your own unscientific scientific thoughts

[nemesiss]

i don't think it's too far a stretch to say that most of us reason and science fanatics.
and i doubt we all have idea's about reality and understanding it.
Some of the things we might postulate could be an interesting idea that might or might not be good enough for research. and im not sure if it our ideas can be tested, or that we know how to we can test, or even propose it.
some of the ideas we have might already have been researched, debunked or is currently under research...

so i wonder, perhaps it might be an interesting topic to have. i would like to post it under scientific, but since it will be about stuff with no (real) evidence to back it up, the best place would be pseudo-science.

so what ideas do you have?



one of my ideas: the field that keeps atoms together, might be the same field that causes gravity.

It's a common fact that every object has gravity, some little some alot. But with the very small gravity seems (almost) absent. how is gravity "created"? well, as i understand it, it's by matter.
so how does matter create gravity? as far as i found, no answer is given.
we know that atoms create fields in which they can capture electrons, but what more can this field do?
it's possible to stretch magnetism, so what if this field was stretchable...?
how far can it reach?
if the field is amplified by the amount of mass if might become immense, though i think that reach can reach very far but then it will have a weak grip on other matter...
inside the field, all the matter will have a neutral effect, because all matter creates this force of attraction, which cancel each other out. this gives the appearance of their being no gravity on a very small scale.

as for why gravity is "weak", it might actually be the other way around. in a similar way with distance.
an inch is neglible on the scale of lightyears.
(yes, i'm pretty aware that the reasoning sofar seems pretty circular, but it's just an idea.. not some doctrine i hold)

 

[australopithecus]

one of my ideas: the field that keeps atoms together, might be the same field that causes gravity.

It's a nice thought but the strong force that binds atoms together is only 'strong' on the scale of atoms, once you get past a certain size other forces take over.

It's a common fact that every object has gravity, some little some alot. But with the very small gravity seems (almost) absent. how is gravity "created"? well, as i understand it, it's by matter.
so how does matter create gravity? as far as i found, no answer is given.

Well, there kind of is an answer AFAIK, that being general relativity. Objects have mass and mass warps space/time. The force of gravity felt by an object would be due to it falling into the warped space/time. Where does mass comes from? Hopefully we'll have an answer sometime this year if the results CERN gathered at the LHC last year turn out to reveal the Higgs. Gravity as a force does still need a mediating particle, so if the standard model is correct then the Graviton is out there waiting to be found.

 

[Anachronous Rex]

Let's see... Well here's one:

Assuming that multi-verse theory is in some sense accurate, assuming that these universes have differing physical laws, and assuming that interaction between universes is possible (I know that's a lot of assuming), I've always wondered if it might not be possible to exploit these differences to perform a kind of magic.

For instance, if the inertial force is weaker or non-existent in another universe could you hurl an object using those rules, and then modify its properties in-flight to use our rules or the rules of a universe where inertia is far stronger? And by this means greatly increase speed and force of impact?


On the subject of history, I've always wondered if it might not be possible to search for fragments of Neolithic European languages (maybe even a bit of old Cro-Magnon) by attempting to identify discrepancies in European languages from Proto-Indo-European or from Non-European Indo-European languages. Presumably the same could be done in reverse in Iran. I realize of course that this would be insanely difficult, and that any results would be extremely tenuous at best. Linguistics is not my thing, but it seems like something some enterprising grad student might want to attempt.