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One prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity is that when a large object
moves, it drags the space-time around it, causing nearby objects to be pulled along
as well. It can occur when a large object is moving in a straight line or is rotating,
and, although the effect is very small, it has been experimentally verified. The
Gravity Probe B experiment, launched in 2004, was designed to measure the
space-time distortion near Earth. Although sources of interference were larger than
expected, the frame-dragging effect has been measured to an uncertainty of 15%,
with further analysis hoping to reduce this further.

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The expected effects were very close to predictions: due to the rotation of the Earth,
the probe was pulled from its orbit by around 2 meters per year, an effect purely
caused by the mass of the Earth distorting the space-time surrounding it. The probe
itself would not feel this extra acceleration because it is not caused by an
acceleration on the probe, but rather on the space-time the probe is traveling
through–analogous to a rug being pulled under a table, rather than moving the
table itself.

8 Relativity of Simultaneity

The relativity of simultaneity is the idea that whether two events occur
simultaneously or not is relative and depends on the observer. It is a strange
consequence of the special theory of relativity, and applies to any events that
happen that are separated by some distance. For example, if a firework is let off on
Mars and another on Venus, one observer traveling through space one way might
say they happen at the same time (compensating for the time light takes to reach
them), while another observer traveling another way might say the one on Mars
went off first, and yet another might say the one on Venus went off first. It is
caused by the way different viewpoints become distorted compared to each other in
special relativity. And because they are all relative, no observer can be said to have
the correct viewpoint.

This can lead to very unusual scenarios, such as an observer witnessing effect
before cause (for example, seeing a bomb go off, then later seeing someone light
the fuse). However, once the observer sees the effect, they cannot interact with the
cause without traveling faster than the speed of light, which was one of the first
reasons faster-than-light travel was believed to be forbidden, because it is akin to
time travel, and a universe where you can interact with the cause after the effect
makes no sense.

7 Black Strings

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One of the longest outstanding mysteries in physics is how gravity is related to the
other fundamental forces, such as electromagnetism. One theory, first proposed in
1919, showed that if an extra dimension is added to the universe, gravity still exists
in the first four dimensions (three space dimensions and time), but the way this
four dimensional space curves over the extra fifth dimension, naturally produces
the other fundamental forces. However, we cannot see or detect this fifth
dimension, so it was proposed that the extra dimension was curled up, and hence
became invisible to us. This theory was what ultimately led to string theory, and is
still included at the heart of most string theory analysis.

Since this extra dimension is so small, only tiny objects, such as particles, can move
along it. In these cases, they ultimately just end up where they started, since the
extra dimension is curled up on itself. However, one object that becomes much
more complex in five dimensions is a black hole. When extended to five
dimensions, it becomes a “black string,” and unlike a normal 4D black hole, it is
unstable (this ignores the fact that 4D black holes eventually evaporate). This black
string will destabilize into a whole string of black holes, connected by further black
strings, until the black strings are pinched off entirely and leave the set of black
holes. These multiple 4D black holes then combine into one larger black hole. The
most interesting thing about this is that, using current models, the final black hole
is a “naked” singularity. That is, it has no event horizon surrounding it. This
violates the Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis, which says that all singularities must
be surrounded by an event horizon, in order to avoid the time-travel effects that are
believed to happen near a singularity from changing the history of the entire
universe, as they can never escape from behind an event horizon.

6 Geon

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As is best shown in the equation E=MC2 , energy and matter are fundamentally
connected. One effect of this is that energy, as well as mass, creates a gravitational
field. A geon, first investigated by John Wheeler, in 1955, is an electromagnetic or
gravitational wave whose energy creates a gravitational field, which in turn holds
the wave itself together in a confined space. Wheeler speculated that there may be a
link between microscopic geons and elementary particles, and that they might even
be the same thing. A more extreme example is a “kugelblitz” (German for “ball
lightning”), which is where such intense light is concentrated at a particular point
that the gravity caused by the light energy becomes strong enough to collapse into
a black hole, trapping the light inside. Although nothing is thought to prevent the
formation of a kugelblitz, geons are now only believed to be able to form
temporarily, as they will inevitably leak energy and collapse. This unfortunately
indicates that Wheeler’s initial conjecture was incorrect, but this has not been
definitively proven.

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5 Kerr Black Hole

The type of black hole most people are familiar with, which has an event horizon
on the outside acting as the “point of no return” and a point singularity of infinite
density on the inside, actually has a more specific name: a Schwarzschild black
hole. It is named after Karl Schwarzschild, who found the mathematical solution of
Einstein’s field equations for a spherical, non-rotating mass in 1915, only a month
after Einstein actually published his general theory of relativity. However, it wasn’t
until 1963 that mathematician Roy Kerr found the solution for a rotating spherical
mass. Hence, a rotating black hole is called a Kerr black hole, and it has some
unusual properties.

At the centre of a Kerr black hole, there is no point singularity, but rather a ring
singularity—a spinning one-dimensional ring held open by its own momentum.

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There are also two event horizons, an inner and outer one, and an ellipsoid called
the ergosphere, inside which space-time itself rotates with the black hole (because
of frame dragging) faster than the speed of light. When entering the black hole, by
passing through the outer event horizon, space-like paths become time-like,
meaning that it is impossible to avoid the singularity at the centre, just like in a
Schwarzschild black hole. However, when you pass through the inner event
horizon, your path becomes space-like again. The difference is this: space-time
itself is reversed. This means gravity near the ring singularity becomes repulsive,
actually pushing you away from the centre. In fact, unless you enter the black hole
exactly on the equator, it is impossible to hit the ring singularity itself. Additionally,
ring singularities can be linked through space-time, so they can act as wormholes,
although exiting the black hole on the other side would be impossible (unless it was
a naked singularity, possibly created when the ring singularity spins fast enough).
Traveling through a ring singularity might take you to another point in space-time,
such as another universe, where you could see light falling in from outside the
black hole, but not leave the black hole itself. It might even take you to a “white
hole” in a negative universe, the exact meaning of which is unknown.

4 Quantum Tunneling

Quantum tunneling is an effect where a particle can pass through a barrier it


would not normally have the energy to overcome. It can allow a particle to pass
through a physical barrier that should be impenetrable, or can allow an electron to
escape from the pull of the nucleus without having the kinetic energy to do so.
According to quantum mechanics, there is a finite probability that any particle can
be found anywhere in the universe, although that probability is astronomically
small for any real distance from the particles expected path.

However, when the particle is faced with a small-enough barrier (around 1-3 nm
wide), one which conventional calculations would indicate is impenetrable by the
particle, the probability that the particle will simply pass through that barrier
becomes fairly noticeable. This can be explained by the Heisenberg uncertainty
principle, which limits how much information can be known about a particle. A
particle can “borrow” energy from the system it is acting in, use it to pass through
the barrier, and then lose it again.

Quantum tunneling is involved in many physical processes, such as radioactive


decay and the nuclear fusion that takes place in the Sun. It is also used in certain
electrical components, and it has even been shown to occur in enzymes in
biological systems. For example, the enzyme glucose oxidase, which catalyses the
reaction of glucose into hydrogen peroxide, involves the quantum tunneling of an
entire oxygen atom. Quantum tunneling is also a key feature of the scanning
tunneling microscope, the first machine to enable the imaging and manipulation of
individual atoms. It works by measuring the voltage in a very fine tip, which
changes when it gets close to a surface due to the effect of electrons tunneling
through the vacuum (known as the “forbidden zone”) between them. This gives the
device the sensitivity necessary to make extremely high resolution images. It also
enables the device to move atoms by deliberately putting a current through the
conducting tip.

3 Cosmic Strings

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Shorty after the Big Bang, the universe was in a highly disordered and chaotic
state. This means that small changes and defects didn’t change the overall structure
of the universe. However, as the universe expanded, cooled, and went from a
disorderly state to an orderly one, it reached a point where very small fluctuations
created very large changes.

This is similar to arranging tiles evenly on a floor. When one tile is placed unevenly,
this means that the subsequent tiles placed will follow its pattern. Therefore, you
have a whole line of tiles out of place. This is similar to the objects called cosmic
strings, which are extremely thin and extremely long defects in the shape of space-
time. These cosmic strings are predicted by most models of the universe, such as
the string theory wherein two kinds of “strings” are unrelated. If they exist, each
string would be as thin as a proton, but incredibly dense. Thus, a cosmic string a
mile long can weigh as much as the Earth. However, it would not actually have
any gravity and the only effect it will have on matter surrounding it would be the
way it changes the form and shape of space-time. Therefore, a cosmic string is, in
essence, just a “wrinkle” in the shape of space-time.

Cosmic strings are thought to be incredibly long, up to the order of the sizes of
thousands of galaxies. In fact, recent observations and simulations have suggested
that a network of cosmic strings stretches across the entire universe. This was once
thought to be what caused galaxies to form in supercluster complexes, although
this idea has since been abandoned. Supercluster complexes consist of connected
“filaments” of galaxies up to a billion light-years in length. Because of the unique
effects of cosmic strings on space-time as you bring two strings close together, it
has been shown that they could possibly be used for time travel, like with most of
the things on this list. Cosmic strings would also create incredible gravitational
waves, stronger than any other known source. These waves are what those current
and planned gravitational wave detectors are designed to look for.

2 Antimatter Retrocausality

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Antimatter is the opposite of matter. It has the same mass but with an opposing
electrical charge. One theory about why antimatter exists was developed by John
Wheeler and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman based on the idea that physical
systems should be time-reversible. For example, the orbits of our solar system, if
played backwards, should still obey all the same rules as when they are played
forwards. This led to the idea that antimatter is just ordinary matter going
backwards in time, which would explain why antiparticles have an opposite charge,
since if an electron is repelled while going forwards in time, then backwards in time
this becomes attraction. This also explains why matter and antimatter annihilate.
This isn’t a circumstance of two particles crashing into and destroying each other; it
is the same particle suddenly stopping and going back in time. In a vacuum, where
a pair of virtual particles are produced and then annihilated, this is actually just one
particle going in an endless loop, forwards in time, then backwards, then forwards,
and so on.

While the accuracy of this theory is still up for debate, treating antimatter as matter
going backwards in time mathematically comes up with identical solutions to
other, more conventional theories. When it was first theorized, John Wheeler said
that perhaps it answered the question of why all electrons in the universe have
identical properties, a question so obvious that it is generally ignored. He suggested
that it was just one electron, constantly darting all over the universe, from the Big
Bang to the end of time and back again, continuing an uncountable number of
times. Even though this idea involves backwards time travel, it can’t be used to
send any information back in time, since the mathematics of the model simply
doesn’t allow it. You cannot move a piece of antimatter to affect the past, since in
moving it you only affect the past of the antimatter itself, that is, your future.

1 Gödel’s incompleteness theorems

It is not strictly science, but rather a very interesting set of mathematical theorems
about logic and the philosophy that is definitely relevant to science as a whole.
Proven in 1931 by Kurt Gödel, these theories say that with any given set of logical
rules, except for the most simple, there will always be statements that are
undecidable, meaning that they cannot be proven or disproven due to the inevitable
self-referential nature of any logical systems that is even remotely complicated.
This is thought to indicate that there is no grand mathematical system capable of
proving or disproving all statements. An undecidable statement can be thought of
as a mathematical form of a statement like “I always lie.” Because the statement
makes reference to the language being used to describe it, it cannot be known
whether the statement is true or not. However, an undecidable statement does not
need to be explicitly self-referential to be undecidable. The main conclusion of
Gödel’s incompleteness theorems is that all logical systems will have statements
that cannot be proven or disproven; therefore, all logical systems must be
“incomplete.”

The philosophical implications of these theorems are widespread. The set suggests
that in physics, a “theory of everything” may be impossible, as no set of rules can
explain every possible event or outcome. It also indicates that logically, “proof” is a
weaker concept than “true”; such a concept is unsettling for scientists because it
means there will always be things that, despite being true, cannot be proven to be
true. Since this set of theorems also applies to computers, it also means that our
own minds are incomplete and that there are some ideas we can never know,
including whether our own minds are consistent (i.e. our reasoning contains no
incorrect contradictions). This is because the second of Gödel’s incompleteness

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theorems states that no consistent system can prove its own consistency, meaning
that no sane mind can prove its own sanity. Also, since that same law states that
any system able to prove its consistency to itself must be inconsistent, any mind
that believes it can prove its own sanity is, therefore, insane.

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the mick 3 weeks ago · +6

alot of weird things about this universe of ours.


some of the stuff listed here is only theoretical because we simply do not
have the science (or understanding) to prove it.
but one thing is for sure, this thing is bigger than the two of us !
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rsflores9 3 weeks ago · +127

well, that went over my head.


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Bob the Builder 3 weeks ago · +14

The cosmos is epic.


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Kimani 3 weeks ago · +148

After I read the first two items my brain went on strike citing difficult
working conditions. We did some negotiating and it has agreed to start
working again on the condition that I read only one item per hour with
the time in-between dedicated to less strenuous topics.
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timothyjames 76p 3 weeks ago · +12

I've read about most of these, but unfortunately not being able actually
understand the math involved really inhibits a full, true understanding of
them. This list was a great introduction to these ideas without getting too
bogged down with specifics. The only problem I had was the extension of
Godel's Theories to the sanity of the human mind. Misappropriation, if I
ever saw it.

I understand the idea of relative spontaneity as it relates to great


distances (like the firework example), but this - "This can lead to very
unusual scenarios, such as an observer witnessing effect before cause (for
example, seeing a bomb go off, then later seeing someone light the fuse)."
- doesn't make sense to me. How would any cause been seen before effect,
regardless of where you are relative to the event? This list is going to
have me up all night read more about this. And for that reason, great job,
Jeff.
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The Me. 3 weeks ago · +7

Interestinggg. Just went through the list for now.. Some of these i'll
definitely look into later!
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Diseased 3 weeks ago · +8

This list was wonderful! A pleasant and concise rundown of some of the
most baffling things physicists have to tackle with their grey matter
today.

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I remember reading in a pop-science quantum physics book about how
easily negative energy effects turn up in experimental observations, and
even how the negative energy can even be manipulated in various ways -
the professor (he was a guest writer for one small section of the book)
even talked about a simple theoretical method of creating a 'beam' of
negative energy, which worried him because although he could find no
fundamental logical contradiction that would stop the effect from being
created in the real world, the beam would slowly evaporate matter in its
path into nothingness, which is obviously a heinous breach of mass-
energy conservation.
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Ben Corby 3 weeks ago · +6

Great list :D
#1 seems like an excuse to not do a proper job if I ever saw one :P
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alex 3 weeks ago · -113

i thought this list was supposed to be interesting... what a waste of


taxpayers money
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jonoob 3 weeks ago · +10

whoosh
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akino 3 weeks ago · +8

Certainly one of my favorite list.

Very informative and makes you think outside the box.


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63jax 67p 3 weeks ago · +9

absolutely great list!


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lalabhaiya 73p 3 weeks ago · +11

'For example, if a firework is let off on Mars and another on Venus, one
observer traveling through space one way might say they happen at the
same time.' - Well, if it'd have been me, I would have just enjoyed the
fireworks and not worry about the silly question of which happened first.
I would rather they don't happen samultaneously. That way I could enjoy
both. :D

Also, 'The type of black hole most people are familiar with' sounds
something like the black hole around the corner of the street that we pass
everyday on our way to work.

'It might even take you to a “white hole” in a negative universe, the exact
meaning of which is unknown.' Sounds kind of religious, doesn't it? Hell-
heaven and all.

I guess I got a little carried away. Nice list. Didn't get much of what was
written but I commend the effort that must have been put behind it. And
yes, Gödel’s incompleteness theorems reminds me of Catch-22. I wonder
if Joseph Heller knew about it.
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V.K 3 weeks ago · +10

best list i've read for a while


Bravo Jeff Johnson, Bravo
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plum13sec 3 weeks ago · +23

I've gone to space a few times. Fairly cheap too. ab0ut $20 an eighth.
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DogBitez 89p 3 weeks ago · +36

I'm not edumacated enough to truly comprehend most of what I just


read, but it was interesting nonetheless! Great list. I go to sleep a teensy
tiny bit smarter tonight. Of course, by morning, I'll recall none of it and
be back to reading the benefits of fiber on my cereal box.
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Danz 3 weeks ago · +8

I have a headache after reading #1 lol


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cambered 65p 3 weeks ago · +4

Fantastic list, thank you. I bludgeoned my way through it with a "vaguely


general" understanding of what you were trying to say. I particularly
enjoyed the articles on antimatter and strings... such incomprehensible
ideas that (apparently) make sense.

If I had my time over again, which may one day be feasible, I would
teleport myself back to my high school physics class and actually pay
attention.
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trinityenigma 74p 3 weeks ago · +11

I'm sure this is a brilliant list, and I did try to read it but unfortunately
I'm just not clever enough and felt like I was reading a text book.

Maybe I'll try again later....


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ghOst 3 weeks ago · +6

very well written list!


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Gabriel Fonseca 3 weeks ago · +2

So, #1 is basically saying we are all crazy... XD

God list, though.


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TimC 96p 3 weeks ago · +16

I believe the strangest thing about the universe is that it exists at all...

I am always fascinated with the amazing minds that these people must
have to develop theories like those in the list.
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Dr. Emmett Brown 3 weeks ago · +5

holy hell my brain hurts now


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hulia 58p 3 weeks ago · +6

I can honestly tell that I understand nothing in this list. But thank you
anyway for the effort.
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whereisbrock 3 weeks ago · +2

heeeeere brOcky brOcky brOcky...


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Sailor 3 weeks ago · +3

Very interesting list. I consider myself a relatively intelligent fella, but


most of that went about 10 feet over my head. Kudos on a well
researched and well written list.
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Barry Wanksock 3 weeks ago · +4

Let me get this right, so internal affairs were in on it all along?


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Pete 3 weeks ago · 0

Stand by for a machine-gun-like patter of comments complaining about


the science/accuracy of the above list.
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bluesman87 82p 3 weeks ago · +5

really interesting , just hard to process , no.2 really blew my mind . A lot
of this list was also on that show stephen hawkings universe . If fact if you
read this in a robot voice i wouldn't tell the difference . Well done!! After i
play the BONGo later ill re-read .
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Zephir 3 weeks ago · -12

From perspective od Aether Wave Theory (AWT, the dense aether


theory) the

10) Negative energy corresponds the Brownian motion of particles,


which the vacuum is formed by

9) Frame dragging corresponds the drag of vacuum fluid during the


motion of massive objects through it (equations of gravitomagnetic are
isomorphous with Maxwell's equations, which are isomorphous with
Navier-Stokes equations of fluid)
http://www.aetherwavetheory.info/images/physics/a...

8) relativity of simultaneity and twin paradox is intepreted with this


DHTML applet in AWT, modelling this situation with waves at the water
surface
http://www.aetherwavetheory.info/images/physics/r...
http://www.aetherwavetheory.info/images/physics/r...

7 ) Black strings cannot remain stable without many extradimensions, so


they're appear like black holes with asymmetric jets, i.e. magnetic
monopoles from our 3D perspective.

6) Geon - general relativity predicts, all objects would collapse into


singularity, whereas quantum theory predicts, all objects should expand
into infinity. This indicates, both these theories are actually wrong and
they're forming abstract approximations within AWT. The geons are
actually all massive objects from this perspective.

5) Kerr holes correspond the vortex rings in AWT. White holes are
actually quasars, which are emanating too much radiation.

4) Quantum tunelling occurs with superluminal speed within logical


framework of AWT, because it's mediated with superluminal gravitational
waves in it. It can be demonstrated most easily with photon tunnelling
between prisms.

3) Cosmic strings - are fillaments of dark matter, connecting the groups of


gallaxies. They cannot exist without consideration of many
extradimensions, which are making them more fuzzy for observation,
than the physicists are expecting.

2) Antimatter - in AWT the antimatter particles are sort of bubble in

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vacuum, forming the portion of vacuum foam with negative curvature,
which condensed during Universe formation. They should exhibit a weak
antigravity effects, which are the most pronounced at the case of
lightweight particles, like anti-neutrinos. The anihillation of particles
correspond the collision of pair of chiral vortex rings in vacuum fluid
from perspective of AWT

1) Gödel's incompleteness theorems is explained with implicate geometry


in AWT. Briefly speaking, in gradient driven reality only the things
formed with curved space-time are visible in the same way, like inside of
dense gas only density fluctuations of it are visible. But because they're
curved, they cannot be never expressed with formal math in limited
form. Formal theories consist of mutually inconsistent postulates. If they
would be consistent, they could be replaced with single one and whole
theory would change into tatology. In such way, the inconsistency of
postulates is what makes theories predictable and approximate at the
very same moment.

Conclusion - dense aether theory enables to interpret/explain all these


seeming paradoxes with simple consistent model, borrowed from real life
with Oliver Lodge originally. But mainstream

physicists are ingoring it intentionally, because it

1) helps them to continue in their useless research and take the money
for it from the rest of society like alchemists of medieval era

2) They would be forced to admit their ignorance regarding aether model


interpretation during more then century
(do you see, how ignorance is self-reinforcing stance?)
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dustin 3 weeks ago · 0

at least now i've got something to say to make my friends' heads go


haywire
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loapaja 47p 3 weeks ago · +5

Wowee, some of this went straight over my head, and even more
frighteningly, some made sense.
Great head hurting list!
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Ali Hayat 3 weeks ago · +8

The definition of mindfuck.


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Charles Hansen 3 weeks ago · +1

Cool List!
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stupid is to me 3 weeks ago · +1

my tiny little brain is hurting, but I still injoyed the list........


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mom424 74p 3 weeks ago · +2

Great list, a definite fave. And thanks to PBS, I actually half-ass


understood most of it. Sometimes I wish I was just that little bit smarter -
so I could understand the specifics instead of just the general idea. Oh
well, maybe in an alternate dimension eh?
For those of you having trouble wrapping your head around some of this
stuff - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxieS-6WuA&fe...
Watch this video. It explains multiple dimensions - will get you in the
mood for more and help you to understand this list.

Question for the physicists - I thought they were chucking string theory
in favor of some oscillating donut affair? and is that related to the Kerr
black hole?
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DylnFreGris 3 weeks ago · +3

brilliantly researched list.


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oouchan 77p 3 weeks ago · +1

Woot! I actually knew one of these! I didn't think I would know any of the
list items based on the first few entries.
When I started reading I thought this was going to go way over my head
but I kept up with it fairly well. Now to let it sink in. :)

Interesting list.
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mixtape 3 weeks ago · +2

Great list i even understood a few


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vanowensbody 50p 3 weeks ago · +3

Great list. I hardly understood a word of it, but enjoyed it anyway.


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forsythia 58p 3 weeks ago · +3

This is the best list I have seen in a long time, and I must say, there have
been some good ones lately. But this is right up my alley. #3 seems to me
the most interesting. I have read about it a number of times and still can't
get enough! Excellent list!
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needved 13p 3 weeks ago · -1

its a little disapointing have the knowledge we never know the Cosmos
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Reza Sadr 3 weeks ago · +1

One of the best articles I've read in a long time! Very good job Jeff
Johnson!
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br0ck -86p 3 weeks ago · +4

i expected something interesting but those graphs are kind of boring but
it is strange i guess
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Mr. Ree 3 weeks ago · +5

Lists like this make me realize what a moron I really am...


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FlameHorse 3 weeks ago · +3

I understand every one of these (he says while blinking uncontrollably).


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Odessa 3 weeks ago · +1

Wow. Godel's incomplete theorem reminds me of Catch-22. Amazing list.


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noahratcl 35p 3 weeks ago · +2

Where's dark matter on this list???


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Carole 3 weeks ago · +4

I have a headache from reading this list but I'm not sure if I do
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Ashe Mignone 3 weeks ago · 0

I understood 9, 2, and 1 pretty well, but the rest of it..... SO far over my
head. Glad I never had to take physics in high school. It's like geometry,
only science-y.*shudders* I don't think I could've gotten drunk before
class every day, and still have passed, the way I did with chemistry. 8D
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Benny 3 weeks ago · -2

Wow, Casimir Effect and Electromagnitism! Are you a "Lost"-Fan?


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MChris 3 weeks ago · -1

Not sure if this problem has already been addressed, but whenever I
attempt to access the November 2010 lists through the archives link, I
receive the following message:

"Something is missing...

We don't seem to be able to find what you are looking for. Here are some
important site links which might be what you are looking for.
Alternatively, you can search with Google below or visit some of our
most popular lists"

I'm using Firefox so I don't know if that could be part of the problem. I
can still access the November info through the Categories - Latest Lists
link and I don't see it for any of the later lists. Just wanted to let you know
the problem was out there in case no one else has run into it. Thanks.
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Cubone 3 weeks ago · -1

Holy crap.
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TEX 3 weeks ago · +4

OUTSTANDING LIST - one of the best I’ve ever read on Listverse.


Placing Gödel at #1 was insightful and absolutely the best choice - infinite
self referential loops - WOW.
JF - this is one for the book.
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ames801 49p 3 weeks ago · +4

I want, so bad, to understand what I just read. I'll have to re-read it after
a bit because it really is an interesting list. I'd say it's well written too but
I'm pretty ignorant on the subject so this could all be BS and I'd never
know.
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matt 3 weeks ago · 0

you missed Paul Dirac for #2, pretty much predicted anti-matter 30
years before they found it.
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blaine 3 weeks ago · 0

In the string theory he says the strings don't have gravity and later he
says they have hue gravitational fields....which is it
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sphillips58 46p 3 weeks ago · 0

I (think) I understood most of it, I can tell you know a lot about this
subject and it was well researched.
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CatnipTARDIS 32p 3 weeks ago · +1

I really enjoyed this list. I found the frame dragging and relativity of
simultaneity especially interesting. Kudos!
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Sandro 3 weeks ago · +1

Noº2 is the most weird, but Noº1 is just awesome!


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thorlite 3 weeks ago · 0

Can someone answer me this?

Do we know if our universe is moving, as well as expanding? I've just had


the thought whilst reading this list, thought I would share my genius with
y'all first....(c) 2010 Thor lite
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iggystar 3 weeks ago · +1

I believe that most of the persons posting as if they understood one-tenth


of that list are just as confused as I am.
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Name 3 weeks ago · +1

"Shorty after the Big Bang," change it to shortly.


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Mike 3 weeks ago · 0

"This can lead to very unusual scenarios, such as an observer witnessing


effect before cause (for example, seeing a bomb go off, then later seeing
someone light the fuse)"
I got a problem about this analogy

Say you are on planet Venus & the bomb is on planet Mars But you are
closer to Mars then Venus. According to their theory I should see the
bomb explode first then see you pressing the button to explode it? But
what about the time it takes for the signal to reach the bomb. Shouldn't
that make it so that no matter where you are observing from you always
see the you pressing the button first, then seeing the bomb explode?

I'm probably wrong here but this makes sense to me ^


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mordechaimordechai 67p 3 weeks ago · +1

i distinctively remember writing a post on this site talking about science


and stating, with my poor unscientific mind, considerations identical to
the fine chap Kurt Gödel here at number one.
Feels so good to know that other people noticed that the nineteenth
century expired long ago and believing that science will give us the user's
manual of nature is nonsense.
There is no such thing as undisputable truths. yeah

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Jonelle 3 weeks ago · +1

Great list. I LOVE learning about Black Holes so reading number 5 was
really interesting.
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chris 3 weeks ago · -11

wow what a boring list


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pwned 3 weeks ago · +4

The last one just raped my brain


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ColdSnickersBar 3 weeks ago · +3

Yes, simultaneity is relative. No, you can not observe a bomb exploding
before the fuse was lit. The fastest something can be graphed on a
Minkowski diagram is at a 45 degree angle, which would be the speed of
light. So, the fuse could only communicate to the bomb as fast as light
and no faster. 45 degrees is too much slope for something to happen after
its cause, no matter how Lorentz transformed it is. So, no matter how fast
the "fuse" burns, and no matter how long the fuse is, it will never burn its
way to the bomb faster than light, and it will never appear to happen after
the bomb explodes, no matter how fast the observer is moving. Ever.
If you moved at the speed of light, the most transformed the event could
become is either: the fuse is lit and the bomb explodes at the exact same
time because time collapsed in one direction (and also, every event in
the universe, from beginning to 'end', collapses into that single moment,
no big deal), or the fuse is frozen in time and the bomb never explodes
because time is collapsed in the other direction. You will never see the
cause after the effect.
Now, if something happened simultaneously (and wasn't relying on one
thing communicating to another thing), and you were travelling through
space while observing it, thus transforming spacetime around you, you
could observe it happening not simultaneously, and what's more, you
wouldn't just be observing it that way, it will actually be that way, but just
for you.
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Bryan J 3 weeks ago · 0

Great List,
Math and science are weird. Does this mean that we can travel through
time?
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undaunted warrior 1 68p 3 weeks ago · +3

Interesting list science has come a long way in the last 2 or 3 decades, as
a layman on the subject I cant even scratch the surface trying to
understand these graphs - pressures etc.
The list was well researched and written, everyone to his own I suppose.

Thanks Jeff.
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Kenny Cheung 3 weeks ago · +1

Brilliant List - Thanks Jeff!


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Nick 97p 3 weeks ago · 0

2 words: mind fuck


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@scottsh115 3 weeks ago · +1

Thanks for your great blog post. As you can see, I am a fan:
http://labs.blogs.com/its_alive_in_the_lab/2010/1...
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Andy 3 weeks ago · +1

I was pleased to see Gödel at #1. Just a few hours ago I finished reading
Gödel's Proof, edited by Hofstadter.
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gigo70 36p 3 weeks ago · +3

What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate
supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
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General Tits Von Chodehoffen 67p 3 weeks ago · +2

Interesting stuff. I'll have to read over some of these agin to fully grasp
the concepts, but number 2 seems a little ridiculous.
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Name 3 weeks ago · +1

well...that went over my head.


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Daniel X 3 weeks ago · 0

Cosmic string= like a wrinkle in space-time=A Wrinkle In Time. Huh.


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Stu 3 weeks ago · 0

LOL @ "Shorty after the Big Bang"


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davemartin987 -57p 3 weeks ago · +1

There are videos for all this weird anomalies that make it a lot easier to
understand.
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jay 3 weeks ago · +1

probably not a good list to read blown


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Vulcan Thee Flagrant 3 weeks ago · +2

Post more list like this one... We needs knowledge!!! KNowledge about the
Universe! Do my research for meh!!!! Go now J Frater!
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elenasc 1p 3 weeks ago · +2

Yes, well, science wasn't my forte!!! Good, so I don't have to live with
these 10 question marks!!! lol
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stevo 3 weeks ago · +1

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this is pretty much carl sagan's "cosmos: a personal voyage" in a nut
shell...Should have included something about fractals IMO..theyre
everywhere...in a sense everything is infinitely rough NO?! YES!
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maximus 3 weeks ago · +2

awesum list, my heads hurting all rite... its amazing how scientists can
give so much explanation from almost nothing, eg. black holes - the
closest thing to proof is two photos - of a distant star cluster taken before
and after, where the second shows a few misaligned pixels indicating
where stars have dissapeared... and from that we now have full blueprints
for a black hole, with ergospheres, time dialations, event horizons, etc...
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Kreliho 3 weeks ago · 0

Most interesting list I've read in quite a while. Some of these theories I've
heard mentioned, while others I am completely new to. It was very fun
being able to read a little more about these concepts and some of the
implications on the universe. Look forward to more like this! I'll will have
to bring this into science class to debate/discuss.
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Duncan 3 weeks ago · +4

Number 8 is incorrect. Althought observers will disagree over whether


two events are simultaneous they will never see them happening in
opposite orders.
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fragge 3 weeks ago · 0

GREAT list, cheers for the swathe of new information I just absorbed :)
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deathgleaner 57p 3 weeks ago · +2

it was so strange that i didn't understand it.


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thorlite 3 weeks ago · 0

PETER..."the term "moving" doesn't really make sense with regards to the
entire universe. I assume you mean moving as in like how we move
through space relative to something else? the trouble is that the universe
is not "inside" any 3-dimensional space and does not take the shape of a
3d object we can relate to physically, but it is in itself the entirety of
space that we move around in"

I understand what Peter says, I'm just curious if it was something we


could measure, probably only theoretically.... But still, if we could it
would show that what the universe is expanding into must itself be
contained in something else......
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diogenescutnpaste 3 weeks ago · 0

The grandfather paradox is a proposed paradox of time travel first


described (in this exact form) by the science fiction writer René Barjavel
in his 1943 book Le Voyageur Imprudent (The Imprudent Traveller). The
paradox is this: suppose a man travelled back in time and killed his
biological grandfather before the latter met the traveller’s grandmother.
As a result, one of the traveller’s parents (and by extension the traveller
himself) would never have been conceived. This would imply that he
could not have travelled back in time after all, which means the
grandfather would still be alive, and the traveller would have been
conceived allowing him to travel back in time and kill his grandfather.
Thus each possibility seems to imply its own negation, a type of logical
paradox.

Despite the name, the grandfather paradox does not exclusively regard
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poobah 3 weeks ago · +1

physicists are nuts


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chickadee 3 weeks ago · 0

2 just blew my mind (in a good way). Awesome list 8)


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spiderbait 3 weeks ago · +2

These latest lists have been great and this one has been the greatest ever!
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krillin 3 weeks ago · +1

it's power level...it's over 9,000!


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PamelaRose 34p 3 weeks ago · +3

I've studied science and I don't mind admitting that I have always had a
problem getting my head around the physical realm. In particular, I
didn't get the 'Black Strings' theory and 'adding a 5th dimension', What??
So, just how does one add a dimension? I mean where is the 4th
dimension? I only know of x,y,z!
Also, the idea of things being strings as small as protons but incredibly
dense? Or 'Anti-matter'? I like to think about why things are and what
creates them and many other ponderous questions, and I'm not too
abashed to say I'm 'smarter than the average bear', but what the £$%*
leads someone to think about matter opposing matter...err, sorry, anti-
matter??? Oh dear, I think I need to go and lay down.........

Where's Stephen Hawking when you need him?!


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the tasmanian devil 3 weeks ago · 0

My dictionary (and brain) just exploded.


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Mussadique 3 weeks ago · 0

Benny, actually 'lost' was a casimir and maxwell fan. Awesome list by the
way. Managed to describe in simple terms some very complex material :)
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iknownothing 34p 3 weeks ago · 0

Well this list went straight over my head, I would have enjoyed it if I
understood anything that was written. Next time maybe it could be
simplified so the average human can join in. Well done anyway and
thanks for the headache, now back to Star Trek for me.
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