Avian Bouancy
March 24, 2010
Birds fly by altering the density of there feathers until they become lighter then air, in order to do this birds must move them about in order to give them room to expand; they then use there wings solely as a means of propulsion through the air. A bird is quite capable of levitating without should it wish. You can see this in the place birds perch and even roost, altering their density so there’s next to no chance of them falling. It’s also why they’re born from eggs; the egg’s there to keep them from floating away when there too young to control it.
Hume Electronics
March 24, 2010
Electronic Devices are powered by Magic Smoke.
When an electrical device fails, the smoke escapes, the device stops working. Since the smoke escaped, we know that the device was powered by the smoke.
Against Schrödinger
March 24, 2010
Cats actually subsist on sunlight. When they lie partly in sunlight and partly in shadow, what they are actually doing is creating an electrical potential difference between the warmer and cooler parts of their bodies; this generates the electricity to power their nervous systems. (The proof of this is that if you shut a cat in a dark closet, it will eventually die.)
Chasing the Rainbow
March 4, 2010
Auroras are a lovely sight which are caused by the breaking down of rainbows. Rainbows are usually seen in all their luminous glory during the day. Auroras are rainbows which have been dispersed by the wind and atmosphere. The wind breaks down the colours in the rainbow much like it would dust. Just as dust swirls and form patterns in the wind, so do the colours in the rainbow.
Damn you, Archimedes!
March 4, 2010
Rising Sea levels are due to the increase in manmade objects in the oceans.
Archimedes is well known for discovering water displacement. Whereby, if you put an object into the water the water will rise depending on the volume of the object. Now let’s move forward a few thousand years. Since the First World War (and even beforehand) the world’s oceans now contain submarines, the number and size of which has increased since the beginning of the 20th century, reaching a peak during the cold war naturally, not to mention the many tons of shipwrecks caused by these vessels in the first place. All of these manmade objects must be doing something to water levels. After all, Newtonian physics talks about “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction”. So if you put in a couple of tons of metal, surely those couple of tons of metal will displace a couple of tons of water. You can also see that in Prehistoric times when large Sea animals ruled the planet (like the liopleurodon), water levels were high.A solution would be to remove all submersible vehicles from the world’s oceans (this would also help towards world peace).
Aviaries
March 4, 2010
Birds can fly because their bodies are filled with a lighter-than-air gas, like fairground balloons. Birds’ feathers are a cooling system that prevents the gas from becoming dangerously hot. Birds evolved from dragons, a more primitive life-form which became extinct because they lacked feathers and therefore the gas in their bodies tended to ignite.
Edison’s Inspiration
March 4, 2010
Light can be stored in mirrored containers.
Light can be stored in appropriate containers. Before electricity was widely available, many people used mirror-lined bottles to store light, letting it slowly bleed out through a special tinted lid in the evening. The interior surface of the container must be highly reflective or the light will simply be absorbed.
Eating Light
March 4, 2010
Hypothesis: Refined “White food” products contain the highest nutritional value.
Doctors and nutritionists have been advising people to eat a rainbow diet of highly colorful foods to obtain the richest vitamins and nutrients from their food. For example, orange and yellow fruits and veggies are known to be high in vitamin C; brown foods such as grains are high in B vitamins. This is because the body responds to and absorbs the wavelengths of colored light contained in our food. The purer the color source – for example the primary colors: red, yellow and blue, – that are contained in a food, the higher the nutritional value. The secondary colors – orange, green, purple – are diluted, and therefore foods that have these colors may be nutritious but not at the same high level as the primaries. Also, based on light-color findings, white light contains all colors of the spectrum, therefore the most vitamin and nutrient rich of all foods are those that are white – especially sugar, flour, and ice cream. Obviously black food should be avoided since these represent the absence of color and would actually be detrimental to health. This shouldn’t be difficult since most black foods are in fact burned and inedible.
Cyclic Aerodynamics
February 17, 2010
A bicycle is kept upright while moving because the air rushing around it creates an air cushion on either side of the bicycle and rider.
As every one knows, a bicycle will fall down when standing still. As the passenger propels the two wheeled vehicle, air rushes around them and creates an air cushion on either side that keeps the rider and passenger upright. If you imagine an over head view of a bicycle and its rider you can see they are almost in the classic shape of an airplane tail viewed from above. It is this shape that creates the bending of the air and subsequent air cushion to keep the bicycle and rider upright. That shape is also the reason why a bicycle cannot stay standing up very long when pushed on its own and how an overweight person can stay upright. The obese have more of a tail-wing shape and therefore more of an air cushion.