 …

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  19. I am trying to understand ' HOW GRAVITY WORKS ' . Whether this is a question , that should not be asked, I do not know , or care ? I personally as a practicing Engineer , all my life , have tried to understand the HOW , and WHY , things work , the way they do . I know a typical answer may be along the lines .." Science deals with the 'how ' not the why ." But , I do think that is insufficient , in understanding such an engrained , primary facility , by which the universe is fundamentally held together , and controls are every move and structure . I am sure it MUST be possible to probe and understand at greater depth , the ' Nature of Gravity ' ? I am having gen…

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  20. Getting a handle on GRAVITY is EASY . Understanding GRAVITY seems difficult . I think this bench top experiment , possibly , hints at a facet of the nature of Gravity ? SETTING The early founders of Quantum Mechanics based some of their early research on Observations of Phenomenon , on a ' Bench Top Setting', in the area of electronics , vacuum tubes, emission of light ranging from infra red to Ultra Violet , and it was not long before this led to the establishment of Quanta around the emission of Electro Magnetic Waves from within the Atom . ( electron energy levels, changes) A close relationship was seen by Einstein and others between the ENERGY and …

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  21. Started by SpecialGuest,

    If the multiverse theory is true, it means that there are infinite number of planets, in fact infinite number of planets exact same as ours. There are infinite number of ''ME'' out there living the exact same life as me. Now you may agree or disagree of the theory, but if we take the path I did, which is that I believe in the theory, then I want to ask some basic questions: 1. If the theory is right and there is infinite multiverses out there , existing for eternity without beginning and without an end, does it mean that I personally , after I die, will live again the EXACT same life as I did this life, because according to quantum physics, energy can't be destroyed. Th…

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  22. Is the discovery of isotropic universe a sign that the multiverse could be real?

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  23. One night after binge watching many science shows, I was contemplating. I can't accept that the Universe we live in came from nothingness. Everything we were ever taught says that "nothing is for free". There had to be something from before. I slept that night and it came to me in a dream. I saw a massive explosion in space and the following collapse into a Black Hole in what seemed to be a brighter more energetic universe. But it didn't stop there. I seen what happened on the "other side". A great white light that instantly expanded into another universe. I thought, could it be? It certainly makes sense. You can never prove it though. Certainly I'm not the only o…

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  24. Recently, I was thinking about the nature of reciprocity in some cases of natural phenomenon, for example, Newtons Thrid Law of Motion, or, Faraday's Law of Induction. Considering that spacetime distortion, due to a gravity field, leads to a change in the light path, or, a change in light velocity, when observed from a region with diferent spacetime metric. Would a induced change in light velocity, induce a distorion in spacetime (to keep c constant at local reference), thus, generating gravity? And, lets consider that the propagation of the light (in vacuum) would be distorted (or have its aparent velocity changed) by some hypothetical advanced technology. It's the o…

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  25. url deleted 10.5923.j.ijtmp.20140401.01.pdf THEORY OF EVERYTHING.pdf

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