Speculations

This is just one of a few things that have just never seemed to be correct. A logical fallacy, if you will. An unexplained discrepancy in accepted science that has just never made sense. I do not wish to question the legitimacy of Pangea, there is overwhelming evidence to support the conclusion that all the current continents were, in fact, once part of one giant landmass connected together. That all seems a forgone conclusion. My issue has always been in the physics of it. For billions of years this planet existed with one single giant landmass, on one side. While this in and of itself does seem to be a bit out of balance, like it's all weighted to one side, that of co…

Evolution: Often thought to be the final theory by the layman, this topic often comes under scrutiny from ill guided creationists and the argument is never settled. I am here to tell you that the argument is over, and has been from the very beginning. Now you have heard this all before granted, but try to reason with this one for a moment, let it sink real deep before surfacing again. When life arrived here on earth it was nothing short of a miracle. Landing with an asteroid in a toxic ocean is an impressive feat if not for the improbability of it all. Ill give you that there are some creatures that could survive it. The tardigrade is one, but that is a multi-cellular…

If all mass in the universe is observed to be moving further away from each other, if this is reversed, the distances in between any two objects will always decrease to zero (not minus), meaning all objects will be adjacent to one another. If all elements reversed their fusion, they would become hydrogen 1 atoms and this would fill the universe. If a hydrogen1 universe was present before the motion of mass(time), once motion started these atoms would start to fuse within stars, fusion would create space. As regions of mass become more dense, collapsing stars become blackholes. As black holes devour the stars around them they create more space in between them. Blackholes …

If so, what is the evidence?

Transformers use the electromagnetic near field. I haven't tested this, but would like to know if you think QM or QED shows the electromagnetic near field to be quantized. In other words, can a transformer transfer less than one tenth of h*f amount of energy in every exponentially decaying pulse for a given frequency?

When is the best time to study to retain the most info? Just after waking up from a long sleep or a few hours before having a long sleep?

Does the type of metal used in the wire wrappings have an effect on the field created? Example: would a pure platinum wire have an effect differing fromnusing copper wire?

Hi guys! This is posted in speculations because... Well, its bigfoot, that should pretty much sum it up. Any way I was wondering if bigfoot would evolve like this if he was real: http://www.nabigfootsearch.com/bigfootdescription.html Now what I'm asking is that someone with more knowledge on evolution then I do would look at the characteristics and decided if bigfoot would actually evolve like that or if that doesn't make sense. Again, we are assuming bigfoot is real. Also I don't think he is I just was wondering about this, if a mod don't like this go ahead and delete it, I honestly don't think this is important. And the traits we are assuming he has are in the link.

It takes 4 dimensions to describe the curvature of 3 dimensional space, (w,x,y,z). Since the curvature of space is equivalent to gravity, w is proportionate to 1/d^2 where d is the distance from a mass. To visualize a straight line affected by the curvature of space we can set y and z to zero and use a line parallel to the x axis and the closest distance to the mass set to one. Next calculate the value of w at points for some values of x and plot w against x. The equation to calculate the points on the line is w = (x^2 +1)^.5. The points calculated are: x d w -5 5.0990 0.0385 -4 4.1231 …

Hi. I keep hearing on the internet that it's actually healthy to masterbate (Is this true?). That it decreases the chances of getting prostate cancer for men. What about for women? What are some negative repurcussions of masterbating (e.g. removing nutrients/essential resources from the body like vitamins + minerals etc.)? Does it really cause erectile dysfunction? Does masterbation lower sexual libido in the long-run? Thanks, Mr Rayon

About the Gravity-time and Gravity-space. =… We speak the word "time" without concrete scientific definition. Therefore our knowledge about "time" is foggy. But if we say "gravity-time" then the fog is disappeared because for us there aren't another "time" expect the "gravity-time". We don't use light- travel- time ( so- called 1 Astronomical Unit) in our daily life. ==.. The same "fog" is with the word "space". For us there isn't another "space" expect the "gravity- space". We don't use another spaces in our daily life. ==.. The conceptions "time" and "space" are property of Gravity. Without gravity there isn't "time", there isn't "space". Gr…

Anyone have any ideas? Please explain your reasoning.

I was wondering, is it possible to create a /perfect/ clone, like down to an atomic level perfect, personally I say no but I want to know the science behind it

Does anyone know? Or will it all go to waste? Do bacteria bother eating the vitamin C which is in your urine and on the floor?

"gravitational spiral wave" put those words into Google search and look at the many images of gravitational waves. Which one gives the best description and why? I'm thinking the two masses orbiting each other for a billion plus years has produced 2 waves that have traveled like 2 spirals if looked at on a plane extending from the orbital plane. Or a sinusoidal line if you look at the effect at a point. What is the shape in the 3D space? http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/sandsted/APMA1940R.php The middle picture is a single spiral wave looked at from a plane and a line but I couldn't find a 3D image that I could relate to. Does anyone have an idea of the desc…

To my knowledge, there is only one form of evidence that suggests the Universe is or has ever expanded. Is there any corroborating evidence, aside from hypothesis?

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…

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…

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…

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?

(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.…

! 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?

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

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…

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…