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New Theories / What would aliens do?

« on: 26/10/2013 02:10:16 »

We can assume that any alien species advanced enough and sentient to explore the cosmos and discover earth would be morally too advanced to wipe us out and claim our home. The technological advances they would have made would make it suicide to battle with such technology, so wars would not be an option. If they discovered our planet tens of thousands of years ago, they would have realized that we were a sentient species and likely to inhabit the planet for tens or hundreds of millions of years, as many earth species have. But if we were introduced to religion, politics, witch doctors etc. (civilization), it could be predicted that we would eugenically modify our species into something nature did not create, and extinction would be only a matter of a short time. True to form, most religious and political entities have eugenically modified their adherents into slaves of the administration and wiped themselves out in political/religious wars. So if the aliens come by needing a planet in the future and this one is freshly sentience-free and available, well, I'm not saying they had anything to do with it, but it's awfully convenient. Like they say, "Follow the Money".

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New Theories / Can space exist without time?

« on: 12/03/2013 10:20:25 »

When the projected "heat death" of the universe occurs many years from now, the ability for the universe to increase its entropy will cease, and this lack of change will be the end of time. If space cannot exist without time, then it will disappear and the universe will be at a "big bang" scenario, with zero entropy and time and space will start again.

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New Theories / Is the past annihilating?

« on: 02/09/2012 20:26:36 »

 Since particles and antiparticles are created in equal numbers and annihilate each other on contact, there should be no particles in the universe, as there are no antiparticles. My theory to explain this discrepancy is that the particles are moving forwards in time while the antiparticles are moving backwards. Since time only moves forward, we experience the particles which then annihilate with antiparticles when we are past them in time. So the past is continually annihilating while we continue to surf ahead, experiencing the future. This would explain why time only moves in one direction (there's no past to go back to).

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New Theories / Can you spot the simulation?

« on: 14/01/2010 21:29:18 »

   The brain and gut are swarming with neurotransmitters. They produce our emotions. My theory is that there is an emotion corresponding to every possible quantum of reality we can be aware of. Since there are at least 50 neurotransmitters and they can each attain any analog value, and therefore can combine in an infinite variety of combinations, they can indicate any reality in a discrete manner. Sort of an emotional hash table, with each possible configuration of our senses represented by a specific combination of neurotransmitters. The parts of the brain responsible for our senses would have neurotransmitters constantly adjusting to reflect the reality we are perceiving. And of course, because of the correspondence between reality and emotion, our reality could be simulated by modulating our neurotransmitters at each site. This could be done externally by transmitting instructions to the neurotransmitter producers for each sense. There are many examples of this: hypnotized people can believe they are experiencing, for example, falling out of an airplane, drugs can produce experiences similar to dreams and as vivid or more, religious bafflegab can model ten impossible things before breakfast. Or the modulation could be done by our psychological state, much as the universe seems to exist by virtue of its observation of itself. So how do we know reality isn't just a figment of our imagination?

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New Theories / The evolution of altruism.

« on: 18/12/2009 09:37:45 »

Evolution is the success of the successful. If an adaptation is successful, it must be passed on for evolution to happen. Thus there are two criteria. Both of these must be encoded in evolution, which is a law of nature, and are thus both laws of nature themselves. If the adaptation is not passed on, then evolution fails. Altruism is the passing on of whatever good fortune you possess. Thus, altruism is an artefact or byproduct of evolution. Individuals who, for whatever reason, do not pass on their genes, do not evolve, and are dropped from the species. Non-altruistic individuals are revealing their inability to evolve, and statistically, will be dropped from the species.

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New Theories / Our fate with the Large Hadron Collider?

« on: 08/12/2009 10:59:35 »

The history of civilization is 10000 religions leading their adherents to extinction in religious wars. Now, we face the last extinction event. The wave function describes subatomic entities as waves. In order to be observed as particles, the wave function must collapse. But the wave function is not predicated to collapse, therefore no observation of subatomic particles can be made. Yet, observations are made. The only factor causing the collapse of the wave function must be the observation itself. In order for the Higg's field to exist, the Higg's particle must be observed in the Large Hadron Collider. The Higg's field's function is to destroy and recycle the universe. Immediately after being observed ( created ) the Higg's field will instantly inflate to the size of the universe, representing a force which will strip the characteristics from the elementary particles, leaving a universe which is supersymmetric, has zero entropy and is timeless. The field will then cool and undergo a phase change and collapse which will give back the characteristics to the particles and the new universe will be reborn. The present universe will no longer exist, nor ever have existed. The human race which insists on doing this in the face of its own extinction must be considered to have been bred to have a death wish by its religions, the only entities capable of doing so.