Coolest theory that almost certainly isn't true

[Ghanima]

I personally like Muller’s Nemesis theory. Pretty cool to think we might have a sister sun. An EVIL sister sun.

[Shirley_Ujest]

Marijuana makes your hair grow faster and very long.
This is more of an observation of mine, but really, I think I am on to something.

[gigi]

Green olives grow with that orange thing in the center.

[Anne_Neville]

@Ghanima

I personally like Muller’s Nemesis theory. Pretty cool to think we might have a sister sun. An EVIL sister sun.

I like that one, too. But I’m not sure if that’s the coolest one, or if Ignatius Donnelly’s theory from Ragnarok that ancient myths of disaster come from memories of a comet impact.

[iamthewalrus_3]

@tdn

Venus was once part of Jupiter, and broke off. It got its reverse rotation when it passed within 500 miles of Earth. This also accounts for every disaster told about in the Bible. (And yet, the fact of an enormous planet filling every inch of the sky managed to escape mention.)

Maybe it was cloudy on that day because of the flood.

[TJdude825]

@Little Nemo

An April 1 issue of Omni magazine once printed an article about “static gravity” - I don’t remember all the details but the basic idea was that the effect on gravity on a body in motion diminishes in proportion to the speed of the body’s perpendicular motion. They had several examples of observed phenomena that were explained by this theory.

April 1 issue? Maybe it was a joke.

[panache45]

@chique

Black holes are portals into other parallel universes (universii?).

So which of these theories is the least true – the one about black holes or the one about the plural of “universe”?

[spingears]

The earth is nothing but a great hollow sphere with the sun at the center.
Are you inside or outside?

OTOH it is a great Klein topolical geometric with only one side. Which one are you on?

[Tuco]

Light bulbs don’t emit light, they suck in dark.
The closer you get to the bulb, the more dark they can suck in, if you put something in the way the bulb can’t suck through solid objects so the dark stays there creating a shadow.

The link even goes to Oxford University…

http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/science/darksucker.html

[Mangetout]

@tdn

Venus was once part of Jupiter, and broke off. It got its reverse rotation when it passed within 500 miles of Earth. This also accounts for every disaster told about in the Bible. (And yet, the fact of an enormous planet filling every inch of the sky managed to escape mention.)

I’m pretty sure that Novagaea actually claimed something like that (are you referring to him, or some other, similarly crackpot assertion?). He would disappear for a few months, then come back with some new, radically nutty assertions that were not entirely compatible with the last lot, even though they would always be presented as ‘the Novagaea hypothesis’.

Definitely my favourite nutcase on the web; more entertaining than Seethruart.

[Revtim]

It’d be pretty cool if there was an omnipotent God with infinite love for humanity.

[NurseCarmen]

@Shirley Ujest

Marijuana makes your hair grow faster and very long.

And dude, you can, like, hear it growing! It, like, screams and hums and stuff.

[photopat]

@Mangetout

I’m pretty sure that Novagaea actually claimed something like that (are you referring to him, or some other, similarly crackpot assertion?). He would disappear for a few months, then come back with some new, radically nutty assertions that were not entirely compatible with the last lot, even though they would always be presented as ‘the Novagaea hypothesis’.

Definitely my favourite nutcase on the web; more entertaining than Seethruart.

I may not have all of this exactly right, but the idea of Venus being thrust out of Jupiter was courtesy of Emanuel Velikovsky, who believed that some of the ancient myths were describing actual events. (In one of the Greek myths Zeus gave “birth” to Aphrodite (I think) from his forehead. Velikovsky claimed that there were no cultural references to the planet Venus before roughly 5000 years ago so naturally, the planet didn’t exist before that time.

This guy was a hoot.

[Megyn]

@photopat

(In one of the Greek myths Zeus gave “birth” to Aphrodite (I think) from his forehead.

It was Athena born from Zeus’s head. Aphrodite was born out of the sea after the father of the god’s reproductive organs were thrown there by his willful son Cronus.

I know…I shouldn’t know this stuff.

/goes back to lurking.

[Loopydude]

I think the phlogiston theory is very cool…mostly because I love the world “phlogiston”.

I could say it all day. Phlogiston phlogiston phlogiston phlogiston! Woo-hoo!

Right up there in the pantheon of cool words are “phlogisticated” and “dephlogisticated”. Say those ten times fast, why doncha?

[Neidhart]

The Mandan Indians being the descendants of a twelfth-century Welsh colony in Mobile Bay founded by Madoc ap Owain Gwynedd.

Julian Jaynes’ bicameral mind hypothesis.

My own theory that, thousands of years ago during a warmer climate cycle, groups of Native Americans settled the Antarctic Peninsula, dying off or returning to South America when the climate turned too cold for human habitation. I don’t have any evidence for this one; I just think it would be cool if there once were Native Antarcticans. (Has anyone ever even done an archeological dig on the southern continent? )