Speculations
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I've lost sleep over this and I am hoping that someone here can help me to understand or at least tell me that I'm wrong about what I'm about to ask. General Relativity explains gravity as being the bending of space-time, and we know that the larger the mass of an object, and the greater it's density, the larger it's gravitational pull. But my theory is if you were to take the Earth, and enlarge it to the size of the sun, that it would not effect as much gravitational pull as the sun does. This goes into more detail below. We know that energy can be expressed in many forms, through wave forms, and light as primary examples. Photons, which make up gamma rays and ot…
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As a layperson, I get the impression that, with respect to explaining the nature of time dilation, there is some speculation that one can emphasize the more materialistic role that variations in mass(/gravitation) might play in certain situations rather than the more mathematical role that variations in spacetime plays: Ex. 1: Cordus Time Theory: "It is known from general relativity that a body experiences time dilation in any of the following three situations: relativistic velocity, or acceleration, or in a high gravitation field. According to the Cordus time theory, all these are situations of greater fabric density: the first because the fast-moving…
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I have realised Einstein's dream of a theory of everything. On one hand I have a complete and coherent mathematical model that fully describes all forces in the universe uniting the macrocosm with the microcosm under a simple philosophical framework. On the other hand I have a complete and coherent understand of the underlying architecture of the universe that facilitates the above mathematical model, namely that the universe is a kind of cellular automata. Now prove to me that big bang and evolutionary theology is 'science' and I will share the theory of everything with you.
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So you got a brain constructed inside a computer. Your eyes can be designed to look inside the computer or outside at the real world possibly by hooking to a camera. You never get hungry because you control your senses. You can program your food by programming your palette. You can change your shape and form by transferring your consciousness to different brains in the virtual world. You construct your own memory. You model your own house. You design your own Physics. You might have old neighbors. Everything works like an MMORPG but it's free because energy would be free, the hardware might break but can be replaced, and there only requires maintenance from the outside. W…
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I think the Big Bang was a reality. There is a mirror math function at the centre of the Universe.That which is reflected by the math function is something that causes space to vibrate. The expanding Universe is the result of reflection by the math function.The space vibrates and the cause of its vibration is within space itself. The math function at the centre of the Universe controls the extent of expansion of the Universe. Once all that is within space vibrates with a frequency equal to this math function, the Universe will collapse. I think I have explained it properly.
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So first I have a question in mind. Does the mobile company uses satellite or radio tower to transfer the wireless internet that we receive on our cell phone? Why can't they make it support laptop internet? And let's say I want to track my cell phone position at real time that would give me x and y coordinate and height, how accurate would it be? Can it be on the centimeter accuracy scale?
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Hello, http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Worlds_most_sensitive_dark_matter_detector_completes_search_999.html I think the researchers are on the wrong way. The right way is https://sites.google.com/site/testsofphysicaltheories/English/dark-matter Rock and water are the best hiding place for dark matter. They have no internal energy source, so they emit no radiation. With earthly instruments they can not be detected. But they are much heavier than simple dust. Mathematical approximately in the solar neighborhood: The dark matter is to be concentrated in the spiral arms. We are in the almost empty room and therefore can not see dark matter. The right way of…
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Is it possible to create a brain in 2D based on circles and lines like a decision tree?
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Hello. I recently found out there are some people who don't believe in moon landings. I decided to researched it to see why and now I'm finding myself in dout of them being real. One of the biggest, is why are there no stars in the picture? Another one I'm wondering about is why are there multiple light sources? Shouldn't the sun be the only light to make shadows? Here's a link to the main arguments http://listverse.com/2012/12/28/10-reasons-the-moon-landings-could-be-a-hoax/ Please please please explain these. Their making me dout the moon landings.
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Dark matter is just an ad hoc explanation for when our theories of gravitation don't create accurate predictions. Although it has already been proposed, and I did not come up with it, I agree with a modified form of Newtonian gravity where gravity is proportional to the inverse of the radius as opposed to the inverse square of the radius.
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Hello! Maybe I am missing the obvious, but it seems space and gravity are going in opposite directions; out and in, up and down. Gravity is the emergent principle of matter. What if space is the emergent principle of time? If gravity is what matter feels like, then space is what time looks like. A lot of things fall into place for me by looking at it this way. Your thoughts are appreciated. Thanks, Eli
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Ok I have a question about time travel and I'm no scientist so you guys are all a great deal smarter then I am but I do have some understanding of things so no need to dumb it right down for me. So hypothetically speaking let's assume the multiverse and universe never existed untill the Big Bang happened creating the universe but not a multiverse, as time passed intelligent live evolved to a point similar to where we are now and begun contemplating time travel they realise the paradox's that can occur but decide to time travel anyway believing they can avoid any paradox. However they fail and accidentally kill say a grandfather of there's before he has any children. Curre…
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Can you accelerate or decelerate a current?
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So here I am with some questions about consciousness. I have concluded that the brain's consciousness consists of analogue circuit thanks to help from Strange. Now I will say that with an experience I encountered I think, when some neuron in my brain is blocked off with electromagnetic radiation, I no longer have consciousness in those neurons. My question would be, is individual neuron contribute a part of the consciousness to the overall consciousness or does it simply amplify the consciousness.
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Hi everybody, I do not know who can help me? I have a very simple issue but, I think we need to solve it before to advance iI have created a new model but are not complete I do not who can help me? One issue it is with pi : 3.1415 , on geometry are ok but on physics i think i am not sure are wrong Becuse geometry are from the geocentric model and I think I am not sure something diferent , a universal answere, my point of view We can not use PI on high speed and low speeds, I do not know if you can imagine a circle going to 1/2 speed of light or slow speeds where circles deform. What are you think? Jose Leal
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I was thinking a little in reference to the hologram theory, and I just wonder if anyone thought this idea is actually possible: presume the universe is a continuous hologram/program, set up and coded to form in a grid format. That grid would be what we call the "Fabric" of space. A black hole is a tear in that space (a temporary error in the scripting for that area of space.), caused by the over abundance of information (gravity) applied to the fabric. The script (being a continuously active script) later has to rewrite itself to fix the error (hawking radiation), causing the black hole to evaporate. If there happens to be more information applied to the area of the erro…
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Since this is the speculation section I would like to share my idea/ belief of all of existence. I believe that you can go forever in forever out forever up forever down and forever in every direction of existence. I think each of these levels have infinite levels in themselves such as spacetime is part of creation and creation is one of the action of God that dispays one specific attribute of God and so on infinitely I think that conscienceness is also a part of creation at the same level as spacetime which consists of universes/each individual sentient being. I am Catholic and believe that everything is a result of God who is an infinitely good powerful knowledgable and…
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A picture in that article shows Nevada's Crescent Dunes concentrating solar system that generates 110 Megawatts and stores heat for overnight generation. It appears the mirrored area has been meticulously prepared; moreover, there might be a design that minimizes money spent for site preparation. It requires a swarm of mirrors on a cart with three independently steered wheels. The cart can point the mirror in any direction around the compass; thus, the mirror must position angular elevation. The site must be cleared of trees and brush, should be relatively flat and mowed. Parts for the carts may be 3D printed and assembled by robot. The mirrors may be covered in gr…
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I've been looking into various brain scanners and there hasn't been one where it shows the brain at a molecular scale. I want a brain scanner that can perceive the flow of sodium and potassium in the brain as well as possibly all the neuronal synapses. I am not sure if such an invention is held back by ethical reasons, but right by all means it should be non invasive. MRI's scale is too big and you need an extremely powerful magnetic field to top that. PET scan requires you to dye the subject. My bet is on femtosecond and attosecond laser, but even then they require some fine tuning. Anyone got any idea on when a scanner of such a scale would be developed?
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Greetings, I would like to see what people think in relation to Artificial Intelligence. More so, to help me have a better understanding on why some big name people in the technology industry (e.g. William Gates) actually fear true AI being developed and used. What is there to fear? What do you actually think would happen if man-kind developed true AI and let it have access to the internet? If you think it would go crazy and decide to hurt humans in some way or destroy all our data then please explain why you think this. Wouldn't the concept of "taking over" or wanting to harm other life-forms just be a human thought process and not even be a relev…
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I need an efficient way to calculate 2 to the power of N possibilities. The number N would be something like 1100, where there are 1100 bits (one thousand and one hundred bits), so that makes it 2^1100 possibilities. I want to design a program that would allow me to loop through every single possibilities, unfortunately 2^1100 is too big of a number. So, how should I go about tackling this problem from a mathmatical, statistical point of view?
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a chemical reaction might release 10 ev of energy. a nuclear reaction releases millions of times that. we are told that that is because the nuclear force is much stronger. At first that seems to make perfect sense but upon closer inspection the numbers clearly dont work out. The strong force is only 100 times as strong as electromagnetism and it only acts over a very short distance (about the size of the nucleus or 1/10,000 of an angstrom) now energy = force * distance so 100 * (1/10,000) = 0.01 even though the force is stronger it should release much less energy.
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i have a theory about the universe, and i am a philosopher, but i will explain the tehory about in the best way possible. Tesla said that the ETHER, is in the most natural form. Is elastic, and extended in any forms. Tesla proposed that gravity is a field effect. The light is divided and sometimes extender and reduced, but the ways in the universe are two types one positive and one negative. The eact constant is equal to 8.333361196544 times in a exact form. The sun is the center of the universe. And the universe is an effect of light orr light effect.
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So from my previous post I've mentioned about how human brain should be able to be decoded into known functions. What I am doing here is to make a comparison between computers and the human brain. Bear with me for a second. So I came across this video. I know it's overused in various places, but the first part where the cover is lifted shows the circuitry of the CPU at run time, and I followed the site to the actual javascript simulation here. The right side shows how this model reads data and instructions from memory. Now this is purely from the hardware perspective. Here I present a portal from Blue Brain Project in showing how neurons run different data. So here you se…
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