Natural Science Forum / Physics / New Theories / June 2004

Do Virtual Photons Exist?
    The Aether was original conceived as a means of explaining "forces acting
at a distance" (i.e.- electric, magnetic, gravitation, et al). When the idea of
the classical Aether was abandoned early in the century, there was a need to

Details of the Ekpyrotic Universe theory
Authors: (Justin Khoury, Princeton; Burt Ovrut, UPenn; Paul Steinhardt,
Princeton and Neil Turok, Cambridge):
Our paper proposes a new theory of the very early universe that resolves the

hey.. pop sci type guy here. read the books, wish there were math shows
on tv etc. since 1966 ive thought about the transition from non-motion
to motion.
is there a field of study that examines the transition from non-motion

nightbat wrote
             Everything you needed to do some serious time travel
including how to build the mysterious flux capacitor. For those cranks,
trolls, and know it all's, who are bored and looking for better things

The Nature of Mass
    We have all been taught in our physics classes that mass is one of the
fundamental entities of our reality and that all of the effects occurring in
our Universe are dependent on interactions between masses. It behooves us then

I am trying to get some comments on my Ph.D research here at the
University of Texas at Austin.  The title of my dissertation is "A
General Solution to the Unrestricted Problem of Three Bodies" and it
is on the web at http://home.austin.rr.com/whcii/    There are a total

The Scarcity of Life Bearing Planets
    There is considerable interest in the possibility that there may be a
large number of planets in our galaxy that are suitable for life. In the hope
that there may be intelligent life on planets lying within a reasonable

Here is my formula for weight:
weight = GMm/r - 1/2mv^2
With this formula, I can easily derive the formulas for escape velocity,
circular velocity, and orbital velocity. Please read my essay A New Gravity

The most say Einstein is right there is no Aether, others say the Aether
exists.
Who is right?
I think it is really easy to say who is right, maybe the Michelson-Morley

Here is a thought experiment I have been pondering.
Picture a cylindrical air core coil with a two plate circular
capacitor attached flat across one end, ie. the central axis of each
is aligned with the other. The cap might be, say, 10 times the coil

well fellas, tomorrow is when the crab nebula is gonna begin its journey
towards us, and we're gonna have no sun for a week and comets [3] plus heaps
more debris will shower down and the moon will turn to blood.....providing
we are working within the boundaries of the below link

Hi Dave,
I really like your website.  You have some fascinating stuff on there.  One
part of it I have a problem understanding is the "G-force".  Can you
elaborate on that (in laymans terms)?

For the open minded:
Suppose we have a list of all events ever happened and will happen.
This is a one dimensional list, the only dimension being time
(assuming a particle can interact with no more than one particle at a

usually the water in the sea is colder than the temperature outside .
so it must be possible to construct a machine who produces
energy on a ship and by this energy the ship could move .
anyone did it ever try out ?

When a conductor is moved in the magnetic field electromotance is
produced. Consider a loop ABCD  in which horizontal arms AC and BD are
extended and CD slides over them with velocity v. Plane of the loop is
perpendicular to the magnetic flux. Total voltage generated is given