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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.
  2. Be civil. As wrong as someone might be, there is no reason to insult them, and there's no reason to get angry if someone points out the flaws in your theory, either.
  3. Keep it in the Speculations forum. Don't try to use your pet theory to answer questions in the mainstream science forums, and don't hijack other threads to advertise your new theory.

The movement of a thread into (or out of) Speculations is ultimately at the discretion of moderators, and will be determined on a case by case basis.

  1. Started by chemguy,

    Can anyone please identify this energy? E = (ħc)½ Are there any references to it in the literature? Thank you. P.S. I prefer to write it as; E0 = (ħc)½ This energy may be inferred from Plank Units. The Plank force is; FP = EP2/ħc A general definition of force magnitude is; F = E2/ħc = ħc/λ2 A unit vector of force (F0) has a magnitude: |F0| = F0 = 1 A scalar definition is: F0 = E02/ħc = ħc/λ02 = 1 Giving; E0 = ±(ħc)½ and; E0 = ħc/λ0 Where; ħ is the reduced Plank constant; (ħ = h/2π) h is the Plank constant c is the light constant λ is…

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  2. Started by noonespecial,

    Mathematics Based on Science? Abstract/intrduction: It has been the practice of science to employ the use of mathematics to support and validate it's findings. Physics in particular uses mathematics to formulate and theorize new ideas. Much of our knowledge base of mathematics has come from the study of physics. Mathematics was the product of human thought and was not designed based on scientific experimentation. I conducted simple experiments to determine whether or not mathematics is truly inherent to our universe. Each experiment produces consistant results for every observer. What I found was that our universe may be following a different set of mathemat…

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  3. Started by Daecon,

    Would I be correct in presuming that speculation on the idea that dark matter is matter confined to a parallel brane to our Unverse's standard 3 dimensions, has been considered and dismissed? If the other fundamental forces are confined to their native brane but gravity isn't, to explain the undetectable sources of the extra observed gravity supporting the shape of the galaxy? Although I suspect if this were the case, and there was extra matter within the other dimensions, then it could be reasonable to assume it behaves like our matter - and given the right conditions - could potentially form a black hole which would probably manifest in our brane as an unexplain…

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  4. Hi all, I was thinking the other day about applications for sunlight and I remembered seeing videos like this: Which made me wonder why we're not using devices like this to cook food or drive steam turbines to produce electricity in places like Africa. Am I missing something really obvious?

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  5. (This is an idea I had for an experiment to prove/disprove General Relativity. I don't think this type of topic is against any rules, let me know if I need to move it. Also, to all you guys who point out something I didn't know before, thanks as always for helping me learn a little more every time I come here). Maybe you've read or heard about one of the latest physics-related news articles going around about how they finally found 'proof' of gravitational waves, confirming General Relativity and spacetime curvature as the source for gravity. But, when reading about cosmological claims like these, us skeptics remind ourselves about the tight bottleneck of measurement.…

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  6. ! Moderator Note Split from http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/94012-spaces-the-final-frontier/ Feel free to refer to that thread for possible further illumination ———— It's pretty clear in physics that science does not make any claim about reality. Only that nature behaves as the models predict. The models are our way of thinking and making sense of what we observe. The reality may be different. How would we know?

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  7. Started by Mr Rayon,

    Hi. Does a higher population result in lower per capita income? If so, how does this occur exactly? Thanks, Mr Rayon

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  8. If we took the LIGO right up to the binary the end of arm that pointed toward the barycenter would experience the greatest G force so the test particles would move apart particularly when they were in the eclipsed position. There was another thought experiment where we brought the LIGO right inside the orbiting binary. "Then, if the infall could take longer to allow us time to take the LIGO further and further away from the BBH but staying on the angular momentum vector, this toing and froing should continue." (The Hulse Taylor binary pulsar is expected to take several hundred thousand years to merger, so we can allow infall and bring the LIGO back to Earth i…

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  9. Not a joke, just a misunderstanding. Read here where and how is the right answer. If the line of sight is perpendicular to the orbital plane (0o or 180o in the figure), the signal is 0 or close to 0. Close to 0 is also seen from the orbital plane (90o). "The best fit shows the angle between the line of sight and the angular momentum vector of the system is about 150 degrees". With this problem solved, I can finally reveal my simple, logical, intuitive explanation for GWs: Black holes (BHs) are surrounded by "gravity wells". If gravity "travels" with the speed of light, then close to a BH, we should have/see a delay, as in Shapiro time delay. If this delay is b…

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  10. is anyone here willing to talk about a theory i have that competes with all theories....?? I am a nobody - no college - 30 currently living in kansas but I am not stupid. Just trying to find someone that is willing to hear and debate with me.

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  11. Hello, paradox will always exist in the modern physics because it is based on the arithmetic rule - on the energy conservation Law. According to Godel Incompleteness Theorem such Theory contains a paradox if it is complete. (the formulation of Godel theorem - theory that contains rules of arithmetic can not be both consistent and complete). Physics is complete because it can always answer for any sentence A if it is valid or it is negation is valid. (Physics always knows what is the truth). Hence Physics is inconsistent. It means it contains a paradox. There are so many paradoxes in physics, starting from Zeno's paradox. But there was always "good" …

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  12. I would like to discuss how gravitational radiation is produced. There is a formula for the amount. But I what to try and uncover the mechanism behind it. Why is it produced and so I have started this thread so even the most speculative ideas can be thrashed out. Is there anyone who has got a clue as to how to begin answering the question? Here is a paper mocking us with a clue: Solve this riddle: "Gravitational Radiation is to gravity what light is to electromagnetism". Do they really mean that as "light" and not photons? http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/grav_radiation.html They then say "It is produced when massive bodies accelerat…

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  13. From Matt Strassler's "what is a proton anyway" http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/largehadroncolliderfaq/whats-a-proton-anyway/ First of all I was wondering what effect this "flattening" of accelerated proton, has on the quarks inside proton, Whether this "flattening" changes the composition/energies of the quarks, or are they insulated from the flattening effect of proton? This above quote, I am trying to fully understand, If the quarks and gluons are travelling in every direction, and an observer who is stationary with respect to one of the quarks, sees the proton flattened in the direction that the "Quark" is moving, If we had an "observer …

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  14. It's actually an interesting question. Imagine, for example, that the electron has inertial mass, but not gravitational mass. How would you know? All determinations of the gravitational constant G are made using macroscopic lumps of uncharged matter. So every electron is accompanied by several thousand times its mass of nucleons. It's not clear how we could tell if all the "G" we measure is due to the heavy bits. We can measure the inertial mass of electrons (etc) with a mass spectrometer- but that's got nothing to do with the determination of their tendency to "fall" under gravity.

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  15. 'Black holes banish matter into cosmic voids' "But Haider's team also found that a surprising fraction of normal matter - 20% - is likely to be have been transported into the voids. The culprit appears to be the supermassive black holes found in the centres of galaxies. Some of the matter falling towards the holes is converted into energy. ... This energy is delivered to the surrounding gas, and leads to large outflows of matter, which stretch for hundreds of thousands of light years from the black holes, reaching far beyond the extent of their host galaxies."

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  16. http://www.space.com/24073-how-big-is-the-universe.html "Today, that same spot is 46 billion light-years away, making the diameter of the observable universe a sphere around 92 billion light-years." So, the radius of the whole Universe is 46 BLY. Let's divide it to the following segments: 0 – 12 Bly 12 – 24 Bly 24 – 36 Bly 36 – 48 Bly If R = 12 Bly Than 0 – 12 Bly = R 0 – 24 Bly = 2R 0 – 36 Bly = 3R 0 – 48 Bly = 4R Therefore: 0 – 48 Bly = The whole Universe = 4R 0 – 12 Bly = The core of the Universe = R 36 – 48 Bly = Edge of the Universe 0 – 36 Bly = Not at the edge of the Universe. The Volume of the Core of the Universe is ref. to: …

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  17. A few years ago i proposed a theory that time travel was possible and everything was connected. Below is the link to the original post it is a lot of mixed ideas that don't really say anything. http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/80508-sister-theory-of-everything/page-1 Here is the visual representation of the theory. I also suggested it ways connected to a sequence of numbers in pi. I was also saying numbers were connected to letters more than just there placement. The image of the sister theory I figured out it was the Great Pyramid of Gaza (Khufu). This image was only half of the solution the other piece was an 8 in side of a circle. Both ite…

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  18. Started by SimonFunnell,

    Hi, I believe the universe is a kind of cellular automata. I am here hoping that skilled mathematicians can help me develop the idea further. To start with, I think the universe is composed entirely of identical cells, I would suggest they are planck scale in size. The cells go through a cycle of composing, then decomposing the themselves (think "calculating space"), all in sync, so much so that the whole entire universe follows the cycle of composition, then decomposition, I would suggest the cycle is planck scale in length. In this universe movement of objects is perceived but not real as each object is composed/decomposed in one place before composing/d…

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  19. . Mike Smith Cosmos, on 26 Feb 2016 - 7:20 PM, said:in Science News ( Gravity waves ) . I thought there was possibly some form of Fermion grid that pervaded space , and only responding to fermion style matter ( particles ) , and so propagating ' gravity waves ' ? I am comfortable with Electric Fields , and magnetic fields being set up , one way of another by some form set of components ( coil, plates etc ) into a space . These can be probed , measured , and with a little bit of electronics , an Electro magnetic oscillating field to be set up and a EM wave is produced Which races away at the speed of light . I believe these are derived from ' Bosons ' and pr…

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  20. I have an idea to track and locate physical documents, files or folders in a work place where Bar Code Reading and RF Tagging can fail. Can anyone go offsite in violation of our rules and help me improve it?

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  21. Too many ideas at once, Agreed ! Have a good day. Mike.

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  22. Started by Dream-Runner,

    Present view: energy/matter was created from nothing during big bang My view: 1. Big bang is a collision of matters from 4th/5th dimension (or higher), which extending into 3-D to form our 3-D world. 2. Our 3-d world is mostly flat in higher dimensions. However, there are objects that could extend deep in higher dimensions, which should be able to identified since they have unusually higher mass than what we predict by our 3-D measurement (volume/density). They are the source for "dark energy" and "dark matter". This is my original work. Please make comments/suggestions. We could share the Nobel Prize if you could provide detail math models. …

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  23. All relationships between biological structures are semiotical which means that arrangement of moleculs forming the bio-structure A is predetermined by bio-structure B. Otherwise functional biological interactions would be impossible. Examples: a) intron-exon gene structure predetermines that specific arrangement of molecules is nedded for editing of the nascent pre-messenger RNA transcript in which introns are removed and exons are joined together. This specific arrangement of molecules is called "rna splicing machinery". b) Structure of egg cell predetermines that specific arrangement of molecules is nedded in order to initiate the development of a new individual …

  24. Started by Rajnish Kaushik,

    Well, i think that there cannot be a set of some laws which determine the behavoiur of every particle in the universe. We come across many videos which shows objects which does not follows the laws which we think are final. I may be wrong but still i will like to hear your views on this so I posted it in Speculations.

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  25. This is the lid in question: http://mesoweb.com/Palenque/monuments/TI_sarcophagus/099.html The position and configuration of the three-circled items ("triplets") and the two star symbols on the upper part of the lid seems remarkably special (which also contradicts the hypothesis about them serving only decoration purposes). Isn't it possible that they actually form together a system to encode a hidden message? More information on a separate page (as it requires several animations and images to decipher the code): http://akusius.github.io/palenque/overview.html Although I was not able yet to compute the exact probability for this interpretation, but…

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