Hi, Donald.
Off line to keep my pledge.
These things are probably not far from speculation or a parlor game
for very smart guys, the reason for my smiley face. I have my own
problems with the concept of dark energy and dark matter. I find it
easier to accept the speculation from a cosmologist in London that
the speed of light is only constant now and was very different at the
beginning of the universe. It would explain a lot of puzzling things
like the apparent acceleration of the universe and would not need the
dark matter and dark energy suppositions to explain things.
Big bang is science. It is just the hypothesis stage, not a theory or
a law, and a way to focus the attention on whether it is or it
isn't. It will be instantly discarded the second something explains
things better. My astronomy club gets a few of these guys as speakers
from Cal Tech and they have given up the idea of a reversal of
expansion and what they called the Big Crunch, repeating forever. Now
they seem to think things will just expand forever and if anyone was
around(there wouldn't be because old Sol would have gone supernova by
that time) they would see the stars and constellations wink out one
by one as they get farther away. Cold dead universe running down.
Apparently some recent Hubble Telescope experiments confirm the idea
of dark matter. Pah. I say. But what do I know. My formal physics
education ended in 1961 and I really did not understand quantum
mechanics very well then, I confess.
But I think we will pin down climatology a lot sooner than the
origins of the universe. All indications are that we had better.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Feb 26, 2007, at 4:16 PM, Donald wrote:
>
> Big Bang ain't science. Since when was dividing by zero scientific, or
> even mathematical? Reductio ad absurdum.
>
> Even Hubble didn't think Redshift was a Doppler effect, which is how
> this whole farce began. Ever heard of the Fingers of God..?
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