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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Re: Are any other animals like dogs, where smaller breeds outlive larger ones?

« on: 05/02/2018 00:06:15 »

Smaller horses also live longer than larger horses.  The heart (although there are exceptions to the rule) is bigger in the larger animal, but is generally not proportionally bigger to the largness of the animal, and therefore has to do more work to maintain the larger body, reducing life span. (or so I have been led to believe)
Wolves can live for 30 + years in optimum environment, and their cousins the domestic dog used to live a lot longer in the past. But breeding programs have weakened the gentics of pure breed dogs both large and small, reducing previous recorded lifespan expectancies.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Is there a minimum and a maximum frequency for radiation on the EM spectrum?

« on: 20/07/2017 19:00:58 »

The period of a pendulum depends on the local value of g, so it won't work in deep space, free fall or orbit, where g = 0.

I think you need to take this onboard...

http://www.yalescientific.org/2010/10/mythbusters-does-zero-gravity-exist-in-space/

But yes - a pendulum would not work in free fall, or orbital free fall.  A pendulum that is in deep space, but not in freefall, will hypothetically swing very slowly indeed to the tune of the nearest g-field.

(Btw Alan - I was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the Red Arrows flying by in formation today.  Wonderful sight indeed!  Made me think of you...) 

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Chemistry / Re: What is your favourite element in the periodic table?

« on: 14/07/2017 00:04:52 »

I think my favorite is radium.

It has looks to die for...

And also because due to her work with radium, Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics (1903) and the first scientist to win two Nobel Prizes (second in 1911)

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Just Chat! / Re: Science "roses are red" poems

« on: 09/07/2017 14:49:48 »

Roses are red
Violets are blue
The media doesn't represent
'All' the facts that are true

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Is there a minimum and a maximum frequency for radiation on the EM spectrum?

« on: 06/07/2017 19:57:41 »

What about looking at the fact that any wavelength can be transformed into another one with the right choice of reference frame?

Which choice of reference frame would result in equating a wavelength the size of the universe?
Which choice of reference frame would result in equating a photon with the same amount of energy as the universe?

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Just Chat! / Re: ‘inhumane treatment’ of pain patients

« on: 30/06/2017 16:29:10 »

If you want to talk about inhumane treatment of pain patients:

My friend, having been diagnosed as having Weigners disease, was told she had 2 years to live.

16 years later, having been inadvertently infected with Hep C 10 years earlier by the hospital conducting her care for all those years, and having been prescribed a steadily increasing dose of opiates for the pain associated with her crumbling facial bones and neck vertebrae - guess what?
NHS brings in a zero tolerance policy regarding long term opiate prescription and during a hospitalization for a minor fall decided to put their Hep C patient into forced opiate withdrawal.

For those of you who are not familiar, a forced opiate withdrawal is life threatening for a Hep C patient.  Withdrawal exacerbates the Hep C.  The exacerbated Hep C causes damage to the liver, and my friend 'the Weigners patient' that was requiring the pain killer was left unable to ingest opiates.

I've never been so angry in all my life.  I printed the Hep C info off the net and gave it to the doctor responsible for the decision who couldn't find enough nurses to put between us before he slunk off.  I daresay he hadn't bothered to read my friends file that had built up over 16 years to require a trolley of it's own...
...but why would a trained doctor put a regular Hep C patient into forced withdrawal from a 16 year opiate prescription anyway?
Based on the fact that a forced withdrawal will exacerbate Hep C and destroy the liver, what benefit could there be in forcing an opiate withdrawal on a Hep C patient?

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Just Chat! / Re: Is the emergence of terrorism activity a zombie-like invasion?

« on: 08/06/2017 22:01:16 »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/how-isis-islamic-state-isil-got-its-weapons-iraq-syria

http://www.globalresearch.ca/logistics-101-where-does-isis-get-its-guns/5454726

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/16/tony-blair-iraq-war-prosecution-attempt-goes-back-to-court

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/20/britain-cashing-in-middle-east-weapons-sales-saudi-arabia-yemen

:link 1
U.S. government support for Iraq was not a secret and was frequently discussed in open session of the US Senate and House of Representatives. On June 9, 1992, Ted Koppel reported on ABC's Nightline that the "Reagan/Bush administrations permitted—and frequently encouraged—the flow of money, agricultural credits, dual-use technology, chemicals, and weapons to Iraq."

:link 2
More recent efforts to rebuild and equip the Iraqi army have once again resulted in a massive arms flow into Iraq.

:link 3
The report titled, “‘IS’ supply channels through Turkey,” confirms what has been reported by geopolitical analysts since at least as early as 2011 – that ISIS subsides on immense, multi-national state sponsorship, including, obviously, Turkey itself.

Looking at maps of ISIS-held territory and reading action reports of its offensive maneuvers throughout the region and even beyond, one might imagine hundreds of trucks a day would be required to maintain this level of fighting capacity. One could imagine similar convoys crossing into Iraq from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Similar convoys are likely passing into Syria from Jordan.

In all, considering the realities of logistics and their timeless importance to military campaigns throughout human history, there is no other plausible explanation to ISIS’s ability to wage war within Syria and Iraq besides immense resources being channeled to it from abroad.

Wasn't it Saddam who was responsible for selling oil out the back door and keeping the prices low?  Wasn't it the Saudi's who were involved in the bribery scandal, where Tony Blair ordered that Scotland Yard desist their investigation.  Wasn't it the Saudi's who benefited financially when the oil prices rose again after the removal of Saddam?

:link 4
The private prosecution seeks the trial in a British court of Blair, the foreign secretary in 2003, Jack Straw, and Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general at the time the government was deciding to join the invasion of Iraq.

It seeks their conviction for the crime of aggression and is based on the damning findings of last year’s Chilcot report into the British decision to join the invasion of Iraq, under the false pretext that Saddam Hussein’s regime had weapons of mass destruction.

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Newly published official figures reveal that the UK won defence orders worth £7.7bn last year. It now has about 12% of the global defence export market and, over the last decade, has shored up its position as the second largest arms exporter in the world.

There is still much to play for. The government’s own figures suggest that the global defence export market in 2015 was worth a fraction under $100bn, a 17% increase on 2014.

As the market has expanded, successive governments have gone to extraordinary lengths to promote the sector. Tony Blair intervened to prevent an investigation into arms exports to Riyadh; Cameron assiduously courted Saudi royalty; earlier this year the defence secretary, Michael Fallon, led a UK delegation to Qatar to promote sales of the Eurofighter jet.

The Middle East is considered by the government to be a priority market. Two-thirds of all arms exports go to the region. In the last two years the UK has agreed arms deals worth £388m with the United Arab Emirates, £170m with Qatar, £120m with Oman and £24m with Bahrain.

Other countries with questionable human rights records have also become major customers. In the last three years the UK has sold £450m of arms to Turkey, despite its increasing authoritarianism and political instability, and £116m of weaponry to Egypt, despite its recent coup and worsening human rights situation.

If the UK is the second largest arms exporter in the world, then the USA must be the largest arms exporter in the world (correct me if I'm wrong)...
...And if the UK is supplying all the countries mentioned as being the potential source of ISIS weaponry, where the USA is directly or indirectly supplying weapons to the Iraq Army...
Then it doesn't exactly require rocket science to work out the implications.  For the people who produce weaponry for a living the situation could not be more perfect for shareholder profits forecasting.

Iraqi people on the ground in Iraq living with this nightmare say that Saddam was a bastard, but they say that the people who came next made Saddam look like a proper sweetheart...
Iraq used to have the best education system in the Middle East.
Half a million Iraqi children died in the embargo on Iraq due to lack of proper medical supplies.
The average age in Iraq is now 35. (or very close)

I saw a Vice documentary recently about a 16 year old Iraqi boy who's been driving a city bus for a living for last 2 year, despite the fact that he has no driving license, to support himself and his mother.  That's when he's not been fighting ISIS with the Iraq Army, where he has lost 25 of his childhood friends to the war.  He had pictures of beheaded ISIS soldiers on his phone and expressed that he couldn't wait to get back to the fighting.
No-one on the ground in Iraq sees an end to the conflict even if ISIS is defeated.  Alliances formed in the face of ISIS are balanced on shaky ground at best, where most of the population has grown up with killing and knows no other life.     
 
If the word 'Zombie' can be attached to any part of the question of the OP, it is to describe the lack of action to address the reality of the Middle East conflict on the part of the 'general public' in the UK and the USA who are partially responsible via their taxes for funding this evil state of affairs.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Is the Schrodinger equation compatible with gravity

« on: 23/05/2017 19:24:11 »

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/69873/can-we-apply-schr%C3%B6dinger-equation-in-newton-gravitational-potential-and-derive-t

:above link
Note that this does not imply a quantization of the gravitational field. It is just a quantum particle in a classical, external, weak gravitational potential.

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Is schizophrenia caused by dopamine supersensitivity?

« on: 17/05/2017 18:03:21 »

Psychotic episodes can be caused by the body releasing abnormal amounts of dopamine in the brain...
Is it the fact that prolonged anti-psychotic medication is suppressing dopamine levels in a manner that the body then compensates for by producing more dopamine, in much the same way that heroine users produce less endorphin because the drug is overloading the body's system with endorphin?

I watched an interesting episode of Incredible Medicine Doctor Weston's casebook, where a young woman with extreme symptoms of a sudden onslaught of schizophrenia illuminated the fact that 20% (I think I remember correctly) of schizophrenia patients are suffering from an auto immune response.

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General Science / Re: Why does the same note sound different played on different musical instruments?

« on: 10/04/2017 22:03:58 »

While both instruments are playing the same tone, each instrument has a different means of producing the tone.
The means of production of the tone determines the resulting harmonics that are a result of the produced tone, where these overtones in relation to the structure and density of the instrument determine the interplay between harmonic and inharmonic frequencies, and the decay rate of the noise giving each type of instrument its individual sound, or timbre.

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New Theories / Re: Is there a linear vector space that can be used with gravitational fields?

« on: 06/04/2017 19:45:23 »

Why do you have to be sarcastic?

The people at CERN are looking for truths about physics.
Most physicists are quite openly stating that new ideas are required.

What I suggest is describing exactly what SR describes, it just gets there by differing means.

CERN are investigating particle physics...
The Standard Model has so far not been united with gravity.

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New Theories / Re: Is there a linear vector space that can be used with gravitational fields?

« on: 06/04/2017 18:37:55 »

By doing exactly as Taylor and Wheeler suggest:
Instead of stating the force as a property of the mass the force is exerted upon, one states the force as a property of the spacetime the mass is located in.

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New Theories / Re: Is there a linear vector space that can be used with gravitational fields?

« on: 06/04/2017 02:34:55 »

The problem with the gravity of gravity arise because of increasing relativistic mass. If a test particle approaches a black hole from infinity and its instantaneous velocity gets very near to light speed then its relativistic mass tends towards infinite. This means that it surpasses the strength of the central mass. In this situation even a single particle could generate a field capable of canceling that of the black hole and effectively move the black hole. If mass were in falling from all directions this should destroy the black hole by negating its field.

This is why physicists such as Wheeler use 4 momentum where kinetic energy isn't considered as part of the mechanics of the mass itself and the concept of relativistic mass is not changing the properties of mass, but you may suit yourself.

Under the remit of the vector energy space that I suggest no body of mass could ever obtain the speed of light under any circumstance of gravitational acceleration because the speed of light would be being held relative to the g-field coordinate 3rd time dilation, the 3rd time dilation being the physical cause of the acceleration

However as said before, you may suit yourself about relativistic mass, and I will respectfully leave you to it.

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Famous Scientists, Doctors and Inventors / Re: Who's inventions were the worst?

« on: 26/02/2017 15:26:20 »

Packaging meant to make the contents safe that is so difficult to get of that you damage the contents opening it.

I'm relieved to hear that it's not just me!  Those packaging's make me feel inadequate.

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New Theories / Re: My model of a cyclic universe...

« on: 10/12/2016 22:23:42 »

Ok, well as far as I am concerned the answer is:
100 marks that are 1 metre apart...

...and if we reset the lane 3 car to make marks at 10 marks per a second that is 20% shorter than a lane 1 second, then within the duration of time between start and stop light in lane 3 that is 20% longer than in lane 1, the lane 3 car will also make 100 marks that are 1 metre apart.
(So we can see that 1 direction of time dilation cancels the effects of the other for gravity potential affected objects)

Now let's add SR:
We will now give the constant speed of the cars the value of 0.866c.  According to SR the cars will be experiencing a 50% slowing of time and a 50% length contraction.

First we need to look at lane 1.  The car will experience a 50% slowing of its time.  In lane 1 the car is set to make 10 marks per second at the same rate of second as the duration of 10 seconds between start and stop light in lane 1... So in the duration of time between start and stop light in lane 1, the lane 1 car experiencing a 50% slowing of its time will make 50 marks.  Each mark will be 2 metres apart.  Should we choose to view these 2 metre distance marks as having the value of 1 original metre, we might be a bit worried that the slowing of the cars time has slowed the speed of the car by 50%, but we can make a mental note at this juncture that when considering a 50% length contraction, the length contracted car will make 100 marks, and that these marks will be 1 metre apart.  If we were at-all worried that a slowing of the cars time would slow the cars speed, then we can observe that the length contracted car is maintaining the 0.866c despite the slowing of its time.

However, when moving the scenario into lane 2 we now have to consider what length of second we are holding relative to the speed of light...
The lane 2 car is set to make 10 marks per a second that is 10% shorter than a lane 1 second, and the duration between start and stop light is 10% longer in lane 2 than a lane 1 second.
My model states light as unaffected by gravity potential so the speed of light in lane 2 is calculated as 299 792 458 metres per second that is 10% longer than in lane 1...  So... 0.866c then doesn't have the same value in lane 2 as it had in lane 1...

...But what we are going to do here is keep the constant speed of the lane 2 and lane 3 cars, (this being 0.866c), relative to the lane 1 second...
The lane 2 car is now travelling at 0.866c relative to a lane 1 second, in a lane 2 second where this speed is now 0.9526c (and I'm sorry everyone, 'cos this is where I lose touch with the numbers) ... but the lane 2 car will be experiencing a greater degree of a slowing of its time, for arguments sake I'll say 55% and a greater degree of length contraction, again I'll say 55%, relative to the 50% observed of the lane 1 car...
...But...the lane 2 car itself is also experiencing a 10% shorter second relative to the lane 1 car, and the duration between stop and start light is 10% longer in lane 2 than lane 1...
So we take the 55% slowing of time the lane 2 car experiences and subtract the gravity potential 10% shorter second that the car is also experiencing, leaving a remainder of a 45% slowing of the cars time.  The car is further slowed by 10% by the duration between stop and start light in lane 2, so we can add 10% back on for a total of 55% slowing of time.  The car will make 45 marks that are 2.222 metres apart. ( Scratches head) Again, if we are concerned that the car has been reduced in speed by the slowing of it's time, we can see that the expected length contraction of 55% will cause the lane 2 car to make 100 marks 1 metre apart...
So under this remit, the lane 2 car didn't travel any further than the lane 1 car, but it did take them 5% more time to get there relative to lane 1's journey time.

Make the calculation for lane 3 and the lane 3 car will also not travel any further than the lane 2, or lane 1 car, but the lane 3 car will take 10% longer to get there relative to the lane 1's journey time.
(This is how GR and SR work within the picture of the added contra directional gravitational time dilation and my model of a cyclic universe)

If you can get your heads around that, (that being my shabby mathematical representation) ...then:

If we now decide to hold the speed 0.866c relative to the lane 2 second, (this being the rate of the duration of time between start and stop light in lane 2) that is 10% longer than the lane 1 second, we will have to physically reduce the lane 2 cars 'speed' by 10%.  By calculation via a lane 1 second, the lane 2 car is now travelling at 0.7794c.  Because the lane 2 car is now travelling at 0.866c as per a lane 2 second, the lane 2 car will now travel the distance in the same amount of time as the lane 1 car does.
Reduce the speed for the lane 3 car by 20% relative to the lane 1 second, thereby holding the speed of 0.866c relative to a lane 3 second, and the lane 3 car will travel the distance in the same amount of time as the lane 1, and lane 2 cars.
(This is the mechanics of how my model of the universe warps time to travel across space quicker)

Edit - Please let me rephrase:
This is how the mechanics of the universe, as per my model, can be utilised by humans to travel across space faster.
(Please note that in a non expanding, slowly contracting universe, masses, in particular galaxies, are not as far apart as current physics denotes)

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New Theories / Re: My model of a cyclic universe...

« on: 07/12/2016 13:07:59 »

Colin - you are getting ahead of the discussion by adding in GP to the scenario, but when I do add in GP, contrarily to your comment regarding, the gravity potential will be lower for lane 1 than lane 2 and lower for lane 2 than lane 3.
Also I cannot understand where you get this 0.909 figure from.  If something is a figure of 100 and you take away 10%, it will be 90 surely?
And, yes, you are correct that current physics holds a standard second as a constant against frequency.

So - what you might deduce from my last post is that when taking a lane 2 car making marks at the frequency of a lane 2 second (this being 10% longer than a lane 1 second) and then running this lane 2 car in lane 1, that within 10 lane 1 seconds the lane 2 car will make 90 marks... and the space between these marks that the lane 2 car has marked in lane 1 will measure 1.1 metres.
...and the lane 3 car that is set to make marks at the frequency of a lane 3 second (this being 20% longer than a lane 1 second) running in lane 1, will make 80 marks within the duration of 10 lane 1 seconds...and the space between these marks that the lane 3 car marks out in lane 1 will measure 1.2 metres.
(As I have described above, the lane is a standard second, and the cars making marks to the tune of variable time periods are the frequency change)

Please note that these considerations so far have been just to illustrate the addition of a contra directional time dilation. (It may be noted at this juncture that my model states light as being unaffected by gravity potential)

Now I will add the gravity potential considerations:

To reiterate, the car in lane 1 is set to make 10 marks per second.  The duration of time between start and stop light is 10 seconds.
We are now resetting the lane 2 car to make marks per a second that is 10% shorter than the lane 1 second. (Please note that the lane 2 duration between stop and start light is still set at 10% longer than lane 1)
... We set the lane 3 car to make marks per a second that is 20% shorter than a lane 1 second. (Please note that the lane 3 duration between stop and start light is still set at 20% longer than lane 1.)

Looking at this reset lane 2 car making marks in lane 2 at a 10% faster rate than the lane 1 car, in the 10% slower than lane 1 duration of time between start and stop light - how many marks will the car make?
(please ignore SR for the mo, we'll get to that)

Nilak - you cannot have an absolute second in a universe of variable seconds, but you can make the standard second a second with which to hold every other length of second against.  As physics maths is doing this in any case, it's just a case of realising where physics is doing this and then further calculating.
Also it is important to recognise of you are going to use an absolute now or not as a concept.  Without it, the universe is a mess of different reference frames in various state of present, past, and future, and the possibility of an absolute reference frame is lost.

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New Theories / Re: My model of a cyclic universe...

« on: 06/12/2016 00:50:44 »

Alan, actually you are right.  What I'm describing isn't a variable second.  What I'm describing is a light wave moving at constant speed retaining a constant distance between wave peaks when travelling through variable time....  And that when current physics describes the length of a wavelength being inversely proportional to the energy of the light wave, all I am doing is saying that the rate of time that the light wave is travelling through, this reference frames length of second, (relative to a reference frame where light will have a different frequency), will be inversely proportional to the lights energy.
This means that the peaks between waves of all frequency of light travelling through reference frames of changing rates of time will be equally distanced, and that it is the change in length of second that extends or contracts a light wave.
(The logic for a light emitting source is symmetrical to this notion and I have tried to talk about this concept here: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=68849.0
...)

These changes in the rate of time that I am describing are the effects of the phenomenon of the contra directional gravitational time dilation that my model adds to the universe.  And the way light travels through the gravity field of open space surrounding M is indicative of this contra directional gravitational time dilations value at height from M.
(this negates the need for relativistic mass for light, and gives the acceleration of gravity a cause)

If this can be understood then I can go on to discuss how GR gravitational time dilation fits into this picture, and how the remit of this picture can hold distance or length constant within SR.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Could the acceleration of gravity be described like this?

« on: 01/11/2016 18:44:39 »

Syhprum - If it were a counter directional gravitational time dilation of empty space that caused the acceleration, the value of gravitational attraction, ie: the gravitational constant could be a lot less than currently thought.  The gravitational coupling constant could be a possibility here.  This would change the outlook somewhat.

(Please note: this concept can only be valid mechanically in a contracting universe)

Alan - as Ethos said.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Can this relationship be derived between Schrodinger equation and Doppler shift?

« on: 31/10/2016 14:51:09 »

Ok - thank you Alan.  Because it is difficult to multi quote from phone screen, I'll pick up your dissections one at a time.

Because Colin also asked I'll start with the Mossbauer:

Alan, perhaps my terminology is not correct as to the emission of a gamma ray from a Mossbauer, but the Mossbauer does emit a gamma ray, and it is because of the recoil of the nucleus that the gamma ray is of a lesser energy and cannot be absorbed by the receiving Mossbauer, because it doesn't have the correct level of energy.
Place the Mossbauer in a crystal lattice and the nucleus no longer recoils as before. The gamma ray is then emitted at the correct energy level to be received by the receiver.

A recoil motion is synonymous with the action that causes Doppler shift.

We can discuss this further, or if we are all good, we can move on to next dissection.

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New Theories / Re: An analysis of the de Broglie equation

« on: 25/06/2016 21:05:27 »

OK - to be hopefully be more 'usual' in the mathematical process employed:

1 meter times speed of light = 299 792 458 meters

1 meter divided by speed of light = 3.3ish nano seconds.

Add meters per second squared of acceleration of gravity to 299 792 458 meters.
Divide by speed of light.
Subtract 3.3 nano seconds from result.

Is the problematic term gone?