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  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 granpa,

    Gamma ray bursts fully explained: The explosion is driven by the energy in the gravitational field when the material becomes massless! (100% mass defect!) A "neutron" star is >11.5 km in radius. This is <6900 times smaller than Jupiter. This is what would be expected if it were made entirely of material with atomic mass<13800 It's also possible that the neutron star has a dense core of atomic mass 16384 surrounded by a material of atomic mass 8192. atomic mass 8192 atomic number: 1215 Density: 2.35 * 10^14 g/cm^3 Pressure: 3.1 * 10^28 bar atomic mass 16384 atomic number 1808 Density: 1.55 * 10^15 g/cm^3 Pressure: 3.35 * 10^2…

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  2. Started by lightning diety,

    first off i just wanted to say that i am a student, of computer sciences, not environmental or atmospheric sciences. if anything about the notes or research is off, let me know, the more problems found with it, the better in the long run. thank you for you time in reading this, and i am sorry in advance if my terrible hand drawn picture hurt you eyes, they hurt mine too but i sure cant draw a turbine system by hand, let alone the rest of the machine, and the better plans are still in progress for now. ThePantheon Project Inventor: Personal information removed. summarizedsteps for the machine: 1. Create a super cell lightning storm by use of sola…

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  3. Started by fredreload,

    Imagine all your body functions reversed and you grow younger each day, how does that even work, you would be self sustaining and outputing rice and bread for 80 years? What do you guys think? Anyway I got it from Family Guy

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  4. [math]\int \int \int_V \nabla \times F \cdot dV = \int \int_S F \cdot dS[/math] Stokes theorem states [math]\int \int_{S} \nabla \times F \cdot dS = \oint_{\partial S} F \cdot dr[/math] Greens theorem is a special case of Stokes theorem. force is [math]F = \frac{\partial U(r)}{\partial r}[/math] substitution gives [math]\int \int_{S} \nabla \times F \cdot dS = \oint_{\partial S} \frac{\partial U(r)}{\partial r} \cdot dr[/math] As you can see it has dimensions of energy. Consider the magnetic field now [math]B = \frac{\hbar}{emc^2} \frac{1}{r}\frac{\partial U(r)}{\partial r}[/math] Plugging in only part of the magnetic field expr…

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  5. Hello! I believe that LIGO-events have terrestrial origin (e.g. lightning strike). Registered traces could come from merger of two black holes or... there are the result of "jump phenomenon", if a sudden jump in amplitude occurs with increasing frequency : This is supported by 1. The frequency of the falling edge corresponds to one of own frequencies of the LIGO-detectors before and after the event: 2. The signal is harmonious. But due to limited sensitivity of the detectors it should be pulsed: ==> Perhaps the LIGO-operators should check their equipment carefully again before physicists publish the next sensation Bes…

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  6. . I wondered if it were possible to conduct observations , and conduct experiments , on space-time, at or just above ground level . * And could the results be valid enough , considering the nearness of surrounding materials generally , including, the Earth itself. Mike * ..

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  7. Started by fredreload,

    Alright so we've all heard people growing back their cut finger with cellular matrix or amphibian with limb regeneration. Now assuming a limb is amputated, how does the body knows what structure it should grows back? For instance if I am missing my middle finger, it will have to grow back with the exact same length and size without missing a single cell(let's assume scar tissue is not the case). Now let's say I want to trigger a particular cell to renew itself without having a wound, it should also possible. All wounds heal, so it should be possible to trigger the entire body to recover from a wound, without having a wound. Now what is left is the strength of such regener…

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  8. Started by techtalknow,

    Hi everyone! I'm new to these forums and thought I'd start out with something...perplexing. At my school, we're having a pro/anti evolution debate and I've written a few speaking points. Considering I'm not an evolutionary science expert, I thought I'd share them around for you guys to pick about and see what I am mistaken about. I've pasted them below, let me know what you think. Speaking Point #1: Irreducible Complexity is the theory that humans are too advanced to have evolved from a single cell, and states as a fact that everything we have evolved to didn’t exist previously. Additionally, systems such as the cardiovascular system or the central nervous system s…

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  9. Started by granpa,

    No metallic hydrogen in Saturn All planets from 1 Jupiter Mass to 60 Jupiter masses have the same radius. This suggests that metallic hydrogen only occupies 1/60 of the volume of Jupiter. Thats 1/4 of the radius. The surface of the gas giant is defined as the point where the pressure of the atmosphere is 1 bar, Scale height = the vertical distance over which the density and pressure fall by a factor of 1/e. saturn Scale height: 59.5 km jupiter Scale height: 27 km Below the Frenkel line the fluids are "rigid" and "solid-like", whereas above it fluids are "soft" and "gas-like". 76850km = polar radius of jupiter (76850km-300km) = 76550km = Frenkel line for…

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  10. Started by fredreload,

    So as lizard regenerate tail. If I update my body at age 82 or later on a cell by cell basis going from specialized cell to stem cell then back to the same specialized cell it was except this time it is much younger over a one week period, have I achieved immortality? So for example, me at age 82 or later decided to update my body starting from the cell on my head, for each neuron I reset it back to stem cell, then back into the same neuron it was before, only this time it is much younger, possibly of age 30. Then I do the same for all other cells until it reaches my toe over a one week period, in which now all my cells are 30 years old, is immortality achieved? Theor…

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  11. As long as these two conditions are true, a chain of mathematical certainties involving infinitesimals follows: 1. In their simplest form, the simplest fundamental particle constituents of matter have an infinitesimal radius. 2. All fundamental forces propagate as waves, which mediate all interactions between matter. Now, from that, we can start making deductions from applying the math of infinitesimals to time. Consider an infinitesimal increment of time, and the change in a particle's velocity during it. Over an infinitesimal increment of time, we still have to account for the the velocity of the particle in two given instants: - the velocity of the particle …

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  12. Started by granpa,

    After reflecting on it all day this is what I decided: All planets from 1 Jupiter Mass to 60 Jupiter masses are known to have approximately the same radius. The density of jupiter is 1.33 g/cm^3 A 60 jupiter mass brown dwarf is therefore about 60 times as dense and made mostly of metallic hydrogen/helium. 80 g/cm^3 = minimum density of the most dense form of Metallic hydrogen/helium I assume there is another less dense form about 8 g/cm^3 What is the true radius of jupiter? The surface of the gas giant is defined as the point where the pressure of the atmosphere is 1 bar, Scale height = the vertical distance over which the density and pressure fall by a fa…

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  13. Started by granpa,

    If the sun began as a rapidly growing and rapidly rotating 60 jupiter mass brown dwarf then it was at that time almost entirely metallic hydrogen surrounded by a thin (4000km) ocean of about 3.2 earth masses of liquid hydrogen. Between the liquid hydrogen ocean and the metallic hydrogen there may have been a 1000 km thick layer of metallic oxygen and/or metallic carbon that was 100 times denser than liquid hydrogen and amounting to a little less than a saturn mass. (Based on the abundance of the elements it should have been 4000 km thick but I guess it becomes fully degenerate at 1000 km and sinks to the core of the protosun) When the suns core finally collapsed it wo…

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  14. Started by Eldad Eshel,

    I have come up with a theory for electromagnetism, and what to share it with you here. You can picture to yourself one dimension, in which one side is plus is and the other is minus. A particle has a certain property on this dimension, it can be plus, minus or neutral. When particles with similar signs come near each other they occupy one another's space on this dimension and repel each other. And when they have opposite signs they balance each other on the dimension and attract each other. This is the principle by which the electric force works. The certain charges of the particles and their symmetry (the electron has a certain electric charge, and the proton has the…

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  15. We know the electrons mass and its charge and its angular momentum and from this we can calculate what it's magnetic field should be. But the actual magnetic field is much stronger than this. One possible explanation is that most of the electrons mass (and perhaps some of its charge) has fallen to the centre. Perhaps even existing in a completely separate system of shells surrounding the nucleus. This could also explain why electrons prefer to fill the 6s shell before the 4f shell. One would expect the 6s electron to fall into the 4f subshell since the 4f shell is closer to the nucleus. But it doesnt. The 6s shell is further from the nucleus but if part of the…

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  16. Started by fredreload,

    Let's say you modify every single DNA of a dog to the DNA of a bear, does the dog grows into a bear? I'm thinking it is possible, unfortunately I've never heard of growing an extra arm out of the body, not even through Crispr/Cas9. I'm saying it in the post-zygote stage P.S. If not we'll have to rely on stem cells since it is capable of differentiating, rather than growing it from scratch it's more like sculpturing

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  17. Started by BillT,

    I believe i discovered the theory of everything. But i'm not sure about that. I would like and appreciate any opinion, comment and review for this. You can read my research at the following link : http://www.scribd.com/doc/251000080/The ... Everything Also i attach my research in pdf file format. Work_3.pdf

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  18. Started by life station,

    All glaxies at the edge of our cosmos Are going far from us at the phenomenal Speed The reason for this velocity is not known To our recent physics I as a layman assume the cause may be the pull from billions of other cosmos neighbours of our cosmos creating this pull

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  19. Greetings everyone, I've been making a semi-realistic sci-fi video game, so I was thinking about the design of the space cruiser, which uses the Alcubierre Warp Drive system to move, researching about references for a ship prepared to this system and movement I've found out 2 main designs, note the difference between them Type 1: Type 2: Facing all these differences, mainly on the pipe structures, I was asking, what is the best and more acurate design? Could someone help me in this one? Thanks; Arthur

  20. /*So like the loops of a computer code as it starts with an initialized point and so starting the iterations infinitely . Reminds one of the singular point of the cosmos and the everything and much more, all starting from the singularity; where time stops up to the point of the big bang we get an infinite amount of universes. What I propose of course in a rather strange phenomenon you have a singularity and that explodes and gives birth to more and more singularities and those singularities give birth to their own singularities for which their own respective big bangs and big crunches would occur and due to the original's infinite energy it can split amongst the ot…

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  21. Yes believe me I've checked on Google and the answer is 25 years estimated. Well you guys have probably seen my posts on DNA immortality and digital immortality. We are living at an age in which it seems that both are likely to achieve. I've always got the feeling that someone already cracked the code but is simply hiding the technology from us, how accurate is that I can't really say. I'm keeping digital immortality as a back up plan because it involved mind transferring. I really do hope that before I die I would get my mind transferred and say live for another hundred of years digitally. This really is counting on someone or some organization to have a fully built supe…

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  22. Started by fredreload,

    I'm not sure if a thread like this existed, but basically DNA creates human body. We're not necessarily creating something conscious, but how about DNA with inorganic materials capable of creating a plane or a car?

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  23. Started by fredreload,

    This is the structure of DNA. I want to break its molecular structure using a laser and piece it back together later, is it possible? P.S. Alright this baby should do the trick, now how do you get the right parts for recombination like Crispr

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  24. I watched a "How the Universe works" documentary on gravity, Michio Kaku was one of the main speakers, and while watching a CGI clip on matter being attracted to other matter seemingly by the mass content. I had a wild notion... I dismissed it at first but since no one really knows what gravity is I'll throw this in for some discussion and make of it what you will. Rather than gravity "sucking" things down, what if gravity was "Pushing" things down. ... I imagined the 'shell' of the universe generating gravity inwards somehow, and like a flashlight casting a shadow but in all directions, since I assume the universe like every other stellar object out the universe is …

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  25. Started by DrmDoc,

    Here's a question for you, does a brain without perceptual experience produce consciousness? I was thinking about the nature of brain function relative to the production of consciousness and whether a brain grown in sensory isolation and deprived of sensory input is capable of consciousness. In considering sci-forum views expressed here and elsewhere regarding the brain as not the source of consciousness, I believed this small thought experiment might cogently resolve this issue. So, if you're interested, give it some thought and tell me what you think.

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