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New Theories / Time travelling light and the Young's Double Slit

« on: 26/02/2014 19:48:15 »

My hypothesis is based around the Young's Double Slit experiment, where photons can undergo superposition even if they are released from their source one at a time and can never come into contact with each other.

I propose they can come into contact with each other.

According to Einstein's theory of relativity, ones time can become dilated the faster you are moving; with the upper limit being the speed of light. Therefore, light always moving at the speed of light will not ever experience time - it does not age.
So, a single photon released from a source will actually encounter every other photon released from that source, as long as the environment and source remain identical because, in the view of the photon, they were released at the same; as the photons aren't 'participating' in our perception of time. Therefore, releasing each photon one by one is identical to releasing them in steady streams and that is why the Double Slit experiment produces an interference pattern.

This is better than other theories because:
1. It uses existing theories- namely Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
2. It doesn't invent parallel universes that some use to explain the superposition
3. The photon doesn't act erratically, it just doesn't follow our perception of time- so it still behaves as expected in Classical Physics.

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New Theories / Re: Plasma weaponry

« on: 26/02/2014 19:32:58 »

You probably wouldn't need a blast to create the bullet.
If you had a ring of plasma going round in a donut held by electromagnets, turning off the magnets would disrupt the ring for the leading point to fly out like if a conker was flung round on a string and suddenly let go, it flies out in a straight line. The donut of magnets could then be quickly restarted accelerating the plasma around the ring again to maintain the main body. The bullet could then be further accelerated by another set of electromagnets arranged in a straight line like a barrel, for the plasma bullet to approach conventional bullet like speeds.

This arrangement wouldn't actually need to zero gravity because the magnetic forces are so strong that gravity would have very little effect.

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Chemistry / Why don't all amino acids exist in rings?

« on: 19/02/2014 12:41:17 »

In A Level chemistry we do a lot on polymerisation, especially in amino acids. The definition of an amino acid is it has an amine and a carboxylic functional group at each end; which makes me think of 3 questions:
"what stops these two groups from reacting with each other?"
"How long does a molecule have to be to double back on itself like much longer proteins do all the time"
"and if molecules can fold like this, does that mean there's an inherent 'stretchiness' to σ and π bonds?"

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General Science / Re: Does love impair cognitive function?

« on: 16/02/2014 18:41:37 »

In a recent New Scientist article they were discussing possible drugs for relief from heart break and continually compared love to an addiction, because of the obsession the lover grows for the partner and reliance on neurotransmitters that someone in love grows used to; such as oxytocin.

My point being, if they're correct, someone who's addicted to hard-core drugs- say heroin, wouldn't see how negative their dependence is and would rationalise and skip over the side effects; someone who's deeply in love with someone else would do the same and would ignore the implausibilities of their story.

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New Theories / Re: 12 noble gases?, 172 periodic table (god particle/higgs)Electron-Multiverse

« on: 12/02/2014 22:13:09 »

Why does it make more sense for all elements to be descended from element 172 instead of being successively built up by protons and neutrons? In the early universe there was only hydrogen and some helium; surely if there was an abundance of 172 there'd still be traces of it? Or are you suggesting that all matter was 172 then it broke down completely into H and He to THEN build up into more complex elements?

I think the fractal 'multiverse' looks nice but it doesn't actually predict anything and none of this shows where the existing theories fall down or come up short.

And the alphaomegadotme files are incomprehensible, I'm bewildered as to what they're meant to show.

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New Theories / Re: Could discovery of fire led to humans loss of tapetum lucidum?

« on: 30/01/2014 21:13:32 »

Opening this question up to changes in physiology from our ancestors experience of fire:

I suffered quite a serious burn about a year ago on my arm and face which healed remarkably quickly with no scarring; I wonder if the same had happened to an animal with skin similar to humans but had never evolved around fire, whether they would be able to heal in the same way.

 

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New Theories / Re: IF STARS WHERE ELECTRONS?

« on: 26/01/2014 19:46:51 »

If the Universe was an electron and everything in it was at different "fractal levels" how can stars then be electrons?

Binary systems - or "double systems" as you've dubbed them - wouldn't be Helium, they'd be two repelling electrons. In any case He has 2 protons and 2 neutrons as well as 2 electrons so it'd be a sextuplet system to obtain one of the most basic elements.

As well as this, electrons are leptons so they're fundamental particles unable to be broken down any further. You can't then have a levels inside an electron because that would suggest that smaller divisions make up the electron.

Basically, it's a crackpot theory that doesn't really mean anything.

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General Science / Re: Streets in the rain

« on: 21/01/2014 10:32:27 »

I've noticed that cars generally drive much slower when it's wet or rainy than a sunnier day, perhaps the added noise is to do with a longer exposure rather than any more pronounced effect.

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General Science / Why do baggy shirts make me sweat more?

« on: 20/01/2014 18:47:24 »

I rarely get too hot in a shirt or a t-shirt, but i have a collection of over-sized airy cotton and silk shirts and they never fail to make me too hot even when ridiculously unbuttoned, why?

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Chemistry / Re: What happens if you mix salt peter,wood ash,chalk,salt and throw it in a fire?

« on: 20/01/2014 17:06:10 »

Saltpeter - KNO3 and wood ash is an assortment of essentially 'burned' chemicals, trying to react them again with an oxidiser will do little. Calcium Carbonate - CaCO3 makes up a large proportion and no reaction will take place between the saltpeter and the carbonate until the carbonate is thermally decomposed and new oxygen molecules from the saltpeter can bind to it. 

The salt will frustratingly never react with anything you could do at home, nor can I imagine chalk doing anything exceptional either- apart from maybe popping from pockets of water inside the structure which I've seen large bangs from wet slate do.

However, throwing saltpeter onto a fire does cause interesting things to happen as the crystals melt in the heat and violently oxidise the burning fuel - wood, cardboard etc.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Bosons: The Single Spectra

« on: 20/01/2014 16:41:17 »

I admit that this is quite far fetched, but I'd like someone to tell me categorically why this couldn't work because I've been mulling this over for a while, but this is my hypothesis:

Consider the light spectra, at first glance one might assume long wavelength radio waves and high frequency gamma rays to be unconnected but it's clear that they're all transmitted by the same force carrier, the photon.
Also, as de Broglie showed particles have wave like properties; this must hold true for other bosons too - as it does for the photon - would it be madness to ask what if there is only a single Boson and the force carriers are just examples of this same boson at different frequencies.

If this was true I'd postulate that the Higg's and Photons would be 'The Boson' at a lower frequency while the Strong and Weak nuclear forces would be 'The Boson' at a very high frequency (as they have much shorter range)   

What bothers me with why this wouldn't work is how would one go about changing the frequency of a W- Boson into a Higg's Boson or if it was a spectra surely there'd be a great many more bosons unless there was a mechanism that excluded a great deal of them.

It's only an idea, dont be too harsh when ripping it apart 
-Seb