What's your favourite scientific theory??

[Stramash]

Since TF has apparently been 'dumbing down', thought we would increase the cerebral input to the forum threads...

So, what is your favourite scientific theory?? It can be an old one, now disproved, or one that has still to be fully proven.

to start us off, my own personal favourite; Quantum Entanglement

The Crazy Part:The part where you jiggle an electron on one side of the universe and an invisible force traverses millions of light years and smacks another electron into wiggling instantaneously, which is about a million years faster than is technically possible without time travel.

So What Does This Do For Me? Teleportation, holmes. Only really tiny. In theory, you could separate two electrons by as much space as you wanted (say, the breadth of the universe), and they?d still be linked in such a way that actions taken on one would affect the other instantaneously. Meaning information is being transmitted at speeds faster than light. Meaning, if you want to really go nuts, time travel. And though the party pooping scientists have been busy coming up with limitations on the kind of information that could be transmitted (it seems super-fast computers that allow you to play Gears of War against people in parallel dimensions may be a ways off), no one has yet been able to disprove the theory that there is an invisible force in the universe capable of affecting matter millions of light-years away?instantly.

Wait, It Gets Worse: If you subscribe to the whole ?Big Bang? thing, then there was a point in the past in which every atom in the universe was condensed into a singularity. Which means everything, even you and that bastard Bob Feeney, are quantumly entangled. Some scientists have even gone so far as to claim that quantum entanglement shows that there is no such thing as space, and that everything in the universe is still touching. Space is just an illusion created by our flawed perceptions, and we?re all one. The hippies were right after all

Level Of Mind Blowing-ness: A fistful of acid tabs followed by the flume ride at Disneyworld.

(with thanks to cracked.com)

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[BrianAZ]

Dr. NIKOLA TESLA.

In the late 1880's, Dr. Nikola Tesla accidently discovered an electrostatic "super-charging" effect while trying to verify Hertz' discovery of electromagnetic waves. After hundreds of experiments, he learned how to control and maximize this phenomenon. This led him to the discovery that electricity is made up of different components that can be separated from each other, and that a pure, gaseous, etheric energy can be fractionated away from the flow of electrons in a circuit designed to produce short duration, unidirectional impulses. When all of the conditions were right, this etheric energy would manifest itself as a spatially distributed voltage that would radiate away from the electrical circuit as a "light-like ray" that could charge other surfaces within the field. Tesla found that this effect was greatly magnified when these impulse currents were produced by the discharge of a capacitor. This huge explosion of electrostatic energy, that radiates away at right angles from the capacitor discharge pathway, is the primary operating principle of his Magnifying Transmitter. With amazing device, Tesla planned to broadcast energy to the whole world from his facility at Wardenclyffe, New York.

After Tesla was prevented from bringing his World Broadcast System into full manifestation, he worked for years to develop a smaller version of the device that harnessed the same principles. By the 1920's he had succeeded. This specialized electronic circuit is what powered his infamous Pierce-Arrow automobile

[eagle]

Murphy's Law :twisted:

[LakeGeneve]

^Did Telsa not get shafted by Edison or have I seen too many movies???

I like the idea of Lovelock GAIA theory, an ecological hypothosis which has a strong elemental basis.

That the componets of the planet and all within are interconnected and are one whole, living organism which is self regulating. All elements and actions affect other parts of the whole. That we are not divorced from everything in the world, a small action here can have a large consequence elsewhere.

Seems to make a lot of sense and be increasingly relevent. I try to live it but I am far from being there yet; give me a few more lives!

[drlovelife8]

Darwin's theory of Natural selection.

Puts Abrahamic religious theory to shame.

[CiaranM]

Darwin's theory of Natural selection.

Puts Abrahamic religious theory to shame.

surely any rational proven scientific theory would put any religious theory to shame !!!

[Dr_Mike]

I just wrote a very nice article to this forum,

but the shty mouse decided to click on the back button before I could post it.

That's my contribution to this.

[farang_subson]

Theory of Gravity!

When the creo-bots exhort for the millionth time that the theory of evolution is "just a theory", it's useful to remind them that gravity is "just a theory" as well.

[English_Bob]

It's not a theory, it's an animal...

Eunice aphroditois aka. Bobbitt Worm

Named after the John Bobbitt case where an American housewife sliced off her husband's todger.

Commonly know as Bobbit Worm, the reason why he got this lovely name is due to the fact that the female worm attacks the male penis and feeds it to her young after mating...

Funny stuff from the Science Nerds.

[GM]

My favorite was Groove Theory... but they only put out one album and then they broke up...

[LakeGeneve]

Commonly know as Bobbit Worm, the reason why he got this lovely name is due to the fact that the female worm attacks the male penis and feeds it to her young after mating....

I think that this fact should be more correctly places in the 'Worst Sex experiences' thread!

[PeeMarc]

Elephant.

[Stramash]

Elephant.

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[PeeMarc]

Elephant.

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a rather obscure, (but no less vital) old ladys theory in an early Python sketch. Sorry. Was this meant to be serious? Oh...cerebral.,dang!

[Stramash]

Elephant.

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a rather obscure, (but no less vital) old ladys theory in an early Python sketch. Sorry. Was this meant to be serious? Oh...cerebral.,dang!

well cerebral with twist of humour was allowed...

anyway someone mentioned evolution...so let's look at it in more detail;

The Crazy Part: The part where the family tree of every living creature on Earth collides at a single point on a single day in the past, making you related to Hitler as well as every insect you?ve ever killed..

What It Says: We?re all familiar with the basics of evolution: that a munificent monkey-goddess birthed us all from Her banana-scented womb. But there are some lesser-discussed implications of natural selection that are just plain weird. For one, scientists have concluded that around 140,000 years ago in Kenya, there lived a woman called Mitochondrial Eve (cavemen had weird names), so named because today, every living human on Earth has her mitochondrial DNA in their body (cavemen were also prescient). And only 3,000 years ago lived a person known as the Most Recent Common Ancestor, who, through exponential growth of the family tree, is the ancestor of every single person on Earth. And did you know that, based on the same principles (and a lot of rape), Genghis Kahn has over 16 million descendants? Who?s your Daddy now?!

So What Does This Do For Me? Well, for one, you can rest assured than anyone you ever have sex with in your entire life is at least your distant, distant cousin. So that?s nice. And if you?re really a nut for genealogy, why not trace your heritage back to the Last Universal Ancestor, the single-celled organism who, about 4 billion years ago, decided to go ahead and give rise to every living creature that will ever exist on the face of the Earth? Talk about a pimp. In essence, the whole of life on the planet can be considered one long, unbroken chemical reaction that is still resolving itself, like the foam flowing out of a science fair volcano

Wait, It Gets Worse: The genetic chaos continues. The Endosymbiotic Theory says that the mitochondria in our bodies, without which we couldn?t live, let alone write snide humor articles, was at one point a separate organism that invaded our cells and set up camp. They formed a symbiotic relationship so beneficial that we?ve never booted them out. Furthermore, large chunks of the human genome are thought to be ancient retroviruses that managed to transcribe themselves into our DNA and have spent the remainder of their days happily clambering up and down our nucleotides like the McDuck children on a mansion banister. Basically your cells are millions of individual organisms, all huddled together in a you-shaped beehive. Now see how long you can go before wanting to shower.

And lastly, a thought for the right-wingers out there: At some point half of you was an egg in your Mother?s womb. That egg existed in her body from the day she was born. And a long, long time ago, she too was an egg in her Mother?s womb, who had that egg ready for use from the moment she squirmed out of your Great Grandma?s nethers. The point being, technically speaking, there?s no break in the chain of existence, no time when you are not a life form of at least the most rudimentary sort. Your family, at least on your Mother?s side, could theoretically be considered an immortal, constantly-regenerating organism. Of course that would make men, whose sperm has to be created years after the moment of birth, just disposable donors here to fuel the everlasting fire of womanhood. You go girls!

[LakeGeneve]

Elephant.

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a rather obscure, (but no less vital) old ladys theory in an early Python sketch. Sorry. Was this meant to be serious? Oh...cerebral.,dang!

Is it akin to the Cochran Chewbacca defence?

[Aces_up]

the worm hole theory.. love the thought of being able to just pass through it and be in a total different place. be G8 if worm hole could be made to a transporter to transport me from Thailand to England so i could watch the footy..

[LakeGeneve]

From fruit flies to elephants, females pick the male (or males) with which they want to mate. The males, in turn, compete with each other to get a female's attention, each vying to show her that he will be the best sperm donor for her babies. That is why, evolutionary biologists say, males are most often the ornamented sex. It is why the male peacock unfurls his dazzling train, why male guppies are adorned with bright orange and blue spots, why male frogs call and male canaries sing. It is even why the genitalia of many males, particularly insects, are as fancy as an Aborigine's embellished didgeridoo, with accoutrements far beyond what's required to get the job done.

It an animal attraction, a theory of sexual selection .. Charles Darwin.

I thought you were describing the last Full Moon party on Koh Phangan! :wink:

[LU]

Since TF has apparently been 'dumbing down', thought we would increase the cerebral input to the forum threads...

So, what is your favourite scientific theory?? It can be an old one, now disproved, or one that has still to be fully proven.

to start us off, my own personal favourite; Quantum Entanglement

The Crazy Part:The part where you jiggle an electron on one side of the universe and an invisible force traverses millions of light years and smacks another electron into wiggling instantaneously, which is about a million years faster than is technically possible without time travel.

So What Does This Do For Me? Teleportation, holmes. Only really tiny. In theory, you could separate two electrons by as much space as you wanted (say, the breadth of the universe), and they?d still be linked in such a way that actions taken on one would affect the other instantaneously. Meaning information is being transmitted at speeds faster than light. Meaning, if you want to really go nuts, time travel. And though the party pooping scientists have been busy coming up with limitations on the kind of information that could be transmitted (it seems super-fast computers that allow you to play Gears of War against people in parallel dimensions may be a ways off), no one has yet been able to disprove the theory that there is an invisible force in the universe capable of affecting matter millions of light-years away?instantly.

Wait, It Gets Worse: If you subscribe to the whole ?Big Bang? thing, then there was a point in the past in which every atom in the universe was condensed into a singularity. Which means everything, even you and that bastard Bob Feeney, are quantumly entangled. Some scientists have even gone so far as to claim that quantum entanglement shows that there is no such thing as space, and that everything in the universe is still touching. Space is just an illusion created by our flawed perceptions, and we?re all one. The hippies were right after all

Level Of Mind Blowing-ness: A fistful of acid tabs followed by the flume ride at Disneyworld.

(with thanks to cracked.com)

:roll:

YES YES, I love this theory, speaking as someone who downed fistful of blotter acid myself 8)

[LU]

Butterfly effect- Sensitive dependence on initial conditions.

? Laws of physics are not universal because on small scales things behave differently.

? Energy can express itself to us either as a wave or a particle.

? The consciousness of the observer determines how energy will behave.

[LU]

But all this stuff is useless, I'm heading to the gym 8)

[Neo]

Loop Quantum Gravity

- it's beautiful because it's background independent, discrete and spacetime is an emergent property of it's simple processes.