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I just read the article in "Australian Science Illustrated" about supersonic planes breaking the sound barrier and it gave me a very interesting thought that's related to an article I had...
06 December 2022 4,052 5 View
I've been wondering about this COVID-19, and have a question which the doctors can help me with. I read somewhere that doctors have known about the existence of coronaviruses since the 1960s. In...
03 April 2020 5,538 9 View
The 1st Law of Thermodynamics states that a body can only gain or lose heat by taking it from, or passing it to, its environment or another body - this is because energy can neither be created nor...
25 December 2019 7,968 4 View
As stated in a robotics lesson, "the time variable t varies from 0 to 1, that is, 0 ≤ t ≤ 1". Therefore, this discussion’s logic states that 0 may be equal to 1 (division by 1 is accepted, so why...
01 January 1970 4,919 9 View
Science moves very rapidly sometimes. Current astrophysics courses are built on the nearly-century-old tradition of interpreting quantum mechanics in terms of probability. However, in 2019 it was...
01 January 1970 6,344 3 View
The Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric - which was developed independently by the named authors in the 1920s and 1930s - describes a universe that is path-connected (it has a path...
01 January 1970 761 1 View
“Basic Technical Mathematics with Calculus, SI Version Ninth Edition” by Allyn J. Washington (Pearson Education, 2010) states on p.9 that "if 0/0 = b, then 0 = 0 × b, which is true for any value...
01 January 1970 2,081 3 View
Referring to the time in about 5 billion years when the Sun is supposed to expand into a red giant and engulf Mercury and Venus and possibly Earth (the expansion would probably make Earth...
01 January 1970 8,311 2 View
Space-time can be quantized by explaining its ultimate composition (and that of everything in it, including the brain) as electronic BITS or BInary digiTS which are extended to topology's Mobius...
01 January 1970 9,424 6 View
Comment on German physicist Sabine Hossenfelder’s video “I believe chatbots understand part of what they say. Let me explain"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP5zGh2fui0) If we humans can use...
01 January 1970 8,692 1 View
1 - Prof. Tegmark of MIT hypothesizes that the universe is not merely described by mathematics but IS mathematics. 2 - The Riemann hypothesis applies to the mathematical universe’s space-time,...
01 January 1970 8,365 1 View
Simply possessing far better telescopes than we'll have in the next few decades would free people from the notion that nothing exists prior to the Big Bang of 13.8 billion years ago. Of course -...
01 January 1970 9,506 1 View
Re: “Deep Down And Dark - Stawell’s Genius Lair” (Cosmos Magazine, Issue 94) - On p.34 is the statement, “Because the Earth is physically moving through space as it travels around the Sun,...
01 January 1970 6,446 3 View
“Entangling electrons with heat” - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210108084106.htm- says, “In quantum computing, entanglement is used to fuse individual quantum systems into one …”...
01 January 1970 2,903 0 View
Can electrochemically excited neurons in the brain (1) correspond to pixels (picture elements) (2) in a video display? To use the example of a CRT (cathode-ray tube), (3) impulses from nerves...
01 January 1970 7,909 3 View
The section "Interview with Lawrence Krauss" brought a few things to mind. The 3-part "Interview with Lawrence Krauss"...
01 January 1970 6,253 0 View
Scientists, and many other people, have pondered this question. This article - (PDF) Graviton-Photon Interaction and Mass Generation: A Vector-Tensor-Scalar Geometry Approach (researchgate.net) -...
01 January 1970 360 3 View
This video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWTnpy7sw2g), together with my recent preprint on RG that's mentioned in this discussion, makes me think my ideas about the universe being composed of...
01 January 1970 4,644 0 View
This morning, I found a couple of paragraphs in a book I had published a year ago which made me wonder if the EmDrive, EM Drive or radio frequency (RF) resonant cavity thruster should be renamed...
01 January 1970 8,025 4 View
(This also answers the criticism that the natural and the artificial shouldn't be mixed. The discussion takes the view that “natural” and “artificial/technological” are the same thing – and...
01 January 1970 9,265 3 View
Comment on the video "Hawking radiation" by Dr. Matt O'Dowd and PBS Space Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPKj0YnKANw This explanation of Hawking radiation requires a very simple version of...
01 January 1970 3,291 0 View
Transforming the song "I can only imagine" by MercyMe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGxvZMyYMns) to a scientific meaning - This is an incredible song - I just love it! Though there's no way...
01 January 1970 2,096 0 View
For All This Time, Protons Have Been Hiding Secret Mass. We Just Found It....
01 January 1970 7,445 1 View
Gravitons and photons can be seen as expressions of a phonon field, illustrating our interconnected universe. Consider phonons differently by looking at motion differently and comparing the...
01 January 1970 3,114 8 View
The psychosis (break from reality) known as schizophrenia involves symptoms such as paranoia, trouble thinking logically, socially unusual behaviour, and suicidal thoughts. The “hollow mask...
01 January 1970 6,247 1 View
In "Remembering V.M. Slipher’s work at Lowell" (April 2020 - https://www.astronomy.com/science/remembering-v-m-sliphers-work-at-lowell/), Astronomy magazine's editor David J. Eicher writes that...
01 January 1970 1,206 2 View
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD6hS8WV3ic I think you did forget something important, Sabine. Well, “forget” is not the right word since the “something important” is a concept of time that’s...
01 January 1970 6,183 11 View
I’ve been having a look at Sabine Hossenfelder’s book “Existential Physics” (Dr. Hossenfelder is a member of the Foundational Questions Institute). A couple of paragraphs from Chapter 1 refer to...
01 January 1970 3,356 0 View
Suppose you had a jigsaw puzzle that extended endlessly in length, width, and depth. If you remove a piece from the puzzle and throw it away, it seems as though infinity minus a finite quantity...
01 January 1970 2,176 12 View
These thoughts were inspired by the video “Michio Kaku Breaks Silence on The Terrifying Image By James Webb Telescope That Changes Everything” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRLdEsGY-uw). The...
01 January 1970 2,199 0 View
Response to the You Tube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HHv3T4UHec Albert could teach Dr Oppenheim a thing or two. The need by the doctor to introduce randomness into spacetime suggests...
01 January 1970 3,587 4 View
The Josephson junction consists of a thin layer of insulating oxide material between two superconducting electrodes and is used mainly in measuring magnetic fields. In 1973, physicist Brian...
01 January 1970 114 6 View
My mind was stimulated by "Mirror-image Life" (https://nautil.us/mirror-image-life-412729/?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nautilus-newsletter). The following explains how...
01 January 1970 2,942 3 View
Is maths made up or real? This is the message I wrote on the website of mathematician Eugenia Cheng. https://eugeniacheng.com/ Hi! I read about you in "Nautilus" magazine. I think your statement...
01 January 1970 1,976 1 View
I’ve been reading about the Flyby Anomaly - a discrepancy between current scientific models and the actual increase in speed observed during a planetary flyby of a spacecraft - on Wikipedia, and...
01 January 1970 4,105 0 View
I picked this old article for my comment because its reference to redshift brings to mind what I call readshift, and the early universe it refers to reminds me that interpretations of the...
01 January 1970 8,883 0 View
Transforming Holographic-Universe Theory Into Vector-Tensor-Scalar Geometry The holographic principle was first proposed by Gerard 't Hooft. It was given a precise string-theory interpretation...
01 January 1970 2,091 6 View
I’d like to comment on each of the points 1, 2, 3 in a question on quora.com - If light has no mass, why is it affected by gravity? 1. As you say, light bends by the effect of gravity. Prof. Max...
01 January 1970 7,996 4 View
According to Wikipedia, a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is formed when a gas of bosons at very low densities is cooled to temperatures very close to absolute zero (−273.15 °C or −459.67 °F)....
01 January 1970 4,052 1 View
In 1919, the mathematician Theodor Kaluza began to play around with Albert Einstein’s formulas for gravity. Out of curiosity, he reworked the equations to see how they‘d look in five, rather than...
01 January 1970 1,654 7 View
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6uuVNHnuoE Using the Holographic Principle’s idea that the universe is a computer simulation, I’d suggest that, in reality, there is no separation at all between...
01 January 1970 8,342 7 View
Is science important? Just suppose there was an individual who had somehow gained access to scientific knowledge from the remote future. It could only be viewed in the present as too speculative....
01 January 1970 8,424 2 View
How Much Of The Universe Can Humanity Ever See? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVoh27gJgME There was a paper published 19 years ago which said, ““Physicists now believe that entanglement between...
01 January 1970 6,659 2 View
Referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=433tAfO4dbA I kind of agree that there are no other universes, Dr. Sabine. Which means I kind of disagree. Let's see if I can make sense. You'd be...
01 January 1970 7,262 4 View
After sharing that article, I received an email saying "I have read the abstract. But can not see the connections between the individual topics. They are completely different areas that can not...
01 January 1970 3,760 1 View
Here are a few thoughts of mine that say space can't be curved because it doesn't exist. What we call space is actually the ubiquitous presence of gravitons and photons. Light passing the Sun is...
01 January 1970 5,213 2 View
Response to “Did AI prove our proton model WRONG?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbzZIMQC6vk Your video brought two things to mind - the book “The Grand Design” by Stephen Hawking and Leonard...
01 January 1970 656 2 View
I’ve been reading an article called “The George Santos Syndrome – Why people believe their own lies”. Suppose someone makes up a piece of fiction about some part of their life. Apparently, we use...
01 January 1970 5,174 1 View
General relativity says a light ray sent from a star and passing by the Sun is deflected 1.75 arcseconds from its original path by the Sun’s gravity. Also, Isaac Newton knew of gravitation’s...
01 January 1970 4,379 0 View
I've been writing to Professor Brian Josephson, winner of the Nobel prize for physics in 1973 and director of the Mind-Matter Unification project.. He pointed out that my messages say "from Yahoo...
01 January 1970 6,191 1 View
General relativity and quantum mechanics unite when gravitational and electromagnetic waves produce all forms of mass in planets and black holes, every fermion and boson in the Standard Model of...
01 January 1970 4,946 1 View
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-quantum-entanglement-topology-inextricably-linked.html Two-dimensional Skyrmion topology can be quantized to form a quantum superposition of baryons and vibrational...
01 January 1970 8,438 5 View
I saw the psychic John Edward on Australia's TV Channel 7's "The Morning Show" this morning saying that consciousness continues after death. I thought about this and decided to send him my...
01 January 1970 6,195 0 View
The magazine "Australian Science Illustrated" (#98) has an article called "Space Probe Travels to the Solar System's Greatest Water Worlds" by Mikkel Meister. It says that in the next decade, the...
01 January 1970 5,126 4 View
This discussion is about the TV program "The Dark Side of the Universe" (Australian Broadcasting Corporation - 25/4/2023, 9 pm)...
01 January 1970 7,923 2 View
Today I received a newsletter in my inbox from ThinkInc which asked "what do you think are the implications of there being stars richer in metals at the centre of the Milky Way?" This is what I...
01 January 1970 8,989 0 View
I once saw a video in which Dr. Michio Kaku said the humans of 2100 will appear like gods to us. Does this mean they'll beat Jesus' act of walking on water and astronauts of this future humanity...
01 January 1970 8,988 0 View
INTRODUCTION The groundbreaking scientific discovery or invention addressed in this article is the BITS or Binary digiTS used in electronics and computers. They can also be referred to as the...
01 January 1970 9,153 2 View
Regarding the Dark Matter mystery in astrophysics - do we need to change the law of gravity (think MOND aka MOdified Newtonian Dynamics) or accept that there is unknown, extra mass in the...
01 January 1970 8,311 98 View
“Equation dooms the universe to chaos” (“Science Illustrated” – Issue #104, pp.80-81) states, “A physicist would describe entropy as a measure of how much energy is spread between the molecules of...
01 January 1970 6,900 3 View
Response To Science Magazine Article (Reply Connects Meteorology With - Via Wick Rotation And The Riemann Hypothesis - Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Higgs/Nuclear-Force Bosons, And Planet Mercury’s...
01 January 1970 3,110 0 View
Referring to the PNAS article "Do not go gently into that good night: The dying brain and its paradoxically heightened electrical activity"....
01 January 1970 8,653 0 View
I've been reading about Claude Shannon and Information Theory. I see he is credited with developing the concept of entropy in information theory, which is a measure of the amount of uncertainty or...
01 January 1970 5,777 1 View
Is there a reasonable alternative to the theory of the expanding universe? I believe so - The idea of an eternal universe is highly speculative and doesn't quite fit with our current...
01 January 1970 6,665 6 View
The magnitude and direction of the orbiting Earth is a vector. It and a second vector (Earth months later in its orbit) are converted by tensor analysis into the coordinates of a single scalar...
01 January 1970 6,500 0 View
How can repelling or pushing gravity account for the apparent attraction of ocean tides towards the Moon? I believe such an idea of gravity requires the idea of 17th-century scientists Isaac...
01 January 1970 1,738 0 View
Why? Why not?
01 January 1970 1,681 1 View
Einstein's Other Theory of Everything - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfIY2vf7c04 This video fascinates me – I’ve watched it about four times so far. Albert Einstein may have failed to develop...
01 January 1970 7,420 3 View
A magazine I read asked readers if they'd consider a brain implant that improves mental function. Here's my answer. Do you think my ideas are feasible? Not until they can implant it without...
01 January 1970 9,920 2 View
This discussion results from ideas that have been growing in the back of my mind for about 30 years. The trigger that gave rise to the present post is a video by Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder called...
01 January 1970 4,764 1 View
I've just been chatting with an AI. I asked it about the APCs of a certain journal. Like me, the AI confirmed they do charge but couldn't find specific information. So I said it's safe to assume...
01 January 1970 4,126 0 View
I'm reading "Listening for life" in issue 106 of "Australian Science Illustrated" and it prompted me to write this letter. I want to share a few thoughts on extraterrestrials that I haven't read...
01 January 1970 551 0 View
I can see this Distance Ladder (used by astronomers to measure increasingly large distances in space) being unreliable. Fortunately, there's a simple solution - get rid of distance. The quantum...
01 January 1970 6,569 0 View
As the movie "Interstellar" pointed out, people will oneday be able to build things they can't build now. Let's scientifically explore a few of those things. (Thanks go to Penny from TV's "Big...
01 January 1970 5,393 0 View
EINSTEIN AND NO SPACE Einstein is associated with the union of space and time. But, after publishing General Relativity, he seems to have had an insight which can be interpreted as “There is no...
01 January 1970 8,106 1 View
Quantum Experiment Breaks Reality By Seeing Two Versions Of Reality Existing At The Same Time -...
01 January 1970 5,883 4 View
Comment on the video "Electrons do not spin" by Dr. Matt O'Dowd and PBS Spacetime - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWlk1gLkF2Y If the electron – and particles like quarks – have zero size, an...
01 January 1970 7,919 5 View
In A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking said there are no boundaries or singularities in imaginary time. I know Wick rotation is regarded as mathematical convenience or trickery. But Max...
01 January 1970 220 1 View
I've read that scientists put together the temperatures of the tropics, geothermal vents, the Arctic, the Antarctic, etc to arrive at 15 degrees Celsius for Earth's average temperature. If you add...
01 January 1970 6,160 0 View
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/hawking-radiation-really-work/?fbclid=IwAR1rV8wL3IhY8HYTr20k_4Y8MIEB4njK_PZlsaHHON5_ETVSNY4D_4meSGM COMMENTS When I first read this article, it made my...
01 January 1970 1,180 0 View
Here's a proposed answer to the question "Why is Earth moving away from the Sun?" It uses a modified idea of gravity where gravitational waves are absorbed by the Sun then re-radiated as a push...
01 January 1970 207 4 View
I'm reading an article titled "Scientists Seek Life Across the Multiverse" and it says, "If the multiverse hypothesis is correct, physicists would no longer have to find explanations for the...
01 January 1970 442 3 View
latest addition to https://doi.org/10.32388/6WU1M2.16 (part of my ongoing quest to explain myself well) - "Precession, Riemann, Wick, geometry" In PRELIMINARY NOTE #1 as well as later in the...
01 January 1970 2,817 0 View
I believe future science will prove everything in space and time is unified. As a result, everyone living now (or in our past) should be able to access knowledge from any place or century. This...
01 January 1970 8,711 3 View
Conventional physics emphasizes experiments verifying objective reality but both quantum mechanics (QM) and originator of the multiverse hypothesis Hugh Everett suggest there's no such thing as...
01 January 1970 9,949 7 View
I'd like to ask if you agree that the world needs NO money (in any form). Let me explain - Prices and earnings keep rising and always will if we keep using money. While money was vital in the...
01 January 1970 9,026 10 View
01 January 1970 4,553 4 View
I just read Carlo Rovelli's article about what is on the other side of black holes. He asks where does matter go after it falls in the black hole. I think Einstein gave the answer in 1919 when he...
01 January 1970 2,706 6 View
The video "The Biggest Question Physicists Aren't Asking" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVyl8pGd44I) says the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887 didn't disprove the existence of the aether. It...
01 January 1970 7,682 2 View
I want to share a few thoughts of mine on extraterrestrials that I haven't read or heard of anywhere. Astronomer and SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) researcher Jill Tartar says...
01 January 1970 1,367 3 View
I heard about USA actor Terrence Howard's 1x1=2 theory this morning and saw a video by Neil de Grasse Tyson respectfully disagreeing with it after devoting a lot of attention to it. Dr Tyson...
01 January 1970 926 0 View
